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Even if you love winter in the BRACING WINTER Liz Perelli of Liz Cruises & Travels in
Valley, you may be yearning on TRAVEL DESTINATIONS Bethlehem. “They also love the idea
a somber day next January or February that they can head out of Bayonne
for someplace warmer, someplace By Jack Romig (N.J.) or New York City and don’t have
steeper, someplace different. Happily, to fly.”
fall is an opportune moment to start Willing to go even farther afield?
considering the spectacular choices Try Alaska. “The aurora borealis are Adamson says popular choices for
winter travel offers. more visible in the winter, and there’s
a lot to check out in the state’s cities,” Valley travelers include the Caribbean,
Sally McCorrison, Allentown-based McCorrison said. Or you can visit the
director of travel services for AAA annual Iditarod, with dogsleds racing Mexico, Europe and Disney.
East Central, says recent trends don’t from Anchorage to Nome in early An all-inclusive deal can buy you
necessarily involve warm destinations. March. “You can even dine with the
Wherever your plans take you, be mushers if you like.” a luxury experience for less than you
sure to start early to get the prime travel might expect, said Kitsy Guyer of
times, says Becky Adamson, team Perhaps coolest of all are the Pegasus Travel in Bethlehem.
leader at Liberty Travel in Allentown. ice hotels that have proliferated
in recent years. These structures, “Mexico is really hot in this way,”
“Book early this year, especially rebuilt each year with walls, Guyer said. On the Riviera Maya, a
for your more popular dates such as fixtures and even furnishings of ice, stretch of Caribbean coastline in the
Presidents Day weekend and Easter challenge conventional ideas about northeastern Yucatan, an affordable
Spring Break,” she says. vacations, but they are unforgettable luxury package includes amenities
destinations. Closest to the Lehigh such as a beautiful room, butler,
TRAVEL ON ICE Valley, McCorrison said, is the Hotel concierge, private check-in and more.
de Glace, north of the Canadian
“What’s cool in the winter can be border in Quebec City. Venturesome St. Kitts and Nevis, two tropical
just as exciting,” McCorrison said. For guests can visit other ones in Finland, islands forming a single nation at the
instance, book yourself into Yellowstone Norway, Sweden and Romania. Atlantic gateway to the Caribbean,
National Park in deep winter, she said. Skiers are regular winter travelers, has become a destination with wide
You’ll find a still, dazzling world where of course. “A lot of the ‘real’ skiers appeal in recent years, even though, as
roads are closed and visitors get around belong to ski clubs, and they head Guyer said, “it’s not that easy to get
via snow coach, experiencing frozen out to places like Jackson Hole to.” (Flying there may take the intrepid
waterfalls, epic steam clouds around (Wyoming) and Whistler (British traveler two or even three stops.)
hot springs and geysers, and the Colombia),” McCorrison said.
unforgettable sight of buffalo jams as McCorrison said the
the noble beasts huddle for warmth. bioluminescent bay of Puerto Rico’s
Vieques Coast is gaining popularity,
18 | INDULGE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016 HOT SPOTS while Aruba, Cancun, Jamaica and
the Bahamas remain perennial
For many, only a warm place will favorites. And she spoke of other
exciting winter venues, including
do in winter travel. “In this area, Venice (especially when connected
to a ski trip in Italy’s Dolomite
people love to go to the Caribbean,” said Mountains), and Dubai (for luxury
shopping, jaw-dropping architecture
and nightlife on the shores of the
Persian Gulf).
Valley, you may be yearning on TRAVEL DESTINATIONS Bethlehem. “They also love the idea
a somber day next January or February that they can head out of Bayonne
for someplace warmer, someplace By Jack Romig (N.J.) or New York City and don’t have
steeper, someplace different. Happily, to fly.”
fall is an opportune moment to start Willing to go even farther afield?
considering the spectacular choices Try Alaska. “The aurora borealis are Adamson says popular choices for
winter travel offers. more visible in the winter, and there’s
a lot to check out in the state’s cities,” Valley travelers include the Caribbean,
Sally McCorrison, Allentown-based McCorrison said. Or you can visit the
director of travel services for AAA annual Iditarod, with dogsleds racing Mexico, Europe and Disney.
East Central, says recent trends don’t from Anchorage to Nome in early An all-inclusive deal can buy you
necessarily involve warm destinations. March. “You can even dine with the
Wherever your plans take you, be mushers if you like.” a luxury experience for less than you
sure to start early to get the prime travel might expect, said Kitsy Guyer of
times, says Becky Adamson, team Perhaps coolest of all are the Pegasus Travel in Bethlehem.
leader at Liberty Travel in Allentown. ice hotels that have proliferated
in recent years. These structures, “Mexico is really hot in this way,”
“Book early this year, especially rebuilt each year with walls, Guyer said. On the Riviera Maya, a
for your more popular dates such as fixtures and even furnishings of ice, stretch of Caribbean coastline in the
Presidents Day weekend and Easter challenge conventional ideas about northeastern Yucatan, an affordable
Spring Break,” she says. vacations, but they are unforgettable luxury package includes amenities
destinations. Closest to the Lehigh such as a beautiful room, butler,
TRAVEL ON ICE Valley, McCorrison said, is the Hotel concierge, private check-in and more.
de Glace, north of the Canadian
“What’s cool in the winter can be border in Quebec City. Venturesome St. Kitts and Nevis, two tropical
just as exciting,” McCorrison said. For guests can visit other ones in Finland, islands forming a single nation at the
instance, book yourself into Yellowstone Norway, Sweden and Romania. Atlantic gateway to the Caribbean,
National Park in deep winter, she said. Skiers are regular winter travelers, has become a destination with wide
You’ll find a still, dazzling world where of course. “A lot of the ‘real’ skiers appeal in recent years, even though, as
roads are closed and visitors get around belong to ski clubs, and they head Guyer said, “it’s not that easy to get
via snow coach, experiencing frozen out to places like Jackson Hole to.” (Flying there may take the intrepid
waterfalls, epic steam clouds around (Wyoming) and Whistler (British traveler two or even three stops.)
hot springs and geysers, and the Colombia),” McCorrison said.
unforgettable sight of buffalo jams as McCorrison said the
the noble beasts huddle for warmth. bioluminescent bay of Puerto Rico’s
Vieques Coast is gaining popularity,
18 | INDULGE • AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2016 HOT SPOTS while Aruba, Cancun, Jamaica and
the Bahamas remain perennial
For many, only a warm place will favorites. And she spoke of other
exciting winter venues, including
do in winter travel. “In this area, Venice (especially when connected
to a ski trip in Italy’s Dolomite
people love to go to the Caribbean,” said Mountains), and Dubai (for luxury
shopping, jaw-dropping architecture
and nightlife on the shores of the
Persian Gulf).
