Fodor’s Travel today announced on Fodors.com the Fodor’s Choice Gold Awards 2010 honoring the best of the best in US hotels. One hundred hotels were ranked as the top 10 winners in each of 10 categories; Best Destination Wedding Hotel, Best Hotel Design, Best Hotel for Kids and Families, Best Hotel Pool, Best Hotel Restaurant, Best Hotel Service, Best Resort or Destination Spa, Best Sense of Place Hotel, Best Urban Escape Hotel, Most Romantic Hotel.
Since 1988, Fodor’s Travel has been awarding the annual Fodor’s Choice distinction to the very …

Summertime means warm weather in Los Cabos and great vacation specials. Located at the tip of Mexico’s Baja Peninsula, Cabo enjoys island-like isolation from the US and mainland Mexico, surrounded by the Pacific Ocean, dramatic desert terrain and the pristine Sea of Cortez. Home to bustling Cabo San Lucas and historic San José del Cabo, Los Cabos boasts gorgeous beaches, big-game fishing and exciting activities. The team of CaboVillas.com announces some of their favorite picks for great family getaways this summer.

Villa Marcella – Cabo San Lucas

A Cabo villa rental offers …

Club Med announces it will invest $25 million in an enhancement program for the newly renamed, Club Med Sandpiper Bay. Known as the only family all-inclusive resort in the United States, Sandpiper Bay will become the flagship of Club Med “Premium Sports” resorts. The resort will close for renovations on August 20, with a grand opening on December 18.
The 216-acre renovated Sandpiper Bay resort will include a 7,000-square-foot fitness center, championship tennis facilities and an 18-hole golf course on-site with additional access to more than 16 courses nearby. French architect, …

Disneyland Resort is making upgrades to the pool and courtyard areas of the Disneyland Hotel, continuing the property’s current renovation project. Changes will include building a new pool and water play area, renovating an existing pool, opening a new restaurant and bar, and re-theming of the hotel’s three guest room towers.
Changes will restore and highlight the original midcentury style of the hotel. The hotel’s original two-story bungalows were built in 1955, just months after Walt Disney’s first theme park opened its gates; the first tower was erected in 1962. …

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 …

Picking up on Hollywood’s fascination with hotels throughout the years, Hotels.com, the hotel experts, lifts the clapper board on ten hotels around the world that have been made famous by films.
Hotels have been used in scenes of love, conspiracy, heartache and even murder and will continue to play an important part in film history. The versatility of hotels enables the creation of a specific world, era, mood or atmosphere for any particular film genre.
1) Taj Lake Palace Hotel, Udaipur, India, 5*
Film: Octopussy starring Roger Moore as James Bond
The glorious Taj …