To get more details on what first-time vacation home renters should ask homeowners or management companies before sending a deposit and picking up the keys, we turned to Alexis de Belloy, vice president of the vacation rental site HomeAway.
Haifa Sweeny, San Francisco: "Visiting a farm in Parma in Italy where a father and son were making Parmesan cheese and then getting the chance to taste the raw cheese!" Angela Shannon, Chicago: "Dipping my five-month-old daughter's toes in the sand for the first time while vacationing in Miami, and later, watching her run sand through her fingers; may she be a lifelong traveler and explorer".
Dwayne Bryant, an African-American firefighter from Newark who was visiting here for the first time on his vacation last week, said he switched hotels when a cab driver told him about the Royal Palm.
The story's repercussions rebounded in my head, and I wondered, if there is a God, was he watching me that first time on summer vacation?
If you are visiting for the first time on a family vacation and insist on seeing the Eiffel Tower, then you might want a more budget-friendly hotel that is not far from the famous landmark.
Not for the first time in such a vacation-land setting, I had volunteered for the privilege of being drilled five exhausting hours a day, of having my game deconstructed stroke by stroke, with all the axiomatic hectoring — "Coil to uncoil!" — that was not conceived with the 57-year-old body in mind.
I've been living in Mexico since 1968, and this is the first time I've taken a vacation.
When he stood on a surfboard for the first time in December while on vacation in Hawaii, he heard his father clapping from heaven.
I was in Lagos with my wife and child for a month's vacation – the first time I'd been home since I left over ten years ago.
No one can recall when he last took a vacation, and the first time he took part in a family holiday in 20 years came during the N.B.A. lockout.
