5 Best Valentine's Day Getaway Deals - Four-Day Suite Stay at Boutique Island Hotel off Cancún Coast

This Valentine's Day, skip the elbow-to-elbow dining in a crowded restaurant, the sentimental hoopla, even the flowers—and treat yourself and your honey to a vacation. We've rounded up some incredible offers that are easy on the wallet and sweet on romance. Pick from luxury properties in the Bahamas, Napa Valley, New York, and the Florida Keys—all are sure to heat up your February.

Located on low-key Isla Holbox to the north of Cancún, CasaSandra (or Sandra's Place, as in Sandra Perez, Cuban artist and writer) is a well-kept secret with only 12 rooms and one villa. Beachy-chic accommodations are spread between three buildings facing the Caribbean. Hammocks and sunbeds are speckled along the white-sand beachfront. Come here to totally unplug; bars and clubs are three hours away in Cancun. CasaSandra's Valentine's package includes three nights in an oceanview suite, a welcome cocktail, nightly romantic turndown service, in-room breakfast daily, a romantic dinner for two on the beach or your balcony, a bottle of Moet Rose Champagne, and a special couples session with a Reiki master (a $240 value).

Good to Know: Bird-watching and shark-spotting tours (for non-threatening whale sharks) are the main activities on the island, which is predominately an ecological reserve.

The Details: Package rates go for $1,560.

Book It: Call 011-52-984-875-2171, or email reservations@casasandra.com.

Photo credit: courtesy Little Palm Island Resort & Spa

Un destino donde puedes relajarte y olvidar...

¿Dónde se puede encontrar Casa Sandra? Sencilla, en coche o en charter privado que es un corto vuelo desde Cancún, México, se llegará a la apartada isla de Holbox, México. Un refugio privado con menos de 2.000 habitantes, calles de arena, playas, carros de golf, carros, y los restaurantes increíbles, excursiones para nadar con el tiburón blanco, observando una gran variedad de flamencos, y por supuesto la oportunidad de explorar la isla sin tocar tanto por tierra y por mar, este es un pequeño pueblo de pescadores.

Casa Sandra ofertas....

Servicio personalizado, ambiente, suites de lujo, y por supuesto, unas vistas espectaculares al mar, con toda concentración en los detalles. Estos son los atributos que hacen pequeñas Casa Sandra la característica más singular de elección cuando se trata de seleccionar a su hogar lejos de casa en la apartada isla de Holbox, México. Cada día se convierte en la noche mágica cuando uno puede experimentar increíbles puestas de sol que se convierten en la oscuridad que ser verdaderamente la noche con miles de estrellas que brillan arriba el reflejo del paraíso.

Casa Sandra es su hogar lejos del hogar

Un Hotel Boutique Suite 20, donde se descubrió la paz y la tranquilidad. Una oportunidad para relajarse, reflexionar, volver a conectar y restauración. Casa Sandra "el lugar donde el sueño de un santuario perfecto se convierte en una realidad".

Hidden Stop on the Ruta Maya

Isla Holbox, Mexico

In the past decade, the coastal idylls on Mexico's Mayan Riviera have been falling like dominoes under the flag of Senor Frog's. But a small island on the Gulf, 40 miles north of Cancun, remains unconquered. Isla Holbox – which requires a three-hour taxi ride on potholed, chicken-crossed roads through tiny villages, and then a ferry ride packed with grocery-shopping locals – greets you with misty breeze as you wander its narrow dirt roads.

The island's main mode of transport is a fleet of past-their-prime golf carts, a fitting symbol for this 26-mile-long, two-mile-wide, economic anomaly: a Yucatan fishing community living in a one-story cinder-block shacks near the main square that coexists harmoniously with longtime expats running tidy thatched-roof pensions and pizza restaurants along the beach. The hotels and restaurants feel like an archipelago of Swedish, French, and German Islands, as palapa-shaded residents, lulled by hammock and margarita, drift into a shared discreet congeniality. Your third mescal will make you feel like you've been dropped onto that floating city from The Empire Strikes Back (minus Stormtroopers, which are strictly mainland), in a vaporous, temporal community of visitors.

You're not here to get wild, drunk, or laid, unless it's by someone you brought along (in which case you will, and frequently). You're here to enjoy the kind of solace a millionaire would travel thousands of miles to find. The bad news: The island has an ATM. The good news: It doesn't work so well.

Chris Norris

Fly to Cancun and catch a connector (Aerosaab; $650 for five people), or drive three hours to Chiquilia and take a ferry ($4).

Casa Sandra is thatched-hut luxe right on the beach. (from $260). www.casasandra.com