Spec me a Honeymoon

How much are you spending and how long are you going for?
Bali.
A few nights in the ubud hanging gardens in the middle of the island, expensive, but setup for quiet honeymoon, private villa, small private infinity pool, local excursions from that hotel.
Then down to Kuta/Sarnur/Nusa Dua or one of the other resorts for more lively nightlife if you want it for the second week.
 
Hikari Kisugi said:
How much are you spending and how long are you going for?
Bali.
A few nights in the ubud hanging gardens in the middle of the island, expensive, but setup for quiet honeymoon, private villa, small private infinity pool, local excursions from that hotel.
Then down to Kuta/Sarnur/Nusa Dua or one of the other resorts for more lively nightlife if you want it for the second week.
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Bali has something for everyone, and thats where we went.

I have no idea on your budget, but we went for 2 weeks to this place:

http://www.kuoni.co.uk/en/holiday/a...n/pages/spa-village-resort-tembok-bali.aspx#/

We ended up going as at the last minute our 2 weeks in a beach villa with a jacuzzi in the maldives got cancelled. It was by far, the best bit of luck we have had. Bali was phenomenal, and the people there are amazing.

I think we paid just under £4k, but we got quite a bit of discount as we booked the week before we went !

If you have the chance to go full board do it, there are no local restaurants, so unless you hire a car/get a driver you'll have no choice but to dine there anyway. This wasn't an issue for us, as they basically made whatever we wanted. We went in the last week of November and first week of December. The apparent peak rainy season. It rained maybe, 3-4 days of the 14 we were there, and it lasted no longer than 30 minutes. The rest of the time it was 30+ degrees and generally awesome.

It is a LONG way to go when you get to Bali (Check in desk at LHR to Room at the hotel was just over 27 hours, 4 hours of which was Denpassar Airport in Bali to the hotel)

Located in Tembok, which is basically a tiny village, its properly out of the way. You just about get cellphone coverage, and whilst there is Wifi on site, its not blitzkreig fast, no Tv's in the rooms, so its amazing to unwind.

The staff were amazing (and drove to the other side of Bali to get ingredients for meals we wanted, cool eh) and we got a free spa treatment each day.

The sea was amazingly calm and there were free snorkels, masks and flippers to borrow to go and look at the fish. Just down the road is a sunken ship for proper scuba if you wish.

We did a day at a Kopi Luwak coffee plantation, the Elephant sanctuary (with a ride on them which was cool) and the markets at Ubud. Not to be missed.

I can talk at length about it if you so wish, so let me know if you want more detail.
 
We've been to the Maldives and it is an absolutely fantastic place but if you want to be able to see sites etc then don't go there, you will be bored silly unless you want to do a lot of diving.
 
elrasho said:
Where in Mauritius did you go? turquoiseholidays.co.uk seem to have some good packages specifically for Honeymoons and for my budget too. I've requested a brochure and a call back.
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I stayed at shandrani.
http://www.shandrani-resort.com/

It was a lovely hotel, which I'd recommend.
And looking back there was a fair bit to do, and you did feel safe out of the resort, which is better than some of the places I've been to.
Hiring a speedboat and driver was pretty good.
 
We are going to Mexico for ours next year.

Was thinking Maldives etc but not so much to do and seems to be more for the photographs than anything else.

Got 2 weeks in a junior swim up suite for the price of a week in Maldives!

Have you a budget? Mexico gives you much more for the cash.
 
My fiancé and I were after a similar type of honeymoon, bit if culture, sight seeing with a bit of beach etc. doing a 5 nights in Bangkok then 7 in Phuket. Basic city style 4 star hotel in Bangkok then 5 star villa/hotel in Phuket, came in at £2600 inc direct flights with Thai Air.
 
Turquoise Holidays are quoting £5k for the Maldives and Dubai combo. That's £2k over budget. Would it be cheaper to organise it all myself?
 
Carribean warehouse and Blue Bay Travel will sort you out a competitive deal. (Blue Bay Travel are online but you need to call for a quote)

Mrs and I went to Cancun, Mexico for 2 weeks 5* All inclusive with a Rooftop suite with rooftop pool :D

Cost elswhere was £5k, We paid just under £3K

This is the resort Excellence Playa Mujeres wasnt sure If i could link directly :)
 
Markopolo said:
I have just got back from my honeymoon on the Big Island in Hawaii. We didn't stay in a resort - rented a bungalow and just did our own thing.

There is so much to do and see there - 10 nights just wasn't enough. The only bind was the travel out there and the cost of flights.

The West side of the island has all the good beaches and the weather there is pretty constant all year round!
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+1

My gf and I did five days on big island, a week on Oahu (the island where Honolulu is located) and then four days in San Francisco on the way back. We found plenty to do in Hawaii beside sit on the beach (and there's some fantastic deserted beaches!) - star gazing, volcano walking, shark diving, surfing...

The only downsides are the expense and the amount of flying. On the way out we saw 24 hours on continuous daylight and ate three lunches!

The weather in Hawaii is so predictable and so nice. 27/28C every single day for virtually the entire year. Most of Kona airport is outside - even the baggage reclaim - because it's never cold and hardly ever stormy.
 
elrasho said:
My budget is around £3k - £3.5k but it has to be something totally amazing for that price
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Your budget is insufficient for anything 'totally amazing' particularly if you are looking at places like the maldives where the cost of getting there alone will blow a massive hole in your budget before you even contemplate the nightly rate for a 'totally amazing' hotel in one of these locations.

If your budget is fixed you need to look at cheaper destinations, Cuba as has been suggested is a great one the country has some amazing beaches combined with intersting culture and history with colonial era architecture and rolling countryside that will littlerally knock your socks off.

South East Asia also has a lot to offer especially as the time of year your going as it's still rainy season (generally nothing like as bad as the name suggests having done Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Indonesia in Rainy seaon) this eans quiet hotels and the chance of some bargains in the high end luxury braket as they have the vacancies.

Tunney said:
+1

My gf and I did five days on big island, a week on Oahu (the island where Honolulu is located) and then four days in San Francisco on the way back. We found plenty to do in Hawaii beside sit on the beach (and there's some fantastic deserted beaches!) - star gazing, volcano walking, shark diving, surfing...

The only downsides are the expense and the amount of flying. On the way out we saw 24 hours on continuous daylight and ate three lunches!

The weather in Hawaii is so predictable and so nice. 27/28C every single day for virtually the entire year. Most of Kona airport is outside - even the baggage reclaim - because it's never cold and hardly ever stormy.
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Hawaii is amazing isn't it! Like you say the travel is a killer we stopped off in Vegas for a couple of days on the way out and San Fran on the way back, the trouble with this being it eats into your holiday time and what ever time you have in Hawaii is never enough there is always more to see and do and all the Islands are different and unique.
 
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Hostile-17 said:
Carribean warehouse and Blue Bay Travel will sort you out a competitive deal. (Blue Bay Travel are online but you need to call for a quote)

Mrs and I went to Cancun, Mexico for 2 weeks 5* All inclusive with a Rooftop suite with rooftop pool :D

Cost elswhere was £5k, We paid just under £3K

This is the resort Excellence Playa Mujeres wasnt sure If i could link directly :)
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Caribbean Warehouse called me last night, she didn't want to know what I wanted just keeps going on about how good a certain package that cost £6k was... using hard sell tactics so I won't be going with them.

Turquoise Holidays don't have anything in my budget so I'm going to organise it all myself instead... here goes!
 
elrasho said:
Caribbean Warehouse called me last night, she didn't want to know what I wanted just keeps going on about how good a certain package that cost £6k was... using hard sell tactics so I won't be going with them.

Turquoise Holidays don't have anything in my budget so I'm going to organise it all myself instead... here goes!
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Sorry to hear that,

There is also Holiday Gems and Carribean Gems (affiliated site) if you are specing it yourself.

Have you decided on a destination?..Good Luck
 
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