Planning your Perfect Honeymoon – Top Tips from a Pro

Time for another wedding planning tip. This week I have had a chat with Sara, a lovely Reading based traveller agent for The Savvy Traveler and she will help you with planning the perfect honeymoon for you.

Hi Sara, could you please introduce yourself and what you do to our couples?

Hi ! My name is Sara Saleh, I am a travel consultant for The Savvy Travellers. I am originally from a corporate background in IT, but after extended maternity leave I decided to out my business skills to use and join the travel industry. The Savvy Travellers is a family run company that was started up by my brother in laws Ray and Shakil five years ago, between them they have over 20 years experience in business and the travel industry.

We offer bespoke affordable luxury with unrivalled customer service. The Savvy travellers also have complimentary, value add services such as destination discovery, itinerary planning and 24 hours dedicated customer service.  

The diversity of the work that I do ensures that no day is like any other, and I am always focused on getting the best deal for customers, which makes you feel good when you are tagged on customers’ social media posts or receive good feedback and recommendations, as you can see the service you provide makes a difference to someone’s lives.

The Perfect Honeymoon: where to start? What are the most important factors to consider?

Everyone is different, One person might want to climb Everest and another might want to lay on a beach in Bora Bora. When looking at honeymoons, you need to plan what destination will be good weather wise. You might want to visit India in June but that its monsoon and you could end up with a rain check!

What would you say are the main mistakes people make when organising their honeymoon? Or maybe the main misconceptions they tend to have? 

Make sure you research. We all have an idea of where we would like to go, but is the destination going to provide you what you want ? Have you looked at the hotels enough to know that its going to perfect. Don’t book a city if you want a beach holiday.

New honeymoon favourite for this and next year? Have you noticed any trend?

New and unusual destinations, people are really trying to push the boat out in terms of where to go. More adventurous and unusual places such as French Polynesia and trekking the Himalayas. We have also seen an increase in enquiries for Thailand and Sri Lanka.

What is the most precious piece of advice you can give to someone planning their honeymoon?

Plan, plan and plan some more! Its a once in a lifetime trip, sit down with your significant other and make a list of what you want.Even do a white board session ! It can really put everything into perspective seeing it written down, this is a joint decision. 

Anything you would like to add?

It can take a lot of time and effort planning a honeymoon, but it is one of those tasks you can hand over to a travel agent to do all the leg work for you. This doesn’t mean it will be more expensive, in fact a lot of agents have access to special honeymoon offers such as upgrades and free services for honeymooners.

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