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STAY
Mallorca Spain
Blau Porto Petro Beach Resort & Spa opens along 900-foot stretch of beach near Porto Petro
You don’t always get air rifle shooting and archery with your resort hotel experience, but those are just two of the amenities offered at this member of the Great Hotels of the World in the fishing village of Porto Petro, off the eastern coast of Mallorca. While you’re shooting at things, they’ll watch your kids at the children’s club, with its supervised entertainment and pools. In fact, they specialize in families, with a special kids’ restaurant as one of the five on-site (including one Spanish and one Japanese). The resort offers 300 rooms, 10 of which are two-bedroom, two-bath villas. Rates start at about $220 for a standard double. Blau Porto Petro Beach Resort & Spa, ghotw.com/blau-porto-petro.
SHOP
Atlanta, Georgia
Wish is a Little Five Points shopping gem that leaves you hankering for more
Half urban hangout – check out the live DJ on the weekends – and half hip, happening clothing boutique with an incredible shoe selection thrown in for good measure in the basement, their Wish is your command of the top-shelf name-brands down to the 70-percent-off racks. The staff loves to help you find the deals too. Look for Mecca, Paul Frank and Triple 5 Soul hanging from the plumbing, and just try to keep your hips from swaying to the hip-hop beat in the background. Wish, 447 Moreland Ave. NE, 404-880-0402.
DINE
Glendale, Arizona
An old ’60s steakhouse works as a reformed restaurant, bar and pool hall that also rocks
Just northwest of Phoenix in a big old former steakhouse sits craiger’s restaurant & lounge, with its pool tables, its live music on a tiny stage, its orangeish leather chairs inside and inviting outdoor seating. Some nights it’s open mic, and at least one night a week the karaoke scene still lives, with American-style comfort food and drink prices that put Scottsdale to shame (the $2 Corona lives!). Large- screen TVs keep the sports fans happy, and believe it or not, people actually bring their kids here in the earlier hours. Craiger’s Restaurant & Lounge, 5400 N. 59th Ave., 623-934-8071.
DINE
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Get lucky, get cheesy – just get there
Diners in Santa Fe thought their good fortune finally ran out when the landmark Palace Restaurant closed down. Turns out the odds were in their favor. The spot now houses señor lucky’s at the palace, a new hot spot from the folks behind the upscale Geronimo. The place is just what so-serious Santa Fe needed: camp enough to dress its servers in cowboy shirts and casual enough to offer a cuisine-fusing green chile mac-and-cheese that has the whole town talking. The Señor also cranks out a tart-and-tasty house marg. How lucky can you get? Señor Lucky’s at the Palace, 142 W. Palace Ave., 505-982-9891.
PLAY
Mexico City
Mexico
Superman Ultimate Escape puts a world-class roller coaster in Six Flags Mexico
Mexico has its first hyper roller coaster, and in superhero form, no less, at Six Flags Mexico with the addition of this stomach-flipping ride. Only three minutes long, the rush is a 200-foot drop at a 60-degree angle (that’s about a 20-story building), with two 360-degree helix turns and another 140-foot drop, all at 75 mph. We recommend waiting to eat the Dippin’ Dots until after the ride. Six Flags Mexico, sixflags.com.
