The city of Miami is increasingly highlighted year after year with their lavish hotels and fancy social scene. The term vacation is very custom to South Florida being that it is family vacation hotspot for every season besides the blistering heat of the summer. South Florida is loaded with many popular cities that attract tourism for their own personal reasons. Each area has its own spin on the beautiful physical features that Florida has to offer. Although the state of Florida as a whole is located in the southern region of the US it is not entirely warm all year around. With that being said the primary focus of vacation destinations fall in South Florida more specifically on the eastern coast. Significant amounts of people that are able to afford a privilege like this obtain homes in both the North East and in South Florida. These snowbirds spend their winters in their Florida homes and summers up North. The average age of a snowbird is roughly the age of retirement or around sixty-five years old. For the remaining population throughout this world who do not have homes in Miami, for example, need a place to stay upon their arrival. These vacations are most often intended for leisure and an escape from a family or individual’s everyday life. Luckily, vacationers have breathtaking choices of where to unwind and forget about whatever thoughts cause them uneasiness. Collins Avenue is located in South Beach, Miami and is flooded with world-class hotels that tend to each and every one of the guests needs. The placement of Collins allows the gorgeous strip of hotels to be located directly on the beach providing outrageous views. Many guestrooms and suites have spectacular views of the Atlantic Ocean, as well as the twinkling necklace of lights that reveals Miami Beach at night. Rooms and suites are mostly fully equipped with high definition flat screen TVs, advanced sound systems, as well as top of the line computers either in each room or just down the hall. The ultra-luxurious amenities ultimately attempt to provide a paradise for their guests that cannot be found anywhere else. Working people seek for leisure to balance the difficulties in their everyday lives. In the 1940’s a French philosopher wrote an essay in order to better help understand that relationship between one’s work, leisure, and private life. Lefebvre was a French sociologist, intellectual and philosopher who was generally considered a Neo-Marxist. He was a respected professor and a credited author. Lefebvre studied at the University of Paris and graduated in 1920. Shortly after, he was working with Paul Nizan, Norbert Guterman, Georges Friedmann, Georges Politzer and Pierre Morhange in the Philosophies group seeking a “philosophical revolution”. Lefebvre joined the French Communist Party in 1928 and later published attacks on opponents of its line such as Nizan. His studies are reflected in this essay by his ability to go in such detail to the entire human population and analyzing their perception of work and leisure. Lefebvre wrote an essay that targets the relations between work, leisure, and private life with regards to an individual’s life. He believes that a person’s choice of leisure was subjective upon their work and is normally different from one another. The word leisure is defined as being able to shut the stressful part of one’s mind off temporarily and strictly take part in enjoyable activities. It is clear that people must work but Lefebvre believes that the way modern work is performed is detrimental to the individual performing it. The essay encapsulates the idea of individuality and therefore the lack of that is created by work. Lefebvre states that work alienates humans from themselves and does not allow personal development. Although they are still serving society and developing something, they are stunting the intellectual growth of their minds. The generic nature of most positions in the work world prevents workers to express themselves as well as diminishing the control of their decisions. Leisure is intended to be the opposite of work but many common forms of leisure can be criticized and questioned if they really are in fact defined as leisure. To an office working man or woman the thought of a week in a hotel in South Beach could never be questioned as not being a week of leisure. Breaking the chains of their cubicles and freely walking down the beach with sand sifting through their toes while the waves break on their ankles is one of the best gift they could ask for. Looking from the outside there is no chance that one of these hotels couldn’t not only be leisure but one of the best leisure’s possible. However, with his intelligence and experience Lefebvre would find aspects of the leisure’s provided by a hotel on Collins to critique. World wide the beach is heavily desired as somewhere to get away but according to Lefebvre tanning does not seem to qualify as a defined leisure because of the isolation involved and overall damage it can cause. Vacationers seek out hotels in warm areas for the advantage of having a beach and most people enjoy the beach to get suntan and lay out for hours. At the majority of hotels it is second nature to walk to the beach and automatically tell the chair attendant how many chairs are needed and then point out where while he sets them up with towels and thankfully takes a tip. Once comfortable the vacationer will shut their eyes for hours on end silently soaking up the sun. Ironically when people lay out there is little conversation that takes place. It is odd that in an attempt to run away from alienation in the workforce vacationers find leisure in lying by themselves that is just as much alienation as working is. The sun does have some good vitamins but is also quite dangerous to human skin. Diseases develop from the radiation that can lead to sicknesses as terrible as cancer. Although it happens over time the suns negative effects are in fact way worse than the temporary darker skin it provides. Miami is very close to the equator and has very direct sunlight making the radiation that much stronger. Work and leisure at first appear to be two very different words but especially when analyzed through the lens of Lefebvre’s beliefs it is clear that they are not so easy to differentiate. Instead it is more beneficial to study the relations between the two and find a balance that makes every day life enjoyable yet productive while incorporating a mix of work and leisure. Lefebvre examines leisure very closely but does provide valid arguments about the truth of leisure and what is actually pure leisure.