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The Best LastMinute.com Package We Found This Morning

Deluged by the news that Thanksgiving travel this weekend may not be quite so bad as expected? Feeling that familiar yearning to just head for the sunset? Us, too, and we already have plans. So we decided to vicariously throw caution to the winds and pull up LastMinute.com to give you the best right-this-second travel option.

Ready, set, go: You're off to Sarasota, Florida, home of a great Salvador Dali collection, a clown museum (see the hilarity? How about the potential to develop a lifelong phobia?), avant-garde architecture and, oh yeah, some beaches too. A calm, bookstore-laden town where half the buildings are pink and the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed concert hall is more of a draw than the multiplex, Sarasota is worlds away from party city Miami or Mickeyville, Orlando, but if that first bite of winter is getting to you already, you'll appreciate that last breath of summer.

At around $533 a person, it's not exactly change you can find in your couch, but you won't regret the trip. Have a better option? Tell us about it.

Related Stories:
· HotelChatter Guide to Sarasota [HC]
· Thanksgiving coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo of a Sarasota Season of Sculpture installation: srqpix]