Use these tips to achieve a stress free get away:

1. Go at least one area code away.
2. Choose a location that fits your vacation style — a city if you need to keep busy, the country if you like to slow down.
3. Consider the size of the bed and breakfast. Do you want to be the only guests in a small inn or be part of the crowd at larger inn?
4. Let the innkeepers know why you’re coming. Many will put in a litle extra effort to help make your stay even better.
5. Make a deal with your traveling partner that work-related conversation is off-limits.
6. Leave behind your cell phone, laptop computer and beeper. If you just can’t leave them behind, bribe the innkeeper to keep them so you aren’t checking them constantly!
7. Bring along a personal project. Something you’ve wanted to finish for a long time (a book, cross-stitch project, etc.).
8. Bring a board game or two in case it rains and you wind up being stuck inside the bed and breakfast.
9. Remind yourself that everything at work (or at home) will go smoothly without you.
10. Afternoon naps can be quite effective at shutting out the worries of the world.