What are you doing this Holiday Season? It seems like a far off question, but if you don’t have plans, why not spend Christmas in the Caribbean, New Year’s in Mexico, Chanukah in Punta Cana, or Kwanza in Puerto Vallarta. Traveling over the holidays used to be an expensive luxury. This season there are some very competitive rates out there. I just received some specials across my desk including:

Royal Solaris in Cancun, Mexico (book by 10/13).
3nts - $799.99  (originally $1369.99)
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Many moons ago, an early September morning, I was at what was then the Radisson Cable Beach in the Bahamas talking to a couple enjoying a long weekend. They told me it was their “vacation from their vacation”. They had just done a week at a theme park in Florida. They then the took their kids home, got them back to school , and now they were on THEIR vacation. At the time I didn’t get it, how mean to dump the kids off and go away without them. Fast forward 12 years - AND NOW I GET IT!!!

Don’t get me wrong, I am a slave to the mouse, I make my annual trek to central Florida each fall. Even though I stand in lines in what feels like 100 degree heat, sit on concrete waiting for a parade to go by, wake up at the crack of dawn to be first in a park, stay out way beyond what is a reasonable bed time for not only my child but me, and spend a small fortune… I love every minute of it. But it is not a vacation in the typical sense of the word. There is no fruity drink in my hand or cool ocean breeze to deflect the harsh rays of the sun. There is NO relaxing what so ever. And, there is no all inclusive so it is very, very expensive - even if you get a deal to go. …Read More>>

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