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Spring Break Beach Vacations – Santa Monica, California

February 26, 2009 in California Hotels, Events, Holidays, Shopping, Spring Break Vacations by Steven
Enough family fun! It’s time for bright, beautiful beaches overflowing with babes, bottles, and the occasional bouncy ball. It’s time for real Spring Break! Being a USA Travel Guide, our knowledge of Mexico hotels is fairly limited, but that doesn’t mean we don’t know a thing or two about hot Spring Break beach vacations. Spring Break [...]

Eat Up! – Juju Cereal Bar

January 20, 2009 in California Hotels by Steven
Presented for your approval, the greatest restaurant ever! Juju Cereal Bar in Los Angeles, California is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: it’s a restaurant that serves cereal. They serve lots of cereal. Their shelves and store room are piled high with 57 flavors of popular breakfast cereal, from Apple Jacks on down to Wheaties [...]

More Whale Watching – Dana Point, California

January 19, 2009 in California Hotels, Events, Family Travel, Outdoor Adventure, Zoos by Steven
I spent so much time in my last Whale Watching article talking about bald eagles that I almost forgot to mention the whales. For your sake and mine, I say, not this time! Another great place to go whale watching during the mid-winter, very-early-spring season is Dana Point, which is in Orange Country next to Laguna [...]

Top American Zoos – Jungle Adventures Nature Park & Zoo

January 12, 2009 in Family Travel, Florida Hotels, Zoos by Steven
Driving along State Road 50 just on the outskirts of Christmas, Florida you may be surprised to find yourself astride a 200-foot alligator if you didn’t know to be looking for one. This impressive roadside façade may have the taste of tourist trap or the rumblings of roadside robbery, but don’t you believe it. Jungle [...]

Whale Watching – Santa Barbara, California

January 8, 2009 in California Hotels, Events, Family Travel, Outdoor Adventure, Zoos by Steven
The last time I went whale watching was a great loss of innocence for me, like the time you first realize your parents aren’t perfect or that (spoilers) Santa Clause isn’t real. We weren’t thirty minutes from the coast of Juneau, Alaska when the naturalist on board the ferry pointed out a family of Bald [...]

Cocoa Beach Hotel for Beachfront Holiday Getaways

November 24, 2008 in Florida Hotels by Steven
We’ll get through this series on beachfront getaways for the holidays yet! Approaching the northern border of where you’d reasonably want to spend mid-December, you know, outside, Cocoa Beach ranks up there among the top family getaway destinations in the nation, and during the winter holidays it doesn’t lose a single candela of its luster. We like [...]

Hotel in West Palm Beach for Holiday Getaways

November 21, 2008 in Florida Hotels by Steven
This year we’re hitting the beach for the holidays; check here to find out why. As a beachfront vacation destination, West Palm Beach, Florida has a lot to admire, the least of which is the veritable smorgasbord of outdoor delights, but for the true resort aficionado, the place to be is Singer Island. The ace up [...]

Santa Barbara Hotel for Beachfront Holiday Getaways

November 19, 2008 in California Hotels by Steven
Learn more about our series on beachfront getaways for the holidays here. Like many Southern California beach cities, Santa Barbara enjoys a cool, outdoor-friendly Mediterranean climate. That means high sixties to low seventies all day (and all year) long, the perfect weather for a little fun on the beach. And beaches there are! Miles of sumptuous [...]

Dana Point Hotel for Beachfront Holiday Getaways

November 18, 2008 in California Hotels by Steven
Our unusual trip through fun Christmas time beach getaways began here if you’re playing the home game. Dana Point doesn’t get the love of its California cousins, as it always seems to be overshadowed by big names like Redondo Beach, Santa Monica, San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco or even its closest neighbor, Laguna Beach (here at [...]

Redondo Beach Hotel for Holiday Beachfront Getaways

November 17, 2008 in California Hotels by Steven
Our journey continues! Cruisin’ our way briskly up the west coast we come to one of the beachfront Meccas of Southern California: Redondo Beach. One of the three “Beach Cities” near Los Angeles along with Manhattan and Hermosa, Redondo is especially well-suited to those holiday travelers who are already “in” to the whole beach culture. Redondo Beach [...]

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