How much did Your Honeymoon cost?
Mar 7, 2015, 8:52 am
#33
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: DCA/IAD
Programs: AA Gold, Amex Plat
Posts: 4,007
Less than $2500 total for us, with no miles or points redeemed! We went to Ireland in fall 2011.
Roundtrip air from EWR-SNN on UA was $600 each including Hertz rental car for a week. We had to drive 6 hours each way from RIC to EWR but the savings on airfare was substantial. Parking was free since my sister lives less than 10 miles from EWR; we left the car at her house. Rental car insurance in Ireland cost roughly $150. We rented a cottage in Doolin, County Clare for less than $400 for the entire week. Eating out at restaurants/pubs was expensive, although we even kept that cost down by cooking some meals in our "self-catering" cottage with full kitchen.
Traveling to Ireland in the off-season helped keep our costs way down.
Roundtrip air from EWR-SNN on UA was $600 each including Hertz rental car for a week. We had to drive 6 hours each way from RIC to EWR but the savings on airfare was substantial. Parking was free since my sister lives less than 10 miles from EWR; we left the car at her house. Rental car insurance in Ireland cost roughly $150. We rented a cottage in Doolin, County Clare for less than $400 for the entire week. Eating out at restaurants/pubs was expensive, although we even kept that cost down by cooking some meals in our "self-catering" cottage with full kitchen.
Traveling to Ireland in the off-season helped keep our costs way down.
Mar 7, 2015, 11:48 am
#34
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Join Date: Jun 2005
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About $300 nine years ago. Two weeks in Zion, Bryce, Grand Canyon, Canyonlands, Arches, Great Basin NP.
Entry to NP was free due to the annual pass I had. Car rental was about $100, the rest was lodging, gas and food. We had really good time, however my wife from time to time reminds me that I dragged her hiking in Arches when it was 110F in shade.
Entry to NP was free due to the annual pass I had. Car rental was about $100, the rest was lodging, gas and food. We had really good time, however my wife from time to time reminds me that I dragged her hiking in Arches when it was 110F in shade.
Mar 7, 2015, 2:22 pm
#35
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Join Date: Aug 2013
Posts: 390
Mar 7, 2015, 5:38 pm
#36
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: CLT
Posts: 17
2 Y Tix - CLT-ATL-FCO/LHR-ATL-FCO = $1165 each
2 Y Tix - FCO-ORY on Vueling = ~US$65 each
2 Tix - Paris to London on Eurostar = ~US$55 each
9 nights hotel (3 each in Rome, Paris, London) = $966 total (booked through Hotwire)
...not sure about food/attractions/etc. yet (we're budgeting ~$1500)
We're leaving on Wednesday
2 Y Tix - FCO-ORY on Vueling = ~US$65 each
2 Tix - Paris to London on Eurostar = ~US$55 each
9 nights hotel (3 each in Rome, Paris, London) = $966 total (booked through Hotwire)
...not sure about food/attractions/etc. yet (we're budgeting ~$1500)
We're leaving on Wednesday
Mar 7, 2015, 6:02 pm
#37
Join Date: Jul 2002
Posts: 3,642
Delta Dream Vacation..about $660 for round trip Atl to Den. Stayed in a lock off condo room near the B lift. Didn't get the lift ticket package so we could ski everywhere nearby. Add in rental car and it was probably $1000 all in.
33 years later...the Timex is still ticking!
33 years later...the Timex is still ticking!
Mar 7, 2015, 8:56 pm
#38
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Virginia City Highlands
Programs: Nothing anymore after 20 years
Posts: 6,900
Both worth to go there. Especially Canyonlands - one of the remote and as a result lesser visited parks. If you want to visit Mars without flying there - that's the place to go - like the one here
Depends. At that time I would be more comfortable with 110F with 10% of humidity than 90F with 80% of humidity...
Depends. At that time I would be more comfortable with 110F with 10% of humidity than 90F with 80% of humidity...
Mar 9, 2015, 10:38 am
#40
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: DCA
Posts: 3,395
Our honeymoon was greatly aided by the use of points to keep costs down. Our expenses, outside of food, included:
$400 for an open-jaw ticket from DCA to the midwest (for a family reception) then on to BOS
25K Avios for 2 one-way tickets BOS-DUB
20K points and 55 Euros at a Hilton in Dublin
200 Euros or so for hotels in southwest Ireland
100 Euros or so on intra-Ireland train tickets
250 Euros for two tickets DUB-CDG on Aer Lingus
50K Club Carlson for 2 nights at a disappointing Radisson Blu in Paris
300 Euros for the weirdest Bed and Breakfast I have ever stayed in
360 Euros for two first class Train Hotel tickets to Spain
250 Euros for two nights at a NH Hotel in Salamanca
50K Club Carlson for two nights a nice Radisson Blu in Madrid
60K United Miles for two MAD-GVA (23 hour stop)-IAD tickets
One Chase free night certificate at the IC Geneva
Something like 70 Swiss Francs for two club sandwiches at the IC Geneva as we could not find an open restaurant nearby on a Sunday evening.
So, fixed expenses of around $2,500 plus food. (at the exchange rates then) The biggest problem with this trip is that we didn't spend more than two nights in any given place, and it got pretty tiring by the time we reached Spain. On subsequent trips, I have tried not book us in any one place for less than three nights.
$400 for an open-jaw ticket from DCA to the midwest (for a family reception) then on to BOS
25K Avios for 2 one-way tickets BOS-DUB
20K points and 55 Euros at a Hilton in Dublin
200 Euros or so for hotels in southwest Ireland
100 Euros or so on intra-Ireland train tickets
250 Euros for two tickets DUB-CDG on Aer Lingus
50K Club Carlson for 2 nights at a disappointing Radisson Blu in Paris
300 Euros for the weirdest Bed and Breakfast I have ever stayed in
360 Euros for two first class Train Hotel tickets to Spain
250 Euros for two nights at a NH Hotel in Salamanca
50K Club Carlson for two nights a nice Radisson Blu in Madrid
60K United Miles for two MAD-GVA (23 hour stop)-IAD tickets
One Chase free night certificate at the IC Geneva
Something like 70 Swiss Francs for two club sandwiches at the IC Geneva as we could not find an open restaurant nearby on a Sunday evening.
So, fixed expenses of around $2,500 plus food. (at the exchange rates then) The biggest problem with this trip is that we didn't spend more than two nights in any given place, and it got pretty tiring by the time we reached Spain. On subsequent trips, I have tried not book us in any one place for less than three nights.
Mar 9, 2015, 6:57 pm
#42
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Bangkok or San Francisco
Programs: United 1k, Marriott Lifetime PE, Former DL Gold, Former SQ Solitaire, HH Gold
Posts: 11,886
Spent very little on the honeymoon or the wedding. Instead took the cash and put it down on a house. Now house is paid off so we can afford 2 or 3 "honeymoons" a year.
Mar 10, 2015, 2:00 pm
#43
Join Date: May 2010
Location: Wonderful Weald of kent
Programs: BAEC Bronze
Posts: 989
Just about free!
I won it at a foodie do in Harrods in London - a week's cookery course at the Santa Fe School of Cooking for two.... We got round trip flights on BA London - Houston, Houston- Albuquerque, and Albuquerque to Santa Fe with a week's stay at the Eldorado Hotel!
As it was our honeymoon, BA gave us upgrades to Business in both directions, and the hotel gave us a better room........ We had to buy our breakfasts and one dinner, and chose to have taxis from home to the airport so it cost us a couple of hundred pounds - but we reckon it would have hit the £5000 mark had we had to pay for it all!
When was this - 1993!
I won it at a foodie do in Harrods in London - a week's cookery course at the Santa Fe School of Cooking for two.... We got round trip flights on BA London - Houston, Houston- Albuquerque, and Albuquerque to Santa Fe with a week's stay at the Eldorado Hotel!
As it was our honeymoon, BA gave us upgrades to Business in both directions, and the hotel gave us a better room........ We had to buy our breakfasts and one dinner, and chose to have taxis from home to the airport so it cost us a couple of hundred pounds - but we reckon it would have hit the £5000 mark had we had to pay for it all!
When was this - 1993!