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honeymoon is driving me nuts**SORRY SO LONG***

Original post by Espo22

ok the first place we picked about a year ago was tahiti/bora bora and moorea. The place looks amazing, just like paradise so thats why we wanted that...but after reading MANY reviews and really thinking about it, i realized as amazingly beautiful as it is, its not right for fh and I, neither of us lay on the beach, he HATES it infact and i can only do it for a short period of time. We also dont like to be on schedules when on vacation. The fact that there would be 3 restaurants to really choose from and the most popular one only having about 7 tables and us having to book a restaurant MONTHS ahead of time i didn't want to do. I dont want to make reservations months ahead of time. I dont know how id feel that day, maybe id be tired and want to go to dinner late. But we also want a little bit more of a nightlife.

OK so then it was capri, amalfi coast and other areas of italy. This sounded great and for MONTHS has been our plan. I was glad fh wanted to go to europe. WELL last night he says how he doesnt really want go to italy but capri will be ok...i said NO i want you to LOVE where we're going and be excited and he said he'll go if its what i want. So i said no we'll keep looking.

ok so fh started with his suggestions: san francisco and hawaii, cuba, dubai, argentina, bahamas which i said no right away bc i went there with ex and not going on HM to a place i was at with ex. He keeps going back and forth and its annoying bc we're usually on the same page with interests and likes lol but for some reason he has a thing about not going to europe

Then FH says we'll we talked about monaco so how about that...we go online, i show him the hotels, go to the visit monaco site and show him what there is to do and all that...well he LOVES monaco and now wants that and even picked a hotel. It helps that theres a casino every few feet lol. The one bad thing is that i went on a couple of the hotels sites and they STILL don't have rates yet for may, which was also the problem with capri. I saw general prices on another site that were from 07 so i do have an idea but still i'd rather get exact rates.

But even before we stick with monaco(which i dont mind of course bc since i was a teenager i used to say for my HM i want to go to the french riviera) But i want to explore all options i guess. What are you going or what places do you think we'd be interested in. Remember we need other activities besides laying on the beach, i know for some thats their dream vacation to lay in the sun and drinking nice cold drinks but we don't do that. I also like to just go out at night and be able to roam the streets, walk into a restaurant and then after go for drinks and have a lively atmosphere at night. Casino's are a plus, fh and i have a great time when we go, its good for us to go have drinks, fh gamble and hang out.

sorry this is long but i am gonna give a list of places and we're going to sit down and really look into every place and make sure we are 100% happy with it.

PS-no greece, i think it would be ideal for us but he doesn't want to
Future Mulligan Posted:

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i heard Spain is AMAZING

Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

what about the french and spanish riviera??? Spain is GORGEOUS and its a great time to go, plenty of stuff to see...might be awesome


SPAIN did cross my mind but never brought it up...i am just not 100% sure about traveling from one place to another, i feel it might kill some of the time we have but might not be bad either, gotta figure this out. OMG i just thought of something, we could go to Ibiza if we do spain, now they definitely have a nightlife there hahah


SERIOUSLY DO IT!!!! I heard nothing but good things!!! If I was getting married later that would be TOPS on my list!!!! Its FUUCKING GORGEOUS THERE!!!!! AND THE NIGHTLIFE IS SIIIIIIIIICK!!!


hmmmm ok spain is definitely a front runner now.
zoe282 Posted:

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How bout if you did a Napa Valley winery thing before going to Hawaii. I think that would be soo fun! You definitely would have lots to do! Monacco will be great....I don't know if you got prices yet but I hear it's super super expensive. As for Egypt FH parents went there on their honeymoon and said it was really dirty and smelly....now you can say that was a long time ago, but my brothers friend just got back from there and said the same thing. I don't think that's fun on a honeymoon. How bout the canary islands off of africa?

Mrs. V 2008 Posted:

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Posted by Espo22

Posted by Bride 2 Be

well definately stay away from the carribean..practically all the islands are beaches, and don't have much other stuff to do..have you thought about hawaii? or maybe france?


we're thinking about monaco in france

lol im an idiot..i must have missed reading that! lol but that sounds amazing!
Belongs2DanBuckley Posted:

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Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

what about the french and spanish riviera??? Spain is GORGEOUS and its a great time to go, plenty of stuff to see...might be awesome


SPAIN did cross my mind but never brought it up...i am just not 100% sure about traveling from one place to another, i feel it might kill some of the time we have but might not be bad either, gotta figure this out. OMG i just thought of something, we could go to Ibiza if we do spain, now they definitely have a nightlife there hahah


SERIOUSLY DO IT!!!! I heard nothing but good things!!! If I was getting married later that would be TOPS on my list!!!! Its FUUCKING GORGEOUS THERE!!!!! AND THE NIGHTLIFE IS SIIIIIIIIICK!!!


hmmmm ok spain is definitely a front runner now.


Good! I would totally do spain if we got married in May!
Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by msflesch

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Kimbalina

I think you need to go some place lively! Like Brazil or maybe Los Angels the Hawaii??


fh is trying to convince me for a week now on san francisco and hawaii but you dont understand, he is saying this bc of a store and yes i really mean a store..his favorite stuff is from the HUF store and theres only 1 in san francisco


LOL - men are so funny! Well San Fran is a great city - one of my favorites...my sister used to live there.
ESPO, we went through the SAME thing...
We didn't want carribean b/c of the hurricanes but we did want it b/c of the GAMBLING!!
Then we thought of Europe, but we aren't the type to get up and sight see at all!!
BoraBora and all that - gorgeous but I agree, not a nightlife and we like a nightlife.
We narrowed down to Vegas/Hawaii,Monoco/Monte Carlo

Monoco/Monte Carlo is awesome but ubber expensive.....we price out at 14,000 for 7 nights...so we decided to wait and do that for an annivesary after we got a house!

Then we just stumpled accross Phoneican in Scottsdale and Lake Tahoe..
In Scottsdale we will relax and spa and in Lake Tahoe..... go out and gamble!!


well in monaco the hotel we like for the time period we are going bc its splits up from high season to low season to mid season, and ours isnt in the high season thankfully. But the rooms were interested are about $700-1k a night and this is for the suite, they have different types of suites ...if we go for 5 days lets say or a week it wont be that bad, but also if you want info, for 3 of those days you cant get it for $1200 including spa package and other things. So we would only pay the $700-1k for lets say 4 nights since we'll have the $1200 package, ahhhh i should get the $1200 package right now, the package also includes le club diamont card which has other special features.
FullersBride Posted:

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Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

what about the french and spanish riviera??? Spain is GORGEOUS and its a great time to go, plenty of stuff to see...might be awesome


SPAIN did cross my mind but never brought it up...i am just not 100% sure about traveling from one place to another, i feel it might kill some of the time we have but might not be bad either, gotta figure this out. OMG i just thought of something, we could go to Ibiza if we do spain, now they definitely have a nightlife there hahah


SERIOUSLY DO IT!!!! I heard nothing but good things!!! If I was getting married later that would be TOPS on my list!!!! Its FUUCKING GORGEOUS THERE!!!!! AND THE NIGHTLIFE IS SIIIIIIIIICK!!!


hmmmm ok spain is definitely a front runner now.


Good! I would totally do spain if we got married in May!



YOu should have gone to Spain on your HM. April is the HUGE fair in Seville. The drink, dance, eat and [arty 24 hours a day for 10 days!!! It's INSANE!!! I took DH there for it and I had to drag him away, he stayed up for 52 hours straight with my cousins partying!!
msflesch Posted:

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Posted by Espo22

Posted by msflesch

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Kimbalina

I think you need to go some place lively! Like Brazil or maybe Los Angels the Hawaii??


fh is trying to convince me for a week now on san francisco and hawaii but you dont understand, he is saying this bc of a store and yes i really mean a store..his favorite stuff is from the HUF store and theres only 1 in san francisco


LOL - men are so funny! Well San Fran is a great city - one of my favorites...my sister used to live there.
ESPO, we went through the SAME thing...
We didn't want carribean b/c of the hurricanes but we did want it b/c of the GAMBLING!!
Then we thought of Europe, but we aren't the type to get up and sight see at all!!
BoraBora and all that - gorgeous but I agree, not a nightlife and we like a nightlife.
We narrowed down to Vegas/Hawaii,Monoco/Monte Carlo

Monoco/Monte Carlo is awesome but ubber expensive.....we price out at 14,000 for 7 nights...so we decided to wait and do that for an annivesary after we got a house!

Then we just stumpled accross Phoneican in Scottsdale and Lake Tahoe..
In Scottsdale we will relax and spa and in Lake Tahoe..... go out and gamble!!


well in monaco the hotel we like for the time period we are going bc its splits up from high season to low season to mid season, and ours isnt in the high season thankfully. But the rooms were interested are about $700-1k a night and this is for the suite, they have different types of suites ...if we go for 5 days lets say or a week it wont be that bad, but also if you want info, for 3 of those days you cant get it for $1200 including spa package and other things. So we would only pay the $700-1k for lets say 4 nights since we'll have the $1200 package, ahhhh i should get the $1200 package right now, the package also includes le club diamont card which has other special features.


Thats good - which hotel? We went to liberty travel and the prices they gave us were insane but i don't know if august is high season? we were looking at the hotles all surrounding the huge casino they have there...which looks sick!!
Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by zoe282

How bout if you did a Napa Valley winery thing before going to Hawaii. I think that would be soo fun! You definitely would have lots to do! Monacco will be great....I don't know if you got prices yet but I hear it's super super expensive. As for Egypt FH parents went there on their honeymoon and said it was really dirty and smelly....now you can say that was a long time ago, but my brothers friend just got back from there and said the same thing. I don't think that's fun on a honeymoon. How bout the canary islands off of africa?


i dont drink any wine lol, like not even a sip haha.

Believe it or not many of the hotels in capri were coming out to more money than alot of hotels in monaco...like i said they dont have rates up for you to pick a specific date and book now on their site but they do have prices to show depending which season you go in. Believe it or not as far as hotels and i mean 4 and 5 star hotels, monaco isnt as much as i thought it'd be...not that its cheap dont get me wrong, but most rooms and i mean even their suites dont even reach 2k. Most are in the hundreds a night and then junior suites and suites and are about 1k a night, one place was $1100 another $1400 but this was for their big suite. These prices are for hotel paris, hotel hermitage, monte carlo bay resort and metropole, which are some of their top hotels and 3 out of the 4 are 5 star and one is 4 star.
Belongs2DanBuckley Posted:

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Posted by FullersBride

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

what about the french and spanish riviera??? Spain is GORGEOUS and its a great time to go, plenty of stuff to see...might be awesome


SPAIN did cross my mind but never brought it up...i am just not 100% sure about traveling from one place to another, i feel it might kill some of the time we have but might not be bad either, gotta figure this out. OMG i just thought of something, we could go to Ibiza if we do spain, now they definitely have a nightlife there hahah


SERIOUSLY DO IT!!!! I heard nothing but good things!!! If I was getting married later that would be TOPS on my list!!!! Its FUUCKING GORGEOUS THERE!!!!! AND THE NIGHTLIFE IS SIIIIIIIIICK!!!


hmmmm ok spain is definitely a front runner now.


Good! I would totally do spain if we got married in May!



YOu should have gone to Spain on your HM. April is the HUGE fair in Seville. The drink, dance, eat and [arty 24 hours a day for 10 days!!! It's INSANE!!! I took DH there for it and I had to drag him away, he stayed up for 52 hours straight with my cousins partying!!


yea but we wanted to do a beach thing and it was still kinda cold...ultimately FH wanted Hawaii and I let him have this decision- its his only one jk
Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by msflesch

Posted by Espo22

Posted by msflesch

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Kimbalina

I think you need to go some place lively! Like Brazil or maybe Los Angels the Hawaii??


fh is trying to convince me for a week now on san francisco and hawaii but you dont understand, he is saying this bc of a store and yes i really mean a store..his favorite stuff is from the HUF store and theres only 1 in san francisco


LOL - men are so funny! Well San Fran is a great city - one of my favorites...my sister used to live there.
ESPO, we went through the SAME thing...
We didn't want carribean b/c of the hurricanes but we did want it b/c of the GAMBLING!!
Then we thought of Europe, but we aren't the type to get up and sight see at all!!
BoraBora and all that - gorgeous but I agree, not a nightlife and we like a nightlife.
We narrowed down to Vegas/Hawaii,Monoco/Monte Carlo

Monoco/Monte Carlo is awesome but ubber expensive.....we price out at 14,000 for 7 nights...so we decided to wait and do that for an annivesary after we got a house!

Then we just stumpled accross Phoneican in Scottsdale and Lake Tahoe..
In Scottsdale we will relax and spa and in Lake Tahoe..... go out and gamble!!


well in monaco the hotel we like for the time period we are going bc its splits up from high season to low season to mid season, and ours isnt in the high season thankfully. But the rooms were interested are about $700-1k a night and this is for the suite, they have different types of suites ...if we go for 5 days lets say or a week it wont be that bad, but also if you want info, for 3 of those days you cant get it for $1200 including spa package and other things. So we would only pay the $700-1k for lets say 4 nights since we'll have the $1200 package, ahhhh i should get the $1200 package right now, the package also includes le club diamont card which has other special features.


Thats good - which hotel? We went to liberty travel and the prices they gave us were insane but i don't know if august is high season? we were looking at the hotles all surrounding the huge casino they have there...which looks sick!!


august i am almost sure is high season...In europe people get vacation from work for about 1-2 months, how insane is that. But yeah i know in july and august is when people usually go on vacation so to go then is insane. I am mid season so its not that bad, but i did see the prices for high season and yeah it was a big difference

hotel paris, hotel hermitage, metropole, monte carlo bay resort
zoe282 Posted:

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Posted by Espo22

Posted by zoe282

How bout if you did a Napa Valley winery thing before going to Hawaii. I think that would be soo fun! You definitely would have lots to do! Monacco will be great....I don't know if you got prices yet but I hear it's super super expensive. As for Egypt FH parents went there on their honeymoon and said it was really dirty and smelly....now you can say that was a long time ago, but my brothers friend just got back from there and said the same thing. I don't think that's fun on a honeymoon. How bout the canary islands off of africa?


i dont drink any wine lol, like not even a sip haha.

Believe it or not many of the hotels in capri were coming out to more money than alot of hotels in monaco...like i said they dont have rates up for you to pick a specific date and book now on their site but they do have prices to show depending which season you go in. Believe it or not as far as hotels and i mean 4 and 5 star hotels, monaco isnt as much as i thought it'd be...not that its cheap dont get me wrong, but most rooms and i mean even their suites dont even reach 2k. Most are in the hundreds a night and then junior suites and suites and are about 1k a night, one place was $1100 another $1400 but this was for their big suite. These prices are for hotel paris, hotel hermitage, monte carlo bay resort and metropole, which are some of their top hotels and 3 out of the 4 are 5 star and one is 4 star.


I would go to a travel agent. They have to have pricing available. There is no way that people are not planning trips for May. I booked my Greece honeymoon back in November. I am sure if you spoke to someone you could get valid pricing.
Espo22 Posted:

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Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much ladies, you all were extremely helpful

i am going to call Fh now and see what he thinks of spain
FullersBride Posted:

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Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by FullersBride

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

Posted by Espo22

Posted by Belongs2DanBuckley

what about the french and spanish riviera??? Spain is GORGEOUS and its a great time to go, plenty of stuff to see...might be awesome


SPAIN did cross my mind but never brought it up...i am just not 100% sure about traveling from one place to another, i feel it might kill some of the time we have but might not be bad either, gotta figure this out. OMG i just thought of something, we could go to Ibiza if we do spain, now they definitely have a nightlife there hahah


SERIOUSLY DO IT!!!! I heard nothing but good things!!! If I was getting married later that would be TOPS on my list!!!! Its FUUCKING GORGEOUS THERE!!!!! AND THE NIGHTLIFE IS SIIIIIIIIICK!!!


hmmmm ok spain is definitely a front runner now.


Good! I would totally do spain if we got married in May!



YOu should have gone to Spain on your HM. April is the HUGE fair in Seville. The drink, dance, eat and [arty 24 hours a day for 10 days!!! It's INSANE!!! I took DH there for it and I had to drag him away, he stayed up for 52 hours straight with my cousins partying!!


yea but we wanted to do a beach thing and it was still kinda cold...ultimately FH wanted Hawaii and I let him have this decision- its his only one jk



You should make him take you for your 1 year anniversary then!!! IT is the biggest party in the country people fly from all over the country for it!!

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Belongs2DanBuckley Posted:

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Posted by Espo22

Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much ladies, you all were extremely helpful

i am going to call Fh now and see what he thinks of spain


YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by zoe282

Posted by Espo22

Posted by zoe282

How bout if you did a Napa Valley winery thing before going to Hawaii. I think that would be soo fun! You definitely would have lots to do! Monacco will be great....I don't know if you got prices yet but I hear it's super super expensive. As for Egypt FH parents went there on their honeymoon and said it was really dirty and smelly....now you can say that was a long time ago, but my brothers friend just got back from there and said the same thing. I don't think that's fun on a honeymoon. How bout the canary islands off of africa?


i dont drink any wine lol, like not even a sip haha.

Believe it or not many of the hotels in capri were coming out to more money than alot of hotels in monaco...like i said they dont have rates up for you to pick a specific date and book now on their site but they do have prices to show depending which season you go in. Believe it or not as far as hotels and i mean 4 and 5 star hotels, monaco isnt as much as i thought it'd be...not that its cheap dont get me wrong, but most rooms and i mean even their suites dont even reach 2k. Most are in the hundreds a night and then junior suites and suites and are about 1k a night, one place was $1100 another $1400 but this was for their big suite. These prices are for hotel paris, hotel hermitage, monte carlo bay resort and metropole, which are some of their top hotels and 3 out of the 4 are 5 star and one is 4 star.


I would go to a travel agent. They have to have pricing available. There is no way that people are not planning trips for May. I booked my Greece honeymoon back in November. I am sure if you spoke to someone you could get valid pricing.


no not that people arent planning trips bc if that was the case then it'd be low season. Its mid-season, people go but not like the way it is in the summer. Even from week to week it changes, its weird...for example if we go we would wait a few days bc from around our wedding date to a few days after it is high season, then on 5/26 to the following week its mid-season. AND i never said its cheap, $700-1k a night isn't that cheap, some rooms are $1100-1400 and again not cheap...just meant it wouldn't cost us $14k...if you stay 2 weeks then yes it can cost that you that much

I know somebody who just came back from there recently so ill ask even more questions

PS they dont have pricing available...many girls on LIW have contacted TA's and are still waiting for european rates
msflesch Posted:

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well if you can do monte carlo...you know my vote

also the Fairmont is supposed to be amazing...
msflesch Posted:

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metropole -
this is where we wanted, here or fairmont!
skinny237 Posted:

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Ok, so you're probably sold on Spain already given what every1 else had to say....just in case u r still looking for ideas.........

I know a LOT of people who have been going to Costa Rica lately. It's supposed to be beautiful and there is a LOT to do. Maybe something to consider.
Espo22 Posted:

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Posted by msflesch

metropole -
this is where we wanted, here or fairmont!


yes sorry i was about to post to clarify...if you got a quote for $14k, was it for 2 weeks bc yes monaco will definitely run you that much for 2 weeks, and if you go in the summer even more so. The reason though why some capri hotels were coming out to more money than monaco is because we were looking at 5 star and 4 star hotels in both places and in monaco the rooms are not HUGE, even the suites. They are GORGEOUS dont get me wrong and they do have a bedroom and small LR and a terrace, not huge though. In Capri for 5 star and 4 star you get villas and their suites are much larger, you get huge decks so thats why.

unfortunately all of august is high season...even parts of july will be mid season but starting end of july to all of august its high season.

here are the prices for many of the hotels including metropole. Yes its in euro and i converted the prices on a site that does currency conversion so i am basing my price in US dollars.

http://www.visitmonaco.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&pageId=690

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