Vegas > Los Angeles/San Fran > Hawaii Honeymoon

Hi MrsBeckiW

We are planning on Vegas, San Fran, Yosemite and Vancouver/Rockies so if you find anything out it would be good to know if you don't mind of course!

This is kinda what me and OH want to do for ours but again have no idea on the cost!

We looked at hawaii for 2 weeks and it was like 5 grand for both of us.

HAve you had an ideas how much you will need to save?

We got our quotes this weekend and for 4 nights in Vegas, 3 in San Fran, Car hire to LA, 3 nights in LA, 1 week in Hawaii and all flights we were looking at between 5 & 6000.

That's staying at pretty standard hotels.

I'm not sure whether to reign it back a little, maybe miss out LA & San Fran, and go for nice hotels. I know 'all you do is sleep in the hotel' but I always imagined living the life on luxury on my honeymoon!

Ouch!!!

Although i know what you mean about living the life of luxury on your honeymoon.... i think the same lol!

What time of year are you going, i'm hoping ours would be a little cheaper as we would be doing ours in winter lol!

We are going in May.

I'm not sure if vegas gets much cheaper around winter because it's much more bearable to go there in winter than in summer.

I've read you have to make sure you are avoiding big events. I'm not sure when these are though so i'm not much help!

Oo this is nearly the same honeymoon we want to do and I'm having issues with the cost versus the luxury thing as well. We were thinking fly into San Fran. Then fly to hawaii. Do the hawiaan cruise for a week to see all islands and then spend a few days at a hotel on Waikiki beach before flying back to San Fran and home. Maybe throw LA in there as well! We got engaged in Vegas so if you want to ask any questions about that I can try and answer.

I think my problem is that all this will cost nearly 5 grand for us. I don't mind about the budget. We have that to spend. It's just the fact that 5 grand still doesn't get my luxury. Still be flying economy. Staying in an inside cabin on the cruise. Having normal hotels. Not that there is anything wrong ŵith this but I always envisaged spending my honeymoon sitting in a hot tub on my balcony living the life of Riley!

I have 2 years to find a bargain but I don't think it's going to happen. From research there appears to be no major luxury resorts in hawaii. A few have private beach access but none do little huts with hot tub type things that you can get elsewhere.

I just need to decide wether it's luxury or location that I prefer. Tough decision!

Hi,

We looked at doing this as well but like you our quotes were coming back at £5k and that is just basic hotels!

We are now looking at Route 66 with Las Vegas, LA and San Fran at the end as we can see more for our money!

I think we will try and do Hawaii another time as with the flight over there as well it takes up a day and we really want to explore the Islands when we do go not just be stuck to one which is what our quotes have been for!

I have toured the Rockies before (OH and I got engaged whilst doing it!) if anyone wants any advice!

xx

Trail Finders are a god send, they sorted our flights (we did NYC, Vegas, Hawaii) for just under £2600 last year we then booked our own accommodation it worked out much cheaper than going with the likes of Thomas Cook

edit: that included over £800 taxes x

We're doing San Fran, driving down the coast via Big Sur and Santa Barbara and then onto Vegas and we're paying just under 3800k, but that does include 2 nights at quite a luxury 'ranch' in Big Sur. If that helps? That price also includes car hire.

We looked a Hawaii, but was costing waaaay too much and I was shocked at just how far the flight is from West Coast US.