SE Asian short honeymoon - Help me please!
 

We have two weeks to spend on our honeymoon in Feb. in SE Asia. To short - I know but, that's all the time we have to work with. As this is our honeymonn we would like to take a relaxed and leisurly approach and experience a few things rather then rush, rush, rush to see to many.

This is what we are thinking:
4 nights - Six Senses Hideaway Ninh Van Bay
Relax and recover from wedding and travel
3 nights - Ankor Wat
3 nights - Luang Prabang
2 nights - Hoi An
(we could also eliminate Hoi An and and do 4/4/4 nights)

Altenative 2
4 nights - Six Senses Hideaway Ninh Van Bay
3 nights - Hoi An area
1 night/2 days - junk curise in Halong Bay (I/m worried about the weather in Feb)
4 nights - Luang Prabang

any thoughts suggestions would be great!
I'm also curious if Hoi An and Luan Prabang are very similar? Is one more interesting then the other?

Thanks for any advice help etc.!!!

Everyone on this board seems to love Luan Prabang, but I have a collegaue who has been in SEA on a number of occasions, and the whole family was bored in LP.

If it were me - and it isn't - I'd opt for Alternative 1, but with 4 nights at Angkor and 4 nights in Luang Prabang. Four nights is only three full days. It takes three full days just to see the major temples at Angkor. We loved Luang Prabang, but it's not a "wow" kind of place. It's slow moving, and you have to slow down to experience it. It's a very spiritual place with lovely working monasteries. Hoi An is charming, but much more touristy.

Four nights in each place will give you enough time to have some experience of each place. Less than that and it may all be a blur - especially since you are visiting three different countries, three different cultures in such a short time.

my vote is 4,4,4

sf7307 Perhaps they should have gone to Disneyworld instead. I would opt for alternative one.

Vientianeboy, they are not likely to ever go to Disneyworld. They are sophisticated world travelers. Their daughter has been an exchange student in Hanoi. They were bored in Luang Prabang - that is their opinion, and offers another perspective, that is, not everyone loves LP. Your comment is condescending and uncalled for.

Well, if they are not interested in culture, history, architecture, handicrafts, scenery, excellent food and friendly people, then they may well have been bored. There are no shopping malls there either.

Actually, the first time I went to LP after about a day I went to the hotel and asked tbo cancel my booking 'cos I'd looked around, thought; 'is this it?' and wasn't impressed.

I couldn't change my booking so I stayed. By the end of my stay, I extended and stayed <i>longer</i>... LP creeps up on you. There's a moment when the scales fall from your eyes and you can SEE it. Maybe sf's friends just didn't stay quite long enough for that to happen.

Generally, it's always better to give one's <i>own</i> opinion in here, I think, than someone else's - if only for ease of reply.

That is a fair comment dogster. I'd be curious to know why they were bored.

I don't doubt at all that other people love LP, obviously its very popular on this board (I almost wrote "on this bored :-) ). My only point was, not everyone has the same opinion. I will ask him why they were bored.

(I will admit I took similar "offense" as vientianeboy did to my post, when someone on the US board a couple of days ago, wrote that whenever she goes to San Francisco she goes to Fisherman's Wharf and the Ghirardelli store, and other than that, she cannot imagine what there is to do and see in San Francisco, and why anyone would want to spend more than 2 days here!)

I will say that the family I'm talking about is not the type to go to Asia a) to Disneyland, b) to shop or c) to go to the beach. They travel, extensively, for all the reasons vientianeboy mentions.