Where is your go-to place?

[danielboldea]

Just finished sharing about the city we keep on coming back to: Blogs - Our Go-To Place - Community Forum | Luxury Link

What is your favorite go-to destination that you can't seem to get enough of?

[bonniejoy03]

Virgin Gorda!!! Just love the location off season. Quiet, peaceful, beautiful. LOVE IT!!

[thepiranha]

Good question, Daniel, but we usually go to different places whenever we travel. That being said, there's something comforting to go back to a place you're very familiar with. My go-to place would have to be Hana, Maui. I lived there for three and a half years, our kids were born there, and we still have some great friends in Hana. Aloha!

[omegaet]

Just finished sharing about the city we keep on coming back to: Blogs - Our Go-To Place - Community Forum | Luxury Link

What is your favorite go-to destination that you can't seem to get enough of?

Actually, we're pretty comfortable right here at home.....so, we don't really have a 'go-to' destination.

However, living in a state where the highest elevations just tops 340' above sea level, we are often attracted to areas with altitude and probably the most intriguing would the Andes Mountains.

We have admired, endured and enjoyed them in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina....and many of those experiences involved Luxury Link packages.

So, our favorite 'go-away' destination would be most mountain ranges.

[TravelerBen_ll]

Fun thread and conversation-starter, Daniel!

For me, it's probably San Francisco. I live just an hour flight away and have some great friends in the Bay Area, so I try to visit at least twice a year. I feel like I'm instantly in a good mood the second I arrive at SFO and take the BART train into the city...and that seems to last my entire stay.

I've thought about moving to the Bay Area, and have been close on a few occasions, but for various reasons it hasn't happened. I'll settle for my frequent visits, the next one coming up MLK weekend.

Of course, I'd be remiss if I didn't mention that Luxury Link just added a great new property in San Francisco - The Huntington Hotel & Nob Hill Spa! It's the first hotel in SF-proper that I've seen on the site in my tenure here...

Happy New Year, everyone!

[kyshel]

Actually, we're pretty comfortable right here at home.....so, we don't really have a 'go-to' destination.

However, living in a state where the highest elevations just tops 340' above sea level, we are often attracted to areas with altitude and probably the most intriguing would the Andes Mountains.

We have admired, endured and enjoyed them in Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina....and many of those experiences involved Luxury Link packages.

So, our favorite 'go-away' destination would be most mountain ranges.

I think that sounds like you "go to" get high!

[jsattapr2]

I think that sounds like you "go to" get high!

Maybe Colorado, if "high" is what you desire!

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Anyplace but home - I need a new city and home to live - not liking Philadelphia anymore and really, really hate the winter and the cold, damp weather!

We usually try and go someplace different when we travel so there has not really been any one place that we keep trying to go back to. I would have said Antigua, Guatemala but the last time we were there we noticed that it has really changed and did not like it quite as much as we used to ;-(

[bonniejoy03]

D. What has changed on Antigua? We were just talking about Antigua and Lake Atilan and thought how nice it would be to return. (and Casa Palopo is an LL offering.) Any feedback?

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Antigua is still a beautiful city but I guess in order to draw more tourists the government has cracked down on the Mayan vendors and herded them all into (in my opinion) a crappy sort of marketplace - very cramped, etc. I really miss how you would sit in the central park and the Mayan kids would walk around with their wares and you could sit on a park bench and bargain and they also had that nifty little vendor place at one of the ruined churches. When we were there 2 years ago you could tell the Mayan folks were scared to even hang out in the park - the "tourist" police were always chasing them away and telling them not to bother the tourists.
We also felt the town was getting a sort of "Disney" feel to it. Don't get me wrong, we still love Guate and Antigua and I suppose the government has to do whatever it can to increase tourist visits and revenue but one of the reasons we love Guate in general is for its indigenous population (the largest in Central America). The Mayans were treated so horribly during the decades long civil war and it seems like the other Guatemalans are trying to relegate the Mayans back to 2nd class citizens again.
We are leaning more towards Cuzco as our indigneous city of choice.