Hi everyone, H2b and I spent all day yesterday looking up honeymoons and to be honest it's just left me feeling on a bit of a downer. We definitely don't want to stay in Europe, but we don't want the usual Dom Rep/Mexico/whatever that most people do. I'm quite well travelled and therefore want something that's unusual and different to other places I've been. Our dream really is an African safari in Kenya but after our search yesterday it's definitely not possible at £3000 each :( so I'm just wondering ladies, where are you all going and how much money are you splashing on it? Really our maximum budget is £1500 each and even then that's stretching it!! Thanks :) xx
CommentAuthorShannonK05
Oh, and Happy Easter everyone!!! :)
CommentAuthorMrsBull2B
Same as us, we are looking at cuba as a strong possibility, have you thought about thailand etc. Ours really all depends on what we get for wedding presents, we are asking for travel vouchers as we already live together Happy Easter! x
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CommentAuthorShannonK05
Yeah we've thought about Cuba too, it does look so beautiful! Thailand's also a possibility but it's just finding the right deal I guess :) we can't decide if we want to live in complete luxury for a couple of weeks or if we want to stay in not-so-nice hotels and travel around a bit like true travellers. I'm some ways I'd love to do that but in other ways I just want to relax on my honeymoon! That's a really good idea Mrs Bull, thanks :) x
CommentAuthorMrsBull2B
This whole wedding malarky is stressful enough haha neither of us are sun worshippers and beach lovers, thats why we are thinking cuba, plenty of sun, but also plenty to do, and i love crete, mainly because of the history, and its easy to get to santorini x
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We're gong to Mexico for 17 nights: 10 nights in a penthouse suite with roof-top jacuzzi, and 7 nights in a swim-out suite at a different hotel, both 5* adult-only all inclusives. The accommodation, flights from London, and private transfers for each leg, is costing £3900 for the two of us, and then we'll probably bring around £1200-1500 spending money. We picked Mexico as we've been 3 times, love it, and want a relaxing break: with Mexico we've seen most things so will happily just chill, whereas if we went somewhere new we'd want to be out and about exploring.
If you want to do something a bit different, maybe look at (if you haven't already done them):
Cuba: Havana is awesome, it's like another world. Loads to see and do, and you could do a multi-centre staying in different places (the Pinar del Rio province is beautiful)
Egypt: sounds boring but again you could do a spit centre, and combine a Nile Cruise (one of the best trips I've been on) with a beach stay
Costa Rica: amazing scenery and wildlife, and I've seen lots of deals for within your budget
Alternatively, check out the Trav3l Coll3ction and Ku0ni; both do some pretty amazing multi-centre holidays all over the world and prices start within your budget. India might also be worth a look, likewise South East Asia (Thailand/Vietnam/Cambodia/Laos) and Sri Lanka.
CommentAuthorShannonK05
Wow Barbie your honeymoon sounds phenomenal!! I have to say, I am extremely jealous of that!! You seem to know exactly what we're looking for. At the exact time that I read your post, h2b was looking up multi-centre holidays in Sri Lanka! Thanks for all the tips! x
CommentAuthorbarbie86
No worries ;-) I don't think you'll have any issues finding something TBH; I've seen deals for under £1500 pp (though that doesn't include spending money; but for a lot of those places you'll need barely anything; I spent just £200 on food and drink when I was in Cuba) to most of those places. I'd just advise you to be flexible on your dates of travel if at all possible, and look at pricing things up yourself (that almost always works out cheaper with places like Thailand, for eg; for more structured trips you're better going with a tour operator though).
CommentAuthorInDreamland
We did Hawaii, 3 islands but cost us a lot £6k plus spending money, in total it set us back around £9k.
Have you been to Borneo? Hubby and I went there a few years ago, travelled around so some accommodation was very basic but worth it for the experience of what you see! We did stay in a couple of 5* luxury hotels too though. Can I suggest you look at Tr@v3lb@g @51@. They can put together a bespoke package for you based on your chosen budget.
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CommentAuthorclair
We are wanting to go to Florida for our honeymoon. There is no way we can afford it on our own. So we are asking for money towards our honeymoon for wedding our presents. Maby u could ask your guests for money/ holiday voutchers to go towards your honeymoon?. Lots of brids do it, it may be worth a thought. X
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CommentAuthorInDreamland
Some travel companies do have a wedding gift service so your guests can contribute to your honeymoon by paying towards it directly to the travel company. We were offered this service when we booked our honeymoon. We booked through Tr@1lf1nd3r5.
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
CommentAuthorMrsLowe
We went to Florida for two weeks and did the whole Disney thing while we were there and stayed in are own villa with our own swimming pool etc all in all (park tickets included) it was £3000 just under! We then ask for our wedding present off guests for a donation towards the spending money. We took 2k with us but came back with about 500 ish :) xx
CommentAuthorMrsLowe
That's £3000 for the two btw :) x
CommentAuthorLinzi-jo
We are going to Dominican Republic for 2 weeks all inclusive in a 5* resort for £2400 all in. Thailand is supposed to be amazing though! Xxx
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CommentAuthorTracyP89
I can recommend Thailand , we went last year for 3 weeks and toured all over , stayed in some amazing hotels , we loved it that much were getting blessed there 3 weeks before our wedding, the holiday cost us 3k for us both and I took 1k spending money but it was difficult to spend and I came home with £400 .the price included 4 internal flights and 5 different hotels numerous taxis and a ferry so I'm sure if your just looking too stay in one hotel and chill you will find it within your budget xxxx
CommentAuthorMrs C to be!
Hi, we decided on Italy, flying out next Monday, we have one week in sorrento and one week in taomina sicily. Flying from gat wick. Bed and breakfast basis two small boutique 4* hotels. Top rated on trip adviser. It's cost us £4000. We plan to take as much money as we get in our honeymoon fund. This is what we have asked our guests to contribute too. Can't wait.
CommentAuthorInDreamland
I luurrrvvveee Sorrento! Great base for Pompeii, Amalfi and Positano. My sister and I had the most amazing break when we went and the food is just divine!
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
CommentAuthorAlisonM36
We're flying to Venice and spending a couple of nights there and then embarking on an msc cruise around the med :-) cost about £800 each for the cruise all inclusive and they gave us the stay in Venice for free as it's our honeymoon :-)
CommentAuthorInDreamland
Wow that is amazing Alison! I've told the hotel in Amsterdam that it's our 1st anniversary whilst we're there (asked them to book us a nice restaurant so told them what the special occasion is) so I'm hoping they might treat us to something nice in the room or upgrade us or something.
Many companies will pull out all the stops because you're on honeymoon, we got upgraded on the flight out, got a room upgrade at one of the hotels, plus got a lot of free bubbly and even desserts.
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Had our dream perfect honeymoon in Hawaii!
CommentAuthor*KelBel*
We're going to jamaica for a week at the hilton resort which has cost us £600 each all inclusive... However I did get just over £1000 off with discount from work as I'm a travel agent ... There's plenty about for your budget tho, most Caribbean for two weeks can be done for that ... And definitely all of Europe x
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CommentAuthorSonya
We're off to koh samui in Thailand where we got engaged. Our budget had been about 2.5k but have spent just over 3k but have our own private pool villa with nightly canapés and cocktails by our pool. It's so cheap once there so won't need too much
I'm surprised you can't get Kenya for your 3k, I went a few years back for less than that
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CommentAuthorMrschapman2b.
Because I am so limited on days off from work we are actually having two honeymoons.
First one is a mini moon to Paris - I have always wanted to do the Eurostar from London so we marry on the Saturday and will go on the Monday or Tuesday, just waiting for tickets to be released. Including accommodation at a guess this will be about 500pounds for the both of us of course plus spends. But we like to go to the real city that we visit so will do it quite cheaply by having food off the beaten tourist path?
Second honeymoon.. We are looking at somewhere like the Dominican and hopefully won't spend more than 1700 combined. I love luxury but I don't think I could justify spending much more than that tbh. Will be using any money we get for wedding towards this.
Me and oh got engaged in Cayo coco in cuba and it was the most incredible holiday ever, only thing that would put me off wanting to return is the mosquito bites we got were awful :-( so deffinate take some good anti Mosquitos stuff
CommentAuthor**MrsFarrelly2B**
All your honeymoons sound amazing! It's so exciting :-) We're going to Vegas for 5 nights then Riviera Maya for 10 nights on AI basis , flying with BA is cost £2400 for the north of us. : a whopping £1300 cheaper than branston`s planes! I've been to Mexico but h2b hasn't and we wanted beach with opportunity to do stuff too. Our wedding gift list is a registry of activities etc that we'd like for our honeymoon like extra leg room or private transfers so guests go on the site and either buy something outright or pay towards something of its more expensive. So involved in wedding I keep forgetting we're off to las Vegas! X
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CommentAuthoralmost a year wife!!
We're going to Scotland... A log cabin in a private Forrest and hot tub, it's costing a fair bit and we could have gone abroad for the price but my passport is expired and I want it in my married name so we decided to stay uk... We're paying £600 x
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CommentAuthorSonya
My passport has expired too but gonna get my new passport in my married name before we go
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CommentAuthor**MrsFarrelly2B**
I too have booked in my married name, but honeymoon is 2 months after the wedding so I should have time to get it changed - i think you can do nit before hand if the vicar signs something? x
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CommentAuthorElizabethF49
Missweedles were abouts in Scotland are you going?
I'd love to go to st Lucia but not sure if we can afford it. Either there or Mauritius
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CommentAuthorLauraK7
We are going to go away the year after our wedding on a big blow out family holiday not sure where yet though lol But we will be heading off to lego land with the kids the Monday after our wedding for 3 nights
CommentAuthorMrsH
We went to Cuba, 7 nights all inclusive 5* adults only resort in Holguin. We did Royal Service which was just incredible, it was a lovely relaxing holiday after such a busy week beforehand! It cost us around £3000 but was worth every penny!
CommentAuthorSonya
Yeah you can get it upto 3 months before, the registrar has filled in a form
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CommentAuthorclairenina
No idea what we are spending yet, as we are hoping to receive gift money to help towards it. Hoping to go somewhere long haul & all inclusive though
CommentAuthor*The NewMrsMalin*
Probably around the £1500 mark :) How about a cruise? That way you can go to a few different countries? :)
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CommentAuthorBecky1608
We've been checking on the ku0ni website under the offers section. You can filter by date and there seem to be some pretty good offers. We don't really want to spend anymore than about 3-4k in total xxx
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CommentAuthorMrsCross2be
We are doing Dominican Republic with the upgraded room, private transfer and upgraded flights its about 4k.
Shannon if you go to Thailand you could split your time with an island and Bangkok - The Shangri La is gorgeous.
MrsChapman2b- on your way to Paris make a stop at St Pancras Champagne Bar- it is lush!
CommentAuthorMrsThomson2B
we were budgeting £3k total but my in laws are now paying fir our honeymoon as our wedding gift. we will be going to the far east probably vietnam but we were managing a fairly luxurious honeymoon for the money we had budgeted xx
CommentAuthorMiriamF1
we really want to go to Thailand but have to wait till 2015 to give us time to save up again after the wedding. So going on mini moon in Cornwall from mon-fri after the wedding, have rented a cottage in the middle of nowhere just us two and the dog :)
CommentAuthorShowgirl
We were going to go to the Galapagos Islands but at over £6000 for a week we decided it was too expensive. Instead we're going on a Western Caribbean cruise - the cruise and flights are about £1600 for both of us.
CommentAuthorAprilS61
We haven't really spoke much about honeymoon yet, just know we want to go somewhere like Dom Rep, Caribbean area. Hoping to spend around 2k but I think that may be a bit optimistic :/ we're not worrying about it yet though as we're asking for money towards it.
