North America

Exclusive guide to the best holiday destinations in north America, independent reviews from award-winning travel writers

Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort

Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach Resort & Spa

Everything seems big in Florida, including the Hyatt Regency Clearwater Beach, with 250 rooms over 17 floors. We’re welcomed into a spacious reception by one of several friendly receptionists on individual podiums. She cheerfully offers us a glass of bubbly before we hop into the lift and show ourselves to our room: this is an unfussy kind of luxury resort.

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St. Petersburg and Clearwater

Anna Smith heads to St. Petersburg and Clearwater, the home of Dolphin Tale movies, located on a peninsula on Florida’s Gulf coast, bordered by the Gulf of Mexico and Tampa Bay.

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Cleveland

Where in the world can you view Keith Moon’s platform shoes, Jimmy Hendrix’s Stratocaster and the largest collection of Beatles memorabilia anywhere? In Cleveland Ohio, that’s where. The place literally rocks, I am told.

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Isabel Conway explores Indianapolis and discovers much more than a racetrack.

Indianapolis. Discover a rich culture beyond the racetrack

Indianapolis has morphed into a thriving experiment in architectural revival with multiple well funded museums, family attractions and recreational activities benefitting from pre recessionary huge investment.

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Croce's Park West

Super Croce’s Park West. San Diego

Croce’s Park West. For those of a certain age Jim Croce will be remembered as an American folk singer & songwriter of such classics songs as Time in a Bottle and Bad Bad Leroy Brown. Croce sadly died in a plane crash in 1973 at the age of just 30 shortly after moving to San Diego with his wife and singing partner Ingrid. Some 40 years later his legacy lives on in the restaurant and live music venue Ingrid Croce first opened in San Diego’s Gaslamp Quarter in 1985.

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Stand Up Boarding in Florida

t was, it has to be said, the perfect day for it. I knew because Jeff Archer, the man partly responsible for Florida’s stand up boarding craze, said it was. He calls it YOLO (You Only Live Once) and I was about to be a YOLOist.

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