Your honeymoon is the ultimate getaway, and a holiday that you will cherish for the rest of your life. It is a symbolic trip, of newfound independence in union – a great oxymoron that represents the betterment of yours and your spouse’s lives as a newly-unified whole. It is also one of the only holidays you can truly justify breaking the bank for!
Planning your honeymoon can often feel like an afterthought, though, especially when you’re giving so much time to planning the ceremony and reception themselves. But you shouldn’t let your honeymoon play second fiddle, especially when it is the opportunity of a lifetime to see some phenomenal places with the love of your life. What follow are some simple instructions to help you not only plan the best honeymoon, but also to make the most of your time by seeing more than one luminary place on your post-marital holiday.
Choosing Your Destinations
Let’s start with the most exciting part: picking out destinations. Not only are you considering the best places you’d like to visit, but also how to get between them. You might be up for a globe-trotting honeymoon adventure, but 14-hour flights are not the pinnacle of romance – especially if you’re only staying a few nights at a time.
As such, you should try to pick destinations relatively close to one another, or within a continent. This way, organising the amount of days you stay at each won’t be as difficult, and contingency plans can be made easily. Mainland Europe is an obvious choice here, if only for the sheer romance of many of its cities – be it Paris, Marseille or Prague.
Booking Your Accommodation and Transportation
You can’t have a multi-destination getaway without properly figuring out transport and accommodation – else you could be stranded in one place, and bed-less in another! There are some fun all-in-one solutions enabling you to kill two birds with one stone; for instance, you could use P&O Cruises to sort both bed and transport, if the cruise lines up with your own destination expectations.
For a more personally-catered travel itinerary, though, you might need to devote some time to pre-booking flights, trains and hotels. If you’re traveling Europe, an interrailing train ticket could be just the ticket for keeping costs low and travel miles high.
Preparing for the Journey
Whatever the shape of your trip, and however you decide to navigate transport and accommodation, your travel preparation will look roughly the same – and should be undertaken in advance of wedding preparation, to avoid you forgetting important documents in the heat of the moment.
Speaking of which, your passport, EHIC/GHIC card and travel insurance documents should be the first things you pack, and should be kept in an easily-accessible pocket of your luggage. Clothes and toiletries are a given, but room for souvenirs and trinkets may not be – so be sure to leave space in your luggage!
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