Archive for October, 2008

October 31st, 2008 - Where is the best vacation spot during the winter?

April asked:


I want to take a vacation in November or December maybe to an island nice and warm. Where is the best island surrounding the U.S.A?

John

October 30th, 2008 - How To Find Affordable Big Island Vacation Rentals

Dominiq Gallagher asked:


Are you in the process of planning a Big Island vacation? If you are, you will find that you have a number of different options, in terms of overnight accommodations. Although you do have the option of staying at a vacation resort or at a traditional hotel, you may want to take the time to examine Big Island vacation rentals.

Big Island vacation rentals come highly rated and recommended by many tourists. One of the reasons why they are so popular is because of all of your options. For instance, Big Island vacation rentals come in the form of vacation homes, vacation condos, vacation cottages, vacation villas, and vacation apartment rentals. Each of these options are private and boast many of the comforts of home.

As nice as Big Island vacation rentals are, many tourists, possibly just like you, are concerned with cost. Yes, you will find that most Big Island vacation rentals, such as a Big Island vacation home, cost more in rental fees than a traditional hotel or a vacation resort, but it is also important to remember what you are getting. Many Big Island vacation rentals come equipped with fully furnished kitchens, laundry rooms, patio or garden areas, and much more. In fact, you may get a mountain view or an ocean view!

Although Big Island vacation rentals are more than worth their costs, especially for Big Island Hawaii luxury homes, cost may still be a concern of yours. The good news is that there are a number of different ways that you can go about finding quality, yet affordable vacation rentals for your next Big Island trip. For more information on how you can go about doing so, please continue reading on.

One of the best ways that you can find quality, yet affordably priced Big Island vacation rentals, including Big Island Hawaii luxury homes, is by doing business with an online travel website. When choosing an online travel website to do business with, it is best if you do business with an online travel website that deals exclusively with Hawaii vacations. This is important to the quality of your vacation, as you are given more travel arrangements and overnight accommodations to choose from. This alone can increase your chances of finding a quality, yet affordable Big Island vacation home.

Another way that you can use online Hawaii travel websites to help you find an affordable Big Island vacation rental is by performing a customized search. Most reputable travel websites allow these searches to be performed. What you will want to do is search for a Big Island vacation rental based on location and price. If you are on a budget or if you would like to spend a specific amount of money on a vacation rental, this is the easiest way to research all of your options without having to waste time examining Big Island vacation rentals that are out of your price range.

It is also advised that you take a close look at your Big Island vacation needs. What type of vacation rental do you need to have? How many bedrooms does your vacation rental need to have? What extras would you like to be included, such as a swimming pool, hot tub, dishwasher, or laundry room? Of course, you will want to take your vacation wants into consideration too, but searching for vacation rentals based solely on your needs is likely to produce quality and affordable results. For example, generally speaking, you will find that it is cheaper to rent a Big Island luxury home that comes equipped with two bedrooms, as opposed to four. That is why you should first start with your vacation needs and then expand to your vacation wants, if need be.

The above mentioned steps are just a few of the many that you can take to find a quality, yet affordable Big Island vacation rental for your next trip to Hawaii. Once you start your examination, you may be surprised with the results. With all of the talk surrounding the high costs of vacation rentals, especially luxury homes, many vacationers are surprised just how affordable it is to rent a vacation home, condo, apartment, villa, or cottage.



Sandra

October 28th, 2008 - What are some good cheap vacation spots for teens?

SDL asked:


Next summer, my friends and i want to take a trip to a beach of some sort for our “last” get together seeing we will be graduating. Any ideas of some cheap vacation spots with lots to do such as partying, and some shopping. About how much would it cost for each person. We live near syracuse, ny.

Stephanie

October 27th, 2008 - What is the best vacation to take if you plan on travelling alone? Where is the best place to go?

Why? asked:


I’m a single male in my 20’s, I’m working my first real job and I have two weeks of vacation time which I’d like to use sometime during the summer. Unfortunately, all my friends are busy or are unemployed and too poor to go anywhere or do anything. I want to go someplace new and exotic, but if I do, I’ll be going alone. Where should I go and what should I do?

Jill

October 27th, 2008 - Go-Go’s Vacation 1982

edgela asked:


Go-Go’s perform Vacation 1982.

Johanna

October 21st, 2008 - Africa Family Vacation-best Africa Family Vacation in Kenya

Robert Muhoho asked:


Family Vacation Africa Kenya Highlights

Family vacations in Kenya are packaged to suit the needs of a family group traveling with kids to Africa. Family safari vacations in Kenya usually visit the Kenya famous national parks and the famous Kenya beach. Kenya national parks have different rates for family members.

Masai Mara Family Vacation of Africa Kenya

The most visited family vacation animal park in Kenya is the Masai Mara. MasaiMara game reserve is located to the southwest of Nairobi Kenya. The Masai Mara wildlife safari park in Kenya is popular for its large diversity and populations of game/animals. The Masai Mara is an undulating plain of grass that offers good food for the millions of giraffes, antelopes, gazelles and wildebeest. The Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya is a continuation of the more vast Serengeti national park in Tanzania. It has recently been named as among the new 7 world wonders together with the annual wildebeest migration in Masai Mara Kenya.

The Masai Mara family safari begins from Nairobi and includes at most three nights, which are enough to see all the wildlife of Africa safari. In most cases Kenya family safari groups stay in a single lodge for the 3-4 day duration. Game drives are offered from the lodges in a 4×4 open safari vehicle owned by the lodge or in the pop-up-roof-top minivan safari vehicle. Most family vacation groups to the Masai Mara arrive by road safari in a minivan and use the same for game drives. Mostly, family tour groups that visit the Masai Mara in air charters from Nairobi will in addition hire the lodges 4×4 open safari vehicles for game drives.

Kenya Family tours to the Masai Mara are usually offered an option of 2 game drives in a day (early morning and evening) or a full day game drive option. Either way, the Masai Mara will ensure that your kids get the most fun from watching the plentiful animals. Lodges in the Masai Mara family safari vacation have a characteristic of large compounds that affords the children enough playgrounds and are usually fenced off to keep the wild animals off -and the kids in. Not all of the Masai Mara lodges however accept children, so your Africa Kenya family tour operator in Nairobi should advice you on the available lodges. In some lodges children are not encouraged, not because of their noise, but due to the dangers from wildlife. These are mostly the open Kenya bush camps and wilderness safari tent camps. Food in the Masai Mara family Kenya vacation lodges is a buffet affair and meal times are advised by the Masai Mara lodges on arrival.

Famous Masai Mara family safari lodges offer good rates for larger family safari groups. Some have Kenya kids safari games and activities including swimming pools. Some of the most popular Masai Mara family safari lodges include;

Keekorok Masai Mara family wildlife safari lodge

Mara Serena Masai Mara family animal holiday wildlife lodge

Fig tree family vacation camp Masai Mara

Mara simba family Kenya jungle tour lodge

Mara sopa Kenya family wild safari lodge

African safari club family travel lodge

Governors camp Kenya family vacation camp among others

Lake Nakuru Kenya Family Safari Vacation Park In Kenya

The other famous family safari in Kenya Park is the lake Nakuru national park. Lake Nakuru family safari is mostly combined with the Masai Mara. Lake Nakuru park is usually added in the itinerary as an attraction before or after a visit to the Masai Mara. Lake Nakuru national park is most famous for its pink flamingo that forms a pink ribbon on the lake shores that can be seen from kilometers away. The flamingo in Lake Nakuru are over 2.5million at any one time. The flamingos are filter feeders of algae and the lake Nakuru is a superb feeding ground due to its alkaline nature that supports growth of blue-green algae.

Lake Nakuru national park is combined into the Masai Mara family safari vacation as a one night transit or at most two nights. The park is completely fenced off and has such Kenya safari wildlife as the flamingos and other 450 species of birds, the giraffe, the black and white rhino (it’s a noted rhino sanctuary),the leopard, the African lion, the mean looking-mud clad buffalo, the hyenas, impalas, hippos, among many others. There are no elephants in Lake Nakuru family safari park. Adult park entry rates at the time of writing this article were at $40 per person while those of kids below the age of 13 are at half price. Infants and toddlers are exempted from park entry charges in Kenya. Lodges that offer family on Africa safari accommodation in Lake Nakuru national park include;

Lake Nakuru lodge-family vacation accommodation in Kenya

Sarova Lion Hill family safari lodge in Lake Nakuru Park

Kenya wildlife service self contained family safari bandas

The Aberdares National Park-The Mountain Africa Family Safari Park In Kenya

The Aberdares national park is a mountain family vacation in Kenya destination. The park offers very sublime scenery akin to those or rural Ireland. Heavily wooded mountain forests with liana and climbers cycling their diameter and moss filled stems are common here. The open glades are equally sublime with large vista amidst the montane forest. Clear cool waters trickle from the hundreds of streams in breathtaking lush green valleys. The streams are also full of trout fish and are a haven for Kenya wilderness angling safari tours.

Aberdares Park is a favorite family vacation spot in Kenya due to its 2 main raised lodges. The treetops hotel is a wooden log cabin family safari lodge tucked away on a hill side of a very lush and salient park of the park. The treetops lodge has a watering hole and family safari groups can view wildlife at day and night as they drink and lick salt from the hole. A well constructed game viewing lounge fronts the hotel at the watering hole offering kids on safari to view animals at their pleasure. Kenya family vacation lodges in this park include;

Treetops family wildlife safari lodge

The ark family animal vacation

Kenya Beach Family Vacation

The Kenya beach located on the south eastern corner of the country. Family Kenya beach holidays at the coast are mostly at the end of a long wildlife safari parks tour in Kenya Africa. The Kenya beach coast is the ultimate climax of a Kenya safari as it offers relaxation and peace at the rush of waves and whispering of palms. Mombasa Kenya is at the centre of a Kenyan family tour of Africa and most beaches are located either to the south or north of Mombasa island town.

Diani Kenya beaches in the south coast offer the best unparalleled family vacation spots. Most days of an African family vacation in Kenya are spent at the beach. Families opt for a Marathon run through the wildlife safari parks of Kenya and then have 3-7days of relaxation at the coast. Lodges in Diani Kenya that offer family Kenya vacation accommodation have a multitude of water sports and activities for the parents and kids to engage in. most hotels at the Diani Kenya coast offer air conditioned spacious rooms, room service, kids entertainment, free form swimming pools, pool bars, 3-4 restaurants to choose from, an in-house shopping arcade, internet services, excursions from the hotel, airport and town shuttle services, satellite TV, minibars, room safes, ensuite bathrooms among many others.

There is a whole world of family water sports offered at these Kenya beach hotels. Some of the most popular family beach vacation activities and water sports include;

Swimming in the Diani beach hotels swimming pool

Kayaking in the ocean

Wind surfing on Mombasa beaches

Jet skiing on Kenya beach

Dhow trips

Family Safari Snorkel in coral gardens

Swimming with dolphins on Kenya family beach vacation

Diving lessons PADI on Kenya coast

Kite surfing/surfin on Kenya family beach vacation among others.

Other Africa Kenya family vacations on the beach hotels are located to the north of Kenya coast. These offer family beach vacations in such popular Kenya beach places like Lamu Kenya family vacation spot, Malindi Kenya family vacation spot, Kilifi family vacation hotels, Bamburi beach family holidays spot, Nyali beach family tour spot.

So next time you are going on your Africa family vacation in Kenya be sure to include some of these places and you won’t be disappointed.

Have a fun family Kenya holiday!!



Rachel

October 19th, 2008 - What is the best vacation for a group of women?

fukdaworl asked:


We are planning an all women vacation, me and my 4 friends are going. The husbands is taking care of the kids. We live in Baltimore, MD, I like to go to a destination that is at least 1-5 hours drive, we don’t like flying. We don’t like to go more than far. So what is the best vacation for my women’s group.

Sandra

October 15th, 2008 - Go-Go’s - Vacation

NightTracksRevival asked:


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1982 release from the album “Vacation”
Courtesy of IRS Records

Emily

October 11th, 2008 - Vacation?

Meredith asked:


Some friends and I are planning a vacation to Orange Beach, AL in the middle of August. What are some good places to eat, bars, night life? We’re gonna be on the beach all day so we need something fun to do at night! (We’re all over 21!) Thanks!

Sandra

October 9th, 2008 - Scuba Vacation Commit Your Total Vacation Time To The Sport

Wirat Muenpan asked:


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The best scuba diving vacation opportunities are booked by repeat customers who book well in advance to ensure their reservation! There are plenty of interesting scuba diving vacations; the hardest part is picking just one. This is the perfect time of the year to escape the winter chill and relax on a scuba diving vacation! Watching the whale sharks and manta rays common seen in these areas will make this dive destination a scuba diving vacation to remember. One of the best scuba diving vacations you will ever book is a trip to Cozumel, Mexico. Our scuba diving vacation guide has all the information that you’ll need to plan your fun Vacations by Adventure Tours scuba diving vacations today! They’ll help make sure you’re completely satisfied with your scuba diving vacation from start to finish. Taking a scuba diving vacation to Mexico is easy, fun and affordable with Tank-Ha’s diving vacation packages.

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Stephanie