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Sandestin Resort Gets a Zip Line, But Is That Enough?

Where: 9300 Emerald Coast Pkwy West [map], Sandestin, FL, United States, 32550

Who'd want to pick a hotel according to the best rooms or a great restaurant when you could choose Florida's Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort because of its new zip line?

Yep, we admit that we can be sold by something like this, and so Northwest Florida's Sandestin Resort's whole Baytowne Adventure Zone sounds like something we could get into. The zip line has some nice figures: it runs 52 feet above the ground and takes you 650 from tower to tower, giving great (but fast) views over the Baytowne Wharf area.

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The Danzante: A Truly Quiet Eco-Resort in Baja (For Now)

Where: Loreto Ver, Baja California, Mexico, 95031

The idea of a Mexican spring break occasionally incites visions of crowds of snow-tired Yanks and Canadians clamoring along the Riviera Maya shoreline...sprawling about the Acapulco hotels...sunbathing like sea lions in Baja.

To counterpoint these cramped visions, we suggest Danzante, a small resort, nestled in a canyon overlooking a stretch of beach along the Sea of Cortez (that was named "Best Beach in Baja" by Mens' Journal in 2003). The mag also listed the resort as one of the "Eight Eco-Lodges that Get it Right" in 2006. For the ladies, Danzante was recently written up in Elle Magazine (May 2007 with Mandy Moore on the cover) as a great place for whale-watching.

But despite the media buzz, at Danzante privacy is the order of the day: Yours is one of only nine casitas.

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