I’m curious to know, who embraces this idea of a “staycation”? I often hear of it, an inexpensive way to vacation where you currently are. Although hubby and I had to drive two hours and thirty minutes to get to Palm Springs, I don’t really consider that far enough away from home to be a real “vacation”. In a recent post, I mentioned that my fiance and I just hit the six year mark. However, since I was so caught up with midterms and all that good stuff (at the time), we had to postpone our Anniversary plans. In fact, we didn’t even celebrate Halloween. Poor thing, Charlie stayed home that whole weekend while I studied that entire weekend. It was definitely no fun but at least we got to have a Sweet November.
Any Grouponers in the house? I know I am. And if you’re like me, you know a good deal when you see one.. and when I see a good deal, I buy it! So we found a great deal on Groupon for La Quinta Resort & Club, located a few miles southeast of Palm Springs and I should add that it is a gorgeous resort. When I say gorgeous, I mean the back side of the resort is a golf course surrounded by mountains, palm trees everywhere – you see where I’m going with this right?
Since my iPhone 4 pictures won’t do justice, I found a few more amazing pictures online just for you:
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This is the main entrance to the resort.
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Our hotel room didn’t look exactly like this one. Our room had a King size bed, fireplace, and immaculate bathroom.
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Gorgeous or what?
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For more breathtaking photos, click here. The resort is just gorgeous yeah? Our Groupon deal came with a spa package which we unfortunately weren’t able to take advantage like we planned. We checked in after it closed and checked out before it opened. Sigh. Moving on, so what are the three things you learned? 1. What “staycation” means (if you didn’t already know and I’m sure there’s a better definition out there), 2. Groupon is a great source for steal deals, and 3. La Quinta Resort in Palm Springs is serene!
I forgot to add that we had a fireplace in our hotel room which I was ecstatic about! I wish we had hot chocolate or marshmallows to go with. We could have sat by that fire and told stories all night. Would we go back to La Quinta? You bet!
That’s all for now!
Until next time,
Turtle
