When it comes to a honeymoon, you want one amazing experience to celebrate your life together as a married couple. For the most part, booking a romantic getaway where you experience the height of luxury is on the cards for many couples, but this isn’t the only type of honeymoon you can pick. If you’re after something that fits your personality better, or you simply want more than just being waited on hand and foot for a week or two, let’s take a look at some epic honeymoon ideas that could be exactly what you’re looking for.
Book a Private Yacht
There’s a specific kind of peace that hits when the world becomes water, and the land is just a mere suggestion in the distance. A full week on a crewed private yacht gives you something hotels can’t: space. Not the square foot kind — the kind where nobody else is around telling you when to eat or drink or how to relax.
You wake up when the sea starts. Swim before breakfast. Move on a whim and anchor wherever the horizon looks better than where you just came from. One night under the stars, the next in a tiny bay no car has ever accessed, and zero decision beyond “do we jump in now or after coffee?”
And the beauty of a crewed charter is that everything is taken care of, there’s no decision, no finding a spot for somewhere to eat, everything you need is already on board with you.
Trek a Wonder of the World
This one isn’t a glamorous every-second kind of option. You’ll sweat. You might disagree about snacks, hydration or routes, but then you’ll reach a corner and be hit by breathtaking views or just a sense of accomplishment as actually being able to witness the wonder of the earth with your own two eyes.
Whether it’s the Inca Trail into Machu Picchu when the morning mist lifts, or you’re following ancient steps up into Petra’s rose-red heart or taking on a shorter, slower but still breathtaking trail through Sri Lanka’s temples, the shared effort is the magic. Knowing you did something together as a partnership and experienced the rewards of your hard labour can be somewhat of a cliché for the future of your marriage, or just a really awesome experience to enjoy with someone you love.
Luxury Rail Expedition
Slow travel is really underrated. It gives you time to actually take in the moment you’re living inside instead of racing between sights like a stressed out tourist.
- Jump on board the Blue Train across South Africa: velvet seats, desert horizons, long dinners where the moon glints through the windows.
- Take a seat on the Rocky Mountaineer through Canada: glaciers sliding past like the earth is turning pages for you,
- Relax on the Venice Simplon Orient Express: a rolling art deco time machine where love stories practically write themselves.
On slow rail journeys, you get to watch scenery evolve — coastlines into vineyards into mountains — without lifting a backpack or losing patience at an airport. And the best part is that it doesn’t interrupt the romance; it is the romance.
Get Wild and Remote
If you really want to start your honeymoon with a “wow”, go where civilisation gives up. Arctic glass igloos under shimmering auroras. Desert eco lodges surrounded by dunes that look like molten gold. Rainforest retreats where toucans announce breakfast, and the rest of the world goes missing for a while.
These places aren’t quiet because no one’s talking. They’re quiet because the landscape has something to say instead — and couples just sit back and listen.
Chase the Northern Lights
The entire honeymoon revolves around nothing but watching the night sky do something impossible yet truly breathtaking. You base yourself in arctic cabins with glass roofs or mirrored hideaways on snowy hilltops. Dog sled rides by day, hot drinks by a crackling fire at dusk and then you wait.. Together.
Its anticipation and excitement all rolled into one and just a smidge of luck. The kind of experience that makes you hold your breath and hope for the extra special to grace your eyes.
But is not just watching for the aurora borealis you can add:
- A few nights in Iceland with volcanic landscapes and steaming outdoor pools
- A snowmobile out to a frozen lake where silence feels electric
- Dinners you remember because the world outside the window keeps changing colour.
It’s intimate, cinematic and it’s a shared secret between the two of you and the sky.