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Experience La Dolce Vita-The Sweet Life!
The re-creation of an Italian Riviera seaside village at the Portofino Bay Hotel at Universal Orlando, a Loews Hotel, makes you feel like you are in Italy with their cobblestone streets at the harbor piazza. After a long day elax at the world-class Mandara full-service spa.
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Most of the time whenever I think of fall foliage, automatically the states of New England come to mind. However, Today’s Travel Editor Peter Greenberg shares some of his ideas for this seasons beautifal colors and fall adventures, he suggests 8 great and unusual fall foliage destination.

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The leaves started to change here about a week and a half ago when we had a short cold snap. I would guess about ten percent of the leaves in my area have changed so far. I think this weekend should be pretty good for color especially at the higher elevations and in the northern part of Vermont about a hour’s drive from us.

Our inn has been fully booked this coming weekend and the next. You will find that is true of virtually all lodging places in the northern half of the state. However, weekdays are only partially booked so you should be able to find a room if you can take a day or two off from work. We are about half booked for the second weekend in October but that will be filling in soon.
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American Airlines Vacations has a great deal for this fall, Dreams Resorts & Spas offer couples and couples with children luxury in Mexico where everything is included with elegantly appointed rooms and suites with 24-hour concierge and room services, multiple gourmet restaurants and lounges serving premium beverages, activities for you and the kids all in a breathtaking setting.

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Norwegian Cruise Line has put all Fall 2007 and Winter 2008 cruises on sale! Not only will you get a great deal but you??�ll also get a free best available upgrade. Book the least expensive stateroom - Inside, Oceanview or Suite - and they will automatically upgrade you to the best cabin available in that category!

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Vermont?�s famous fall foliage season is underway. It seems to me that it is a bit early this year. Usually, a few of the poplars and birches will start turning yellow in August especially if they have been stressed with heat and lack of rain. This year, we had a very cool August and few leaves started changing until September. But the poplars and birchesquickly caught up and individual maple trees here and there are turning orange/red ahead of normal years. We?�re still a week or so away from having large patches of color on the hillsides but it?�s definitely on the way.
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We have been steadily getting calls for lodging during fall foliage. I received a call yesterday from a woman who said she had tried two other places before us and they were both full on the two dates she wanted.

If you plan to travel to VT during the last week of September or the first two weeks of October, you should make your reservations as soon as you can. Rooms are still available but the selection becomes smaller with each passing week.

Whatever you do, don’t drive here thinking you can easily find a place to stay. Each year we get some drop-ins who did not know what a busy time of year that is here. We’ve been fortunate so far in calling around and finding some lodging for them but sometimes it is fairly far away and or not the best accommodation.
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Here is the best written summary I’ve seen about this amazing Vermont winter. It got off to a slow start but then came on with a roar, building up with increasing strength culminating in a Valentine’s Day blizzard that dropped 30 inches of powder snow at our inn, and then was followed by another foot and a half on St Patrick’s Day weekend. And those were on top of several dozen snowfalls of two to eight inches each at our mid- Green Mountain location. The upper elevations at the ski areas experienced even more snowfall than we did.

I have quoted the article below in its entirety. It’s from a Stowe Mountain Resort weekly newsletter called The Inside Line . I subscribe to several Vermont ski area emails and newsletters but Stowe’s is the best. Each issue has a few articles and an events calendar. It’s worth subscribing to even if you don’t plan on skiing Stowe because it is so interesting and well done.
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