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A Thistle Lodge Thanksgiving

thistle-lodge_thanksgivingHappy Thanksgiving!

Thistle Lodge is pleased to serve a Thanksgiving Buffet on Thursday, November 27, 2008 from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.

The exquisitely prepared Thanksgiving Buffet is an excellent choice for a fine holiday meal that your entire family will enjoy. Traditional holiday fare, along with Sanibel favorites, will be offered. Reservations are required.

Click the image to the right to see the Holiday Menu.

Make your reservations today! Call 239.472.9200

Thistle Lodge Beachfront Restaurant
at historic Casa Ybel Resort
Sanibel Island


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Host Your Holiday Party or Special Event at Thistle Lodge Beachfront Restaurant

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Grand Views… Rave Reviews…

The professional catering and culinary teams at Historic Thistle Lodge at Casa Ybel Resort look forward to helping you create a memorable and festive celebration, complete with views of the Gulf of Mexico that are sure to inspire throughout the year.

Private rooms and beachfront venues are available!

Call our catering and sales department at 866.748.8958 to set the date or visit us


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Casa Ybel Fitness Vacations

WINK, (local CBS) featured Casa Ybel Resort’s Fitness Vacations in a recent on-air segment.
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Fitness Vacations
By Jennifer Stacy

SANIBEL ISLAND, Fla. – There’s a unique opportunity for anyone looking to escape reality, and improve their health. The new twist on vacations, called fitness retreats, are the product of Sanibel Island businesses working together, hoping to help others while helping themselves during the slow summer and fall months.

“The fitness retreats are all inclusive fitness adventure vacations where people can come and do a vacation but have it be fitness oriented.” Explains Meta Goodwin, Owner of Sanibel Fitness Center.

The new vacations allow Sanibel visitors a chance to escape reality, and focus on themselves. They’re open to all ages, and all fitness levels.

Islander Margi Landgraf is already signed up.

“My goals are just to be healthier, lose some weight, take off some inches, and an overall well being,” says Landgraf, who has gone on several fitness retreats out of state in the past.

Participants will get one-on-one personal training, take part in various fitness classes, take walks and do yoga on the beach, kayak through Sanibel’s beautiful waterways, and enjoy the island bike trails.

“We just hope that people leave here with a feeling of vitality and peace and tranquility, and feeling fit and strong,” explains Goodwin.

The hard work is well rewarded.

Guests enjoy a massage, shelling, sunset cruises, and star gazing. They stay in luxury resorts like Casa Ybel, where they dine on gourmet, healthy food supervised by Executive Chef John Wolff, under the direction of a dietitian.

“You’re exercising, your meals are planned for you, your day is planned for you, you don’t have to think about anything but you that day,” explains Landgraf. “Its ‘me’ time, you do it for yourself, don’t compete with anyone else while you’re doing it, just do it for you.”

The 3 night, four day fitness retreats cost $1,200 and include all activities, lodging and food. There are also longer options available. Visit http://www.sanibelfitnessretreats.com/ for details and information.


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Casa Ybel Resort Wedding Proposal!

We had a lot of fun and excitement at Casa Ybel today – a wedding proposal on the beach! Champagne and tears of joy were flowing on the beach on Sanibel Island. Our local NBC affiliate was even there to cover the event. Congratulations!
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Lavish Wedding Proposal
NBC-2 News
Monday, August 04, 2008 by Chad Oliver

SANIBEL ISLAND: Many people head to Sanibel Island expecting to see white sandy beaches, clear water, and shelling that’s world-renowned. They don’t expect to see what unfolded on the beach in front of Casa Ybel Monday morning – a wedding proposal.

Cynthia Briand, from Florence, Alabama, has been bringing her family to the same timeshare since 1979.

Her son, John, learned to swim there and is now 24-years-old. He grew up spending part of his summers there. So when it came time for an important announcement, Sanibel was the family’s first choice.

“The more excited John and I got about this, then it got bigger and bigger and John said, ‘I’m going to get a plane to fly over with a banner,'” said Cynthia.

John Briand chose Sanibel Island as the spot to propose to his girlfriend, Brittany Brooks. Cynthia tipped off NBC2 on the big announcement and their lavish plan.

John couldn’t find a plane in Lee County to fly a banner popping the big question. So he chartered one from Fort Lauderdale with a planned flyover planned at 10:30 a.m.

The couple planned on arriving at the beach about 10 a.m. and NBC2 showed up on the beach posing as a documentary crew interviewing visitors about Sanibel’s recovery from Hurricane Charley four years ago.

Brittany saw our camera on the beach and said, “I don’t even want to be in it, just interview him because I’m in my bathing suit.”

During the interview with John, he pointed and asks, “Now what is this?”

She spotted those seven words in red letters trailing behind an approaching plane.

“Brittany, will you marry me? Love, John.”

With one knee in the sand, John said, “You’re my everything, you’re my always. Will you be my wife?”

Brittany said yes and just seconds later, John’s family ran out from behind the sand dunes with bottles of champagne.

“The plane came just in time and it was to her back and it looked like she was completely surprised,” says John’s cousin Tuyle Denman.

The couple met in nursing school in Alabama and graduated back in December. They plan to get married in Birmingham next April.

Brittany, still shaking with excitement, said “I was shocked, I still can’t believe it.”

Meanwhile, Cynthia gathered the family on the beach for a toast to the new couple.

“To love, to laughter, to happily ever after,” she said.

© 2008 NBC2 NEWS. Reprinted with permission.

You can see video taken for the happy couple at AMC Video Productions.