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I've been racking my brain recently trying to figure out where I should do a honeymoon with my soon to be wife this upcoming mid October.
Unfortunately because she's in the education field, she'll only be able to get a week off after the wedding, and since it's a Saturday wedding, that leaves the total length as 5-6 nights.
I've bounced around a few strong contenders, but have struggled with trying to optimize cost of getting there, effort in getting there, cost of staying there, and quality of the location.
We'd been considering Rome for 3 nights and Positano for 3 nights, but after a recent Europe trip, decided we would want to stay in 1 location for the duration and make sure we focus on relaxing first, not tours and culture site seeing.
With that in mind we considered the full duration in Positano, but it seems there is a high effort to getting there, flying into either Rome or Naples and having to take some combination of train and ferry. And the round trip price of flying into Naples seems like it would run 1250-1500$ for nonstops, and of course Positano would be quite expensive to stay in.
We would consider somewhere in the Caribbean which would have less cost and effort in travelling, but since it's the hurricane/rainy season, we're not particularly wanting to risk that. I'd love to do Saint Lucia, but looking at the weather it seems like it's quite rainy and only sunny ~30% of the time in October.
One new candidate entered the picture, which is Crete. This would be a similar cost to flying into Naples, and a little higher effort to get there having to catch a connecting flight, but it seems with the quality and options of hotel/resorts, our money would go a lot further than Positano. I also like the idea of nice beaches to relax on, which Positano does not apparently have. And spending half of our budget on flights to only stay somewhere for 5 nights is a hard pill to swallow, even if we could get a nice place to stay with the remainder of our budget.
Our budget is 5-6k. We have about 1000$ worth of points each on Capitol One Venture and Chase Sapphire Preferred we'd also like to apply towards this trip, making our total out of pocket cost in the 3-4k range.
Does r/travel have any suggestions on what would make the most sense for us?
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