Probably my favorite "in-town" restaurant is La Tapa - get lots of small plates and share - super yummy! Also, I love love love The Longboard.

mg, your group should enjoy viewtiful with her great location and drop death views. 1 word of caution, don't panic when you start up mamey peak rd from centerline rd. remember the website says vf is on a "roughly paved road", an understatement! the initial 100 yds is very bummpy but strai...

When it hits $700 + per person it is hard to swallow. How on earth is it $700+ per person from Charlotte, when I pay around that or a little less flying from Grand Rapids with a stop in Charlotte?? Enjoy your cruise and anniversary - the rock will still be there for next time. Kevin - looking forwa...

Thanks for your response, that's kind of what I was afraid of. I think we have decided on Viewtiful instead, I prefer that location anyway

For the first time in several years I missed my August trip in order to spend a week exploring Michigan's upper peninsula. While it is breathtakingly beautiful up there, I definitely missed my happy place. With this in mind, I am even more anxious than usual to get April's trip details nailed down. ...

We had a 2:30 flight and a checked bag last month, and we took the 10AM ferry. We had plenty of time, of course we also always use Daphne - porter extraordinaire - so that really speeds us through. AA would let us check in online, but would not allow us to use our mobile boarding pass, insisted on a...

We've only done true high season once, when we wanted to bring my daughter down for spring break. That doesn't need to happen again. I come twice a year, once in April, on the 1st Tuesday after the 15th, when prices for a lot of things drop, but it's still cold in Michigan. This is my trip with frie...

We used SeaSafe last year and it did seem to help. I just returned from a week on St John and can tell you that we were in the water everyday, on all sides of the island and never had even one sting. The SeaSafe was in the bag, but we never used it.

"it looks like all the American flights are in the same concourse?" All of Charlotte is American Airlines, except for the A concourse. lol, obviously I was looking at an incorrect map, because the only concourse that listed American was A - Probably a pre-merger map, I didn't think about ...

I should clarify that the 22 minutes is to boarding time, not departure time, so maybe I'm worrying too much. I just looked at a map of the airport, and it looks like all the American flights are in the same concourse?

Got a notice that they changed my flight departure time for tomorrow - now I only have 22 minutes to change planes in Charlotte! I don't think I've ever flown through Charlotte, should I be concerned about this tight connection? Thankfully we're sitting in the very front, so that should help at leas...

2 more sleeps!

Yes, I think I got my first set at Dick's - but then we discovered Amazon had them for less. Another thing I would suggest is some snorkel booties to wear with the fins. Any fin I've ever used - even the expensive ones - have bothered the top of my feet and the back of ankle. snorkel booties make my...

Like Awardb said, it's such a personal thing. I agree that I prefer full length fins, but I prefer the kind with the strap on the back. I have some that have a pivot point in the fin which is much easier on my bad ankle. Three out of our four sets are Aqua Lung - they were not expensive and they hav...

#8 here as well!