When it comes to landing a great deal on a summer getaway, sometimes it pays to procrastinate. If you’ve been California dreamin’, it’s time to wake up and get packing for one of these top SoCal resorts.
Get Up to $500 Credit at San Diego’s Paradise Point
Spend your vacation in a town with a lot of kid-friendly attractions — theme parks, museums, zoos — and you’ll blow a good chunk of your budget on overpriced, concession-style meals. So we were intrigued by the Experience More Paradise package at San Diego’s Paradise …

Curaçao’s newest luxury resort embodies the spirit of this captivating island destination and brings authentic hospitality and cultural flavor to guests
Hyatt Regency Curaçao Golf Resort, Spa and Marina bid bon bini (“welcomes” in Papiamento) its first guests today, and introduces a new level of luxury and service to the Dutch-influenced Caribbean island. As the focal point of the 1,500-acre Santa Barbara Plantation resort community, the 350-room beachfront resort features Old Quarry by Pete Dye, the island’s only 18-hole championship resort golf course; Atabei Spa, an eco-friendly holistic retreat inspired by …

Travel Ticker®, a leading inspirational travel website, today announced the results of its 2010 Family Vacation Survey, conducted by Harris Interactive®. This year, 80 percent of parents who go on family vacations say they would prefer to visit a non-theme park destination for their next family trip if cost and planning efforts were comparable. To help, the experts at Travel Ticker have done all the planning work for them, finding affordable family trip ideas for an experience better than any theme park.
It’s no surprise that the 2010 Family Vacation Survey …

Myrtle Beach’s Beach Cove Resort offers a stay in a one-bedroom, oceanfront Executive Suite that features Two Queen Beds, Sleeper Sofa and Private Balcony and sleeps up to 6 people.
The resort’s website is running a $92 a night (min 1 to max 7 nights) special. But, check out Hotwire’s Travel Ticker and you’ll find that same special advertising at $79 a night.
Beach Cove Resort sports 4 pools, indoor/outdoor hot tubs, a lazy river, pool bar, restaurant and family fun at this North Myrtle Beach resort.
That $79 rate is only good …

CruiseNow.com, the Internet’s fastest growing discount cruise vacations website, is pleased to announce its Summer Blockbuster Event, offered in conjunction with Norwegian Cruise Line. This affordable family cruising event – with kids’ fares as low as $99 – allows everyone to get in on the fun, exciting action, adventure, and intrigue of an NCL cruise ship.

CruiseNow.com announces $99 kids fare deal on select Norwegian Cruise Line bookings made from now until May 31, 2010.

This limited time offer, available on select bookings departing on or before October 01, 2010, is great …

Miami sizzles year-round, but especially in summer.  But don’t let a little heat scare you off.  The Marenas Resort in Sunny Isles, just north of Miami, has a family package that’ll let you float in the blue Atlantic all day long. The suites are
Love Your Family package includes:
* Overnight accommodations in a one-bedroom suite with full kitchen
* 2 reserved beach chairs and beach umbrella daily
* Daily beach snack pack (water, fruit, and snacks)
* One pizza delivered and new-release family movie in your suite
* Daily parking and resort fees
* $25 credit …

Club Med vacations are definitely escapism—after deciding which resort and when, you can unplug that decision-making reflex for the duration.  All your meals and drinks, all your activities (including trapeze!), kids’ clubs, everything for one price.   This summer at Punta Cana (Dominican Republic), Cancun Yucatan & Ixtapa Pacific (Mexico), Sandpiper (Florida), Caravelle (Guadeloupe), and Buccaneer’s Creek (Martinique), big families can book a week at $637/person; and couples can book from $774/person.  Book by June 28 for travel between now and December 11.
What You Get:

7 nights’ accommodations
All meals, snacks, and …

Beaches Resorts, the family-oriented brand with four luxury resort locations in Turks & Caicos and Jamaica, has solidified two major partnership extensions with Martha Stewart Crafts Studio at Beaches and the fall debut of Sesame Street’s Big Bird as part of Beaches Resorts’ extended partnership with Sesame Workshop.
Beaches Resorts will exclusively offer five unique Martha Stewart Crafts Studio classes using Martha Stewarts Crafts tools to glitter, stencil, paint and more, in which Beaches Resorts guests will come away with a handcrafted, personal souvenir of their stay. Postcard, punch and stencil …