French Quarter-Inspired Inn with Onsite Restaurant

Though it's in the heart of Texas Hill Country, Crescent Quarters channels New Orleans, the Crescent City, in both name and design. The hotel exudes French Quarter charm, from its wrought-iron balconies to the hanging planters and gas lanterns. N'awlins also inspired some of the guest rooms, including one decorated with the famous Blue Dog paintings of Cajun artist George Rodrigue and another furnished in festive Mardi Gras purples and golds.

The rest of the rooms and suites carry out much different motifs. The Far East room features Buddhist images against bamboo-covered walls, and the French room channels continental elegance with a fireplace, French boudoir, and life-size cardboard cutout of Napoleon Bonaparte. Some rooms come with other chic touches such as granite vanities and polished hardwood floors, and the two suites come furnished with hot tubs.

Complimentary breakfast is served every morning in the common room. For lunch and dinner, head to the in-house restaurant, Cypress Grille and Wine Bar, run by chefs who trained at the Culinary Institute of America and Le Cordon Bleu. The casual eatery serves comfort-food favorites with creative twists, such as dried-fruit ravioli and smoked barbecue pork sandwiches with grilled pineapple. As a bonus, Cypress Grille and Wine Bar will give Groupon customers a complimentary dessert with the purchase of an entree.

Boerne, Texas: Historic German Town in Texas Hill Country

A popular summer escape for Austinites and San Antonians, the Hill Country of west-central Texas usually enjoys cooler temperatures than surrounding areas thanks to its higher elevation. Among the region's towns, Boerne stands out for its unique history as an early 19th-century German settlement. Some vestiges of the old days are still around, including the bilingual, German-style street signs. Crescent Quarters overlooks Boerne's Main Street-or Hauptstrasse-which features a smattering of shops and restaurants that cater to the influx of out-of-towners that use the town as a convenient home base for exploring the Hill Country.

Boerne is also home to a few limestone caves that have been paved through with walkways and lights for public tours. Cascade Caverns, 4 miles from the inn, features a half-mile stretch of stalactite and stalagmite formations and plunging caves inhabited by a rare and endangered salamander. Tours of the caverns lead through narrow passageways and end with a view of a 100-foot waterfall cascading into a pitch-black pool.

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All-Inclusive Beachfront Resort in Caribbean

Every week, Lifestyle Crown Residence Suites throws a beachside welcome party to help new arrivals kick off their vacations with live entertainment, dancing, and a fireworks finale. This fiesta supplies a taste of what lies in store during a stay at the all-inclusive Caribbean resort, which sprawls across a tropical hillside like a mini metropolis. There's something for everyone-a playground and art club for children as well as discos, nightclubs, and bars for grownups. Eleven pools and two spas cater to laid-back vacationers, and onsite snorkeling and other watersports engage active guests.

One-bedroom suites are like a home away from home, complete with fully equipped kitchenettes and separate dining areas. Each suite includes a large balcony or terrace, some of which face the surrounding mountains. Suites are decorated with Caribbean-inspired decor, complemented by rattan, natural-wicker, and bamboo furniture.

A lot of the action at Lifestyle Crown Residence Suites centers on the two beaches it has direct access to. But the resort offers a broad range of activities inland as well. These include golf and yoga during the day and theater shows at night. Take advantage of the free shuttle service and convenient jetpack rentals to easily tour the facilities.

Dominican Republic's North Coast: Golden-Sand Beaches and Mountainside Cities

The beach known as Playa Cofresi-named after Roberto Cofresi, a pirate dubbed "the Robin Hood of the Caribbean" for how he dispensed with his stolen treasure-runs along the Lifestyle resort's outer edge. The golden, 3-mile (5 km) stretch of sand reaches to the Ocean World marina, a habitat for dolphins, sea lions, and other marine life.

From the beach, it's only a 10-minute drive to Puerto Plata, the largest city on the Dominican Republic's North Coast. The mountainside city is known for its pastel-colored Victorian buildings with gingerbread fretwork-architecture that lends the town an Old-World charm. You'll also find some prominent cultural attractions, including the colonial-era Fort of San Felipe that was once used to ward off pirates. A couple of cannons still sit atop the thick walls of the fortress, and cannonballs, bayonets, and other 16th-century artifacts are displayed in the museum inside.

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You may be grateful for your EPB fiber-optic Internet, but staying hunched over your computer like that can cause problems for other fibers -- in your back. Unwind with today's deal from Hands-On Healing Massage Therapy: Pay $29 (regularly $60) for a one-hour Swedish massage. Licensed therapists Bill Thompson, Derek Bhimji, and Virginia Lee have backgrounds in health, sports, and fitness, and understand the needs of athletes-in-training (even for pencil jockeys like us). These good-feelings gurus will tailor each massage to your individual needs, making that break from the glowing screen more than worthwhile. Head to Hixon Pike with this deal, and start using your technology for life's more important pursuits -- taking care of your mind, body and spirit. Want more? Check out Hands-On Healing Massage Therapy on Facebook.

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In the Victorian era, extreme sports were limited to teatime without doilies, writing witty satires about earnestness, and riding a penny-farthing down a mild incline. Shock such staid sensibilities with this Groupon.

$17 for a Half-Day Paintball Outing ($35 Value) Field admission Paintball gun rental Unlimited CO2 refills Marker with CO2 tank Full-cover face mask Hopper Barrel cover 250 paintballs

Players navigate an outdoor field situated far from the river's roar, ducking behind trees and diving into ditches in between volleys of field paintballs. Zealous customers can purchase additional paintballs, starting at 500 for $16.

Adventures Unlimited

Foaming white rapids rush down the Ocoee River as birds chatter from within the leaves of towering trees. For nearly two decades, this has been the home of Adventures Unlimited, an environmentally sustainable full-service resort rolling with 30 acres of campgrounds, cabins, and whitewater-rafting facilities. Landscaping and gardens highlight native plants and animals, vehicles run on biodiesel fuel, and any construction efforts use sustainable materials or rocks that everyone was always tripping over anyway. The family-operated adventure company launches groups on whitewater-rafting trips through the tumultuous currents of the local Ocoee and Hiawassee Rivers or further afield in Costa Rica. To facilitate dry-land exploration and provide an energy outlet for serial finger painters, they also recently opened an outdoor wooded paintball field supplied by a full rental shop.

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Expansive Lodge Surrounded by Woodlands

The old school Gatlinburg Trolley connects all the big attractions in town, including Ripley's Aquarium and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and even makes a stop at Glenstone Lodge. Tucked amid rolling hills covered with ash and hickory trees, the rustic lodge exudes backcountry charm, though it's just a scenic trolley ride from Gatlinburg's family destinations.

The surrounding mountains and nearby attractions are the main draw, but there's plenty to do at the lodge. You can hone your short game on the putting green, or train for the 400-meter individual medley in the outdoor pool. There's also a two-level indoor pool fed by waterfalls within a cavernous, tropical-plant-filled atrium. The guest rooms are accented by warm green hues and offer views of either the pool or surrounding woodlands.

Gatlinburg, Tennessee: Family-Friendly Fun amid the Great Smoky Mountains

Gatlinburg sits amid the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee, near the border with North Carolina. Glenstone Lodge is less than a mile from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where you can hike more than 100 trails that wend past waterfalls and pioneer-era log cabins tucked deep within the densely forested mountains. Along the way, you might spot deer, black bears, and hundreds of species of birds. For expansive views of the city and surrounding mountains, take the Sky Lift Gatlinburg to the top of Crockett Mountain.

Downtown Gatlinburg is packed with attractions geared toward vacationing families. There are indoor water parks, ghost tours, and quirky museums from Ripley's Believe it or Not to a museum showcasing more than 20,000 salt and pepper shakers.

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Bayside B & B with Jacuzzi at End of Private Dock

Along Florida's panhandle is a shoreline that is often called the Forgotten Coast. The beaches here have escaped any heavy development; instead, you'll get a glimpse of what old Florida was like, with soaring pines, saw palmettos, and snow-white dunes.

At the heart of the Forgotten Coast, the St. Joseph Peninsula stretches into the Gulf of Mexico. Cape San Blas Inn is situated on this narrow finger of land, which separates St. Joseph Bay from the open gulf. The inn stands just 200 yards from the beach on the opposite coast.

In the back of the inn, you can peer out to the water from bay windows and screened-in porches. A wooden boardwalk leads toward the water, where you'll find a dock extending into the bay. You can borrow one of the inn's complimentary canoes here, or paddle to the end of the pier, where there's a hot tub situated right on the waterfront.

Inside, no two guest rooms are exactly alike, but all include Sleep Number beds and prints of tropical beaches hanging on the walls. The Turtle Shell suite is the largest room, with a tile-framed fireplace beside french doors that lead onto a private patio.

In the morning, the inn lays out a spread of Starbucks-brand coffee with dishes such as quiche or french toast. Feel free to eat in the large, airy dining room, or carry your plate out to the veranda to watch starfish try to form constellations.

Port St. Joe, Florida: Beachfront Parks and Coastal Towns

St. Joseph Peninsula State Park is one of the prettiest local beaches. It overlooks both the bay and the shores of the gulf around the secluded eastern tip of the peninsula. All over the beachfront dunes you'll see sand pine scrub, and migrating falcons visit the 1,900-acre wilderness reserve every fall. The Cape San Blas connects the peninsula with the mainland. It features a lighthouse that has been rebuilt no fewer than four times.

Head inland to the town of Port St. Joe, which has seafood restaurants and charter cruises, or travel farther east to Apalachicola, a city named for a Native American tribe and often translated as "land of the friendly people." The city is lined with 19th-century architecture, including the Orman House and Raney House. Both of these Greek Revivalist-style mansions were built by cotton magnates. If it's getting hot outside, head to the John Gorrie Museum-the former home of the man who pioneered air conditioning.

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It's healthy to kick out excess fat cells, just like it's healthy to kick out adult children who have asked for your blessing to marry the couch. Shed dead weight with this Groupon.

Choose from Four Options $149 for 4 Venus Freeze body-contouring treatments (a $1,000 value) $179 for 6 Venus Freeze body-contouring treatments (a $1,500 value) $239 for 8 Venus Freeze body-contouring treatments (a $2,000 value) $329 for 12 Venus Freeze body-contouring treatments (a $3,000 value)

Venus Freeze treatments combine magnetic pulses and radio-frequency waves to create safe, comfortable heat designed to melt fat cells, reduce wrinkles, and tighten the skin through the formation of new collagen. Body treatments typically take about 40 minutes, and treatments for the face can take 20-30 minutes.

Express Weight Loss

The weight-loss experts at Express Weight Loss dedicate themselves to supplementing body-slimming efforts with personal coaching and noninvasive treatments. Staff members operate under the no-frills philosophy that dieters and exercisers can maintain their weight with a healthy lifestyle and sensible eating. But they also recognize that sticking to a healthy lifestyle can be harder than landing a helicopter on a doghouse roof, so the team works one-on-one with clients to educate them on such weight-loss methods as HCG diets, laser-assisted liposuction procedures, and body sculpting with Venus Freeze radio-frequency treatments. To supplement new shapes, Express Weight Loss smoothes wrinkles and plumps up skin with Botox and Juvederm injections.

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The human obsession with flight stems from a refusal to accept limitations and an intense desire to finally move out of gravity's basement. Claim your own airspace with this Groupon.

$20 for Two-Hour Try Aerials Workshop ($40 Value)

Participants of all ages and abilities receive a basic but comprehensive introduction to aerials. Sessions may cover the fundamentals of silks, slings, and trapeze with no commitment to future classes. Upcoming classes are held from 2 to 4 p.m. on the following dates: May 18, June 2, and June 16. Participants are encouraged to wear long pants and shirts that cover their armpits, backs of knees, and stomach to avoid rope burn.

Chattanooga Aerials

As she watched the dancers of Canopy Studio Repertory Company twirl and flip using a long cord of aerial silks during their evening performance, Amy Powell knew she wanted to do the same. Less than a year after joining the studio and taking classes, she was asked to perform in one of the company's shows, drawing from former gymnastics training and a natural affinity for high-flying dance to hone her abilities. More than a decade later, she now helms Chattanooga Aerials as the director and head instructor and passes on her skills on silks, slings, and trapezes to all levels of students and budding telephone-company workers under the high ceilings of Scenic City Dance Center.

Amy instills students with a solid aerial foundation while also working to advance abilities toward graceful dancing and strength conditioning. She starts exercises at the lowest possible height to assuage first-timers before teaching dancers to work in tandem, using each other's bodies to perform coordinated moves. She and her fellow teachers can pinpoint the root cause of many of their students' physical limitations and inhibitions and often revise the curriculum or help students with their fears directly, perhaps by doing floor work that translates to the air. Muscles that have grown accustomed to more traditional workouts awaken in each class, and Amy's Something New workshop challenges students further with hybridized methods including aerial yoga and outdoor sessions using trees as aerial gear. When not teaching, she and her staff frequently perform for the community in programs for the children's Creative Discovery Museum and for Nightfall, a downtown concert series.

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During your last visit to the circus, your child couldn't be swayed by the clowns, the elephants, or the lion tamer -- it was all about the high-flying acrobatics. Give your youngster the opportunity to take to the air with today's deal from Chattanooga Aerials: Pay $100 for one week of aerial camp for children ages 6 to 16 (a $200 value). Choose from five one-week sessions, which last from noon to 4 p.m. -- 6/4 to 6/8, 7/9 to 7/13, 7/16 to 7/20, 7/30 to 8/3, and 8/6 to 8/10. Inside this spacious studio boasting 30-foot ceilings, kiddos will be introduced to aerial silks, trapeze work, slings, and acrobalance, building strength and confidence. Skills learned during the week will culminate in a small, informal presentation on Friday. Score a unique summertime experience the kids will love -- without having to jump through hoops trying to pay for it.

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Taking care of your skin can make you look like a movie star, much like standing in front of a green wall and screaming in terror at an alien that no one can see. Get ready for your close-up with this Groupon.

Choose from Four Options $99 for three customized facials (a $225 value) $99 for three microdermabrasions (a $225 value) $99 for three chemical peels (a $225 value) $99 for one Photo Genesis treatment (a $300 value)

Facials use deep cleansing and exfoliation to tend to skin conditions that may include oiliness, dryness, fine lines, and redness. During microdermabrasion, a diamond-crystal wand loosens dead skin cells, reducing the appearance of acne scarring, sun damage, and age spots. Chemical peels use acid to improve the texture of skin and diminish fine lines and pigmentation. The Photo Genesis treatment helps remedy sun and age spots using a noninvasive pulsed-light system. Each treatment lasts about 30 mintues.

Aesthetic Laser Medical Spa & Salon

The Cutera Ndyag Laser, outfitted with CoolGlide Xeo technology to keep skin cool and comfortable, is the backbone of Aesthetic Laser Medical Spa & Salon, performing services such as permanent hair reduction, tattoo and spider-vein removal, and nonablative skin therapy. Unlike other lasers, this FDA-cleared laser's longer wavelength allows it to diminish hair on all types of skin, including tan and dark, and it works on both coarse and fine hair. It can treat unsightly veins quicker than sclerotherapy, it can improve skin tone and texture, and it rarely if ever requires downtime. The Cutera system's beautifying efforts are aided by facials, magic, body wraps, and massage.

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