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There's nothing like a little getaway to escape from all of life's stresses and bring your family closer together. It's not as easy as jumping in the car and driving away, though. You have decisions to make if you want this trip to be a success. The first two big choices are where you're headed and where you'll stay.

It's not easy to choose a hotel based on its website alone. You want honest reviews, and you want to hear them from people you trust, right? Well, start right here with these three bloggers! They were all given the opportunity to stay in an Embassy Suites hotel, and now they're sharing their opinions.

Blogger Galit Breen is a traveler turned wife, mom and writer. In her post on These Little Waves, she talks about how traveling isn't quite as easy for a family but how the need to "get away" is still just as strong. She used her stay at Embassy to give her family a staycation.

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Morgan Fairchild is a mom of four with a wide range of interests. Her blog, Mama Loves Papa, is where she brings it all together using her stellar photography skills. In her post, Morgan took the whole family to Napa Valley — a location widely considered to be an adult destination.

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Summer Saldana blogs about her faith, her marriage and her crazy life as a mom of two. For her post on Le Musings of Moi, she treated both her family and herself. She brought the whole family along to a local Embassy Suites for a fun-filled day and evening. When bedtime rolled around, though, she sent them all home and enjoyed her very own mommy staycation. Are you wishing you had thought of that? We are, too!

Read on to find out how it all went >>

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