The pick: The Renaissance, in Nags Head. This majestic 6,300-square-foot beach house has a two-story rear deck facing the ocean dunes, with primo sunrise seats, […]

Just a two-and-a-half-hour drive from Philly, in the Poconos, Cliff Park Inn offers a romantic escape at an 1820s estate, with 14 tasteful, well-appointed rooms […]

THE VIBE: You do your thing. The baby does her thing. You meet for a dip in the ocean, then dinner at the Teppanyake restaurant […]

THE VIBE: Part Disney, part Dirty Dancing, this all-inclusive 1,000-acre resort, three hours away on Lake Teedyuskung in the Poconos, boasts fourth-generation guests and activities […]

WE TRIED TO leave. Really we did. We’d made dinner reservations, had planned a late-evening stroll around a quaint Lehigh Valley town, and had even […]

ADULT APPEAL: Nestled on Duck Key and lapped by the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, this 60-acre island is two hours from Miami […]

ADULT APPEAL: Grand, old (first built in 1883), and consistently rated one of the top luxury hotels in the U.S.; you’ll have panoramic views of […]

THE VIBE: Infused with that easy Southern Lowcountry pace; just 30 minutes from the Savannah airport. Hole up in one of the high-end but quaint […]

We had resigned ourselves to the new truth of our lives—we would never travel again. How could we, what with everything we now had to […]

In just three hours, jet-setting moms-to-be can be near the glitz of South Beach, with its restaurants, nightlife and Art Deco splendor, yet feel away […]

To judge by the steady celebrity meteor shower on the Atlantis Hotel and the One&Only Ocean Club—an alluring, shuttle-linked combination of pulsing high-rise and secluded […]

Overall vibe: Celebrate what’s left of American manufacturing, in a small-town setting. What to do/see: York brags that it’s the “Factory Tour Capital of the […]

As I prepared for an escape to Washington, D.C., my weekend was shaping up to be a study in contrasts. That seemed appropriate, since the […]

Overall vibe: More Nantucket than North Wildwood, Spring Lake is called the “Irish Riviera”—a Shore town that boasts one of the cleanest Jersey beaches, and […]

“Look over there—that guy must be a professor!” It’s happy hour on a rainy Friday in January, and my husband and I have been in […]