{"id":22280,"date":"2016-03-19T01:09:53","date_gmt":"2016-03-19T08:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22280"},"modified":"2016-03-19T01:09:53","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T08:09:53","slug":"spring-break-hot-spots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/spring-break-hot-spots\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring Break Hot Spots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/sprinbk.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Do you remember when\u00a0Palm Springs was all the rage for college Spring Break?\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/palm-springs-dinah.html\">The Dinah<\/a> &#8220;Largest Girl Party Music Festival in the World&#8221; March 30-April 3, 2016\u00a0continues the spring pool party tradition with a twist &#8212; it&#8217;s geared toward\u00a0lesbians.<\/p>\n<p>California beaches used to be popular college Spring Break destinations until alcohol was outlawed. Last year\u00a0California State Parks began reversing the trend\u00a0by\u00a0permitting parties such as\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/huntington-beach-music-festival.html\">Sun Down Music Festival<\/a> (renamed from Wet Electric.) It\u00a0returns to Huntington State Beach Sept. 17 &amp; 18, 2016\u00a0with cabanas, water slides, EDM music &amp; lighting, and full cocktail bars. With this trend is California poised to reclaim its status as a spring break mecca?<\/p>\n<h2>Spring Break 2016 Break Down<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The week of March 12-20, 2016 is the most popular Spring Break for U.S.\u00a0colleges &amp; universities.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/spring-break.html\">University of California Spring Break<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0March 19-27, 2016.<\/li>\n<li>Cal State University\u00a0Spring Break dates range from March 12 to April 3.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Top 3 Student Spring Break Vacations<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Panama City Beach is the #1 Spring Break destination in the U.S.<\/li>\n<li>Cancun Spring Break features day parties, an &#8216;EDM&#8217; Inception Fest.<\/li>\n<li>South Padre Island is\u00a0a cheap\u00a0domestic Spring Break option with wild day parties and beach bars.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you remember when\u00a0Palm Springs was all the rage for college Spring Break?\u00a0The Dinah &#8220;Largest Girl Party Music Festival in the World&#8221; March 30-April 3, 2016\u00a0continues the spring pool party tradition with a twist &#8212; it&#8217;s geared toward\u00a0lesbians. California beaches used to be popular college Spring Break destinations until alcohol was outlawed. Last year\u00a0California State [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}