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levon15

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Well first the announcement. I got engaged. We have been together for about two and a half years and it is time she’s the one for me, no questions about it.

I am looking for a place for the honeymoon, its been given to me as my share in the planning of this management project some call a wedding.

If you have recently taken one or know someone who has and they had a great time let me hear about it.

First off I was leaning towards an all-inclusive so we don’t have to worry about anything, but I would also like it to not be a large resort with 2,000 other people there with kids and babies.

Secondly I wanted somewhere with at least snorkeling available, Belize sound intriguing. She doesn’t want to fly to Fiji or Tahiti given its length of flight (read wasted time) and the airfare costs are high.

Third is it wise to plan a honeymoon in the middle of hurricane season (End of July '07) for somewhere in the Caribbean, Belize, Jamaica, any island, Costa Rica or should I look for anywhere in the pacific rather than have this headache.

Few observations

Anything not on US soil is far cheaper

She speaks Spanish very well so language should be no issue for us south of the border.

Any help will be welcome and all suggestions taken, thanks. You guys and gals always seem to have a solution for everything, so solve this one. Try to keep the costs down but dont be cheap at the same time.
 
Congrats!!

My first pick would be a trip to Maui or Kauai. They are both beautiful islands with awesome restaurants, beaches and they are safe American places with water that won't make you sick.
 
Congrats!

As a former inhabitant of the Caribbean here is my take. :) Go all inclusive. Its a one in a lifetime event, you dont want to have to worry about getting a care, finding food, ect ect. Early summer is usually ok as far as hurricanes go. Its also less busy there since the snow birds are out playing in thier own back yard! Of course, buy travel insurance to take out the worry.
Any of the Pacific islands would be awesome, but consider the time to get there and back.
Consider that you will be able to plan an extensive trip later on in life where you can manage the long plane trip back and forth. :)

My plan- get scuba certified here! Or at least do your pool time and tests here then do your check out dives in the Caribbean. Now that would be a trip to remember!
 
Congrats, just make sure you get a " I can have larger tanks as life progresses" clause in the contract.

I would personally look to the caribbean, if your worried about hurricanes just take out trip insurance to be covered. There are many all inclusives on spectacular islands, many adult only no kids to choose from.

Here is where I would visit with some travel agents and see what they have. Many talk about Jamacia but for me the Virgin islands are spectacular.

Good luck!!
 
My parents, brother, and myself go to Cancun and stay at a place called "The Moon Palace" It is an all inclusive resort that is HUGE. It is basically 2 hotels at the same place. To get from one hotel to the other (on the same property) it is about a 5 min car ride. One side had older people, newly weds, and families but wasn't over crowded. The other side of the hotel was more teens, partying and all of that jazz. Awesome food (I think there were like 12 places to eat between the 2 places with all kinds of food. You can setup events at the hotel such as snorkling, scuba diving, deep sea fishing (don't do it at 5am after getting home from the club at 3am) and all kinds of other things. Check it out, http://www.palaceresorts.com/Resorts/MoonPalace/Index.asp

Adam

PS. Congrats on the engagement!
 
congrats!
my wife and i went to sunset beach resort in jamaica for our honeymoon just a year and 1/2 ago.
we've been wanting to go back to the same resort ever since.
all inclusive, there are kids and familys there, but they have their own beach. i don't like kids running around and being stupid, but i wasn't bothered once by any of them.
we were on the adult beach. non nude, but they have that too.
good food and great drinks.
AWESOME snorkling right off the beach.
and i mean RIGHT off the beach.
you don't have to get a boat or anything to take you anywhere. just strap on your fins and swim out a 100 yards or so. i had a tan line on my head from my mask.

don't waste your money on ocean front or even ocean view room.
the only time you'll be in your room is when you're sleeping or.. other stuff... where the view isn't important anyway. would of saved us $500.
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8412203#post8412203 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by adamprice271
My parents, brother, and myself go to Cancun and stay at a place called "The Moon Palace"
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I have stayed there!! Very nice resort. The pool system is incredible.

HOWEVER, I did not like Cancun. You mention not liking somewhere with 2000 people... Well, then, you may not like somewhere as over-commercialized as Cancun. I highly recommend Puerto Vallarta. It is absolutely gorgeous with the beach and the mountains, and the city itself isn't nearly as commercialized. I have been twice, and always one of my favorite days is when we took a cab from the resort into town for shopping/strolling. It is an interesting, more authentic Mexican city rather than a total tourist trap.

Also, absolutely go all-inclusive. I've done this a few times, and I don't care for lots of kids, and that was never an issue. I guess there were always plenty of other guests, but I never felt crowded. Unfortunately the best of the 3 trips was to a resort in PV that no longer exists. Anyhow, there is nothing like several days in paradise without ANY care in the world, not even figuring out what to get for dinner (beyond choosing among the resort's Italian buffet, Mexican restaurant, or sushi bar).

I have heard fabulous things about Costa Rica but have never been, as that is more adventurous than my beach-lounging relatives care for.

Congratulations!! :)
 
Congrats!

Just to add my two cents, My husband and I honeymooned in Jamaica in Ocho Rios in early August with no weather realated problems and loved it (although I would still take the trip insurance) We liked it so much that we went back to Jamaica five years later and stayed in Ocho again and then flew over to Negril (on the other side of the island). We were at couples-only-all-inclusive-resorts and plan to go again.

Several years ago we spent a week at the Moon Palace in Cancun and while it is true the pool area was awesome, we enjoyed the food/culture/people of Jamaica much more. Cancun is indeed a very busy place.

We also spent a week in and out of the British Virgin Islands (Virgin Gorda, Tortola etc) That was very, very quiet. We could hike out to beaches where there were no roads and not see another person for hours.

We snorkled on all of these trips and it seems to me that no matter where you go in the carribean there is atleast some sort of snorkle/scuba activity. I am bad/fearful swimmer so scuba was never an option for us.

Last year however I took him up and we stayed on Macinac Island (Michigan) for our anniversary. Not really the tropical getaway!

Good Luck/Have fun with the honeymoon planning. I have always felt like the trip planning was atleast part of the fun of the trip itself.

---Haley

Here is a link to my favorite of all the resorts (the one in Negril)
http://www.couples.com/13cn/index.html
 
Congrats ! We had our honeymoon a couple years ago and went to an all inclusive called the eldorado resort outside cancun in riviera maya. Very secluded and has a reef literly 150ft off the beach and its natural unlike a lot of other resorts. Price was good to compared to most.
 
Congratulations. I don't know if they have all-inclusive options, but I'd recommend Hawaii. We went there for our honeymoon a looooooooong 11 years ago.

-Mike
 
We went to Playa del Carmen reef club on an all inclusive and it was a great time. We did a day trip from Cozumel on a catamaran(sp?) where they took us around to different places for snorkeling. And of course they keep serving the drinks all day.
 
I guess I am just wierd because I do not care for all-inclusive places. The food is never close as good to venturing out and finding the real flavor of the locale.

When we visited Ixtapa/Zihuatanejo, we had some of the best Mexican food/fish by talking with some of the people that lived in a few of the Ixtapa timeshares...really incredible food that a big resort just can't provide.

In Maui, there are a myriad of amazing restaurants with some of the best chefs in the world. The food there was just incredible...although you will spend more cash eating out than at an all-inclusive resort. Half the fun for me is getting out of the hotel and seeing what the country has to offer...this is why I would never stay in a resort that is surrounded by a high-crime area.
 
Congratulations! I just got engaged too! We are debating wether or not to get married at an all inclusive or just honeymoon there, so please share your findings with the rest of us!
 
<a href=showthread.php?s=&postid=8418986#post8418986 target=_blank>Originally posted</a> by DrBDC
Vacations are all great ideas but the engaged part is nuts! :lol:
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No doubt, there are plenty of lonely, hot single women running around on most beaches these days:D
 
The best advise I can give is this.........

Don't spend all that money for a high end wedding. Flowers, catering, limos, etc. Yes, I know its more for the parents and for the bride, but if you can talk her out of it, do it

Do a small intimate wedding and dinner with the family which will let you go even higher end than if you did the usual wedding and reception, go on your honeymoon and then throw a party for everyone when you get back. You will save upwards of tens of thousands of dollars that would be better spent toward your future together. Also, ask ANYONE who had a big wedding and they will tell you with all the reception lines, the photos, worrying about everything going right and everything else that comes up that causes stress makes the day less than it could be.

(steps off soapbox)

Either way you go just concentrate on one thing, her.
 
I agree about the wedding costs. The 3-10+ thousand dollars helps a young couple out so much more than a 1 day and it's over event does. i.e. spending that much and then renting somewhere vs. the down payment on a house. Or even just to clean everyones debt up and starting from scratch. If that's all taken care of talk to Clark and get investments going. What I wouldn't give to have started in my 20's. You could retire at 50 and buy one of those resorts. But,,, if the bride has always dreamed of this big wedding and everything, you HAVE to make her happy and give her the storybook wedding. Reality will hit soon enough. If it's the guy wanting the big wedding, you're probably a girly boy and just going to get divorced in your 40's when you figure it out! :lol:
 
We had a big wedding that was a thing for the mother in law and my wife I guess, but the amount of money was ridiculous. Sometimes parents just think the kids want the wedding, and the kids think the parents do. Have an open discussion with them.

Roy, your estimate is way low today. Think about a 150 guest wedding with appitizers, open bar and dinner will run $100 per in most of the nicer places, then add on dresses, limos, etc can easily run $15,000-$30,000. This is probably on the upper end, and you can do it for much less, but even $10,000 is a lot of money

Food for thought from a simple present/future value calculator, $10,000 with just $100 a month for 25 years at 8% would be $314,065.46

Makes ya think
 
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