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Winter Vacations

Below you'll find many ideas for winter vacations, from snowy holidays to sun'n'sea.
Mont-Sainte-Anne Skiing, With Visit to Quebec City
Here's a great winter getaway: combine a family ski trip with a visit to 400-year-old Quebec City. It's like a mini-trip to Europe, plus a snow vacation.
Winter Festivals
Dozens of cities, and ski resorts too, have Winter Festivals to lift up the spirits -- and boost tourism-- during the long months of cold weather and short daylight hours.
Winter Vacation Ideas
Winter vacations offer so many choices: do you embrace the white season, and go to the snow? Do you escape the cold for sun and sea? Head to Arizona's best weather for a dude ranch getaway? See these and more, below...
Winter Vacations - ideas by region
Many ideas for winter vacations, organized by region: Northeast; Hawaii; Caribbean; Mexico; Orlando; Heartland (with special focus on indoor waterparks) Southwest and CA; north, to Canada and Alaska; Points Beyond; and family crusing, too.
Ideas for January and February
Kids Fly Free to Disneyland; Steamboat Family Snow Festival; Chinese New Year; Black History Month; London as a bargain; beach getaways...
Winter Carnivals
In cold climates, those months after the Holiday Season need celebrations! Fun at Winter Carnivals includes ice palaces, snow sculptures, snow slides, dog-sledding, Polar Golf, torchlight parades... Quebec City's Winter Carnival is the biggest bash; lots of other places have Winter Carnivals, too.
Out-of-the-Ordinary Winter Vacation Ideas
Dog-sledding in Alaska, escorted family tours to Asia, affordable Yellowstone "Lodging and Learning" programs...
New York Winter Vacations
Suggestions for winter vacations in NY state, plus some nearby out-of-state destinations too.
Winter Vacations: beach ideas
Ideas for winter vacations: in Hawaii, the Grand Wailea Resort on Maui, with its own water park; the Atlantis Resort, Bahamas, with Mayan Temple waterslides and giant "waterscape"; Club Med Punta Cana; and Maho Bay Camps by the USVI National Park, with white sand, comfortable tent-cottages, and low rates.
Winter Vacations: Ice Hotels
Imagine a hotel made entirely out of ice. There's one in Lapland Sweden, and Quebec, Canada. See also many photos of the Quebec Ice Hotel.
Winter Vacations & Holiday Season
Ten Holiday Packages, around the US ("Home for the Holidays" at an inn in Vermont, The Polar Express train in NH...) ; Christmas at Disney World, Universal Orlando, and other Orlando; Great Places to See Santa; Holiday Events in many Cities; and more.

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