The towel guy lounges on the beach at Sundown Villa
Jamaican Villas with solid family ties
Adam's Stewart's family is now so big—seven siblings and 13 grandchildren—they spread out between two villas in Jamaica
The Hobie Cat at Sundown Villa
At this Jamaican villa you won’t go home disappointed
Villa rentals here and elsewhere in the Caribbean have become increasingly popular for extended families looking to get away together. The difference from other popular shared accommodations: A staff to see to your every need—and whim.
Rafting on the Rio Mateberion
In Jamaica, the story of Martha Brae and the Rio Mateberion
During the plantation and slavery era, the river was used to connect the sugar plantations in Trelawny to the port town of Falmouth--long bamboo rafts were used to float the sugar and other crops to the harbor and ocean-going vessels bound for Europe
Sundown at the Sundown Villa
On an annual old girlfriends’ getaway – to a fab villa in Jamaica with our own butler and chef
Welcome to Sundown Villa in Discovery Bay, Jamaica right on the ocean. This five-bedroom house adjacent to another two-story four bedroom house, is owned by Gordon “Butch” Stewart, the founder and chairman of Sandals Resorts International.
Snowman building at YMCA of the Rockies
Family fun central in winter at YMCA of the Rockies, Estes Park CO
Named “Best Family Resort in America” by USA Today’s Reader’s Choice Awards, YMCA of the Rockies is Family Reunion Central
Spot a gray whale, ring the gong at Grand Velas Cabo
Are resorts boring? Some kids think so. This one begs to differ.
The day we were in Los Cabos, we visited Grand Velas—a luxe 307-suite all inclusive resort that also was at capacity with 800 guests, more than 300 of them children.
Breads and sweets at Broadmoor Christmas Brunch
At the BROADMOOR – #BESTHOLIDAY BRUNCH; #BESTKIDS BUFFET
The Broadmoor Christmas brunch also takes tremendous effort. The denouement: The huge chocolate fountain just waiting for strawberries or marshmallows.
The patio at the award-winning Botika, San Antonio
Taking the Kids — and rethinking holiday eats
Many families, it seems, are forgoing the traditional home-cooked holiday feast for a restaurant or, like Claridge, a different sort of family celebration. It may be the first year after a divorce or death in the family or simply the desire to do something different.
The old Pearl Brewery in San Antonio
San Antonio has a new kind of “Pearl”
Pearl is the new go-to area of San Antonio – a 22 acre mixed use space for housing, shopping, dining, a year-round farmer’s market, riverside amphitheater and the third campus of the Culinary Institute of America
Dual massage at the Lake Austin Spa
#BestFacialEver: The Lake Austin Spa
We left husbands, otherwise occupied at a college reunion in Austin, one recent afternoon for a getaway—via water taxi no less—to the Lake Austin Spa Resort,