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Elena Vasquez

Family & Budget Editor

Beat: With Kids, When To Come, Under $25

Elena plans the difficult days: a seven-year-old at two in the afternoon in August, or a Tuesday that has to cost nothing at all. She maps shade, restrooms, free trolley stops and no-charge admission, prices a day with parking counted in, and says plainly when the free version is the better one.

3 guides · 2 news posts

Last updatedElena's most recent update to this site was .

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Guides by Elena Vasquez

Reported guides to Miami, each with its own publication and last-updated date.

  • A long mural running the full length of a single-storey warehouse wall beside an empty pavement
    Featured
    Guide

    Miami on a Budget

    Miami's expensive reputation is earned by hotels and by movement, not by admission. Three days costed line by line, with the charges nobody puts in the article.

    8 min read

  • Storm clouds building over a barrier-island shoreline at dusk with lit hotel towers along the sand
    Guide

    A Rainy Day in Miami

    A summer afternoon storm here lasts forty minutes and improves the evening. A winter front can take a whole day. Knowing which one you are looking at is the entire skill.

    8 min read

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News under Elena Vasquez's byline

Shorter, dated pieces about what is changing in Miami.

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