Posts in Tag: resorts
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Manava Beach Resort – Heaven in Moorea
This is my first post from one of the most beautiful places on earth, the island of Moorea in French Polynesia. In the last post I concluded the circle tour of Tahiti as our Adventures Abroad group ended the day at the site where Captain Cook and later the H.M.S. Bounty set anchor off Venus […]
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El Conquistador GC – A Caribbean Icon is Reborn
After the May 2022 North American Tavel Journalists conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico I set out to play some golf. With the help of Discover Puerto Rico and it golf PR agency Dan Shepherd PR I was able to secure tee times and rooms at three of the island’s best golf resorts. In the […]
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Te Moana – A Great Introduction to Tahiti
This is my second post from a recent trip Alison and I took with Adventures Abroad to French Polynesia. The first post was an overview of the entire trip and gave the reasons why I thought it was pretty well unique in terms of what tour operators are offering in this area of the world. […]
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Crowbush Cove – PEI’s Finest Golf at this Rodd Resort
Originally I wrote this post about playing Rodd Resort’s three great golf courses in Prince Edward Island- Brudenell River, Dundarave and the Links at Crowbush Cove. Since then I have created separate posts on Brudenell River and Dundarave, so have pared this post down to just Crowbush Cove. Here’s why I have come to appreciate […]
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Nemacolin – Western Pennsylvania’s Premiere Resort
One of the reasons I seldom go on travel writer’s fam (familiarization) trips is because they are bloody hard work – long hours, often visiting sites that have zero interest even though the host thinks that it is the next big thing in tourism, dealing with travel divas who can make me cringe with embarrassment […]
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The Fairmont Orchid – Finding Green Turtles and Green Sand
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took a few years ago to the four major Hawaiian islands. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we toured the Kohala Coast and visited Pu’ukohola, the site of King Kamehameha’s rise to power. […]
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Pu’ukohola – Visiting the Site of King Kamehameha’s Rise to Power
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip that Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. It was time for one final move on our epic (at least to us) Hawaiian tour. We packed up […]
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The Plantation Course at Kapalua – You Must Play it at Least Once
This is one of a continuing series of posts from a trip Alison and I took to the four main Hawaiian islands a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. Yesterday we played the Royal Kaanapali Golf Course where the Legends of Golf tournament was held which was a great […]
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Kaanapali Plantation – Rent a Reasonable Place in Maui
This is one of a continuing series of posts on a visit to Hawaii’s four main islands that Alison and I took a few years ago. It has been updated for accuracy as of 2021. In the last post we spent our final day on Oahu, playing the Palmer course at Turtle Bay Resort. In […]