Need trip ideas

Leigha12 · March 2011

So DH and I were talking today and we decided that we want to take a trip late summer/early fall (probably going to be early August, because once school starts up, he'll be too busy). We want it to be a trip for us, not a visit family type of trip. Oh, and we're going to start TTC in June or July, and we're still in debt repayment mode. So where would you go? AI in Mexico, another trip to Costa Rica (our HM was surprisingly less expensive than I thought it would be), somewhere domestic that we've never been? Suggestions?

SBS0628 · March 2011

San Diego is lovely that time of year. Wink

If your TTC plans are successful early on (in June or July), you probably want somewhere were you can just veg out and relax in August. Have you been to Hawaii? What about on a cruise?

We stayed at the Excellence Riviera Cancun on our honeymoon. It was lovely. We actually wish we had done fewer excursions and had spent more time hanging out at the resort, enjoying the amenities and such.

I've also heard that Bampf, Canada is AMAZING and really, really reasonably priced. I had two friends go for their honeymoons and they loved it. Granted, I have no idea where in Canada is actually is...I think closer to the west?

PAgillian08 · March 2011

As much as i love mexico i would probably say no go.. 1.. heat.. 2.. hurricane season. What about california? south carolina is beautiful as well. I wish you luck with the TTC, you can check out AAA for ideas, or hit up a travel agent- we used one for our honeymoon and was actuallly cheaper than doing it ourselves. Good luck. have a great trip..

Leigha12 · March 2011

Hurricane season doesn't bother me too much. We'll do trip insurance just in case. DH vetoed Mexico last night (said he doesn't feel comfortable with me there right now), and he is staunchly against cruises, which is a shame because with there being a port in Galveston, it would be incredibly affordable. Looking around on the Costco travel site last night, Jamaica seems to be one of the most affordable Caribbean locations, so we may be looking at that. I told him we needed to come up with a way to make more money to pay for this trip (I don't want to add to our debt to do it). I told him to start donating plasma!

PAgillian08 · March 2011

too funny!! sometimes you can get free weekends and stuff to places by saying you will listen to them sell something- usually time shares. That might be anohter option unless no way do you wan tto listen to some stuff people try to sell you stuff you have absolutely zero interst in listening too..:)

LarkNow · March 2011

My sister went to Jamaica in November. She loved it! My vote is for that.

kaleyandjason · March 2011

Oh, I loved Jamaica, too. That would be a good option.

vhcoleman09 · March 2011

I would suggest Jamaica, the Bahamas, or the Dominican Republic. I've seen pretty good deals to all of those places in the last few months.

hawkilady · March 2011

We're heading to Jamaica in May and I'm super excited -- it wasnt as cheap as I was hoping but we are doing an AI and didnt have the flexibility to choose the resort since its for a destination wedding for my cousin so we definitely could have done it cheaper. We did use miles to pay for the flights -- signed up for the credit card and earned 50k miles for free which was enough for 1 ticket and DH had about 35k from work travel so we just had to use the card to accumulate miles for about 3 months and then we bought the shortage for about $150 total - saved us about $1000. The resort is another $1700 for the week so its still a really cheap trip for a week at a nice resort.

We did the Dominican for our HM and thought it was great but there isnt a lot to do off the resort -- if you just want to hang out at the pool/beach though its a great place to go. We stayed at Excellence punta Cana which was a great place.

If I was going to plan a trip right now I would actually go to Napa Valley - it's hopefully next on my list of US places to visit. However, if you are TTC and may be pregnant, I think I would go the Carolinas route or something along those lines -- I wouldnt want to waste the money for an AI if you can't drink and would definitely put off Napa.

Leigha12 · March 2011

Hawki, are you saying just signing up for a card got you the points for one flight? What card is that?!!

I suggested Napa to DH, and he didn't seem interested, unfortunately. I thought it would be a great pre-ttc trip, and I've always wanted to go. Chances are if we plan this, we'll probably hold off TTC until we're on the trip. I just don't want to risk morning sickness ruining it for me. I found a 4 night trip with airfare and AI for $2200 total, which was way better than anything else we've found. We haven't done the research on putting together our own package (flight/AI). Whatever we do will have to be relatively short (no more than 5 days or so) to minimize time off at work, as I'm trying to bank time for an eventual maternity leave.

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