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Still One Of Napa Valley's Best Hotels: The Enduring Charms Of Meadowood

Meadowood

Meadowood lives up to its billing as one of the Napa Valley’s best country resorts. Even though some of its competitors are hipper, younger, greener, and newer, one person’s throwback is another person’s classic.

 

Practical Traveler: Skiers, Take Heart! There Is Snow if You Know Where to Look

Ski Resorts

Try New England, Colorado and New Mexico, where some resorts are seeing snowfall ranges of 40 inches to over 105 inches.

Senh: In California, there's still no rain. What gives. The skiing season has been terrible so far.

 

San Jose snowboarder falls down hole, is buried at Sierra resort

A 22-year-old snowboarder from San Jose was buried by a small avalanche and died after he crashed into a tree and tumbled several feet down a hole in the snow at a resort near South Lake Tahoe over the weekend, authorities said Monday ...

 

Fifteen bodies found in Mexico tourist city: report

Fifteen bodies found in Mexico tourist city: report

Fifteen bodies, all but one of them decapitated, were found early on Saturday in the Pacific resort city of Acapulco, local media reported.

 

Luxury Resort Offers $19 Room, Minus The Bed And Toilet Paper

Luxury Resort Offers $19 Room, Minus The Bed And Toilet Paper

A luxury resort in San Diego is offering rooms for $19 a night - if you don't mind sleeping in a tent. The Rancho Bernardo Inn boasts three pools, a spa and golf course. It typically charges more than $200 a room. But business is down. So from Aug. 16 to 31, guests can get a "Survivor Package" that charges them less for each amenity they give up. For $19, guests give up breakfast, air conditioning, lights, sheets and even the bed. Staff will remove the mattress and headboard and leave a small tent instead.

 

Spain seals off resort island after bombing

Spain seals off resort island after bombing

Spain blocked planes and ships from leaving the resort island of Mallorca on Thursday as authorities hunted suspects in a bombing that killed two police officers.

 

Police detain wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti

Police detain wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti

Brazilian authorities say they have detained the wife of former boxing champion Arturo Gatti as a suspect following his death at a posh seaside resort in Brazil.

 

Rak Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort Defies Nature

Rak Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort Defies Nature

The Rak Jebel Al Jais Mountain Resort is a new master planned tourist village in the Emirate of Ras al-Khaimah in the United Arab Emirates. Designed by the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, this future resort will be built on the top and the sides of a mountain range, defying nature and the mountains with its extravagant design

 

Don't stray from Mexico resorts, says US senator

AFP - Americans visiting violence-wracked Mexico this month for annual "spring break" vacations should be safe as long as they don't stray from tourist resorts, a Republican lawmaker from Texas said Monday.

 

AARP's discounts best used as last resort

Slowly but surely, AARP's hotel discounts - once a prime feature - are becoming less and less useful. Unfortunate though it may be, AARP's decline as a discount source simply mirrors the decrease in big-organization discounts, generally.

 

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