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We can't say enough about our honeymoon at the Sandals Regency in St. Lucia.  It was everything the photos on their website and the reviews have said.

We choose St Lucia because we wanted to go somewhere tropical that had some Mountains and was a short flight. 

We choose Sandals because we wanted an all inclusive.  We wanted to be able to pay for the trip months in advance and not worry with extra expenses so close to the wedding.  We did add a day of golf and a jeep excursion once we got there but glad we spent the extra money to do these two things.  The food was AMAZING!!! All the food and drinks were included.  The only dinner not included was a dinner on the beach, which we did and it was the most romantic, peaceful thing we've ever done!  They don't expect tips at the Sandals resort which is nice too.  Our room was one of the Honeymoon Suites which had a private balacony, bar and mini-fridge, room service included in it.  We are glad we got the package that included room service because we used it 3 times because we were leaving or coming back from excursions at off times from the resturants.

We met lots of other couples on their honeymoons and we invited to a wedding on the beach by another couple! Glad we went to their wedding. We took pictures for them!

A FEW TIPS!

1. We are glad we left a day after the wedding.  We took Sunday to catch up on rest, re-pack our bags and check out Facebook for some wedding photos! LOL

2. We packed our swimsuits/cover-up in our carry-on bags so we could hope right in the pool upon arrival.  Glad we did this because the airline lost our luggage. So we still had a good time because we had our swimsuits! Luggage arrived on Day 2

3. If you have less then an hour between flights you might consider giving yourselft more time in between because... this is the reason for our bags not making it. They didn't have enough time to get from plane A to plane B.  We barely had time we ran to the next plane.  Which also meant we didn't eat! Which brings me to tip 4!

4.  Take a sack lunch- So many of the airlines are not offering meals any more.  We normally fly Continental and they have meals (I think this is going away for them too).  So we were quite hungry and bought the expensive bag of chips on the plane.

5. Take lots of sunscreen- I only packed one of the spraycans of sunscreen and it lasted two days.  Sunscreen is expensive there.

6. Book the Candlelight Dinner on the beach- Again this was so romantic and the food was really good.  There was only one other couple having dinner on the beach and they were about 30 feet away from us. So it felt like we were out there alone.  They also made us menus with our names on the coverpage with the date and location of our dinner.

7. Take the free pro-photo session- We did one at the candlelight dinner and one on the cliff at sunset overlooking the cove. You can buy as many photos right there or ask that they put them on the CD. We had them put on a CD because then you can buy more prints later.  The CD was the same cost

Thanks for the tips!!  We are doing a Sandals in Jamaica.  We are leaving on a Monday after our Sat. Wedding.  We already have 2 sunscreens ordered w/ bugspray, 1 bugspray & we will be bringing some extra spf.

Great heads up on putting the suits in your carry on though!!!  Would have never thought of that!

@ToBeMrs2011- Yes our room came with the 24hr Conceirge service.  When we arrived on Day 1 they took 6 couples to the Conceirge Lounge and gave us our room keys, maps of the resort, etc. and then introduced themselves and said we could begin booking with them right then.  We ended up going by a few more times during the week to book other things.  At the meeting on Day 1 they let us in on knowing that reservations for La Toc were almost full. So most of us booked that then.

@FutureMrs.Harless- We did the Land and Sea (open jeep) excursion. This took us up the coast to the waterfall, volcano and mud baths and lunch on the way back.  We enjoyed seeing other parts of the island.  The mud bath is smaller then what I had in mind but it was fun to do.  Our guides would stop along the road and get us fruit from the different trees to taste. The food from the Candlelight Dinner was very similiar to the food served at La Toc we guess it is the same chef.  So in hindsight we wished we would have booked Kiminios instead just so that we could try a different variety of food. But the La Toc was nice to get all dressed up for.  We didn't make it to the other resorts because we just didn't have the time and after talking to other couples it didn't seem (to us) worth the time.  The Grande is a 30-40 minute drive depending on traffic. And some of the couples told us it had more of a party atmosphere.  We thought we were having enough fun with the couples we met to not venture off.  We did do the snorkleing excursion with Sandals.  You take a bus from the resort through downtown. Which is good because this takes you through the shopping area. So it gives you an idea of if you want to take the time to come back and shop.  The Land & Sea tour stops in a small town and there are a few street vendors.  So we felt like we were okay with the shopping and didn't go back to downtown.

A few pictures from Sunset overlooking the cliff and from candlelight dinner.  These were taken by the Sandals photographers

@phatenigma- We didn't do the zipline tour but several couples did and they enjoyed it a lot.  We just didn't have the time.

@Habihah- Yes we stayed on the cliff.  We didn't get upgraded. We had already booked that room. I talked to one couple that said they were upgraded.

Oh!! thanks for posting this!! Teddy and I are considering this for our honeymoon!

@MissBeerda- Try googling weather in St. Lucia and you should be able to find what the average for that time of year is.