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Honeymoon Discussions
orwhatuwill
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I've signed-up for livingsocial, groupon, amazon local, travel zoo in the postal codes near our hotels. Tickets and hotels are booked. I'm constantly searching for the best prices for our trips. I've even bought some currency (under the current exchange rate!) on ebay from other travelers with extra change. I'm loving this planning. DW is excited and is happy to let me do my obsessive research!
I'm Honeymoon Obsessed! Are Any of You?
We both work at schools, we're taking our HM 5 months after our wedding (got married 12/31/13) which will be after our seniors graduate. We're roughly 99 days away and I'm super excited/obsessed with finding good deals and mapping things out. We're flying from Boston, USA to London, spending 6 nights there and then traveling to Scotland for an additional 5 days. We are planning 4 day trips from different departures.
Anyone else out there super obsessed with their planning?
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Re: I'm Honeymoon Obsessed! Are Any of You?
I am constantly planning trips. I'm going to Hong Kong and Tokyo in March to visit a friend that is in Hong Kong for work right now, and i'm also in the middle of planning my Honeymoon to Mauritius and South Africa in June. I did get a travel agent to do the heavy lifting for the Honeymoon (flights, hotels, rental cars, etc) simply because I don't have any prior experience in the area, and it was all a bit complicated. But i'm still planning out the day trips and activities myself. Even though the trip to Asia is happening first, I fell into a Mauritius wormhole yesterday for several hours. :-)
It's not helping that i had to skip a big international trip in 2013 in order to save up for the honeymoon...it was the first year in 5 years that i hadn't taken a 2 week vacation somewhere out of the country. So i'm coming off a dry spell.
A week ago i also started thinking about taking a big trip in early 2015 because i can't help myself. One of my girlfriends and i really feel like we need to go back to Europe before we have kids because we likely won't make it there again for the 18-20 years after that starts happening. Both of our FIs aren't big Europe guys (they prefer North American ski resorts to European museum hopping) so we typically split up by gender for winter trips.
FI has already agreed to take a big trip with me every 5 years to celebrate anniversaries, even after we start having kids (we would bring them with us once they are old enough). And i have basically planned out what several of those trips will be in my head. We're talking like 30 years out. I'm crazy. :-)
We are big trip planners too. Right now we have 4 trips booked betweeen April and August, in addition to our honeymoon.
YES to all of the above! My mom's a travel agent and I've been to 36 states, 25 countries, and 5 continents. So I'm constantly dreaming up the next place I can go. During odd numbered years I do 1 domestic and 1 international trip. During even numbered years I do 2 domestic trips. (would love them all to be international but it's really expensive).
I planned the ever living shit out of my trip to Japan and China last year. This year is pretty low key- Vegas in May, Jamaica honeymoon in fall. 2015 since it's an odd year I'll be planning Italy & France. I'm dying to see Petra in Jordan but FI refuses to go to an Arab nation which I agree with and will pray it becomes safe to visit in the next 10 years
That's like me with Egypt. Really want to go but it's not super safe right now. I'd probably still go (on a cruise or something, where i knew that the excursions were in armored vehicles and therefore pretty safe) but no one i know would come with me the way it is right now!
Italy and France are my faves and the front runners for my 2015 trip to Europe too. :-)
@thejucheidea - I'd love to hear more about your Scandinavian honeymoon. Did you go in winter, or a shoulder season? I'm trying to find some time to get to Iceland soon, probably fall or winter (late 2014 early 2015).
And I'm also a compulsive trip planner... I plan trips I don't even TAKE. I've got a green season trip to Cambodia and Vietnam, one to Milan, Lake Como, smaller towns in the Veneto and Venice, and a Namibia, Botswana, and Victoria Falls extravaganza (which would make an excellent honeymoon I think, but I'm NEY so oh well).
Right now I have a trip to the UK in April, Charleston and Savannah in May, a small domestic trip with BF in the summer, the Côte d'Azur, Provence and Paris in October. But I'm still trying to scheme and work Iceland in later in winter!
@NotATotalBetty, my husband and I actually got back on Sunday, so we were there during the winter. We managed to do two weeks in Norway, Sweden and Iceland for $4400 total for accommodations and travel expenses, so we did pretty well, and I think a lot of that had to do with going during the off season. Norwegian also has some wicked deals to get to Oslo right now, so we were able to use that to our advantage. I recommend looking at airbnb for places to stay -- that's how we found all of our accommodations in Iceland and couldn't have been happier.
In Iceland, keep in mind, if you want to go outside of Reykjavik and not pay out the ass for a guided vacation, you'll need to rent a car. To rent a car, you'll need an international driver's license. It's also helpful to know how to drive stick, as only the SUVs available for rent were automatic and with gas at $8 a gallon, I wasn't about to drive a damn SUV.
The rental car info is extremely helpful, so thank you for that! Better brush up on my stick skills...
Did you find there were enough things to do in the offseason? How were the limited hours of daylight? Were you primarily in Reykjavik or did you get to other areas of the country? Of the three countries you visited, did you and your husband have a favorite? Also curious how you found Icelandic food: I've heard mixed things about it, and while it's clearly not a destination for a foodie vacation, I'm just hoping there are warm, satisfying meals for cold winter days.
Sorry for all the questions, but the only people I know who've been to Iceland went in summer, so I don't find their information all that helpful for planning a winter focused trip.
Oh, and congrats on your marriage and honeymoon!