Get to the cruise terminal early and relax – If your cruise documents tell you boarding begins at noon, do your best to be at the cruise terminal on or before this time. AT 8:25 ON A MIDWINTER Friday morning, I’m in Terminal B of New York’s LaGuardia Airport with a small bag, a large envelope and no idea where I’m about to fly off to. About a month earlier, I booked a long weekend trip for myself with Pack Up + Go, a two-year-old Pittsburgh-based travel company that plans surprise” vacations, sending travelers to destinations unknown—until the last possible minute.

Urbane and wild in equal measure, Litchfield Beach blends the world of private clubs, tennis and golf with seemingly untouched shores (your only company on the wide-open beach may be the gorgeous, windblown sea oats) and a greenbelt (the local Waccamaw Neck Bikeway is part of the East Coast Greenway ). In other words, head here with your partner—or yourself—for spot of sun-splashed escapism.

Family Spring Break Vacation Tip #3 – Santa Barbara Is Family Friendly Destination: A Santa Barbara vacation rental home is more than just gorgeous house to have spring break fun in. What makes this a great family spring break vacation is Santa Barbara itself.

Firsts things first: Airbnb and other vacation sites require that hosts tell guests that they are using surveillance devices They also strictly forbid hosts from using them in private spaces, including – but not limited to – bathrooms, bedrooms and other sleeping areas.

Deirdre, who planned this trip, sits by my side in the taxi, reenergized, like me, our heads poking out the back seat windows into the humid air to take it all in. Back in our 20s, before husbands and kids, Deirdre and I were travel buddies, road tripping around the United States and visiting Mexico City twice.