4 honeymoon-planning resources
By Amy
B. Crane • Bankrate.com
Let's face it. Staying on top of all the details
involved in planning a honeymoon, in addition to all the stuff you
have to do for the wedding, is enough to drive even the sanest and
most-balanced couple around the bend. Here are four resources that
will help you stay on top of the details without losing control of
your wallet:
- Honeymoon-planning spreadsheet
Brilliantweddingpages.com
offers a way for you to keep track of how much different destinations
and packages that you are considering will cost, including travel,
lodging, transportation and food plus some of those out-of-pocket
expenses you might not think about, such as tipping, souvenirs
and taxes. Brilliant Wedding Pages offers lots of other cost-cutting
tips for wedding planning in general.
- About.com's vacation-budget worksheet
Honeymoons.about.com
works for the spreadsheet-impaired, and includes a couple of categories
that are absent from the above spreadsheet such as pre-travel
costs like passport photos, passports, personal care products
and cameras. You could also add some categories from this worksheet
to the above spreadsheet.
- Euro currency conversion
Discovery's Travel
Channel provides not only an online currency converter, but
also one that you can download to your Palm Pilot and take with
you on your trip for on-the-spot currency conversions.
- Online Yellow Page directories
Sites such as Switchboard
help you find out what attractions are near your hotel or resort
through the "Find Out What's Nearby" feature and offers
directions and maps to those attractions.
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