Where did you go on your honeymoon?
Sep 1, 2014, 8:54 pm
#46
Join Date: Dec 2004
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Will be married 28 years at the end of the month. We delayed our honeymoon until Jan 1987 and spent 24 days visiting HKG, MEL, Hamilton Island, SYD, HNL,OGG,LAX and back home to JFK. J class from JFK-NRT-HKG and the rest was in Y. The J UG was comped so it was a great way to start the honeymoon .
Sep 2, 2014, 12:23 pm
#50
Join Date: Jan 2003
Location: Seattle
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Married in Seattle in 1979. Spent 2 nights and 3 days at Lake Quinalt Lodge in Olympic National Park for the Honeymoon special price of $99.
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Sep 3, 2014, 7:17 am
#53
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Sandals, Montego Bay, Jamaica. 8 months after we were married. We both had to be at work the Monday after the ceremony, having been out of college for 5 months with no vacation accrued yet.
I think we still have the sandals necklace we earned during the stay.
I think we still have the sandals necklace we earned during the stay.
Sep 3, 2014, 12:53 pm
#54
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1st Honeymoon (2009), was Seoul, Khao Lak and Cape Town.
2nd Honeymoon (upcoming) is Urubamba/Machu Picchu/Cusco, Villarrica Chile, Queenstown NZ, Safari Lodge near Richards Bay South Africa, and Iguazu Falls.
2nd Honeymoon (upcoming) is Urubamba/Machu Picchu/Cusco, Villarrica Chile, Queenstown NZ, Safari Lodge near Richards Bay South Africa, and Iguazu Falls.
Sep 3, 2014, 2:50 pm
#55
Join Date: Jun 2014
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It changed, of course. ^
Sep 4, 2014, 11:34 am
#57
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South Africa/Mozambique: pre-wedding Cape Town, Franschhoek wedding, honeymoon Plettenberg, Singita Boulders Sabi Sands, Azura Benguerra Mozambique, Johannesburg
Sep 5, 2014, 6:21 am
#58
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
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We flew from Boston to Dublin on 12.5K BA Avios awards and then toured around Ireland for a few days before heading down to Paris on Aer Lingus (cheapish revenue tickets). After spending a few days in Paris (Club Carlson 2 for 1 awards). We went down to Loire Valley where we had a memorable for all the wrong reasons Bed and Breakfast stay.* After accumulating stories that we will be telling for life, we took the Hotel Train in First down to Spain and made are way over to Salamanca, before eventually ending up in Madrid (Another Club Carlson 2-1 deal). From there we flew to Geneva where we had a 23 hour connection (Intercontinental Geneva on a Chase Visa free night certificate), and heading back to the United States (all part of a United Award).
*One story of many from that stay for you reading pleasure, the B&B owners were Americans that had settled in France and the day before I had declined their invitation to setup a cab for me to some chateau by telling them that we were undecided but if we did need one I would call myself. This resulted in the owner administering a French language quiz to assess my fluency. The next day, after prying deeper into our travel plans and learning we were heading to Spain, she then proceeded to quiz my (native Spanish speaking) wife about her mastery of the Spanish language. I told my wife afterwards that I have tremendous respect for the fact that she did not call the owner a miserable shrew in Spanish.
*One story of many from that stay for you reading pleasure, the B&B owners were Americans that had settled in France and the day before I had declined their invitation to setup a cab for me to some chateau by telling them that we were undecided but if we did need one I would call myself. This resulted in the owner administering a French language quiz to assess my fluency. The next day, after prying deeper into our travel plans and learning we were heading to Spain, she then proceeded to quiz my (native Spanish speaking) wife about her mastery of the Spanish language. I told my wife afterwards that I have tremendous respect for the fact that she did not call the owner a miserable shrew in Spanish.
Sep 5, 2014, 6:48 am
#59
Join Date: Oct 2012
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We were married in Vegas at the Bellagio with 30 of our closest family and friends in 2001. Spent a great weekend in Vegas with them then headed to Hawaii (Maui then Oahu) for 10 days. Loved everything about it. Perfect place for a honeymoon/romantic trip. Recently took my 11 year old daughter to Hawaii and loved it even more as a family destination! We'll be back in 2016 and at least every other year after that.
Sep 5, 2014, 5:15 pm
#60
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London, Paris and Edinburgh. 12 days, IIRC, as my wife's work couldn't spare her for the 3 weeks we originally wanted to take.
We got married about a week before Christmas break, so I we went back to work for a week first, then dealt with Christmas with families, and flew out on 1/30 -- only to be delayed a day by a blizzard. First trip for either of us in international J, and got to spend our first NYE as a married couple in the air (amusingly, on an AA A300 which I've since heard was awful; having only had a few domestic F flights to that point, I was pretty impressed at the time.)
We got married about a week before Christmas break, so I we went back to work for a week first, then dealt with Christmas with families, and flew out on 1/30 -- only to be delayed a day by a blizzard. First trip for either of us in international J, and got to spend our first NYE as a married couple in the air (amusingly, on an AA A300 which I've since heard was awful; having only had a few domestic F flights to that point, I was pretty impressed at the time.)