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It seems obvious that for a long stay in a hotel the rates should be lower. This is not necessarily true and it depends on the pricing policy of each hotel establishment or hotel chain.

Looking at a real case, we can try to find the best weekly hotel rates for a hotel in Miami. Let’s search for availabilities and rates a week from now, checking in on Monday and checking out on Monday the following week, a 7 day hotel stay, one room for two adults. Some results show that the rates are not discounted even for such a long hotel stay but some results show clearly both the original price and the discount price as for instance:

El Palacio Sports Hotel shows a 25% discount for a three+ night stay (Stay 3 or more nights save 25%,Includes free Calder Raceway Clubhouse Entry).

The next extended stay hotel, as it shows a lower rate for a long stay, is the Best Western Miami Airport West Inn & Suites which shows a 15% discount, better than nothing for sure, (Book now and save 15%).

Then we have Hyatt Regency Miami offering some good savings, 20% off, but only on specific rooms (Up to 20% off the Miami suite room rate). This is a 4 star hotel, a good one and greatly located in downtown Miami.

This is a sample, as of today and of course hotel rates and discounts will change depending on when you run the search and depending on arrival date and hotel stay duration.

Extendedstayhotels are a good way to save on hotel reservations and checking the hotel offers before making a booking is strictly advised.

Chicago is a great travel destination for families as well and if you are there with family these are some of the places you may like to visit, not a comprehensive list but a place to start from… If travelling with family is also important to find a cheap hotel to stay and to make a hotel reservation for Chicago with ease and peace of mind.

American Girl Place, 111 East Chicago Avenue. American Girl Place, an enchanting concept for little girls and their dolls,  On the Magnificent Mile, across the street from the historic Water Tower and overlooking Lake Michigan.  Children, and parents, can shop for the American Girl dolls.  Also, a wide selection of authentic historical clothes, accessories, and furniture.  American Girl café  for birthday celebrations for girls.

 Chicago Children’s Museum, 700 East Grand Avenue. ”Climbing Schooner” a replica of an 1850’s sailing ship. “Inventing Lab,” dedicated to the science of flight. The “Waterways” attraction invites children to suit up in rain gear and try to dam a waterfall. Dinosaur lovers will be happy to take the “Dinosaur Expedition” to Niger in West Africa.

Lincoln Park Zoo, 2001 N. Clark Street. The Zoo is one of the few places in the country where children can observe rare endangered species, as the Siberian Tiger and Grevy’s Zebra. The zoo’s emphasis is education about preserving rare and beautiful creatures in the wild. Classes and tours are available, young ones may enjoy a kid-friendly “farm” at the zoo’s south entrance.

John G. Shedd Aquarium, 1200 S. Lake Shore Drive.  The Shedd’s signature exhibit, the “Oceanarium” replicates the coastline of the Pacific Northwest. More than 8,000 animals make their home at the Shedd and children can marvel at the majesty of whales, dolphins and harbor seals.

 The Field Museum, 1400 S. Lake Shore Drive. ”Life Over Time” area of the museum,  explores the weather changes over the course of the earth’s history and the development of single- and multi-celled animals.

Navy Pier, 600 East Grand Avenue. Chicago Children’s Museum, the Navy Pier offers other attractions to interest young people. They will be delighted by the sheer size of the 3,000-foot pier and the magnitude of its offerings. A 150-foot Ferris wheel provides an incredible view of the downtown skyline. Ice ring.  Older children might enjoy sightseeing trips on one of the tour boats.

As said this is just a short selection of places in Chicago to enjoy with the family and children.

For the twin pleasures of bustling, international cities and miles of breathtaking unspoilt countryside, the Atlantic side of Canada is the place to visit. Known as the Maritime Provinces, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and New Brunswick are an excellent focus for a coastal adventure peppered with fun night life and the chance to get up close to the natural habitat of rare bird and animal species. Halifax and Nova Scotia

A tour might usefully start in Halifax, Nova Scotia (5.5 hours flying time from the UK). Halifax is a lively city with a deep connection to the UK as a formed British dependency. You can visit Citadel Hill with its 19th-century star-shaped fort (a National Historic Site of Canada), the Public Gardens, the fascinating harbour front with its military heritage. You might also visit Fairview Cemetery, where over 100 people who died on the doomed liner Titanic have found their resting place. The waterfront also has numerous traditional pubs offering local ales and Gaelic tunes, a reminder of course, that these parts were first settled by Scottish Highlanders – hence the name “New Scotland” – Nova Scotia.

Halifax is also the base for a tour to one of the most photographed locations n Canada, Peggy’s Cove, which is overlooked by Canada’s only light house which has a post office.

Cape Breton Island

After Halifax, a trip to Cape Breton Island, said to be one of the earliest European settlements in North America, can be followed by a stay in Baddeck. Baddeck has the Museum dedicated to former summer resident and famous inventor Alexander Graham Bell. Baddeck also gives you the base for the Cabot Trail, a circular tour on a highway carved high into the mountains, taking in Cape Breton National Park and several traditional village where Scottish customs are still the norm.

Prince Edward Island

Travelling from Nova Scotia to Prince Edward Island is by ferry from Caribou to Charlottetwon across the Northumbria Strait. Historic Charlottetown is where the Union of Canada was discussed and ratified in 1864, and is the island’s capital. The city also has the colourful Great George Street and the restored and bustling waterfront. It is also the gateway to the rest of Price Edward Island, which includes the superb PEI National Park with its sand dunes, sandstone cliffs, forests, salt marshes and some excellent beaches.

New Brunswick

Onwards from Price Edward Island to New Brunswick is an experience in itself, via the 8-mile Confederation Bridge. Here you can visit the Arcadian villages of Boutouche and Le Pays de Sagouine, this latter being a lively village with theatre, music, comedy and live entertainment all geared to the unique Arcadian culture. You might also want to try catching your own lobster and enjoying a fine seafood dinner on board a specially-organised cruise.

Other New Brunswick towns to visit are Monckton and of course Fredericton, the capital, both with plenty of themed history re-creating the life and times of the early settlers.

St John and the Bay of Fundy

After Fredericton you might travel to St John and the Bay of Fundy, with its concentration of over 20 species of whale including Minkes, Finbacks, Humpbacks and the rare Right Whale. Cruises operate to ensure you have every chance to see these magnificent creatures.

Saint John itself has its own charm, with easy style and plenty of good restaurants with local specialities including fiddleheads (violin-shaped ferns that grow along the riverbanks), tarte au sucre (a Brayonnne sugar pie) or poutine (grated raw and mashed potatoes wrapped around fresh pork). It has the Old City Market and the fascinating “Reversing Falls” where water flows backwards due to the force of incoming tides.

The route back to Halifax, takes you via Hopewell Rocks, where you can see the world’s highest tides which can rise to an amazing 50 metres.

There is a great deal to discover in this region of Canada – easily managed by self drive car hire and local tours, but equally lending itself to a 14 or 18 day coach tour for those who prefer to leave the driving and planning to others.Article Source: http://articlecenter.info

Jimi St. Pierre writes for several Travel Companies and Office Equipment suppliers and in the UK, including Officemagic, BCP Ltd and Country Connect, the latter being a publisher of a daily news feed to the UK travel industry via the newly re-branded Virgin Media Traveleye extranet

There are so many things to do and places to go in Door County that it is hard to pick what to do. There never seems to be enough time to do everything. There’s boating, golfing, a nature center, several parks, biking, hiking, shopping, eating (one of my favorite things to do!), and a host of other things to do and see in Door County. Because I enjoy Door County so much I wanted to share some of my activities and experiences there. One of those was a visit to Lautenbach’s Orchard Country Winery and Market.

If you like wine, a really fun thing to do is to visit several of the wineries in Door County (Door Peninsula Winery is another popular Door County Winery). Orchard Winery, located on Hwy 42, just south of Fish Creek, Wisconsin was one of our stops during a fall trip to Door County.

In addition to a winery and fresh Door County cherries (when in season), the main market building on the grounds offers many different specialty food items as well as fresh baked pies. Also offered are scenic trolley tours of the area and tours of the winery. Other seasonal activities at the orchard include horse drawn sleigh rides, haunted hayrides, and a winter wine fest.

When my husband, my oldest grown son, and I stopped at the winery it was later in the afternoon in the middle of the week. The last winery tour for the day had already ended. We were disappointed to have missed out on the tour, but instead we headed to the wine tasting bar in the main building. At the tasting bar we were given a list of all the wines offered by the winery. There are over 30. Complimentary tasting of up to 8 wines is offered to all patrons over 21 years of age.

After mulling over the choices for a few minutes we started sipping wines. The winery specializes in fruit wines, particularly cherry, because of the great cherry growing climate in Door County. They also offer one homegrown grape wine made with red grapes grown on the winery grounds, a wine named Audrey Grace. It is a dry wine, a new offering from the winery. The grapevines were planted just a few years ago to see how they would perform in the cool, short growing season of Door County.

Although the winery specializes in fruit wines, they have other offerings made with various grapes, but those wines are not made on the premises because those fruits are not native to the area. Some of the other wines are made on the premises but with juice bought just for that purpose. For instance, our hostess at the wine bar told us the juice for their semi dry wine called Swedish Lingonberry is imported from Sweden.

Other wines that we tasted and really enjoyed were the Autumn Harvest wine, a cranberry apple wine; Sweet Cherry wine, a nicely sweet wine made with Door County cherries; Strawberry Lyte, not a diet wine but a delicious lighter-tasting wine; Blackberry Blend, a very good wine that tasted like sweet blackberries; and Red Raspberry Lyte, another lighter-tasting wine that’s a combination of white grapes and raspberries.

We were told the top selling wine at the winery is the Blackberry Blend. The number two seller is the Red Raspberry Lyte. The winery’s best-selling cherry wine is their Cherry Blossom wine.

After tasting several wines we headed over to the bottled wine section of the store and stocked up on our favorites. Back home, we’ll be able to enjoy the wine and reminisce about our trip to Door County.

About The Author

Dorrie Ruplinger is a featured writer for http://www.doorcountycountry.com. For more information on Door County, Wisconsin including places to eat; things to do; lodging; shopping information; and real estate information visit http://www.doorcountycountry.com.

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Times Square

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Central Park

This beautiful park is a second favourite for new York city routes and sits comfortably to the right in the heart of Manhattan and expands from the city center to Harlem. Cause 1857 by Frederick Law Olmstead and Calvert Vaux supply these roles of Oasis of the pastures and the gardens a light standing point, in order to relax with one afternoon way inside. There is coincidental loving could inside on your route of New York town center spaehen, since you anstarren in the Bethseda well on Bethseda terrace. The north heading find you the amazing secret, which is Belvedere lock, or you could stop by the close convenient Delacorte theatre and some the summer games got caught. A wonderful small zoo is present for children of all age, and a repaired roundabout is safe of soul to the Pikee the fantasy of everyone light hearted.

Metropolitan Museum of Art

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St. Patrick’s Cathedral

Structurally astonishing, this massive cathedral located through center of Rockerfeller on the fifth avenue is the largest catholic cathedral in the United States, making him another popular stop of excursion of New York City. Of a capacity of allowance of the places of 2.500, several furnace bridges and windows of glass soiled, high trés arrows 330-foot, and an enormous body of pipe it is not any wonder much again duck of Yorkers inside during a moment of peace in the differently agitated everyday life city. Services are held all by the day and can probably adapt even to most occupied programmes of excursion of New York City. All these sites and up to now well-known of attractions remain invisible, it are really a spectacular place to visit constantly of the year.