Getaways

Why You Should Ski Europe In January
By Everett Potter For Americans who’ve been waiting to go back to Europe to ski, the winter of 2022 is shaping up to be the perfect time. The month of January has long been the sweet spot for such a vacation. The holidays and holiday crowds are gone, and it’s

Club Med Québec Opens In December
By Everett Potter There’s good news from our neighbor to the north about the upcoming ski and snowboard season. Club Med, the pioneer of all-inclusive resort vacations, is openings its first Canadian resort in December in Quebec. With Canada now open to US travelers, the opening of the new Club Med Québec is

Windstar Cruises’ New 79-Day Grand European Bucket List Adventure
By Everett Potter Windstar Cruises has announced a new 79-day Grand European Bucket List Adventure. It is the longest itinerary ever offered by the award-winning small ship cruise line. This Grand European cruise will depart Stockholm, Sweden on July 25, 2023 and embark on a new voyage that spans 22

New Orleans’ New Luxury Hotel Is World-Class Choice For Business Or Leisure
By Larry Olmsted For such a popular vacation and conference destination, New Orleans has always been surprisingly short on top tier luxury hotels. That is about to change. That’s why the new Four Seasons, opening in one-week (August 17, 2021) is such a big deal – it is exactly what the

Brand New Las Vegas Mega-Resort Casino Changes The Face Of The Strip
By Larry Olmsted As one of the world’s favorite tourism and vacation travel destinations, Las Vegas constantly has big, high-profile openings. But this week saw the biggest in many years. Resorts World Las Vegas is an all-new build with more than 3,500 rooms, immediately making it one of the ten biggest

Mission Point Resort on Michigan’s Mackinac Island
By Brian E. Clark When I met Liz Ware a few years back, she told me she’d fallen in love with Mackinac Island the first time she visited as part of a 333-mile sailboat race from Chicago to the island. Her affection for this lovely outpost in the northwest

The Awesome Ozarks: Art, Entertainment…and Ghosts!
By Ruth J. Katz If the stunning, take-your-breath-away Thorncrown Chapel, snugly tucked into a leafy, woodland setting in Eureka Springs, Arkansas, embraced a particular religious denomination, I would have converted. That is how serenely transported I felt, sitting in the glass-enclosed (425 panes, measuring a total of 6,000 square feet)

The Claremont Hotel: A Coastal Maine Classic Reborn
By Everett Potter A few years ago, my wife and I stayed on the quiet side of Mt Desert Island in Maine. This is where you find towns like Bass Harbor, Otter Creek, and Seal Harbor, which are a lot less busy than the other side of the island, where

The Gingerbread Cottages of Oak Bluffs
Story & photos by Deborah Loeb Bohren No visit to Martha’s Vineyard is complete without a stroll through the Martha’s Vineyard Camp Meeting Association community in the heart of Oak Bluffs. The 34-acre National Historic Landmark traces its roots to an 1835 Methodist revival camp meeting of

On the Road Again: Martha’s Vineyard
Story & photos by Deborah Loeb Bohren Vaccinated and ready to hit the road again — but where? I found after being housebound with the rest of the world for more than a year, I was uncharacteristically and unexpectedly nervous about venturing out. So, where to go? I was