Miami Sweet

 

November 23, 2021

Miami Sweet

There was a second immersive fantasyland at the Aventura Mall at the same time as the Floral Escape and while I was a little disheartened by that experience, this one more than made up for it. Created by a company called Candy Kingdom, the Miami Sweet immersive experience is a sensory overload and is totally worth the price of admission. It is a sugary sweet explosion that is really interesting and enjoyable as well as incredibly creative, colorful and cool.

Located upstairs next to the mall’s food court, the experience is much, much larger and more expansive than the Floral Escape. It features twelve large rooms each with a candy-themed adventure that also is pure Miami. 

Tropical music accompanying a colorful confetti dance party welcomes guests as they are led through the candy-coated, art-filled adventure. Visitors can surf the waves with candy dolphins in the ‘Life’s a Beach’ room, swung on licorice vines through the jungle in ‘Zoo Tropical,’ travel through a South Beach, Versace-themed candy pop-art gallery, and sway with samba dancers in the ‘Candy Carnival’ room.

Each room is more spectacular than the last and honestly, I thought that first room you entered was the extent of the experience and I was mostly ok with that, before being led deeper and deeper into room after room filled with cool options.

The first room features large creations made totally from various candies. These are large sculptures that feature literally thousands of individual pieces of candy. Small signs indicate how much candy was used and how many man-hours (often over one hundred) it took to create each piece. They are works of art, strange and wonderful art, but art, nonetheless.

Each room features its own mini-theme, most of them Miami-centric such as a fabulous beach room, a party room complete with a DJ and confetti cannons that fill the air with tiny colorful confetti, an art gallery in the style of the Versace mansion that features iconic works of art recreated using only candy of course and a jungle room with large animals created entirely out of candy.

Meant to be interactive as well as immersive, there is a room featuring a large pool of soft plushy squares that guests are encouraged to literally jump into much as a child would leap around in a pit filled with plastic balls.

Honestly going through the exhibit brought back flashes of what it might be like to visit the famous chocolate room at Willy Wonka’s candy factory. It is a fun, vibrant and colorful journey and I just had a fantastic time. As a photographer there was so much cool content and I have to compliment the staff, mostly young kids who really got into it, appearing in each room and interacting with the visitors in such a way that seemed authentic and enjoyable to them, they really added to the overall experience and seemed to be having as much or more fun than the guests.

https://www.miamisweet.com/