The 2011 IndepenDANCE party featured DJs Boris, Cocodrills, the Martinez Brothers, and Victor Calderone and was headlined by Fatboy Slim and Dirty South. These events coincide with the Winter Music Conference, Ultra Music Festival, and the July 4th IndepenDANCE Pool Party. The parties began in 2004 and are reportedly among some of the most anticipated parties each year in Miami Beach. The Surfcomber Hotel has become known for its pool parties, featuring distinguished DJs from around the world playing house, techno, garage, drum & bass and electro music. ( December 2018) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This section contains content that is written like an advertisement. It is roughly bounded by the Atlantic Ocean, 6th Street, Alton Road, Dade Boulevard and 23rd Street in Miami Beach. It has the world's largest collection of Art Deco architecture and comprises of hundreds of hotels, apartments, and other structures built from the 1920s to the 1940s.

The Miami Beach Architectural District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1979. Art Deco is an eclectic artistic and design style that began in Paris in the 1920s and flourished internationally throughout the 1930s and 1940s. The Surfcomber is one of many historic buildings in the Miami Beach Architectural District, also called the Miami Beach Art Deco District.

The architectural firm, MacKay & Gibbs, was also responsible for the design of several other Art Deco hotels in Miami, including the Sherbrooke Hotel, built in 1947. The style of the hotel is an example of transitional architecture, bridging the ornamental styles of Art Deco from the 1930s with the streamlined and modern graphics language of the late forties and fifties.

Surfcomber director of daylife