If you are thinking about taking a family vacation as a Christmas present, you are not the only one.

Even though it is a time honored tradition to be at home when Jolly Old St. Nick stops by your house, many Americans have made it their own tradition to take a vacation during Christmas time yearly.

It is easier than ever to find fun filled Christmas vacations anywhere you would like to go.

How about a Christmas visit to the North Pole? Too cold for you?

OK would you consider North Pole, New York? Located in New York, North Pole sits nestled in the Adirondack Mountains.

The most exciting and magical place to visit during the Christmas holiday, North Pole is both a fun and relaxing place to spend your Christmas Vacation rather you have kids in tow or are young at heart.

North Pole offers Christmas vacation packages and is open during the months of November through December. These exciting vacation packages include admission into Santa’s secret workshop, lodging, and meals.

Tip! If your vacation plans include staying home rather than traveling, plan how you will spend your vacation to rejuvenate yourself. Perhaps there are some local attractions that you’ve been wanting to experience but have not had the time to experience.

Shops galore line Santa’s Village, you will have no problems in finding the perfect souvenir to serve as a reminder of your fun filled Christmas Vacation.

Often times live music is playing at the North Pole, to keep you and your family entertained. Other entertainment includes puppet shows, glassblowers, and many other exciting holiday events.

If North Pole, New York, does not offer you the reality you are looking for in the “next best thing, to the real thing”, why not consider visiting a little closer by going to North Pole, Alaska as a family Christmas Vacation?

Packages are filled with exciting things to do such as visiting Santa’s home or taking a dog sled ride right through the heart of Santa’s Village.

Alaskan dog sled riding is something many people hope to do on any trip to Alaska. Christmas Vacation packages include, accommodations in a nearby hotel and one to two night stays.

It does not matter how old you are, taking a Christmas vacation to either North Pole, while it may not be the real thing, is as close as you are likely going to get. It will keep the Christmas spirit alive and well in those young and old.

Tip! The top business concern among business owners with vacation plans is that an important client or customer won’t receive proper service followed by worries over who will run the company while they’re away and missed opportunities for new business. Other concerns include: technological problems, security and sick staff.

If the old guy is not your thing, take a visit to Christmas candyland in Hershey, Pennsylvania. You will delight in seeing the more than one million lights lighting up the town and the animation displays that the Hershey Park displays each year.

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Tip! The top business concern among business owners with vacation plans is that an important client or customer won’t receive proper service followed by worries over who will run the company while they’re away and missed opportunities for new business. Other concerns include: technological problems, security and sick staff.

Try Ireland for a golf holiday full of emerald green magic!

Ireland is, without doubt, one of the world’s friendliest countries. If you take a golf holiday in Ireland then you are certain to return home with memories to treasure for the rest of your golfing days.

The Irish landscape is full of history and steeped in legend - and it has a truly magical and mysterious quality that you simply don’t find elsewhere in the world.

Each little village will bewitch you with tales of it’s past - while entertaining you richly with its beers, whiskies and food. This is hospitality at its simplest and best.

Your golf holiday in Ireland will be truly unique.

Holiday golf in Ireland lets you choose from some of the world’s best links courses and the softest, lushest inland fairways and greens. No excuses then! This really is the place to make all your golf holiday dreams come true.

For many golf holiday visitors to Ireland or Scotland playing on an ancient seaside links course is a large part of the attraction. But links golf will test both your stamina and your golf game in a way entirely unlike anything you’ve previously experienced.

Links courses rarely allow electronic golf buggies or golf carts. Walking is the rule. This is partly to protect the courses and partly because the terrain would make it impossible to drive a buggy safely.

Some of the larger more prestigious courses may have caddies available and most will allow you to pull a simple club carrying golf cart or trolley.

Tip! Keep your vacation planning information in one place. Create a labeled file folder (’Hawaii Vacation’) and use it to keep your airline, hotel, car rental information, as well as maps or AAA guide books, tourist information, contact information for people you know in that city, etc.

Be prepared too, for what is often the most unique and challenging feature of golf on a seaside links course - the wind!

You should brace yourself (sometimes literally) for the fact that it is going to blow very hard and - by some remarkably twisted freak of nature - in such a way that it always seems to be in your face, no matter what direction you are headed in!

No golf holiday in Ireland would be complete without almost being blown over as you line up that last tantalising three footer.

Tip! Family Vacations are not just an idea to lower your bank account….Family Vacations are beneficial in a lot of different ways.

The fame of the golf links of Scotland - just a hop over the waters of the Irish Sea - has meant that the golf courses of Ireland remain relatively undiscovered.

Ireland’s golfers have been long-known and respected around the world but - for more than a hundred years - her golf courses have hidden quietly under the emerald green petticoats of their homeland.

But not any longer! Names like Royal Portrush, Royal County Down, Portmarnock, Ballybunion, Mount Juliet, Druids Glen and The K Club are now reaching the lips of discerning players the world over. If you visit you will find that they are well worthy of the accolades they gather.

Treat yourself to the golf holiday of a lifetime - and may some of Ireland’s magic rub off onto your putter!

Gordon Cameron is a doctor based in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Tip! I hope you will always remember to plan for your Family Vacations each year. .The last thing you want later in life is regretting that you never took the time to spend with your family

When he’s not busy saving lives he likes to hop over the Irish sea and attempt to save par on the golf courses of Ireland.

Dr Cameron’s website can be found here

Click on the following link to begin planning your Ireland Golf Vacation or golf holiday to Ireland. You’ll find lots of details about the golf courses of Ireland and helpful tips in planning your holiday golf.

Irish golf is unique and not to be missed.

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Tip! If your vacation plans include staying home rather than traveling, plan how you will spend your vacation to rejuvenate yourself. Perhaps there are some local attractions that you’ve been wanting to experience but have not had the time to experience.

Nothing could be finer…

Just a few short miles south of Myrtle Beach South Carolina, well known for it’s 100 plus golf courses, you’ll find Georgetown County, a monument to the fine tradition of the southern way of life.

Tradition reigns supreme even to this day as many families have been there for 175 years or more.

You’ll find the same names in the All Saints Cemetery on King’s Highway that belong to the movers and shakers of today. The people behind those outstanding golf courses that are #1 on your “hit” parade.

Believe me you’ll find golf in this area…and perhaps the best golf to be found in the Myrtle Beach area.

One of the oldest golf courses in the area is Litchfield Golf and Country club.

Now we know that many of you have heard of or even played golf at Litchfield, or perhaps played it’s sister course, River Club, but did you know that both of these outstanding courses exist on what was once a rice plantation extending from the Waccamaw River to the Atlantic Ocean.

Litchfield Plantation came into being approximately 1794 and a plan from that time shows an Avenue of Oaks and a house with two chimneys at either end.

Today you can still see that house, totally renovated and offered as a wonderful Bed and Breakfast Inn, with an adjacent restaurant aptly named The Carriage House Both are totally steeped in the charm of a another day, elegant and authentic in detail, intimate and very special.

Tip! The top business concern among business owners with vacation plans is that an important client or customer won’t receive proper service followed by worries over who will run the company while they’re away and missed opportunities for new business. Other concerns include: technological problems, security and sick staff.

In the same area of Litchfield Beach is a fine old plantation, Willbrook, that now boasts 3 beautiful golf courses that include Willbrook and The Traditon, (part of the Myrtle Beach National stable of courses) and The Reserve, a relatively new private course.

Play golf on such outstanding courses as Caledonia (voted the “Most Beautiful Golf Course”).

We believe you’ll agree when you drive down that long avenue of old oaks with Spanish Moss to the clubhouse and the now fallow rice fields, that it is indeed a baurtiful site.

Caledonia is on the site of “Waverly Plantation” circa 1750 and in continuous ownership by the Allston and Lachicotte families.

Robert Allston was Governor of South Carolina from 1857 to 1859 and his papers for expenditures for his rice plantation from 1834 to 1857 survive to this day, but as was the case with many wealthy planters of the day, the Allstons lost much of their fortune as a result of the economic turmoil of the Civil War. Philip Lachicotte bought Waverly Plantation in 1871.

Waverly Mills rice was famous and in fact won a Gold Medal in the 1902 Charleston Exposition, but by 1911 the rice culture was totally dead in South Carolina.

True Blue Golf Club is also in this section of Pawleys Island and a monument to the old plantations of yesterday. If you look closely, when you play golf at these golf courses you may spot Doc Lachicotte having lunch in the clubhouse.

Tip! Keep your vacation planning information in one place. Create a labeled file folder (’Hawaii Vacation’) and use it to keep your airline, hotel, car rental information, as well as maps or AAA guide books, tourist information, contact information for people you know in that city, etc.

Gracious southern plantations abound in this area, names like Brookgreen, Hobcaw Barony, (home to Bernard Baruch in the early 19th century), and Wachesaw date well back to antebellum times.

Brookgreen is now the site of Huntington National State Park and Brookgreen Gardens, floral and sculpture garden without peer.

Wachesaw Plantation, backing up to Brookgreen Plantation has it’s own abandoned rice fields, but today is an outstanding Tom Fazio private golf course and residential area.

It is the most thoroughly researched plantation in the area. Archeologists dug and sifted for 3 years marking slave cemeteries and Indian burial grounds. The original plantation house setting on a bluff overlooking the Waccamaw river burned about 1890.

In the section known as Richmond Hill there are remnants of a Revolutionary Fort with outline of old trenches still visible. You can play this wonderful golf course when you buy into some of our outstanding Myrtle Beach golf packages.

We wanted to give you food for thought the next time you go to play golf in Georgetown County just south of Myrtle Beach.

It’s an ideal place for a golf vacation, with your foursome or your family. You can absorb the history and ambiance of a long ago past, even as you play the outstanding golf courses.

For more information about the area and the golf…visit www.myrtlebeachgolfsecret.com - you will truly discover the secret behind golf in the Myrtle Beach area.

Tip! I don’t know why Lyon is not included in more vacation plans. It’s a great city for tourists and a perfect stop on your vacation trip on the way from Paris to the sophisticated beach life of the South of France.

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Joan Ewart, an artist, a writer and world travler, devotes many hours to authoring and maintaining major travel web sites.

She publishes many articles on travel spots around the world. You’ll find this and much more Myrtle Beach Golf Information at http://www.myrtlebeachgolfsecret.com

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