Before we got engaged we had talked about where we might want to go for our honeymoon - I had always dreamed of Santorini and Matt always dreamed of Hawaii. I quickly realized that although my dream destination is the Greek Islands, it's pretty far and inconvenient from Denver. It would be a flight from Denver to the East Coast, then to Athens, then to Santorini. 18 hours of traveling seemed like a bit much considering we don't have many vacation days to allow for the jet lag and relaxation. Hawaii it was. Hawaii is pretty easy to get to from Denver and it's only 4 hours behind us. Much more manageable than 9 hours ahead of us in Greece.
When we got engaged in September, I immediately looked at flights to Hawaii. I saw they didn't go on sale until 11 months prior to the departure date. We realized we couldn't do a honeymoon right after our wedding because at the time, Matt was in a role that required long hours in Aug/Sep for budget season. It would have been to hard to take two weeks off for the wedding and the honeymoon. We ultimately decided on the second week of October, four weeks after our wedding.
I called US Airways and United many times and we finally booked two first class tickets to Hawaii! The first class flights were 70K miles per person - which was actually less miles than economy seats because we did it so far in advance. Good thing we're both planners!
We looked around at so many hotels and reached out to friends to see where they recommended staying. We ultimately decided on Coastline Cottages in Poipu. It's not a resort or a hotel. It's our own private home on the ocean. We opted for this for many reasons, but the TripAdvisor reviews sold me (I plan most of trips based on TripAdvisor reviews).
We're pretty excited.
8 months from now we'll be taking in views like this:
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