The postcard outside your window is real. The blue water glimmers in the sun. Boats pull away from the dock and floatplanes take flight. And people, lots and lots of people, stroll on by. Want to fall in love with Victoria, the biggest and most happening city on Vancouver Island? Just sit at your window at the Hotel Grand Pacific and watch the comings and goings. Great views aren't the only reason to make this your Victoria hotel choice, though.
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When it comes to meeting space, Pointe Hilton Squaw Peak is like Baskin-Robbins - there's a different flavor or setting for every group, Senior Writer Chris Baldwin reports from Arizona.
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• Dave Berner talks to Alasdair Busby of St. Andrews Golf Tours, about planning a golf trip to Scotland and Ireland. "We have some of the greatest Open Championship courses."
• Brandon Tucker talks about Bandon Dunes in Oregon. "It's so top notch from tee to green, it's hard to find any flaws," he says. And: Tim McDonald on golf in Sweden and Denmark.
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Myrtle Beach golfers are raving about the Waccamaw Golf Trail, which brings together a dozen of the top golf courses at the south end of the Grand Strand, Brandon Tucker writes.
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The formation of the Southern Illinois Golf Trail, which comprises courses such as Hickory Ridge, Stone Creek and Crab Orchard, has increased golf tourism in lower Illinois.
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In Niagara Falls, "falls view" is a marketing term that deserves a spot alongside "Tastes Great, Less Filling." Every hotel claims to have one - only it's really not that big of a deal.
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Omni Tucson National's Catalina Course would be a good course if no PGA Tour events had ever been held here. That there have been more than 30 adds mystique.
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Don't let first impressions fool you at Puakea Golf Course or you'll miss a real beauty on Kauai, Brandon Tucker writes. On the back nine, Puakea really comes to life.
Florida golf courses have taken a lot of bad-mouthing. They're too flat, too watery, too boring, critics have said. I say nay. They're boring only to the unobservant, Tim McDonald writes.
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