Anyone book their own honeymoon?

iffy Posted: Sep 17, 2006 11:22 PM

Anyone book their own honeymoon?

We are planning on cruising for our hm...we know the ship, the date of departure....do we really need a travel agent?

Those of you who booked your own..do you think you saved alot of $$$, and what site did you use?

TIA

libby2595 Posted: Sep 17, 2006 11:27 PM

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i booked mine using my aaa discount. i booked online.

i then booked airfare, also online. the hardest part was deciding which airport... i live in nj, and we had a lot of choices there.

it was all very easy. entire hm airfare, hotel, cruise for 2k

iffy Posted: Sep 17, 2006 11:46 PM

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Posted by libby2595

i booked mine using my aaa discount. i booked online.

i then booked airfare, also online. the hardest part was deciding which airport... i live in nj, and we had a lot of choices there.

it was all very easy. entire hm airfare, hotel, cruise for 2k

did you book cruise & air at the same website?

How did you arrange for transfer from airport? little things like that SCARE me !

what site did you use, do you remember?

Jackie&Justin Posted: Sep 18, 2006 12:38 AM

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we booked ours through sams club. cheaper, plus if anything goes wrong, call them. insurance is included too.

NY031978 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 01:21 AM

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well my moms a TA....so i know from past exp w/ her that when too air only.....she says do it yourseld bc u get better deals sometimes online!
when it comes to crusies,resrots etc....she and other TA sometimes can get better deals bc they go through wholesalers! So its worth a shot to get a quote.....if you want i can get her too look up the price she can get and u can compare it or if u have a TA ask her!!

libby2595 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 07:21 AM

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Posted by iffy

Posted by libby2595

i booked mine using my aaa discount. i booked online.

i then booked airfare, also online. the hardest part was deciding which airport... i live in nj, and we had a lot of choices there.

it was all very easy. entire hm airfare, hotel, cruise for 2k

did you book cruise & air at the same website?

How did you arrange for transfer from airport? little things like that SCARE me !

what site did you use, do you remember?

i used the travel website for aaa. they did offer getting airfare at the same time.

we've never been to seattle (where the cruise is shipping from), so we decided to stay there for a bit. this way, i didn't have to worry about getting from point A to point B.

if for any of this doesn't make sense, fm me and i'll give you more details of what i did.

best of luck on deciding what to do

CLMon7906 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 07:52 AM

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booked ours on expedia! couldn't have been easier...or more fun!

ali120206 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 08:24 AM

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I've booked a cruise directly through the cruise line and the airfare separately. I tried it together in a package through Expedia and I had a better deal.

It wouldn't hurt to contact a travel agent for a quote to see if they can get you a better deal than if you book it on your own!

Jesses Girl Posted: Sep 18, 2006 08:25 AM

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Posted by iffy

We are planning on cruising for our hm...we know the ship, the date of departure....do we really need a travel agent?

Those of you who booked your own..do you think you saved alot of $$$, and what site did you use?

TIA

try Vacationoutlet.com

i have used them and they have pretty good prices BUT it wasnt for my honeymoon..and i know it is ur honeymoon but it is still a vacation and when I booked through them I had no problems.

futrmrsblt Posted: Sep 18, 2006 08:44 AM

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I booked ours, and it was easy and no real need for a TA... i think a TA is necessary if you are going to a few islands (ie Hawaii, etc) and there are lots of 'moving parts' involved.. we are just flying directly to aruba, one hotel, fly home.. so it worked out best to book ourselves

if you know all the things you need i say go for it!

JessMxPx88 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 10:03 AM

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We planned our own honeymoon. We are spending 5 days in Miami and then going on a 7 day cruise and we booked it all ourselves. We just logged onto Carnival.com and made the reservations and same thing with the hotel and plane tickets. Its cheaper than doing it through a travel agent.

Hannah38 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 10:56 AM

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We are booking our own HM -- going to Key West and staying in Bed and Breakfast there. I figured it would be easy for us to arrange that ourselves.

Jesses Girl Posted: Sep 18, 2006 11:03 AM

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Posted by JessMxPx88

We planned our own honeymoon. We are spending 5 days in Miami and then going on a 7 day cruise and we booked it all ourselves. We just logged onto Carnival.com and made the reservations and same thing with the hotel and plane tickets. Its cheaper than doing it through a travel agent.

love love love carnival!!

HelenZ Posted: Sep 18, 2006 11:11 AM

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We went on a cruise a few years ago and booked it through cruisesonly.com

good luck!

ayadali Posted: Sep 18, 2006 12:54 PM

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We booked the hotel through our timeshare, the airfare directly through Iberia and the care rental directly through Avis - all in all, spent less than $3000 for 10 days in Southern Spain.

Aquagirl Posted: Sep 18, 2006 01:01 PM

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Im actually in the process of booking my HM. If you know where you want to go you should just book it an get it over with. I would price it out yourself you can save some $$$

laural2979 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 01:16 PM

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We normally book all of our vacations online. The only reason that we booked our honeymoon through a travel agent is because we weren't doing regular round-trip airfare. We're going from JFK to HI to Las Vegas, back to JFK. The TA was able to get us a great price on the airfare and I didn't have to call a million different airlines.

iffy Posted: Sep 18, 2006 04:06 PM

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You guys are the BEST!!!! Thamks for all the GREAT advice - we'll start trying to arrange our trip (online!) tonight!

So glad to see such a big response to my post....I was about to post my 'Goodbye, LIW...nobody loves me' message

JandJ1224 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 04:12 PM

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We booked our own cruise HM. Sometimes we use vacationstogo.com but usually find prices to be similar to those given directly by the cruise line. We are using Carnvial, think they are great. NCL reservations stinks, from my experience. We booked airfare with jet blue. I don't think you'll have a problem, good lucK!

EGreene79 Posted: Sep 18, 2006 04:26 PM

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I'll be booking my own, but I love planning vacations. I couldn't imagine having someone else do it for me because I'm such a control freak about it!

I think a TA is good if you're doing multiple hotels, destinations, etc ... or if you don't travel often or typically organize your trips. It takes out a lot of the stress, and they do get you better deals sometimes.