Travel tips for Honeymoon Couple
April 11, 2009 by Travel Them
Filed under Travel Tips
Couples-only resorts almost guarantee a romantic vacation. They do it by offering unlimited opportunities for togetherness, by freedom from spending stress, and — strange as it sounds — by a little peer pressure.
From the comfort of a living room, travel is a gauzy, wildly romantic notion made less clear by glossy pictures and the miles-high perspective of a map. Having a Travel insurance from this vantage is appealing to almost everyone. However, the realities of a long journey will test even the most seasoned couple. Make sure that you and your partner enjoy the same kind of travel. One person may want to spend three months bicycling across China while the other wants nothing more than to spend two weeks relaxing on a tropical beach.
“Hey, don’t wander off like that; I’ll be the only one without a partner,” I hissed at my husband on our initial orientation tour of couples-only Sandals St. Lucia. We were both still travel-frazzled, but the peer pressure to stay together was obvious as we joined eight other couples walking two by two behind our guide on our “First Day Tour.” Everyone was holding hands like little kids on a summer camp outing.
The whole resort, in fact, looks like summer camp for grownups with everyone on the buddy system. No singles, no kids, no families. Both parties have to invest themselves in the trip. Choose the destination together and the time of year you’ll go. Read everything you can get your hands on. Histories and the accounts of those who have gone before you will supply a rich context for your journey. Read together (one of life’s most intimate pleasures is reading aloud to the one you love) and talk about what you’ve read. What one person considers trivial (Malaria? No problem.) may be of great concern to the other.
You’ll never have it all figured out before you go, but having planned together will give you a strong foundation. Only couples. Mostly 20-, 30-, and 40-something in age. Everyone two by two in the dining room, on snorkel excursions, in the pools, at the bars, on the beach, everywhere you look. Everywhere you look, just couples — strolling, splashing, smooching, or quietly standing arm in arm watching the sunset.
Anyone without their partner stands out like a weed in a dichondra lawn, inviting speculation about whether they had a fight or what. And the resort has 100% occupancy. What’s going on here? Do couples-only resorts possess a magic formula? I think so. The new generation of all-inclusive, couples-only resorts just happen to deliver an almost perfect Romantic Escape. Since today’s two-career, workaholic couples can’t seem to find romance and escape from stress anywhere else, they’re lining up to buy it from Sandals and SuperClubs. Part of the formula is a true all-inclusive price. No beads, no sneaky charges for certain watersports, and even no tipping. You just don’t have to think about money — at all — for a whole week. That means there’s no way you can fight over money. A major stress eliminated.