For the first time, I've hit 250,000 Marriott Rewards points. I'm debating how to use them and am soliciting expert opinions for an awesome trip. I've had a super crappy year (lost a parent this year, after losing the other within the last 3 years, and I'm emotionally spent), and I'm thinking about a tropical place -- possibly a Ritz? I need a really special trip and plan to take my boyfriend along. I've never been to Hawaii and to a lot of the well known resort destinations - Cabo, Key West, Aruba, Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Turks and Caicos, etc. Most of the time I've ended up on the Carolina beaches, as I live in SC. It's time to take it up a notch and do something special.