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Honeymoon!
Woop woop! We're checking out flights for the HM!
Any tips from former brides?
Where did/are you going?
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Re: Honeymoon!
We just took a short honeymoon to Pacific City, OR so I'm no help as far as tips go.
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We went to Disney World and Universal Studios. We were very active the whole trip! We went to all four Disney theme parks, went to the Islands of Adventure park at Universal Studios, saw a Cirque du Soleil show, shopped at Downtown Disney, ate out at all kinds of restaurants at the hotels and parks and in Orlando itself, played minigolf, hit a couple arcades, played pool at the hotel gameroom, etc. We thought about going to a water park but it got cold and we decided not to. Did I mention all of that was in a span of 6 days? It was awesome!
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[QUOTE]Ditto S, except we went to Seaside, OR. It was a 90 minute drive for us. Actually, I do have a tip. <strong> Go someplace where you won't care if you end up staying in the hotel room a lot ;-) And don't have a schedule. We found that we just wanted to do a lot of lounging around and hanging out to relax after the wedding.</strong>
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this is exactly what FI and I talked about last night. We are going on a 4 day cruise and we just want to relax and sit by the pool. We don't want an agenda and may not even get off the boat and go into port every day.
[QUOTE] we're looking for a different type of... active... ;)
Posted by RebeccaJac[/QUOTE]<div>This made me giggle. I'm 12...or a newleywed. :)</div><div>
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DH and I always say that if we just want to lay around, we'll stay home, haha. I guess different couples just have different vacation philosophies.
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[QUOTE]DH and I always say that if we just want to lay around, we'll stay home, haha. I guess different couples just have different vacation philosophies.
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</div><div>Oh we're totally that way when we vacation too, but I guess I never really thought of a honeymoon as a vacation. It'll be fun to take our first real vacation too. I think we're going to go to Boston a few months after the wedding. </div><div>
</div><div>Growing up our vacations always included iteneraries they were so scheduled. We want to see a lot but I don't know that we're going to be that extreme about it. My parents are a lil nuts. I don't know that I've ever had a lounging trip, so it'll for sure be interesting! </div><div>
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</div><div>Haha Emily. I can think of more "mature" ways of putting that if you'd like ;)</div>
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[QUOTE]Oh, we're the active type of vacationer, too. I just remember a lot of people telling us that they felt like they HAD to be active outside the hotel room on their honeymoon because they went someplace brand new and they didn't want to feel like it was a wasted trip. We purposely chose someplace that if all we did was lie in bed and watch tv, we were cool with that, but that if we wanted to get out and do things we could. I think we did one or two things each day, but we also spent a lot of time l<strong>ying around ;-)</strong>
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</div><div>Is that what the kids are callin' it these days?</div>
[QUOTE]<strong>Oh, we're the active type of vacationer, too. I just remember a lot of people telling us that they felt like they HAD to be active outside the hotel room on their honeymoon because they went someplace brand new and they didn't want to feel like it was a wasted trip. </strong> We purposely chose someplace that if all we did was lie in bed and watch tv, we were cool with that, but that if we wanted to get out and do things we could. I think we did one or two things each day, but we also spent a lot of time lying around ;-)
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Oh no, see I've been to Disney World 10 times and DH can't even remember how many he's been. So if we missed a ride or something, it wasn't the end of the world. But we WANTED to be active outside the room. Like I said, we feel like lounging and watching TV are things we can do for free at home. If we're driving 9 hours and spending almost $3000 for a trip, WE'RE DOING STUFF. Haha.
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We worked with a travel agent that specializes in the South Pacific for Fiji, but booked everything for Vegas (flight, hotel, rental car) ourselves.
Fiji was our first and only time we've used a travel agent. For our cruises and trips to the Caribbean, we always book ourselves. We're starting to think about a trip to Europe, and unless we take a Mediterranean cruise, we plan on using a travel agent for that since we'll probably country hop.
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[QUOTE]We thought about a cruise, but I get motion sick and I didn't want to discover I can't handle boats on my honeymoon! Hopefully we'll be able to go on one in the future!
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I've been on 3 cruises, and never felt like I was on a boat except for the last night of my last cruise a few months ago. We happened to be sailing back up the coast of Florida right behind Hurricane Irene so our ship was crashing through big waves which really rocked the boat. But... we chose to cruise at the peak of hurricane season which was a risk we were willing to take. We had gorgeous weather the whole time and never saw a drop of rain, including the last day/night on the ship. It was just rocky. After dealing with labyrinthitis last year, I was nervous I wouldn't be able to cruise again without feeling ill, but God answered my many prayers and I was fine the entire trip including the rocky last night.
I'm not saying to try it out for your HM, but don't be afraid to try it out for a future vacay. Cruises are amazing and so much fun! The food is never ending, activities, galore, waking up at a new island almost every morning, and the staff treat you like royalty. I'd just stock up on bonine/dramamine, or get the patch that goes behind your ear for the week. Also, I've heard great things about ginger gum and sea bands. HTH!
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Sounds like fun! Good gosh, I would never have FI plan a trip for us...his family rarely took vacations...I think they only went on one vacation that wasn't camping. Knowing him, he'd book the first thing he saw without looking for good deals or even paying attention to flight times and layovers.