For our wedding in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, in October 2012, during our 2 months break of the round the world trip, we received as a gift some money for the honey moon! Then later, in January we did one week cruise on a catamaran in the beautiful islands of Gualapagos in Ecuador. And with the money left, we decided to spend 4 days in a Resort (all-inclusive) on a beautiful island in Cuba.
To start, we found a driver of an old American Chevrolet from the 50s, who took us 3 hours from Trinidad onto the island of Cayo Santa Maria in the center-north of Cuba through some beautiful landscapes.

We booked in a 5 star resort hotel, it was luxury! We had everything we never or very rarely get traveling on our budget, like: huge bed, free mini bar, shower pressure and hot water, air conditioning, private terrace, and as they were warned that we were on our honeymoon, when we arrived we had a bottle of champagne waiting for us in the room, aaaaaah thank you all again for this beautiful wedding present!

The hotel is huge, there are two large swimming pools, a gym, four thematic restaurants, two buffet restaurants, a snack bar 24h, a pizzeria, a bowling, a night club, a spa, three bars on the beach, a theater, a games room etc… And everything is included in the price! Even alcohol! Once in the hotel we didn’t have to worry or spend anything, this is really feels like holidays and to be honest with you, we exaggerated a little too much with everything…

Then we went to the beach a few meters from our room and… Whouuaaaaa! This beach has won the trophy of the most beautiful beach we’ve seen on our travels around the world. An incredible blue water, it looks like it is no even real because it is so transparent.

One day we did a little mini-catamaran tour, we saw a sting ray, easy to detect in water like this.

As we were on our honeymoon, the hotel also invited us to have dinner in a different theme restaurant for each night, Oriental, Italian and French restaurants; we also had a breakfast in bed, and a VIP invitation to a cocktail, super chic! Well, we didn’t look that chic because we had no fancy evening clothes in our backpacks… :)

The spa is the only service of the resort not included in the price… So as a wedding gift we went to have a relaxing massage session, followed by a sauna and Jacuzzi. Very nice!

Here on the island we saw the most beautiful lizard we’ve ever seen, a real rainbow with legs!

Apart from having eaten a lot and drank a lot, Alexis did some work out at the gym, Carol went to the gym-water class, we did also a bit of sunbathing and lots of love… Oh! We participated in a contest in the swimming pool which was to stay as long as possible sitting on a beer cylinder in the water, nobody did succeed has remained more than 3 seconds above, Alexis stayed on it for 25 seconds so convinced he was the uncontested winner… But Carol his super competitive wife stayed on it 30 seconds! And she won a bottle of rum.

Last day, we went for one last swim and say goodbye to the dream beach. This time we were very lucky the weather was perfect the whole time, a really perfect and romantic honey moon.