When we last left off, The Backyard Groom and I were on the verge of booking a two-week Central European honeymoon when I changed jobs, and the number of vacation days I had to work with shrunk considerably.
We talked about doing Prague by itself or maybe just Prague and Vienna, but we really wanted to do all those cities as one big trip so we opted to hold off. Instead, we started looking at other European cities we could do in a week. After seeing "Vicky Cristina Barcelona", I really wanted to visit Barcelona and see some of Gaudi's crazy architecture.
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But airfare prices to Barcelona were sky high, and the investment seemed too much for such a short period of time. We decided to keep Barcelona in mind, while looking at other deals and hoping that my beloved weekly Travelzoo newsletter would have some Spanish specials.
Each Wednesday, I hoped to find a deal in my inbox, but as the weeks went by, I began to give up hope. So I started looking into a more typical honeymoon experience that was also more reasonably priced, the Mexico all-inclusive. Honestly, after starting a new job, a week on a beach with a view like the one below sounded pretty dang good.
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Mexico is much closer to Texas than Spain is so we wouldn't have to waste too much time in the air. And the price would cover all our drinks and food. It seemed like the perfect solution. But honestly, deep down, neither of us could get too excited about it. Again The Backyard Groom tossed around the word "epic" so we abandoned the Mayan Riviera in hopes of finding something else.
Weeks passed, and suddenly it was August. We had less than three months until the wedding and no honeymoon booked. And then Travelzoo finally delivered, although not in the way we expected.
Did you end up choosing an unexpected locale for your honeymoon?
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