La Mirage Blog

No two vacation experiences will look alike, even when traveling to the same place, and if your upcoming Port Aransas, Texas trip of a lifetime is a true family adventure that includes grandparents, parents, kids, and friends, your experience will be a special one. You may be wondering how you will be able to find adventures that everyone, no matter their ages, will enjoy, but we at La Mirage are...

If it weren’t for the Gulf, Port Aransas and the other small towns and islands that surround us wouldn’t be the popular vacation destination they are today, but there is more than beach days that will make your Texas getaway one you will never forget. There are nature walks and bird watching fun, snorkeling adventures, and dolphin watching cruises, and although you can do all those activities right here in...

Sometimes the best way to learn what to do on your vacation is by asking the local residents what they love about their town and when your journey brings you to Port Aransas in August, we at La Mirage have a lot of wonderful answers to that question. Many of us have lived here most if not all our lives, and for all of us, we can’t imagine living anywhere...

The best vacations are often the ones with the best meal memories, and your Port Aransas getaway spent relaxing in our La Mirage retreats is destined to be one of your best vacations. Offering beach days and tranquil nights, margarita sunsets and mimosa sunrises, and a culinary voyage through some of our favorite dining spots, you, your friends, and your family might start to wonder why you waited so long...

Labor Day weekend is often considered the official farewell to the golden days of summer as well as welcoming fall and all that accompanies that season, and if you are planning a vacation in Port Aransas for your long holiday weekend, you may be ready for a weekend that relaxes. You need to shore up your energy levels for the next 3 months of the year, with the school year...

Any vacation can offer unexpected surprises, but only in the best vacations are those surprises good ones, and when you choose Port Aransas for your vacation destination, you are destined to discover a world of wonderful and unexpected things to do during your stay. And because you may not know what all you can do during your adventures in Port A, your choice of La Mirage for your vacation accommodations...

The 4th of July falls on a Friday this year and whether you are planning a long weekend in Port Aransas or are going to stay for an entire week or more to commemorate our country’s 249th birthday, choosing La Mirage for your holiday hideaway is destined to be your favorite way of celebrating. Our town is meant for family and the family-friendly activities you can enjoy will make you...

Normally we take this page to address travelers flying in from all over the world, but today, we at La Mirage want to talk to our Port Aransas neighbors. Life can be hectic, chaotic, and expensive, and we don’t always have the money or the time to go away for some exotic vacation in foreign lands, but that’s ok; you already live in paradise, so why not look into a...

When you begin planning your Memorial Day 2025 getaway to Port Aransas, you may already have some ideas about what you want to do (and we are sure that beach days are included in those plans), but we at La Mirage may have a few ideas that you never thought were possible. Offering sunshine, palm trees, blue waters, white sand beaches, and these wonderful Memorial Day events in Port Aransas...

Remember when summer offered a magic that made you feel anything was possible? That last bell at school would ring, the doors would open to freedom, and for three short months your biggest worries usually revolved around whether your mom would notice that you stayed up late into the night, reading with a flashlight under the covers. We at La Mirage can’t completely bring those totally carefree days of summer...