Continental US Vacation Hot Spots
 

In your opinion, where are the best cities,resorts, etc. to vacation in the continental US?

VEGAS BABEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
 

I'm totally in love with that city and cannot wait to go back! I may just go book myself a ticket on Orbitz right now!! BELLAGIO HERE I COME!!!

NYC of course....nothing beats it....:D

If you like nature and art and antiques and "junktiques" try Hot Springs Arkansas.. the nations first resort and first national park! You can get fabulous massages, an outlet mall, shows, clubs, FOOD!, and nature all in about 10 square miles. I love it....


TG

Big cities:
NYC; LA; SF

Small towns:
Carmel, CA; Sausalito, CA; Tiburon, CA

Resorts:
Lake Tahoe, CA

Cooperstown, NY

A very nice little town with the baseball hall of fame. Plus it's only 3 or 4 hours away from NYC.

Key West, Florida :D

I grew up in North LA, so Hot Springs was always a place we would travel for a quick trip. My mother and her best friend would go up for the "baths".

Is the park still open? I haven't been there since the 80's. :eek:

Carmel
 

I've not been there since I was a kid and couldn't appreciate it, but Carmel and the Big Sur coast in California is gorgeous. If I ever find someone suitable to marry and I don't want to spend big $$$ in the tropics, I would go there.

New Orleans, baby. We need the tourism money.

Boy, is it ever hot here!

Re: Carmel
 

Isn't Carmel just adorable??!! Have you ever been to Sausalito, Steeltrap? (It's near SF.) It's like Carmel, but more of a "seaside town." :)

Newbie
 

I never made it to Sausalito when I was living in the Bay Area (1989), but I've heard it's also gorgeous.

you like nature and art and antiques and
"junktiques" try Hot Springs Arkansas.. the nations
first resort and first national park! You can get
fabulous massages, an outlet mall, shows, clubs,
FOOD!, and nature all in about 10 square miles. I
love it....


I thought Yosemite was the first national park?! I guess I was wrong....

But my favorite place to vacation is the Northeast. Traveling up the coast on those beautiful little towns is awesome! :)

How about Philadelphia?

Philly.....Great Historical City. Great for the Social Studies major in me :)

omaha, nebraska is a good place to visit!!! :)

My favorite cities in which to vacation:

1. New Orleans, LA (I've always loved the nightlife, but taking a tour during the day made me appreciate the real beauty of the residential districts)

2. San Francisco & surrounding Bay Area, CA (yeah, I'm a native Californian, but SF continues to surprise me with new sides of its personality. Maybe I wouldn't suggest living here, but between SF, San Jose, Oakland and all the cities in the nine-county Bay Area, there's no place better to visit in the country)

3. Boston, MA (this city reminded me of an older, more genteel SF, and I loved it. I SOOOO want to go back (but this time not in February, YIKES)

4. Washington, DC (I think this area is totally wonderful to visit)

5. Wine Country (Napa and Sonoma), CA: Part of the nine-county Bay Area. Where else can you visit a million winerys, eat fantastic food, have small town shopping excursions, take a hot air balloon or bicycle tour around the countryside AND end the day with a hot natural mud bath???? Check out the Sonoma Mission Inn and Spa.

6. Manhattan and surrounding borroughs: hmmmmm, what needs to be said about NY, NY?

7. Las Vegas. At least once, bring LOTS of money and blow it in Vegas. This playground for adults (and now kids too) can keep you occupied for at least a week. Yeah, it's a bit phony, and now a bit more "pedestrian" with some of the old town glamour gone (folks showing up at Delmonicos in sweats is NOT a positive), but wow, great food, fantastic entertainment, impressive spas and suites.

One place I've always wanted to visit but have never been:

The Greenbrier in West Virginia. My family went there once for lunch on the way to school and let me tell you, it's plush. Great golf course, it's own shopping mall, and beautiful decorating. It screams class (in it's own WASPY way :)

Have bee t o most of these and is hard to say which is the best. Each has its own thing!

Some not mentioned, Taos NM, San Deigo, Kansas City, St. Louis, Houston, Dallas, Chicago, NYNY, Philly, Dayton (Ohio) Vegas and Little Reno, ETC!

Europe" London, Edinburagh, Kitzbuelh, Munich, Viennea, Budapest. Bath, Salisbury, Avon, York, etc!

But what is the last thing that you have seen in your own back yard?:rolleyes:

NYC, Washington, D.C., Boston, L.A., Poconos, PA, Williamsburg, VA, Myrtle Beach

edited to add Newport, RI :)

Portland, Maine is a wonderful place to visit in the summer. It's a charming little city; very sophisticated despite its lack of size. The Portland Regency is a beautiful hotel in the Old Port (nice shopping, eating, barhopping area). Very close to Freeport (cute town; great outlet shopping) as well as to some very scenic coastline. Comfortable temperatures this time of year; usually in the high seventies. And don't forget the lobster pounds! Yummm :)