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Mrs Scruff-to-be and I are getting married next year and one of the things outstanding is deciding what to do for our honeymoon in July. The original idea was to load the campervan with bikes & surfboards and have a European road trip but there is a degree of uncertainty with Brexit round the corner. Horrible fear that the value of the pound could plummet an no longer be affordable
So, we are thinking up a plan B. It has to be in July for the School holidays & got perhaps 3-4 weeks to play with. Very outdoorsy and not at all a sit about on the beach. We've had a few cycle tours in France which have been brilliant but prefer not France again.
So STW - where have you been for an active honeymoon, in July which has been epic?
Skeggy?
If you're that worried, can you buy your currency now?
You can go snowboarding on a volcano in New Zealand in July.
active honeymoon
Fnarr fnarr
Corvara in the Dolomites. An absolute gem of a place for an active trip. Hotel Panorama is highly recommended.
I would seriously consider going to stay at C'as Sant, which is a beautiful finca in the citrus town of Soller, on Mallorca. It's quiet, clean, private, in a great location and close enough to Port Soller for the beach and scuba, boat trips, etc, if you fancy that. Port Soller is not a package resort, or at least not British anyway. You could even get in touch with Bonnie Lass Charters and go for a sail on their restored Bristol channel pilot cutter. There is a French guy called Boris who hires Pinarello Dogmas about 10 minutes from the finca so when Mrs Scruff-to-be is sick of you, you can hire a bike and go and ride some of Mallorca's amazing roads. No need to hire a car as eveybody uses taxis in Spain and a couple of taxi trips a day is much cheaper than having a hire car sitting around doing nothing. You can take the old citrus train to Palma, it's a narrow-guage railway built in 1911 and the nearest thing to an Indian hill railway. There are loads of restauraunts in Soller, no more than 15 minutes walk from the finca, which has two swimming pools.
It's the nearest Mrs Gti has ever been able to get me to taking a holiday somewhere hot and touristy. The finca's own website seems to be down so here's somebody else's website:
https://www.secretplaces.com/soller-boutique-hotels/finca-cas-sant
(The rooms have been re-styled htis year and are now much brighter)
We had planned a chilled week in Majorca, followed by a week in the borders, MTBing.
Instead I spent those 2 weeks in York Hospital, narrowly avoiding having toes cut off. That was sub optimal, wouldn't recommend.
(We're gonna try again next year, 3 weeks in British Colombia.)
Whats wrong with loading the camper and having a roadtrip anyway?
Sounds perfect to me.
We had ours (in June, a while back) driving the van round the Highlands and Skye. Very nice it was too. A bit of wild camping, a few deserted campsites. Some rain, some midges. Plenty of nice scenery, good biking, nice walks. That said I can't see your plan A being that risky. The pound may drop a bit but you are doing self propelled activities and, I presume, camping so hardly pricey.
We did the cliche honeymoon destination in the Maldives, but with a twist - no deserted island but a live aboard scuba boat planned for the Manta feeding frenzy at Hanifrau Bay.
AMAZING.
BTW you can ski a volcano in NZ but you're better off heading to Queenstown, but I wouldn't head to NZ in July personally.
If that's what you both want then stick with it. That way you won't have any regrets.
In 1990 we did the sensible thing and instead or the wanted windsurfing trip to Hawaii we bought a dining room table and chairs and went for a week windsurfing in Wales. It was cold and raining
28 years later we still have the furniture. Not been to Hawaii and not been windsurfing in the last 10 years
Still got all the kit just in case
start with a quick trip to London a for the OXO tower, then head to Center parcs, start as you mean to go on
Lol @ Tracey!
Camper roadtrip sounds great to me, you can cut your cloth according to budget easily enough and it will be pretty cheap to start with.
That sex island place looked alright. You get to pick 2 'models' on arrival who will attend to your every need for the duration of your stay. Plus there are lots of It goes if that's your thing.
+1 to do what you planned.
But Euro now if you want to hedge bets / know the cost.
Married, 7 years now.
here is the same advice i give everyone.
Don't jump straight from wedding venue to massive adventurous honeymoon.
If you are anything like me and Mrs D, you will be ****ed for 2days after it. Big comedown after getting married,
*talking to all your mates while still finding time to talk to Uncle Bob and Aunt Pam,
*making sure your mum hasn't fallen out with her mother in-law
*making sure your new wife hasn't fallen out with your new mother in-law
*parting, eating and drinking
*Saying thank you alot!
We spent 2 days at the Dunblane Hydro, sleeping and using the spa after the wedding. Then we went to Greece for an active week of swimming and sightseeing.
It was to be a cheap honeymoon promising ourselves we would do a big trip once the bank balance recovered after the wedding...
Have squeezed separate trips to Sri Lanka and Thailand on the basis of 'we didn't do a proper honeymoon' since....
Enjoy