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Summary: Demonstrating its growing mass appeal and year round slate of activities Key West Florida is becoming a “must visit” choice for many vacationers.
June 2 2015 Key West FL-The Travel Channel thanks to its popular television shows and easily accessible website is regarded by many travelers as the number one resource when deciding on a vacation destination. This year they cited as one of the top destinations people should be looking at when planning a summer vacation. The variety of tours available to help explore the island is one of the many reasons they made it a featured pick.
“Key West may be relatively small in size but island tour operators offer all manner of ways to explore its diverse attractions” said Valerie Conners staff writer for the Travel Channel’s website. “Whether you're looking to toss back a few cocktails or beers among friends at iconic Duval Street bars learn the haunted history of this creepily historic island or hit the surrounding turquoise waters in a variety of watercraft there's a to meet your needs.”
Some of the tours she mentioned included the iconic Conch Tour Train a traditional bar crawl and an ultimate adventure tour combining parasailing snorkeling kayaking and jet skiing. One of the most popular tour options are the nightly ghost tours. Key West may be a small island but its 500 year history and association with Native Americans pirates smugglers shipwrecks and the Civil War means there is a lot of paranormal activity.
“People stop for key lime pie and cocktails after they finish a ghost tour and inevitably ask the bartender if our building is haunted” said Norman Vogel owner of the . “We tell them the only spirits we have are in the bottles.” Vogel’s restaurant is in a building only several decades old making it a youngster compared to some of the other Key West restaurants. Two buildings each 100 years or older both feature a tree still growing in the structure and both claim to have been a hanging tree in the olden days.
Regardless of what kind of tour you are interested in or what kind of spirits you are looking for Key West Florida is definitely shaping up to be one of the hotter travel destinations this summer. Lowered fuel costs for airlines and new resorts opening are making it one of the .
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Jack Terry is a freelance travel and lifestyle writer who lived in Key West for several years.
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