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Posts tagged “Weekend Getaways & Destinations”

Roundup: Travel Alarm Clocks

With all of the wonderful Reader Escapes we've featured during Apartment Therapy's Getaway month, we've pretty much traveled around the world. And to make sure you're not missing a moment of your qui...

Escapes: Flying Pigeon LA

Adrienne talked about escaping through cycling earlier today. There's no better way to get perspective on a car-centric city like LA than to get on a bike (please be careful!). Check out this bike s...

Escapes: Uber Modern B&B

Here's one for our list of fantasy escapes. Probably on of the most modern B&B's we've ever come across:...

Escapes: Wee House

We're dying for an isolated retreat on a hilltop with nothing but the basics: ...

Escapes: Plan A Walkable Day

With Apartment Therapy's month of weekend escapes, staycations and daycations, we have been inspired to create a walkable day away from it all right in our own city. Los Angeles really is a walkable c...

Escapes: Apple Picking

Sometimes to get away from it all you have to keep it simple. For us that can often mean doing a slower activity and getting our hands dirty. ...

Escapes: Camping

There is absolutely nothing like packing up the car, driving a couple of hours and then setting up camp for the night or two, far from the city lights. Getting to cook outside, see the stars and actu...

Reader Escapes: Eva's Summer Destination
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Name: Eva Location: Catalina Island, CA Description: The first weekend of August we were lucky enough to score a friend’s luxurious two story condo at Hamilton Cove, following a last minute cancella...

Ideal Bite: Green Trips Close to LA

A friend of ours forwarded us an email from a site we'd never heard of that had great tips for local trips: Ideal Bite. ...

Escape: Great LA Architecture

It's fun to go and explore other cities, but what about your own? Especially here in Los Angeles there are so many nooks and crannies that you've probably never checked out. We have such amazing arc...

Escapes: Los Olivos, CA

If you want to take an amazing escape to wine country, take a scenic 2 hour drive north to Los Olivos, CA. This quaint, former stage coach town is home to a thousand people and some amazing wineries ...

Vacation at Home: Decorate for a Party

Sometimes all it takes to break out of the doldrums of everyday life is to, well, break out and do something different, something fun! Well, when we saw this picture we knew we wanted to make some ga...

Websites for Scoring Travel Deals

Gone are the days of having a travel agent. Now it's all about sitting down at the computer with a cup of tea and finding great getaways for a steal online. We have a couple of go-to sites we use fo...

Guide to Bed and Breakfasts

For a quick getaway you can't always book a room in that cool new boutique hotel you read about or that out-of-your-pricerange-resort-and-spa, but this is America, and you don't have to settle for a g...

5 Tips to Beat Jet Lag

Traveling cross country in a weekend can be pretty exhausting and a mini-jet lag feeling may set in on your body. Most of us book our trips for right after the whistle blows Friday, returning well af...

Ultimate Getaway: Best Tips for Moving into the Dorm

A lot of us are looking forward to weekend getaways but some of us are gearing up for the big getaway: the move to college and into a dorm. Below are some of best tips for making this transition from ...

Weekend Get Away: Big Bear
Los Angeles

Normally you'd think of going to the beach for a summer escape, but Big Bear is just 2 hours away and boasts hiking, cooler temperatures and the possibility of s'mores. It's also off-season so deals ...

Good Question: Favorite Vegas Hotels?
Los Angeles

Palm Springs is a great getaway destination since it's just a couple hours' drive away and has tons of hotels to book at the last minute. Vegas is another weekend desert destination that's close by p...

25 Reasons To Get Out Of Town
Los Angeles Magazine

We love our summer weekend getaways! And in order to make the most out of these weekend hours, we keep a running list of places to journey to, discover and enjoy. With so many neat things to do near ...

Getaways from a Year Ago

Last year we were thinking about escaping to some cool hotels, doing some island living and reminiscing about some transatlantic travel. Jump below to relive some of our most relaxing get away ideas ...

Palm Springs Vacation Rentals

As Grace noted, there are some options out there for getaways. We've rounded up our favorite Desert Getaways already, but thought the whole area of Palm Springs and Desert Hot Springs deserved anothe...

Thank Goodness for 3 Day Weekends

There is a time for work and a time for rest (and for play!). We hope you all had a wonderful 3 day weekend. While we normally hit the beach, catch up on leisurely magazine reading and maybe a proje...

Weekend Roadtrip Inspiration and Finds: LA to SF and Back

As we mentioned earlier today, we enjoyed a hurried, but welcome getaway up to our former neighborhood up in San Francisco this weekend. The trip was about seeing family (we were visiting both of our ...

16 Abandoned & Decaying Hotels From Around The World

We're mostly homebodies, but in the coming next weeks we'll find ourselves driving north up to San Francisco to visit family, then soon after flying across to New York for ICFF and to see the whole na...

LA Getaways: Palms Place Fantasy Suites

So what city embodies the complete opposite of our Smallest Coolest Contest? We'd have to say fellow Southwest locale, Las Vegas, which aims to do everything bigger and more ostentatiously than any ot...