Celebrate the season at the Ritz Carlton's holiday buffet starting at noon with traditional favorites and international flavors. Seatings are available at 12, 12:30pm and 2 or 2:30pm. A dinner buffet follows at 6pm and 8:30pm. Reservations required.

Only in South Florida can you snuggle up on linen couches topped with pillows and blankets right on the beach to nibble FREE popcorn and watch "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" starting at 8pm. Park under the Haulover bridge and then hit the beach behind the hotel.

Experience SPICE unwrapped, a sexy holiday cocktail bash featuring reggae, hip hop and R&B music on the sands of South Beach.

Seven years of amazing holiday parties warming folks up to Christmas lead to tonight's EVE bash which kicks off poolside at WET with complimentary Ketel One cocktails from 9-11pm and moves indoors to club WALL for dance and romance all night long. RSVP to eve@h2cinc.com.

Head to Doral around 10pm to celebrate the Latin Christmas Eve mega bash "Gran Rumba de Noche Buena" - a HUGE dance party featuring DJ Johnny M and DJ Lazardi plus live performances by Venezuelan pop stars Beethzart and Toto from Maracaibo.

Following Chef Joshua Marcus on FaceBook or Twitter gets you first dibs on his nightly specials like a recent tweet that a friend had dropped off a variety of fresh fish that inspired a particularly impressive chef's omakase tasting menu. Stop in tonight for a "Jewish Chef's Christmas Eve Feast."