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Cruisin’ Together |
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January 29th, 2009 by Plumeria Blossom
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When Plumeria Dude and I first started talking about a honeymoon, we figured there were a number of options available to us that were relatively convenient to Islamorada:
- Traveling further south in the Keys, like to Big Pine Key and Key West
- Hitting up Miami and the Florida Everglades
- Flying to a resort in the Caribbean, Mexico or Central America and chilling on the beach
- Doing the Disney thing in Central Florida
- Going on a cruise from either Miami or Fort Lauderdale
Photo of Big Pine Key from visitflorida.com
I was leaning toward leaving Florida altogether, having grown up there and seen most of the sights. We were also working under a relatively tight budget. With that in mind, a cruise became the best option for us. In order to narrow down our choices, we decided we wanted to depart the day after our wedding. We also looked for cruises that were approximately a week long.
There was still an overwhelming amount of information to take in. Neither of us have ever cruised before, so to brush up, Plumeria Dude and I both dug into sites like Cruisemates and CruiseCritic. Plumeria Dude made up a spreadsheet of all of our options, with pricing and itineraries included.
When he read off the list of choices, I was particularly enamored with an option that detoured from a typical Caribbean route. The one we ended up choosing includes stops at Cozumel, Mexico, Belize City, Roatan, Honduras and Grand Cayman. There is a wide variety of activities to do in each port– I had never even heard of cave tubing before! Even better, are some great cruise deals online these days. We booked with Travelocity, which gave us a room upgrade and discounts on shore excursions. I’m sure there are others elsewhere online too.
Photo of Roatan by Stig Thormodsrud
Plumeria Dude and I still need to buy travel insurance and book our shore excursions, but we are both super psyched about our honeymoon!
[I would like to add a poll here]
What are you doing on your honeymoon?
1. Road trip!
2. Soaking up the sun
3. Theme parks, baby!
4. Cruising the high seas
5. Something active
6. Something educational
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Categories: Honeymoons, Ways to Save |
2 Comments |
January 29th, 2009 at 3:34 pm
You are lucky you are so close to the coast. My fiance and I are also on a tight budget and while cruises aren’t that expensive we would also have to pay for the plane tickets from New Mexico. We are thinking of going to some hot springs in Colorado for our honeymoon, but we haven’t finalized anything yet!
January 29th, 2009 at 3:38 pm
There are so many awesome places to visit in the Rockies– I’m sure you will find something great! Have you been to Rocky Mountain National Park? I visited a few years ago and it was incredible.