10 Reasons to Stay at the Montage Beverly Hills

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My wife Natalie was in LA this past week and since she was on assignment for Style at Home and for her blog OhTravelissima.com, I got to tag along with her while she lived the good life at the Montage Beverly Hills. The hotel was so incredible and if you haven’t been, you should consider [...]

15 Reasons to Stay at the Beverly Wilshire, A Four Seasons Hotel

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My wife and I recently spent two blissful nights at the Beverly Wilshire, a Four Seasons Hotel located in Beverly Hills. It’s an incredible property with lots of features to recommend it. Here are 15 reasons to stay at the Beverly Wilshire. 1. It’s the Pretty Woman hotel Even though the movie Pretty Woman came [...]

California Winter Fit Multisport with Backroads: Sugar Bowl, Sonoma, Sausalito, San Francisco

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This incredible adventure trip with Backroads began with a flight to rainy Reno, Nevada, on Easter and a short drive to Sugar Loaf Mountain in Tahoe. Not knowing what to expect, I met one nice family in our casino meeting spot and another single older lady, and before you know it, we picked up another [...]

Top 10 Reasons to go on a Backroads Trip – Enhance Your Life With Active Travel

Our group walked over The Golden Gate Bridge and back to our hotel - Cavallo Point Lodge (Photo credit: Melissa Curtin)

Recently, I went on a weeklong journey with Backroads, the world’s #1 active travel company. Their California Winter Fit Multisport Trip took our small group from the snowy mountains of Tahoe (Sugar Bowl Ski Resort) to the wine country of Sonoma to the idyllic marina town of Sausalito ending our adventure in sensational San Francisco. [...]

The New Legoland Hotel in Carlsbad, California

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That familiar sound of plastic Lego pieces hitting each other is what you’ll hear when entering the new Legoland Hotel. The newest San Diego County hotel has brilliantly placed a big sandbox filled with thousands of lego pieces in the middle of the lobby for young guests to hop in and enjoy.  As a parent, [...]

Discovering the “real” California

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Spring is here and now is the time to start thinking about and planning your Summer holidays with the kids or maybe that quick couples getaway weekend.  If you are looking for a vacation that brings together majestic seascapes, plentiful outdoor activities, the arts, great food and great wine straight from the source then you [...]

More “real” California Living

The Battle of the Bay Heats Up

In our previous piece, we talked about using your Summer vacation to discover the “real” California and we listed a whole bunch of useful information on how to get there and what to do once you arrive.  One destination you should really try to get to is the annual SAVOR the Central Coast event co-sponsored [...]

10 Reasons to Stay at Andaz West Hollywood

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Last week, I had my first opportunity to stay at an Andaz Hotel, which is part of the Hyatt Hotels brand. Andaz hotels are described as “upscale, boutique-inspired lifestyle properties that distill the best of their locale.” They first launched in 2007 in London but they now have properties in Los Angeles, San Diego, Shanghai [...]