Welcome to Part 2 of our amazing family getaway to Belize. If you haven’t read Part 1, check it out here! We started off at Blancaneaux Lodge, but this article is about our stay at the Turtle Inn, our second Coppola Hideaway resort. On our way from Blancaneaux to Turtle Inn, we booked an excursion to St. Herman’s Cave to do some cave river tubing. After hiking for about 5 minutes through a flat, grassy forest, we arrived at the…
So we had a big giant trip to Paris planned with all four kids for the summer of 2020. COVID ruined those plans, but we were hopeful to rebook for 2021, which I did, and then I cancelled again since the rules were still weird about vaccines, etc. The summer of 2021 quite possibly may have been the last summer where we could snag all four kids and go on one vacation together since our oldest was starting college in…
Domus Zamittello is a boutique hotel located just within the City Gate of Valletta in Malta. We stayed there for eight nights from August 20-28, 2022. As you might know, I always prefer to stay in boutique hotels over big name chains, and honestly, in Valletta, there is pretty much only boutique hotels, so there were a ton to choose from. Some of the surrounding cities like Sliema and St. Julians have Marriotts and Hiltons, but I am super glad…
This is the trip that literally saved my mental wellbeing. When the pandemic began in America in March of 2020, all travel was halted. Our trip to Paris in the summer was cancelled, and there was no hope of rebooking it any time soon. For someone who needs travel to keep their head space in check while living a mostly ordinary life with a stressful day job, the toll of not being able to plan a trip for so long…
After a few days in Madrid, we took the high speed train to Barcelona. We were able to catch a cab outside of the Barcelona train station to the Gothic Quarter, where Hotel Neri is located. The cabs are typically not allowed in the pedestrian-only streets in the Gothic Quarter, so we rolled our bags for about a 5 minute walk into the center of the quarter to get to Hotel Neri. It was HOT, but when we arrived, the…
Hotel Catalonia Las Cortes came highly recommended from multiple sources and we stayed here from June 11-14, 2022. If you’ve been following me, you will know that I prefer to spend my European trips staying at boutique hotels rather than large chains. You typically get more personalized service, and almost always get more interesting rooms. Well, the Catalonia hotels are a chain, and I can’t really speak to the chain itself, since this is the first and only Catalonia hotel…
One of our anniversary trip stops took us to the Copal Tree Lodge in Punta Gorda, Belize for a week in February of 2019. Punta Gorda is about as far south as you can get in Belize before Honduras, and is pretty rustic compared to other, more toursity places in Belize. You have to take a small plane that makes several stops at towns along the way either via Maya Island Air or Tropic Air. Punta Gorda is the…