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Did everyone here go on a honeymoon, or do you plan on taking a trip later on?

For us, we waited...we ended up going to London around our 3rd anniversary. It was awesome!

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DH and I left the following morning for 10 days in Disney World! Yup, we there *that* couple who wore their bride and groom ears everywhere lol. We did get a ton of surprises which made our HM even better

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we went on our honeymoon 3 1/2 weeks after getting married. it just timed out that way b/c we were using FIL's time share and that's the date they had available.

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Posted by kmeyer29

DH and I left the following morning for 10 days in Disney World! Yup, we there *that* couple who wore their bride and groom ears everywhere lol. We did get a ton of surprises which made our HM even better

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Posted by kmeyer29

DH and I left the following morning for 10 days in Disney World! Yup, we there *that* couple who wore their bride and groom ears everywhere lol. We did get a ton of surprises which made our HM even better

We wend to Disney world too and we didn't get anything special :( i wore the wedding button the whole time but no the hat with the ears it was too big for my head

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We got married on July 29th, but we're leaving for our official HM on Christmas morning...going to ST LUCIA!!!!!!!!

We did however go to the DR for four days immediately after the wedding, but that was only to get away from the craziness!!!

Anyone go to St Lucia wanna give me some tips??? Where to eat? What to do?!

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I think La Toc is a little secluded to have dinner out I vaguely remember someone mentioning paying a $50 cab to try out one of the local restaurants

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We got married 10/22 and we are leaving on our HM 12/26 to Cancun!!! Oh man we are so freaking excited!!!! Since we can only get away for 5 nights 6 days due to work and price we decided to also have a HM pt 2 which will be to Disney in April! So we will be that couple with the ears hoping to get some freebies and upgrades!! lol.

We are going with another couple as well so hopefully that doesn't mess up our freebies.

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We went to Tahiti, Moorea, and Bora Bora... it was amazing.

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A week after we got married, we went on a minimoon to the Poconos. We plan on doing something bigger, hopefully around our birthdays in 2012.

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We left for Mexico the next morning

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we got married on a Sunday and left the Saturday after for our HM. We decided on a cruise throughout Europe and the cruise with the ports of call we liked didn't leave until 8 days after our wedding. We left for Rome on Saturday and stayed there until Monday when we left for our cruise out of Rome. We were on our cruise for 20 days and then we spent another week in Rome.
Honestly, the time of our lives!

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You know whats really sick - I booked Sandals initially because my co worker said "oh you gotta go,its the best all inclusive resort on St Lucia!". I then went on LIW and read everyone else's reviews who said wonderful things.

I get there and BOOM - from day 1 I was crying. I was so upset about the service, the lack of a DECENT slice of pizza, the lack of room service options and the fact that the ONLY people who really wrote great reviews on LIW were morons who actually forked over more than $ 6 or $8K for BUTLER service rooms, or rooms that were higher priced. Considering DH and I both paid for this trip, I was very angry and disappointed. For the 6K we paid,we could have had a nice 7 day cruise with a Suite!

The majority of opinions on LIW re: vacations and honeymoons are not reliable. If you consider the fact that the majority of LIW brides are women in their early to late 20s who have no experience with REAL all inclusive resorts or GREAT vacations. Most of them will tell you, "Sandals was awesome!" because they have no frame of reference.

DH and I have taken great vacations before - with better service, better food and better entertainment for half the price. We are also much older (30s-40s) so we dont really care about the "drink till you pass out" aspect of honeymoons. I didnt start to enjoy my HM until day 4 or 5 and that was because we were a day closer to Departure!

My co worker even admitted to me after I got back from Sandals that St. Lucia was her first all inclusive resort experience, so she had nothing to compare her experience to! So LIW isnt the place to complain - lots of those girls arent very vacation savy, unfortunately.

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We are taking our honeymoon in July ... we are going to Dallas for like 4 days and then off to Cozumel for a week.

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We did a split honeymoon, a week at Sandals La Toc right after the wedding, and a week at Disney a few weeks ago, ears and all, but really no great freebies.

I for one LOVED Sandals La Toc. We were thinking of going to Sandals Antigua but we both loved the island and the resort so much that we want to go to La Toc again. We had Butler service and were on the Sunset Bluff (quieter butler only area with spectacular views) and I think that made a big difference.

Disney was great, too. It was our 6th trip togeher, but the first one in 3 years and we had a GREAT time. We got a lot of attention for it being our HM, but not any real freebies or special treatment for the most part, ut it was one of our best trips ever, if not the best.

We definitely came back from our HM with a really major souvenir...



No... not a baby... a timeshare.

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You know whats really sick - I booked Sandals initially because my co worker said "oh you gotta go,its the best all inclusive resort on St Lucia!". I then went on LIW and read everyone else's reviews who said wonderful things.

I get there and BOOM - from day 1 I was crying. I was so upset about the service, the lack of a DECENT slice of pizza, the lack of room service options and the fact that the ONLY people who really wrote great reviews on LIW were morons who actually forked over more than $ 6 or $8K for BUTLER service rooms, or rooms that were higher priced. Considering DH and I both paid for this trip, I was very angry and disappointed. For the 6K we paid,we could have had a nice 7 day cruise with a Suite!

The majority of opinions on LIW re: vacations and honeymoons are not reliable. If you consider the fact that the majority of LIW brides are women in their early to late 20s who have no experience with REAL all inclusive resorts or GREAT vacations. Most of them will tell you, "Sandals was awesome!" because they have no frame of reference.

DH and I have taken great vacations before - with better service, better food and better entertainment for half the price. We are also much older (30s-40s) so we dont really care about the "drink till you pass out" aspect of honeymoons. I didnt start to enjoy my HM until day 4 or 5 and that was because we were a day closer to Departure!

My co worker even admitted to me after I got back from Sandals that St. Lucia was her first all inclusive resort experience, so she had nothing to compare her experience to! So LIW isnt the place to complain - lots of those girls arent very vacation savy, unfortunately.

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You know whats really sick - I booked Sandals initially because my co worker said "oh you gotta go,its the best all inclusive resort on St Lucia!". I then went on LIW and read everyone else's reviews who said wonderful things.

I get there and BOOM - from day 1 I was crying. I was so upset about the service, the lack of a DECENT slice of pizza, the lack of room service options and the fact that the ONLY people who really wrote great reviews on LIW were morons who actually forked over more than $ 6 or $8K for BUTLER service rooms, or rooms that were higher priced. Considering DH and I both paid for this trip, I was very angry and disappointed. For the 6K we paid,we could have had a nice 7 day cruise with a Suite!

The majority of opinions on LIW re: vacations and honeymoons are not reliable. If you consider the fact that the majority of LIW brides are women in their early to late 20s who have no experience with REAL all inclusive resorts or GREAT vacations. Most of them will tell you, "Sandals was awesome!" because they have no frame of reference.

DH and I have taken great vacations before - with better service, better food and better entertainment for half the price. We are also much older (30s-40s) so we dont really care about the "drink till you pass out" aspect of honeymoons. I didnt start to enjoy my HM until day 4 or 5 and that was because we were a day closer to Departure!

My co worker even admitted to me after I got back from Sandals that St. Lucia was her first all inclusive resort experience, so she had nothing to compare her experience to! So LIW isnt the place to complain - lots of those girls arent very vacation savy, unfortunately.

I don't think it's really nice or fair to call people who paid for Butler service "morons" or to assume that people who loved Sandals are uneducated.

Some of the negative reviews I've read, i honestly took with a grain of salt because I felt like people were being too picky. I mean for example, "No decent slice of pizza"..you're expecting good Pizza on a Carribbean Island? That's what you're there for? I mean you can barely get palatable pizza in NJ, you want it in the West Indies? Their cheese and water are so different. I can tell you I had a panini and almost gagged on it, but the beauty was I could just order something else.

Whatever small things went wrong, we totally went with the flow and didn't let them ruin our trip. We embraced "island time" and the "no pressure, no problem" attitude of the Island.

Butler service to us was worth EVERY penny. We had a phenomenal suite with a breathtaking view. It was like heaven to wake up to that. We didn't have to rush anywhere because our Butler would reserve any chairs, reservations, beach spots we wanted. We got a full breakfast of our choice delivered and set up, tablecloth and all in our room every morning. Our mini bar had exactly what we asked for in it, including single malt scotch for DH. We came home to snacks, desserts, bubble baths, candles lit, etc. At the beach, we'd have coolers of drinks and favorite foods delivered along with frozen drinks. To us, it was very luxurious. They cleaned our room to the point of folding all of ourclothes every day. Everything was immaculate.

Was all of the food gourmet? No. A lot of it was just ok, but I've eaten at many top restaurants in NY, and dinner at La Toc was one of the most delicious meals I've ever had in my life. When we wanted it again but didn't feel like going out of the room, we had the meal delivered (2 entrees each because we felt like it) to our room with a white table cloth set up, all served for us and we watched the sun set privately in our room.

Maybe that's not YOUR definition of a luxurious vacation, but I haven't had the fortune to travel to 5 diamond resorts to compare it to, but I don't think I'm a "moron" for having paid for something that made our vacation an absolute dream for us, or for thinking it was great.

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I have heard other all inclusives are better, give you more without paying for it, but we had an amazing time at Sandals and it was worth every penny.

After having read MANY many reviews about La Toc I knew that 1) We made a good decision but going for Butler service because we did get treated like royalty and avoided some issues other people might have had, like a lack of availability of pool and beach chairs or difficulty getting dinner reservations 2) I told my friend who did not have a Butler to make all of her dining reservations on Day 1 so she could get into La Toc.

I'm really sorry you had a bad experience, but the condescending attitude is really not called for.