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If you’ve ever come back from vacation feeling more frazzled than refreshed, your phone might be to blame. Between work emails, social media, and the urge to capture every moment, it’s hard to truly log off.
But some resorts and travel destinations are taking matters into their own hands, banning or discouraging cell phone and computer use altogether.
These places promise a rare quiet, free of notifications, and provide true uninterrupted peace.
Continue reading to see some of the resorts that are phone-free.
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Miraval Resorts and Spas, with locations in Arizona, Massachusetts, Texas, and Saudi Arabia, don’t ban phones altogether, but screens aren’t allowed in any public or common areas of its resorts, besides a few designated cell phone areas. It asks guests to keep their phones in their rooms, and offers “cell phone sleeping bags” where guests can put their phone and avoid distractions.
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Unplugged offers digital detox cabins across the the United Kingdom, each of which come with a phone lock box. They include an old-school flip phone you can use in case of emergency, or if you want to chat with friends and loved ones, but there's no internet.
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Rancho La Puerta in Baja California, Mexico, just outside of Tijuana, prohibits cell phones and laptops outside of its rooms. The resort and spa says it’s “primarily because the Ranch is a retreat that values real conversation and connections.”
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Located in Umbria, Italy, Eremito is a wifi-free resort. It bills itself as a place "where you can spend a relaxing and regenerating time, away from the noises of everyday life, in a majestic isolation." Rooms don't have TVs or phones, either.
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Ulko-Tammio, an island off the coast of southeast Finland, declared itself a phone-free destination a few years ago. The entire island is a national park, and while nobody lives or stays there, travelers visiting for the day are highly encouraged to go tech-free — and are offered stickers to cover their phone.
