Saturday, January 28, 2012
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Great Feb Condo deals still available on Sanibel & Captiva! Call ResCen today @ 1-800-290-6920 or http://www.rescen.com ~ Speak w/a local
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Move over Paris - Sanibel Island is tops in the World! http://newspr.es/xrZUpM . Book your Sanibel Island stay at http://www.rescen.com
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Sanibel Island is #1 favorite travel destination
Frommer's - Arthur Frommer Online
To Do Some Long-Range Vacation Planning, I've Compiled a List of My 10 Favorite Travel Destinations
Posted by Arthur Frommer at 12/28/2011 10:02 AM EST
To me, the leisure enjoyed during the holiday season is a perfect time in which to plan future vacations. And so I've compiled a list of my own favorite destinations, of which there are 10:
1) Sanibel Island, Florida: Off the west coast of the Sunshine State, a few miles from Ft. Myers, is this idyllic haven of white-sand beaches, condos whose seafront apartments are available for weekly rentals, excellent restaurants, good shopping--and most important, the Ding Darling Nature Preserve, visited by thousands of birds of every species, who bask in the sun after diving for fish, and are one of the great natural sights of wildlife in America.
2) The Island of Bali, in Indonesia
3) Paris, France
4) St. John in the U. S. Virgin Islands
5) Cairo, Egypt
6) Bonaire, one of the "ABC" islands of the southern Caribbean
7) Yachats, the Oregon Coast
8) Chiang Rai, Thailand
9) New York City's Greenwich Village (and its Off-Broadway theaters)
10) Kenya
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To visit Arthur Frommer's favorite destination of Sanibel Island, Florida...call Reservation Central and speak with a local accommodation specialist at 1-800-290-6920. You may also visit http://www.ResCen.com for more information.
To Do Some Long-Range Vacation Planning, I've Compiled a List of My 10 Favorite Travel Destinations
Posted by Arthur Frommer at 12/28/2011 10:02 AM EST
To me, the leisure enjoyed during the holiday season is a perfect time in which to plan future vacations. And so I've compiled a list of my own favorite destinations, of which there are 10:
1) Sanibel Island, Florida: Off the west coast of the Sunshine State, a few miles from Ft. Myers, is this idyllic haven of white-sand beaches, condos whose seafront apartments are available for weekly rentals, excellent restaurants, good shopping--and most important, the Ding Darling Nature Preserve, visited by thousands of birds of every species, who bask in the sun after diving for fish, and are one of the great natural sights of wildlife in America.
2) The Island of Bali, in Indonesia
3) Paris, France
4) St. John in the U. S. Virgin Islands
5) Cairo, Egypt
6) Bonaire, one of the "ABC" islands of the southern Caribbean
7) Yachats, the Oregon Coast
8) Chiang Rai, Thailand
9) New York City's Greenwich Village (and its Off-Broadway theaters)
10) Kenya
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To visit Arthur Frommer's favorite destination of Sanibel Island, Florida...call Reservation Central and speak with a local accommodation specialist at 1-800-290-6920. You may also visit http://www.ResCen.com for more information.
Monday, January 9, 2012
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Friday, January 6, 2012
Shelling Sanibel: The Sanibel Stoop
travel.usatoday.com
Chris Around the World
with Chris Gray Faust
Every professional travel writer, it seems, has a happy place, a destination where they return not so much to gather new material, but to unwind and relax. For me, that place is Sanibel Island, Florida.
My parents started taking us to Sanibel when I was a teenager. Eventually, they bought a condo there and now spend most of the winter on the Florida Gulf Coast. I’ve visited almost every year since I was 16; I love the area so much that I chose to get married on neighboring Captiva Island at the ‘Tween Waters Inn. We love how they decorate for Christmas.
Sanibel’s claim to fame is the vast amount of shells that wash up on its beach every day. The island has an eco bent, and unlike other beaches on Florida’s Gulf Coast, resorts and condo associations are forbidden from removing sea debris. That bothers some people, who don’t like seeing seaweed, horseshoe crab skeletons and other things that wash up (I’ve seen everything from starfish to sand dollars to an immense dead sea turtle). But for shellers, it’s paradise.
There’s even a name for the bent over posture of the people who you see walking the beach looking for treaures: The Sanibel Stoop.
The island has capitalized on its shelling reputation for more than a century. In the early 1900s, two of Sanibel’s first hotels, Casa Ybel and The Matthews, used to hold a competition for guests over who could find the best and rarest shell. Hallie “Granny” Matthews hosted the first Shell Show & Fair in her hotel lobby starting in the late 1920s, and by 1931, the event moved to the Sanibel Community Association’s (SCA) Community House.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Sanibel Shell Fair & Show. In honor of the anniversary, businesses and associations will be holding “Shellebration” activities around the island, including an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Record for number of people on a shell scavenger hunt.
The “flash Sanibel stoop,” so to speak, will take place at 10 a.m. on Feb. 17 at Bowman’s Beach. Anyone who participates will be sign their names and be immortalized in an aerial photo that will be sent to Guinness (the current record is 208 people).
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To practice the "Sanibel Stoop", call Reservation Central and one of our local accommodation specialists would be happy to help you arrange your next Sanibel or Captiva Island Vacation. Visit us on the web at http://www.rescen.com or call our local office at 1-800-290-6920.
Chris Around the World
with Chris Gray Faust
Every professional travel writer, it seems, has a happy place, a destination where they return not so much to gather new material, but to unwind and relax. For me, that place is Sanibel Island, Florida.
My parents started taking us to Sanibel when I was a teenager. Eventually, they bought a condo there and now spend most of the winter on the Florida Gulf Coast. I’ve visited almost every year since I was 16; I love the area so much that I chose to get married on neighboring Captiva Island at the ‘Tween Waters Inn. We love how they decorate for Christmas.
Sanibel’s claim to fame is the vast amount of shells that wash up on its beach every day. The island has an eco bent, and unlike other beaches on Florida’s Gulf Coast, resorts and condo associations are forbidden from removing sea debris. That bothers some people, who don’t like seeing seaweed, horseshoe crab skeletons and other things that wash up (I’ve seen everything from starfish to sand dollars to an immense dead sea turtle). But for shellers, it’s paradise.
There’s even a name for the bent over posture of the people who you see walking the beach looking for treaures: The Sanibel Stoop.
The island has capitalized on its shelling reputation for more than a century. In the early 1900s, two of Sanibel’s first hotels, Casa Ybel and The Matthews, used to hold a competition for guests over who could find the best and rarest shell. Hallie “Granny” Matthews hosted the first Shell Show & Fair in her hotel lobby starting in the late 1920s, and by 1931, the event moved to the Sanibel Community Association’s (SCA) Community House.
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the Sanibel Shell Fair & Show. In honor of the anniversary, businesses and associations will be holding “Shellebration” activities around the island, including an attempt to break the Guinness Book of World Record for number of people on a shell scavenger hunt.
The “flash Sanibel stoop,” so to speak, will take place at 10 a.m. on Feb. 17 at Bowman’s Beach. Anyone who participates will be sign their names and be immortalized in an aerial photo that will be sent to Guinness (the current record is 208 people).
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To practice the "Sanibel Stoop", call Reservation Central and one of our local accommodation specialists would be happy to help you arrange your next Sanibel or Captiva Island Vacation. Visit us on the web at http://www.rescen.com or call our local office at 1-800-290-6920.
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