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Winners Circle Travel Tips

May 01

San Diego — Top Ten Reasons to Visit

We were lucky enough to attend a conference at the Grand Del Mar, San Diego in November 2012.  Since we were there mostly for work, we’re not doing a full-blown trip report.  Rather, we are providing the top 10 reasons we want to return to this wonderful city.  Here we go: 1.  The weather —Continue Reading

Oct 24

Wanna Be Wednesday!

This week, we wanna be here: Little Palm Island, Florida.  We can’t wait to see more of the Florida Keys, there’s a chill in the air and this place looks like paradise.  Sign us up for a mid-winter getaway!

Oct 19

Walt Disney World — Best Places for a Drink, Part 4: Animal Kingdom Lodge and Downtown Disney

This is the fourth and final entry in the Two on Holiday blog series discussing our favorite places to enjoy an adult (or other) beverage at Walt Disney World.  Read the first three posts here (covering the theme parks), here (covering the Magic Kingdom resorts) and here (covering the EPCOT area resorts). This week, weContinue Reading

Oct 11

Walt Disney World — Best Places for a Drink, Part 3: EPCOT Resorts

This is the third in the Two on Holiday blog series discussing our favorite places to enjoy an adult (or other) beverage at Walt Disney World.  Read our first two posts here (covering the theme parks) and here (covering the Magic Kingdom resorts). This week, we bring you our favorites at Disney’s EPCOT resorts.  Disney listsContinue Reading

Sep 28

Walt Disney World — Best Places for a Drink, Part 2: Magic Kingdom Resorts

This is the second in the Two on Holiday blog series discussing our favorite places to enjoy an adult beverage at Walt Disney World.  Read our first installment covering the theme parks here. This week, we bring you our favorites at Disney’s Magic Kingdom resorts:  the Grand Floridian, the Polynesian, the Contemporary and the WildernessContinue Reading

Sep 21

Walt Disney World — Best Places for a Drink, Part 1: Theme Parks

This series of blog entries will present our favorite places to enjoy an adult beverage at Walt Disney World.  Why a blog about cocktails at Disney World?  Well, since our focus is travel for adults we get asked about this quite often.  In addition, it is a fun way to kick off our blog seriesContinue Reading

Aug 27

Las Vegas Spas: Where to Go for Pampering in Sin City

Las Vegas is home to several world-class spas – you can get as indulgent as you want here and could easily spend a day enjoying the amenities.  We love to spa and have checked out several of the Vegas offerings.  Here (in no particular order) are spas we liked and recommend visiting: Sahra Spa andContinue Reading

Mar 23

Trip Report — Las Vegas Recap, March 2012

Rather than a full-blown trip report this week, we’re looking at the highlights of our trip to Las Vegas for the first weekend of March Madness.  If you are a college basketball fan, this is a great time to be in Vegas.  The atmosphere is electric. We flew in the afternoon of Thursday, March 15Continue Reading

Dec 21

Wanna Be Wednesday!

This week, we wanna be here: Waterfront Bistro, Cruz Bay, St. John, USVI.  This is a wonderful place for a drink with a view — close to the ferry dock and the perfect beginning or end (or both!) to a day on beautiful St. John.  The fish tacos are pretty good, too.

Dec 16

Trip Report — Chicago for the Arlington Million, August 2011

This was our annual trip to attend the Arlington Million (a fantastic day of horse racing at Arlington Park, culminating with the Grade I Arlington Million) and see Chicago friends.  Lyndon was also able to visit clients, making this both a work and pleasure trip. Unfortunately, our pictures from this trip somehow got deleted. Thursday, AugustContinue Reading