I have no clue where to go! we are getting married end of may and I would be happy to go to a resort, beach, pool etc, that is not for my fiancée. he loves to see other cultures, and experience their foods, but not as a tourist, he wants to be where the locals would good, not a resort setting. any ideas? we would be traveling from NY and I originally was considering Greece, but I am concerned with the travel time to get there and time difference.
Re: Honeymoon Help! Looking for a mix of culture and relaxation
10-12 days or so and no set budget but want to stay at or under $6000
Tackling a time difference is easy if you prepare yourself. For Europe (5-6 hour time difference), your flight on the way there will be overnight - so you'll likely take off from the East Coast around 6pm and when you land it will be around 8am there. What i like to do the day i leave the US is wake up at an ungodly hour (5am generally), and then do things that will really wear myself out (I'm a runner, so I'll go on a 10 mile run or something) and then literally FORCE MYSELF to stay awake all day so i'll be able to sleep on the plane. An OTC Unisom once you board doesn't hurt either. The first day on the ground in Europe can be rough, but if you can force yourself to stay awake until at least 8pm, you should be evened out the next day. Bring some extra Unisom in case you are wide awake at 3am the first night, and take another one. But after that first night, I'm generally sleeping-drug free and well adjusted. :-)
The way back is actually harder for me - you leave before noon and land on the east coast around 6pm generally. On that flight you have to force yourself to stay awake, which can be difficult on a 9 hour jaunt. However if you are successful, and can stay awake until 8-9pm before passing out when you get home, you should be well adjusted right away.
Asia is harder - the flights are longer and the way they work you wind up landing at like 8pm in both directions...so you have to force yourslef to stay awake for the entire 17 hour flight both ways, and then once you land the time difference is a full 12 hours. That takes me 2-3 days to get used to usually.
some of the flights to europe are overnight adn some are not. a lot are not. soem work better for others. DH prefers leaving in teh AM from her so that when we get there it's just getting to be night. he has problem with jetlag adn find this to be easeier for him.
these are things you wont find out until you do it though. but dont NOT go because you think you might be jetlagged.
i dont have a problem with jetlag at all. i have a tremedously tough time with daylight savings time though.