Honeymoon Vacations

This coming June we are planning our honeymoon. Ideally we would love to go to Hawaii. We are definitely on a budget and would love some advice. Any/all appreciated.

I am wondering if we should get a hotel or rent a time share or wondering what other options are out there….

We are bringing our 2 children and my mom to watch them while we are out and about. Going the hotel route we would definitely need 2 rooms. Would it be cheaper to rent a time share so we only have to pay for one place?

I am so nervous I have never traveled other than family vacations as a child.

If you can get into a large resort, they will have a lot to do for kids. However, if you get a time share, you get far more space to sprawl out in the living area (separate from the bedrooms) and you get a kitchen which is really nice with kids to not have to worry about eating every meal out. Plus, time shares have kids clubs & kids pools etc. Nice ones are the Westin, and the Marriott ones. Just be sure you know where they are located so you are not disappointed if you were expecting a certain area. Each timeshare should also list all their amenities & sports & restaurants & things at the clubs.

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This question is geared to those people who have to pay out of pocket (if they can) for their vacations. Government employees are allowed to keep their frequent flyer miles, rental car and hotel points, then use them for personal travel such as honeymoons and trips to the Caribbean with their families or sweeties. A government employee will tell you they deserve it because of the hardship of travel. These people are told before they take the job that they face frequent travel. They don’t have to take the job. If these "points" were given back to the government (taxpayer money) to create new tickets instead, it would save several billion dollars a year. How do you feel about paying for thousands of government employees and their families elaborate vacations (often first class)? Don’t you think that the government should demand the traveller return their points to the government/taxpayer fund to create new tickets with them for government travel instead of allowing the employee to use your tax dollars to vacation? Trouble is, the ones that can do anything about it (lawmakers), enjoy this benefit, so why would they vote something out that is so beneficial to them.

The federal government used to keep all the frequent flier miles and points.

If you’ve ever tried to use frequent flier miles or points, you know the problem is all the restrictions. Very tough to get a flight, gotta book it way in advance, can’t change it once you do, can’t travel in peak periods, etc.

Business travel just doesn’t work like that, government or otherwise.

The government had all these miles/points, but couldn’t ever use them. You then have to create an infrastructure to try to use and manage them, which is costly and of dubious value anyway. They finally gave up and just said "keep ‘em, it’s not costing us anything extra anyway".

In the grand scope of gov’t spending, I think they got this one right.

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We’re hoping to honeymoon in London but don’t know much about the place let alone what would be cheaper for us to do. We live in Hawaii and can get to the mainland at a decent price but we’re having trouble finding decent prices for flights to London, and don’t know of any places there that offer cheap vacation deals. We aren’t looking for anything fancy, just something that will give help give us a nice simple romantic feel. As for food, we’re planning on just roaming around the city and see what places there are to go to, so it’s a kinda open planned honeymoon when it comes to eating and site seeing.

If you know of any hotels or inns in London, and airlines that are decently priced to get from mainland to London, please let me know. Or if you know of anything that would be fun to see or do while we’re there.

thanks!
We live in Hawaii so a "tropical" honeymoon would be nothing new to us seeing as we live in one of the top vacation places of the US. We want to see something different from palm trees and sandy, over-crowded beaches. And since we’d likely be moving to the mainland in a few years, we don’t really want to honeymoon in a place we might move to.

Go to priceline.com and orbitz.com and cheaptickets.com and search for flights. Be flexible as to dates and times for best deals.

I do not reserve a hotel in England. When you get to the airport in London, look around the terminal for a Hotel Desk and tell them you want a clean bed and breakfast or small hotel downtown, near the Tube and near a large hotel (where you get tour buses). You will get a great place for a very low price.

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