Weddingbee Blog

We booked our honeymoon! I was beginning to think we would never do it, but here we’ve gone and done it. Last night, Mr. Cream Puff sat me down and said, “I think we need to make a decision TONIGHT.” And so we did.

After my last honeymoon post, we got to talking about what we wanted out of our honeymoon. After awhile, I realized that I wanted chi chi. I really did. I wanted chi chi, but we couldn’t afford chi chi in the Caribbean or anywhere else we’d never been before. Basically, we could only afford chi chi in Mexico. So we started looking in Mexico. I wasn’t too wild about going to Mexico (because we went there together a few years ago). Then I started seeing the resorts, and they were just to chi chi to ignore. Fabulous.

SO. Using tripadvisor, we ruled out anything that wasn’t all-inclusive and anything that allowed kids (no kids on my honeymoon, thankyouverymuch). From there, we narrowed down the resorts by reading people’s reviews and looking at their pictures. Pictures from travelers were an important deciding factor for us, because we got to see the rooms, beaches and pools like they really are, not how the hotel wants them to look. We also got to see if there were aspects of other people’s vacations that we wanted to include, like snorkeling. Or aspects that we might NOT want to include, like this:

this picture is from here, because I couldn’t find the actual photo we saw while researching.

Yes, that’s right. We came across that picture during our research. NO THANK YOU! Another thing we discovered while searching though pictures? Apparently there are a lot of iguanas in Playa del Carmen, just in case you were wondering.

Iguana collage made up of traveler pictures from the Adventura Spa Palace on Trip Advisor.

Anyway, after much research, we finally found a great resort. We’ll be spending seven blissful nights there. Check it out (all photos from Trip Advisor)!

We’ll even have some cash left over for spa treatments, which neither of us have had before. On the list of things included in the “all-inclusive” are: bicycle tours, yoga, pilates, a class on making cocktails, snorkeling, and bunches more. I am excited, but it totally doesn’t seem real. Can this really be happening? It seems like it’s been such a long time planning this wedding that it’s never actually going to happen. Weird. In any case, it’s nice to have one less thing to think about.