Will you be joining us for the ‘Unwrap Sunshine’ #FloridaBuzz Twitter Party on Thursday Dec. 15th at 2 pm ET? We hope so… We’ll be co-hosting this fun chat brought to you by The Florida Buzz and giving away three $100 Marriott Gift Cards. We also have an extra $100 Marriott Gift Card to giveaway in this post.
UPDATE: Thanks to everyone who joined the Twitter Chat… we had a fabulous time and now we’re all dreaming of Florida vacations. If you didn’t win during the party, enter the giveaway at the bottom of this post for a chance to win $100 Marriott Gift Card.
Including the giveaway in this post and prizing at the party, we will be giving away $400 worth of Marriott Gift Cards. (Prizing is open to both the US and Canada.)
No RSVP is necessary to win during the Twitter Party.
2 Ways to Win
- Participate in the #FloridaBuzz Twitter Party on Thursday Dec. 15th at 2 pm Eastern / 11 am Pacific
During the party, we’ll select 3 random participants and each will win a $100 Marriott Gift Card.
No RSVP is necessary to win.
- Enter this EXTRA Giveaway for a $100 Marriott Gift Card.
Simply enter using the form at the bottom of this post.
“Unwrap Sunshine”
The Christmas holidays may be the most wonderful time of the year, but they’re often also the most stressful and busy time of the year.
Meaning that you may want to treat yourself or your loved ones to a vacation in January, February or early in the Spring.
During the Twitter Chat, we’ll have a blast talking about post-holiday travel and dreaming/planning other trips and destination ideas for 2017.
We’re excited to have Florida experts, Zippy Sandler, Dalia Colon and Ashley Vaccarino join the party.
Plus thanks to @TheFLBuzz and Marriott, we’ll be giving away three $100 Marriott Gift Cards to lucky participants.
#FloridaBuzz Twitter Party Details
Join @TheFLBuzz and us to talk post-holiday travel and 2017 plans.
Date: Thursday, Dec 15
Time: 2:00 – 3:00 pm Eastern / 11:00 am – 12:00 pm Pacific
Hashtag: #FloridaBuzz
Party hosts to follow:
Panelists to follow:
@ZipporahS
@DaliaColon
@ArriveChic
Prizes:
During and after the Twitter Party, we’ll be giving away $400 worth of Marriott Gift Card Prizes. Prizing is open to the US and Canada.
DURING the Twitter Party…
RSVP is not required for these prizes.
- THREE (3) Winners: Each winning a $100 Marriott Gift Card
AFTER the Twitter Party…
Enter the extra giveaway at the bottom of this post to win another prize of
- $100 Marriott Gift Card
Enter to Win
If you’d like to win a $100 Marriott Gift Card, leave us a comment letting us know where you’d like to go on your next trip.
Then complete your entry using the form below.
Disclosure: This post and the Twitter Party are sponsored by The Florida Buzz.
Written by Susan Carraretto, co-founder of 5 Minutes for Mom
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Love to take my boys on Mama and sons trip to Universal Orlando
I am saving for a trip to Oregon so I can meet my grandson who was born this month.
I would like to go down to Florida to visit with my daughter.
I’d like to go see the Northern Lights, it’s on my bucket list.
I’d love to go to Scotland if I ever could
The kids have been dying to go to Hawaii.
I’d love to take my fiance to bora bora. Thts his dream. I’m goin to make it happen. He’s a wonderful, hard working man who deserves it
My husband and I would like to drive through Eastern Canada this Spring!
I’d like to go to Seattle
We are hoping to take a long road trip the end of January and this would really come in handy for the trip, we love Marriott properties they are always comfy.
I would love to stay at one of the Marriott properties in the Phoenix/Scottsdale area of Arizona.
I’d love to go to Playa del Carmen for my next trip.
Probably back to Ohio to go to King’s Island Theme Park. We really enjoy that place and it is so much easier if you can stay at a hotel overnight when you are exhausted.
Asheville, NC
Punta Cana
I would like to take a trip to Hawaii
I would like to go to Chicago on my next trip.
I would love to go to Tahiti!
I’d love to go to Silver Springs, MD.
I would like to go with my family to San Antonio. Texas it would be a blessing for my kids to enjoy time with Grandma/Grandpa . Thanks for the chance 🙂 very generous. Good luck all.
I would like to go to Vegas
I would love to go to San Antonio, Texas and stay at the Rivercenter Marriott.
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I’d like to go some place WARM! Florida would be good.
Thanks for the contest.
I would like to visit family in Boston.
We are really hoping to visit Chicago on our next trip! It’s been on my bucketlist for awhile now!
I would love to take my kids 3 hours North to Oklahoma City, just to visit the museum and some other sites. Nothing too fancy, but we can’t normally swing a hotel room for one night, much less two! So this would be a huge blessing!!
My daughter and I want to go to Ohio to see the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame and to visit the Chippewa Lake park that has been defunct since 1979.
I would love to go to Destin, Florida!
We would like to go to Florida.
I would like to go to disney world
want to visit my Aunt in CO been over 15 yrs
Seattle, I think, or maybe Whistler. A little getaway with a girlfriend!
I definitely want to go to Florida for my next trip!
I would really like to go to Quebec City
I want to visit Charleston SC on next trip
I’d love to go to Florida and do some SCUBA diving
I would like to take my son to Universal Orlando.
I plan to head off to Orlando FLA in the next few months.
I’d like to go to new york.
I’d like the next big trip to be to Italy
I would love to go to disney on my next trip
I want to go to The Keys
I’d like to go to Budapest, Hungary on my next trip.
I’d like to go to South Africa on a safari.
our next trip is to jackson tn 🙂 time to visit my son 🙂
Love to visit friends in Edmonton!
I would like to go somewhere quiet and relaxing. The end of this year has been rough.
I want to go to San Diego, to visit my sister who just lost her husband. I haven’t seen her in 12 years
I would love to go to Maui for Christmas
I’d love to visit my daughter at college in Vermont!
Would love to go to California.
I’d like to go to Japan for my next trip! It would be very fun.
I am not enjoying the cold weather so anywhere warm would be nice. I would love to go to Florida.
I’d like to go to Disney World
would love to visit Disney in Orlando.
I’d like to go to New York.
I would love to spend some time exploring Tucson and soaking up the Arizona sunshine.
I’d like to go to North Carolina.
Florida!! Or anywhere warm, really!! It’s so cold here in Toronto!!
we plan on going to LA to visit our grandparents
I would love to travel to Tampa Bay.
I want to go to the Bahamas.
I would like to go to Spain for my next trip.
I am thinking Key West! Thanks so much for the chances to win.
I would go to Nashville, TN!!
I have never seen an ocean in my life, so I’d love to drive somewhere on the Atlantic coast…maybe Maine. Thanks and God bless!
I would like to go to Costa Rica on my next trip.
I would love to go to San Diego:)
It’s been years since I was able to get home and I’d love to be able to go for a visit and take my kids to see the Redwoods
I would love to go to the napa valley!
I would like to go to Chicago.
I am looking forward to going to Yellow Stone National Park.
I would like to go to California {specifically Los Angeles} on my next trip.
i would love for our next trip to be to Disney. My daughter has been begging to go.
Puerto Rico
I’d like to go to California or Texas
I would love to go to hawaii
I would love to take my family on an overnight in Toronto. Maybe check out a museum or the aquarium.
Las Vegas to see my family and friends 🙂
Our next trip will be to the Grand Canyon area.
Visiting relatives.
i would like to go to Boston!!
I would like to go somewhere warm!
I would like to go to Palm Desert, CA to visit my grandmother for my next trip.
I would love to take the kids to Disney
Thank you.
I’d like to go to Arizona
I wanna go to Daytona Beach, Florida.
i would love to go to hawaii
I love to travel and don’t really have any one place in mind, but a trip to see my brother and new nephew is pretty high on my list.
I’d love to go to Michigan to visit my family! I live far away in Georgia.
I would like to go to Seattle.
Would love to go to Florida. Hopefully in the spring we will be able to take a trip down.
I would love to go to Vancouver to visit my BFF.
love to go to Niagara falls
I would love to go to Washington DC to see the monuments.
I would like to go to Jackson, Mississippi to visit my dear God Mother, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina and Travelers Rest, South Carolina once I win the $100.00 Marriott gift card.
Nashville, Tn. Our favorite getaway.
I would like to go to Key West.
I would like to visit Santa Barbara, CA…..nice place…..
I’d love to go back to Lake Tahoe!
I might go to Niagara Falls
I don’t know where I would go.
I’d love to visit my new nephew in Clearwater, FL!
Our next vacation is to Florida. It’s my sons choice and this is where he choose to go.
I would love to go to puerto rico.
I’d love to visit New York.
Would love to go to Miami next
I’d head to Hawaii.
I would like to go to Kissimmee on my next trip
I’d like to visit Austin TX.
I’m going to Italy and Malta
Arizona would be fantastic!
crater of diamonds state park
Charleston would be magnificent!
I’d like to go to Las Vegas with my BFF or France with my family.
Besos Sarah
Journeys of The Zoo
I want to visit San Diego!
I hope to have a romantic getaway for New Years with my fiancé. I’m 24 and haven’t even been to Vegas since I’ve turned 21. We’re both workaholics who need a vacay!!!
We are hoping to go to Orlando.
My next trip is to Los Angeles, California!
I am desperate to take my kids away on vacation, hopefully to Mexico, so that would be my destination of choice!
I would like to go back to Vegas
I’d like to go back to Florida
As a family we would love to go to Hawaii
I would like to Disneyland for our next trip.
I would love to go to Florida for my next trip!
I would love to go to the Bahamas for my next trip.
We can’t wait to head back down to Tennessee with the kids. Heaven on earth 💗
I would love to go to Prague.
I’d love to go back to Disney.
a comfy bed.
I would love to go to wdw in orlando or dc
I would love to take my husband to wine country…either Sonoma or Napa Valley! : )
I would love to go to Gatlinburg!
love to go to Wisconsin and see family
Would love to go to New York!
I would like to go to L.A.
I’d like to go to Clearwater in Florida.
New Orleans with my hubby! We didn’t get a chance to go last year!
Would love to take my family to Washington DC
I’d like to go to Iceland.
I’d like to go to Ibiza or the French Riviera.
I’d like to go to Florida or somewhere warm.
I’d love to visit Orlando Florida sometime soon!! Thanks for the chance to win.
We are planning to make a trip to Disney World this summer.
I would love to go to New York City.
to florida for a cruise
I’d head back home to Kelowna. The Delta (Marriott) there is one of our favourite places to stay!
My family and I would love to take a trip to Disneyland soon!
I would like to go to Texas on our next trip.
I want to go visit family in Santa Rosa Beach, FL!!
I would like to visit Santa Barbara, CA…….or Los Angeles, CA
Anywhere its warm!
I would like to go to California
My husband and I are currently planning our 10th anniversary trip to Hawaii.
I’d love to visit Palm Springs.
I’d like to go to Palm Springs
I want to visit family in Michigan soon.
We’re hoping to go to Chicago.
i’d like to go to bali
I would like to go to Florida for my next trip!
I’d like to go visit some family in Pittsburgh.
I would like to go to North Carolina to visit my friend.
I’d like to go to Orlando next!
I’d like to visit a friend who recently moved up to Washington.
On my next trip I would like to visit my old neighbors from Colorado springs who were like my 2nd parents.
Would love to go to Colorado
Honestly, I would like to go anywhere! Ha.
I would like to go to Arizona on my next trip. It looks so beautiful!
I would like to go to Florida.
I want to go to Portland in the summer for hiking and the food!
Orlando!
I’d love to go somewhere warm….maybe Florida.
I would like to go some place warm like Hawaii or the Bahamas.
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I’d like to go to Orlando for my next trip.
I would like to visit my sisters out west in B.C. and Alberta.
I would love to visit my daughter in Burnaby, BC
I would love to go to Puerto Rico ! I need sun and heat!
We want to go to Orlando!
Montgomery, Alabama
I would like to go to Newfoundland!
I would love to go to Charleston. It’s one of our favorite places to visit!
Next trip? I have no clue. I would like to go to the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 though.
I’d love to go to Vegas!
I’d like to visit H.k and japan.
I would love to go to Miami
I would love to go to Hawaii! 🙂
I would like to go to Hawaii
Love to go to mexico
I’ve never been to Oregon or Washington, so would love to visit there.
RIght now I would like to go away to somewhere warm. Florida, California or Texas
I would love to go to New York City in the spring.
I would love to go to Niagara Falls!
I would love to go to Maui
I’d love to go to Hawaii.
I would be thrilled to go on a vacation ANYWHERE…never gone on one before!
I have been to a lot of places- and Iceland is the next place I would like to go.
Marco Island! 🙂
anywhere would really be amazing, but i have always wantedtro see new mexico!
I want to take my daughter to meet my godmother in Alabama
Ottawa for the 150th birthday bash
If I were to go to a beach in FL it would Sand Destin in the Gulf of Mexico.
My #BucketList is to see all 50 states in my lifetime. I’ve seen 27 so far and I think I’d like to see Montana next.
I can’t wait to visit Miami again! We’ve go every year for our wedding anniversary in July!
I will be heading to Roatan in February
I’d like to go visit my friend in Pagosa Springs, CO.
I would love to go somewhere warm where I could put my feet in the sand… Happy Holidays!!
save it for heading to see my dad in Chicago or my brother in South Carolina
to St Pete to visit friends
I would love to go to Canada to visit my cousins.
I’d like to visit Cancun, Mexico with our family.
I’d like to take my hubby to Las Vegas.
I want to head to the cruise in the Carribean
We’re going on a road trip to California on our honeymoon!
next trip is to visit the Capitol and tour the senate
Great giveaway! Ty
We’re torn as its our first trip in 9 years. We are either going to go on a cruise out of baltimore, or hit florida and maybe go on a cruise from there! I love florida… but i hate flying. but i think thatll be the one.
i’d love to go to the bahamas
Would love to go to Florida
I’d love to go to Daytona Beach for my next adventure.
I have Florida on my mind right now! After some fits and starts, winter has arrived and I can’t handle it! I’m ready to go someplace warmer, even if it isn’t perfect beach weather.
Florida because I’ve never been to Disney but my husband loves it there.
somewhere down south where it’s nice and warm!
I would like to go to Seattle on my next trip!
I would love to go to Kansas City to visit my Dad. Its been 12 years since I’ve been home.
ON MY NEXT TRIP I WOULD LIKE TO GO TO FLORIDA, TAKE MY KIDS TO THE BEACH FOR THE FIRST TIME
I would love to take my daughter to Disney and Universal in Flordia
NYC!
Florida
I’d like to visit my brother. He just went through a divorce and could use some company this holiday season. :0/ Thank you for the opportunity!
I would love to go to Florida!
I would love to go and visit my cousins in Florida or my Mom in Arizona
Bali! I hear it’s the hot destination of 2017 and I’ve always wanted to go!
I want to go to Minneapolis to watch our Detroit Tigers play some ball next year. We visit a new stadium each year and have yet to visit this one.
I’d love to go to Boston. I spent a summer there as a teen and had so much fun.
I would love to go with my mother to New York to see a play.
I’d like to take a quick weekend trip to Calgary
I have several places I would love to go! Right here in FL – Captiva & Sanibel Islands, Costa Cayo Island, & Jupiter, FL…. then Massachusetts and Maine to see family and friends.
We plan on going to toronto
I’d love to take a road trip to San Diego, CA!
Hopefully the Philippines if everything works out correctly
I would love to take a road trip through the north GA mountains.
I would love to go to Florida on my next trip because I have never been there and it looks so nice.
I’d love to go to Thailand.
I have some family in Albuquerque and would love to go visit them. That would be a really fun trip, and I would pack my mom up in the car and take her too.
I would love to go on a trip after the holidays. I would love to stay beachside with my family. We have lots of choices in Florida.
It’s a tie between Orlando or NYC ,thanks for the chance
I would love to go to South Dakota to visit my husband’s family!
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we’d like to go to Hawaii. Don’t know if we will get there 🙁
I’ve really wanted to go to New Orleans for a long time!
I’d love to go to Florida.
I would love to take a road trip starting in Arizona and heading north through Utah and Wyoming to Montana.
I would go to Florida. Yes, Florida because it has been snowing all day long and the beach sounds lovely.
I would love to go to Australia!
I would visit my grandson in Tennessee.
Hawaii!
I would love to go to Florida
I will go to Santa Barbara CA
My next trip needs to be Vegas!
Marriott is a super fine hotel…
I would Love to go anywhere on a train, and stay at a Marriott,
that sounds dreamy!
Would love to go to Florida and soak up some sunshine
I’d go to Florida or Cali and go to Disney and all the fun parks , beaches and just everything ! 😀
would love to go to Albuquerque, NM – such a lovely place!
I’d love to take our family back to Clearwater Beach, or take our son to Disney World…
On my next trip, I would love to go to Colorado Skiing.
I’d like to visit Newfoundland!
I would like to travel to Utah and Arizona with my BFF.
I’d love to go to Florida on my next trip!
I would love to go to New York to see the xmas decorations
I would love to take my family to orlando or miami
I’d love to go back to Taipei, Taiwan, but I’d really love to go back to the Clearwater/Tampa, Florida area and never come back.
I like to take my family to Florida!
I really want to go somewhere sunny and warm like Mexico with family
would love to visit my parents in florida
a couple states in the southeast – georgia, VA, florida for college visits with my son.
We’re planning a trip to Vegas soon!!
I would love to go to Quebec City for my next trip!
I’d like to go to Sanibel Island, Florida.
miami beach , barbados
I would love to go any where warm from Gatlinburg down to Orlando.
I’d love to go anywhere warm.
I would love to go to Florida!! I haven’t been yet and I want to see Disney world 🙂
We’d really like to take the kids to Florida for a vacation!
I’d love to take a family vacation to Disney
I would go to visit my children!! thanks
Ohio to visit family
We love to take little weekend getaways to the beach in the Destin area but this year I would like to hit San Antonio !!
i would love to go to Banff
I’ve always wanted to visit Iceland! It’s on my bucket list! 😀
I’d like to go to New York City
I would like to go to Edmonton for a weekend of shopping.
I would like to visit Paris
I’d love to take a trip to the Caribbean
We go to Cocoa Beach Florida! We love it.
I’d love to go visit some friends in Seattle.
I would love to go to Italy on my next trip.
The next two trips will be same place! Tampa for busch gardens in a week christmas town and Jan 7th to Jan10th The College football national championship at raymond james stadium.
I’d love to visit my parents on the Gulf coast.
I would love to go back to Disney in Orlando, FL. It’s our favorite vacation spot.
I want to go to South Dakota
A girls trip to NYC
My hubby & I really would like to go to Japan for our next trip.
Dominican Republic
the bahamas
I would like to go on a trip to Disney World!
I haven’t been to Florida since I was a teenager and would love to go back there someday.
I want to go to Austin Texas, while my daughter wants to take a Family trip to NYC.
I would love to go to Florida! I’m in Ohio and these winters are so crazy that I would love to get away from it!
I’d like to go to Niagara Falls for my next trip.
i would love to visit Hawaii
I want to travel to TN on my next trip !
Linda Marie Finn
I just want to go somewhere tropical!
I would love to go to Hawaii!! Dream come true trip!
I’d like to go to Branson, MO
I want to go to Fort Lauderdale for a night pre-cruise
I’d love to take my kids to the Grand Canyon in 2017
I would like to go to Jamaica for my next trip.
I would like to go Florida.
A weekend in New Orleans.
I would like to go to New York
I would like to go to Yosemite.
In the US, I’d love to visit Seattle or Portland. Otherwise, England is at the top of my ‘to visit’ list!
Please leave us a comment letting us know where you’d like to go on your next trip.
i wanna go to hawaii thanks
Hawaii
I’d use it toward an upgrade on an upcoming business trip of staycation.
I would like to go to Nicaragua
I would love to go to Orlando. We are big fans of the theme parks there and it would be so much fun to go as a family.
I want to go to the beach
I’d like my next trip to be a visit to Houston, TX. My sister and her children are there. Her husband passed away a few weeks ago. I need to hug her asap!
I’d love to go to Italy, either the Amalfi Coast or Cinque Terre
I would like to go to Canada!
Would like to go to Disney world.
I want to go to Edmonton, Alberta on my next trip.
I want to go back to Alaska for my next trip
I want to visit Gatlinburg.
Dallas to visit my daughter:)
We’re going to Branson, MO on our next trip.
My wife and I could really use a long weekend trip to Hilton Head
I would like to go to California to visit my oldest daughter on my next trip!
I would love to visit New York City.
I would love to go to Hawaii … though that probably won’t be our next trip 🙁
I want to go to Maine.
I live in Central Maine. A good amount of schools had a snow day yesterday. Winter is finally here and all of a sudden – it – is – cold!
I’d like to visit Florida or California. Hubby’s from California and I’ve never been. Was hoping to go with my mom and our daughter to Orlando to see Disney; but, alas it’s not in budget yet. For now we’ll drink cocoa and dream 🙂
Our next trip is to New Mexico to visit the National Parks
I luv to see Paris.
I would love to visit Seattle. Thanks for the chance.
I would like to go to Vancouver Island for my next trip.
I would love to go to Las Vegas!
I would love to go to Galveston, Texas in the early summer, before it gets too hot to enjoy.
I just got back from Orlando. I’m sure Florida has a lot of other destinations.
I want to go to Hawaii
I would love to go to Colorado to visit my brother and my niece!
I’d like to visit somewhere with a beach, maybe Florida
I would like to visit the Oregon Coast.
Anywhere with a beach!
San Francisco, CA
I would love to take my son to Blowing Rock or Ashevillr, North Carolina. The North Carolina Mountains are beautiful.
I’d love to go to Taos, NM.
We would love to go back to Vegas soon.
I would love to go to Florida
I’d like to visit Seattle, Washington next.
I would like to take the family to Washington, DC to do some sightseeing
Camping in CA.
Dallas Texas is where we would like to go.
I’d love to go to So. Carolina. Thanks so much.
I would like to go to the Florida Treasure Coast.
I would love to use this to take a road trip and visit my favorite sister in Florida! Since it is about a 20 hour drive for me I would definitely have to stop for the night and this would be the perfect place to enjoy while I recharge!
I’d love to go to Oregon
Id like to go to new york. Ive never been, and my fiancé has extended family in the area that I know he would love to visit.
I’d love to visit Portland. Thanks for the giveaway!
I want to go to Bermuda.
I’d like to take the kids to LegoLand!
I’d like to visit California
I’d like to visit NYC.
I’d like to go to Charleston, SC.
Would love to go to Florida!
I would love to go to Florida for the warmth and sunshine.
I would love to go to Washington DC for my next trip. My sister lives there and I think it’s beautiful in the winter time.
We would love to go to Branson, MO
I’d like to be somewhere there is no snow and I can ride a motorcycle. Great motorcycle community in Daytona Florida
I would love to go to PEI. Thank you and Merry Christmas
I would like to visit Boston in the spring.
Florida of course!! Planning to head out there for Christmas and new years !!
I would love to go to Niagara falls! Thanks!
I’d love to take a trip to Branson, Missouri. Thanks.
Our next trip is to New Mexico to visit the National Parks
We actually head down to FL every year for vacation and drive, so we’d use this on our southbound stop which is usually in GA. 🙂
i would love to take my kids to west texas, new mexico or arizona to let them experience the mountains.
Love to take my boys on a
Mama and sons trip to Universal Orlando
I would like to go to the ocean on the east coast.