
An Atlantic coast road trip from St. Augustine to Outer Banks, North Carolina reveals a unique slice of America. Picking up a cheap ‘Drive out of Florida’ car rental and road tripping up the Atlantic coast was one of my travel dreams.
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Category Archives for Savannah.
by Ric Garrido
Savannah, Georgia has two new Starwood Hotels for summer 2018. Perry Lane Hotel, a Luxury Collection Hotel opened this week. The hotel enters SPG as a category 5 at 12,000 points per night. Of course, this will change in the new Marriott Rewards program coming August 1. The Alida, Savannah, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel is…
by Ric Garrido
As we approach Veteran’s Day in the USA and Remembrance Day in Canada on November 11, this is seasonally a time when the hotel industry runs promotions for active and retired military members. Wyndham Rewards has an Honor a Hero contest running through their Days Inn brand from October 15 through November 11, 2015. Days…
by Ric Garrido
Tybee Island is the northernmost Georgia Barrier Island located at the mouth of the south channel of the Savannah River. Hilton Head Island in South Carolina is about ten miles north of Tybee Island. This barrier island is similar to other barrier islands of Georgia with marshland facing the coast and long sandy beaches facing…
by Ric Garrido
My momma told me years ago she thought I would love Savannah, Georgia. She went to Savannah on a girlfriend’s trip in the late 1990s following the huge success of John Berendt’s novel and Clint Eastwood’s movie, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Mom knows her son. I love Savannah and that is…
by Ric Garrido
When you think of St. Patrick’s Day parades, the U.S. cities of Boston, Chicago and New York probably come to mind. Did you think Savannah, Georgia? Savannah, Georgia has the fourth largest attendance in the USA for its annual St. Patrick’s Day. And with a city population about 150,000, Savannah hosts the largest parade by…
Historic Savannah, Georgia has two Hyatt brand hotels with the older Hyatt Regency Savannah on the riverfront and Andaz Savannah on Ellis Square, two blocks from the river and less than five minutes walk to the Hyatt Regency. Given that both hotels are Hyatt Gold Passport Category 4 hotels for 15,000 point per night, Andaz…
A visit to the Richard Kessler hotel Mansion on Forsyth Park was my final stop before leaving Savannah, Georgia on an early May road trip heading north to Charleston, South Carolina. The full service hotel with spa is located beside Forsyth Park, historic Savannah’s largest city park at 30-acres.
by Ric Garrido
The squares of Savannah, Georgia shed plenty of history on the Revolutionary and Civil Wars through monuments and signs. My earlier post described five of the Savannah’s 22 squares from Ellis Square to Chatham Square and Forsyth Park. This post describes the five city squares along Bull Street walking from Forsyth Park back to the riverfront.…
I love to walk and explore my surroundings wherever I am. Green park spaces and large Southern live oaks provided shade from the cloudless skies where the sun was rising for a blazing hot day on the streets of Savannah on Cinco de Mayo. The temperature reached 93 on May 5 and was only one degree off…