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The USA's top vaycay state is best known for its beach resorts and theme parks. But besides the ersatz thrills of Orlando, the nightlife of South Beach, and the well-marketed Victoriana of Key West and Amelia Island, quiet hideaways abound as well.

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The spooky ghost tours of St. Augustine

Victor Block At age 458 - founded during the Spanish empire by Admiral Pedro Menéndez de Avilés - St. Augustine is the oldest continuously occupied settlement in the United States. There’s a lot to recommend a city that old, including charming colonial architecture and a lot of history - not just stretching back centuries but also including its beginnings as a tourism mecca during the Victorian era, the early 20th century, and even the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s. And of course…

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12 of Florida's best resorts

Beachcomber Resort & Club Attracting more than 120 million holidaymakers annually, the Sunshine State is famously home to many beautiful beaches on both the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, and is known for its bright sunshine, tall palm trees, crystal clear turquoise waters, expansive beaches, theme parks; and resorts. And here's our list of picks (obviously by no means exhaustive) of a dozen of the best resorts - from very affordable to very exclusive, and intimate to enormous -…

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Luscious Lee County in the wake of last fall's Hurricane Ian

Visit Florida Walking along the Fort Myers Yacht Basin in the center of the city, you would never know that three months ago it was littered with boats and destruction, havoc wreaked by Hurricane Ian in late September 2022 - the worst storm to hit Florida since 1935 and the world's third costliest on record. The feeling of calm felt almost eerie as I remembered the horrific TV images of months past. Nonetheless, this Lee County city along with nearby Bonita Springs are beach towns, bastions…

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Miami's Ultra included in "The USA's Top 10 Music Festivals"

Since debuting here in 1989, one of the world's premier electronic dance music festivals has been held in many cities across the globe, but this March event is still the biggest and most famous, with as many as 155,000 attending over two to three days in the city's Bayfront Park. with acts appearing over the years including Diplo, David Guetta, Calvin Harris, Moby, Tiësto, Armin van Buuren, and Paul Van Dyk. For more, read post

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Ed Wetschler August 21, 2010 at 3:59pm

St. Augustine's tourism numbers are just a hair short short of the numbers for its best-ever year, 2007, recession notwithstanding. Do you figure that this surge is happening because people have switched travel plans from the Gulf Coast to the East Coast ?
Judy Wells August 21, 2010 at 3:36am

Vincent, many, many years ago my then husband and I were driving across country with our cocker spaniel en route to his new duty station in Bremerton, WA. We wanted to go to Disneyland (this was way before D'world) so Peaches went into the Disney kennel. She had fun and so did we.
Vincent Russo August 21, 2010 at 3:26am

Nobody has given me a good answer on why anyone would bring a dog to disneyworld. That's okay because there is no good answer. And does anyone know anything about the pan american airways museum that might get built in Miami? Its gotta be the first museum built to a bankrupt coporation.
Vincent Russo August 16, 2010 at 11:10pm

I live in south FLA not Orlando but our local news station just did a report on Orlando. Disney is building a pet-hotel there. Am I nuts or are they nuts, why would you bring your dog to Disneyworld?
Judy Wells August 12, 2010 at 8:03pm

Guess it all depends on the audience you're targeting. Cultural travelers certainly would; Joe Blow, not so sure.
Sam Scribe August 12, 2010 at 7:29pm

I'll bet they know the name, but half of them couldn't tell the difference between a Dali and a Joan Miro. Or am I being too cynical?
Tony King August 12, 2010 at 7:04pm

Does the target audience know who Salvador Dali is? Sorry to be so cynical.
Judy Wells August 12, 2010 at 6:53pm

From what I've head of the new Dali Museum it might turn into quite the international tourist destination. Wouldn't that help put heads in beds?
Darryl Musick August 12, 2010 at 6:48pm

I certainly hope so, Ed. Unfortunately, since the locals don't have to pay the tax, it usually stays in force.
Ed Wetschler August 12, 2010 at 6:45pm

HOTEL TAX TO SUPPORT DALI MUSEUM

from the St. Petersburg Times:
"The Salvador Dalí Museum won support from a tourism panel Wednesday for the county to commit $2.5 million in hotel bed tax revenue to complete construction of its new building."
Will this kind of hotel tax backfire?