Where are you going on your honeymoon?

Ms.Sunshine

As the title suggests - where are you going on your honeymoon? Or where did you go??
I'm looking for inspiration for our own!! We are going October next year and would ideally love to visit 2 or 3 different places.

Looking forward to your answers!

sbEdge

We are hoping to Visit Australia & New Zealand with a short stay in Dubai on the way out and Thailand on the way back.
If we can manage to save enough between now and the wedding!

5star02707

Not married yet but i've some places in mind

Bora-bora
Santorini
Coron island - Philippines
Bahamas
Hawaii
Cayman Islands

Apart from Greece, they are all outside Europe. Places have beaches, lots of sunshine and alone time for both of you

Milly33

We just went on a mini break after. Cottages for Couples with an outdoor Jacuzzi.. Very nice now I must say, although Skibereen town is quite odd.. It was nice to relax.

Planning maybe to go to a Christmas market or the northern lights maybe later

andreac

We are now thinking of doing a mini moon at Electric Picnic and then go to Vegas and Hawaii a few weeks later.

Cakerbaker

Check the weather for the areas you're considering for that time of the year. I have a few friends whose honeymoon plans had to be changed after discovering it was monsoon season / hurricane season / the depths of winter in their dream honeymoon locations at the time of year they were getting married. The trail finders website has a honeymoon section which we found handy as it lists honeymoon ideas by season.

saggycaggy

We got married in May 2010.
Went to New York and the Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean and then on to Disney, Orlando. Loved every bit of it!

oakshade

How about a cruise? You can live in the lap of luxury (gain a half stone) and wake up somewhere different every day?

eviltwin

We went backpacking in Jordan for a week with about 10 other people.

fits

sbEdge wrote: »

We are hoping to Visit Australia & New Zealand with a short stay in Dubai on the way out and Thailand on the way back.
If we can manage to save enough between now and the wedding!

Do you have 3 months to do all that? We spent 3 weeks just in New Zealand South Island last year, and it wasnt enough. Id go back in a flash too.

We went to Malaysia. First week in Langkawi in a luxury resort and then ten days flashpacking to Penang and the Perhentian Islands. Was lovely and reasonably priced and easy to get around.

lainey316

Bilbao & San Sebastian. The money is going into Michelin star dining. I still have a hankering for South Korea tho

pwurple

Iceland. We went on a holiday there, but it would have been a fantastic honeymoon destination too. Volcanos, Glaciers, thermal pools. Gorgeous spot, no place like it in the world.

I highly recommend Tanzania, Ethiopia and South Africa for honeymoon too. Stunning places.

If I was doing it again, I'd do something on a train I think. Trans-Siberian Express maybe.
Oooh, or Vietnam.

Need more husbands!

Arbiter of Good Taste

Stopped off for 4 days in Abu Dhabi to do absolutely nothing - bliss. Then Vietnam/Cambodia - with 5 days at the end relaxing in Thailand.

I want to get married again

ElleEm

We are looking at Malta. It looks so pretty and chilled, and with loads of boat excursions, which I love the idea of.

Pistachios & cream

We went to cancun, New Orleans and Chicago. It was the start of hurricane season in Cancun and while we got some rain on 2 of the days it only lasted a couple of hours and then the sun came out again.

magicmushroom

5star02707 wrote: »

Not married yet but i've some places in mind

Bora-bora
Santorini
Coron island - Philippines
Bahamas
Hawaii
Cayman Islands

Apart from Greece, they are all outside Europe. Places have beaches, lots of sunshine and alone time for both of you

I visited Santorini on my honeymoon - I was SO disappointed.
We were island hopping and had booked to stay here for 4 nights.
We left after 2 and went back to the other islands (Naxos).

rainbow kirby

We went to northern California, Oregon and Las Vegas in late May/early June - loved it

Dolbert

Island hopping around Croatia (Dalmatia). It was June and we didn't want to go long-haul, and we're not beach resort people either. It was spectacular.

wuffly

I think it depends on what you are into and when you are going in relation to your wedding, if we went straight after I probably would have slept the whole time. We went about 9 months later. We went to Alaska, which we loved, it was amazing, we live in the middle east now so it was an incredible contrast for us. We did so much, hiking, glacier cruise, gold panning, bear viewing, flight around Denali, Arctic circle etc. We had great food, met wonderful/slightly mad people, saw out of this world scenery. I would do it again in heart beat but it was off the charts expensive, once in lifetime and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We stopped in New York on the way back, and unfortunately got horrendeous food poisoning so it was a bit of a waste. We did get upgraded on our flight to London due our flight being cancelled and us being at the airport mad early as we were too miserable to do anything else. So that was really really good! Sliver lining

Andrewf20

We got married in early November a few years back but decided to leave the honeymoon for a few weeks after. In the end, we felt it was a good idea as it reduced stress around wedding week. The day after the wedding we went down the country for 2 nights.

For the honeymoon, we went to sydney for New Years, then headed to the west coast for 10 days before heading to Cambodia and Vietnam. Doing Asia on the way back broke up a killer commute home. Sydney was great at New Years but the jet lag was a grim affair and I was struggling to stay away as midnight on 31st December drew near. We arrived into sydney on December 28th but the body clock wasn't sorted until January 2nd.

Really enjoyed the trip but Western Australia is fairly barren and I was happy to head away when we did. Lots of driving between sights.

Sherlof3

We got married in France then went to Italy, Florence was lovely but spent a week in Viareggio which was a total snooze fest and I defo would not recommend it. If we had been more organised and booked earlier we could have gone to the cribbean!

michellie

We booked ours today Dubai, Bangkok and a week in Koh Samui, for August '16 ...SO excited!!

Ms.Sunshine

wuffly wrote: »

I think it depends on what you are into and when you are going in relation to your wedding, if we went straight after I probably would have slept the whole time. We went about 9 months later. We went to Alaska, which we loved, it was amazing, we live in the middle east now so it was an incredible contrast for us. We did so much, hiking, glacier cruise, gold panning, bear viewing, flight around Denali, Arctic circle etc. We had great food, met wonderful/slightly mad people, saw out of this world scenery. I would do it again in heart beat but it was off the charts expensive, once in lifetime and we thoroughly enjoyed it. We stopped in New York on the way back, and unfortunately got horrendeous food poisoning so it was a bit of a waste. We did get upgraded on our flight to London due our flight being cancelled and us being at the airport mad early as we were too miserable to do anything else. So that was really really good! Sliver lining

Love the idea of Alaska... Which cruise liner did ye use ? I was doing some research there with Royal Caribbean & they dont seem to operate for this cruise past September which is disappointing.

Ms.Sunshine

michellie wrote: »

We booked ours today Dubai, Bangkok and a week in Koh Samui, for August '16 ...SO excited!!

Sounds lovely - who did you book it with ?

michellie

Ms.Sunshine wrote: »

Sounds lovely - who did you book it with ?

Booked with trailfinders. They were the best, dealing with Julia -she's fantastic!