Yolanda Edwards | Travel & Lifestyle Editor

As exciting as Vienna sounds to me, I couldn't convince the family. Too cold, too much like what we already do here in New York.  We didn't want to fly all that way, and spend all that money, to be walking around a city in the cold.  So back to the warm destinations.

Thank you Amie from Ciao Bambino for suggesting Punta Mita as a destination.  She just recently stayed at the St. Regis Punta Mita, and loved it.  She is based in California, so it's a much easier flight for her-to get there, you fly into Puerto Vallarta. For us in New York, that means a connecting flight, and the best we have found so far aren't on our ideal dates, so we would have to miss a day of school, but they are on Delta (aircraft is Aeromexico) that leaves N.Y. at 2:20, has one stop, and arrives at 11:20 pm.  The return is at 7 am (brutal -- that means waking up around 3:30 am) and gets you home at 3:55 pm.  Tickets were $968 per person as of last night. We're still waiting on the hotel availability, but it sounds promising, because there is also a Four Seasons there, which is also supposed to be fantastic, with an amazing kids club.  It's also close to a town I have always wanted to check out, Sayulita.  One of the more chic women I have ever met, the manager of the Hacienda de San Antonio, from Guadelajara, told me that Sayulita is where she and her friends always rent houses. 

I would love to get to the Turks and Caicos, as our dear friends are staying at the Amanyara, with their 5-year-old son and they say it is really perfect.  I also have been dying to go to Grace Bay -- they have a kids club that is supposed to be really outstanding.  The problem is that for this week I am locked into, the flights are so expensive. There is one nonstop on American (it leaves NY at 6 am, though -- but apparently it's worth it because you are on the beach at 11 am)...and that flight is around $1,500.  So, unless we want to go through another city, it looks like this is a destination for another time.

My latest idea is Florida, so check back later to see what we come up with, and if you have any brilliant ideas for us, let me know.