Travel experience

Honeymoons

Planned around the week you'll be too tired to organize.

Written for couples planning a honeymoon in the middle of planning a wedding

Honeymoons get planned last, by people who have run out of planning capacity. That is the whole problem. The trip most people want is the one they were too exhausted to research in the six weeks before the wedding.

Where this usually goes wrong

It's the last thing on a very long list
By the time the honeymoon comes up, decision fatigue has fully set in.
The best properties book far ahead
Particularly in peak season and for the room categories worth having.
Back-to-back travel after a wedding is brutal
Flying out the morning after is a common regret.
Names must match documents
A booking in a new married name that doesn't match the passport creates real problems at check-in.

What Shanair does about it

Planned early, in the background
Started well before the wedding, so it needs almost nothing from you in the final weeks.
Paced for recovery
Often a slow first few days, then whatever you actually want to see.
Occasions flagged with properties
Hotels are told it is a honeymoon — what they do with that is up to them, but they cannot act on what they do not know.
Documents checked
Names on bookings matched to passports, and what to do if the name change is mid-process.