Some tips to book your first romantic getaway well
1) No to super opulence: Let's see if this is clear: you're not Kanye. You are not Kim. Don't book a 2,000 meter suite in a French chateau or an entire floor of the Marina Bay Sands. Besides, you don't have that money. Don't book a presidential suite. It bears that name because it is for very distinguished visitors, even presidents. You are none of that. Ostentation is a tacky seduction tool . The expensive that seems very expensive is a very cheap resource.
The Marina Bay Sands hotel in Singapore
2) Not to the seedy. There is a very thick line between simple and crappy. If you can't go to a decent hotel, stay home. It is very good at home; we have good fridges, showers and mattresses. But if you decide to do it, it should be in a clean, ventilated, quiet place, without strange colored bedspreads or having to share a bathroom. Seriously, you don't need to travel at all costs.
3) Be careful with the design. It has happened to us. We have slept in rooms with transparent bathrooms. This is not for a first getaway. Not even for a tenth getaway. Rooms with minimal walls are violent. Read Cortázar's short story called Lucas, his modesty to justify this in a literary way.
San Giorgio, the Design pop-up in Mykonos
4) Wobble, wobble: Be careful when choosing a boat as your first getaway destination. Not a cruise with three lunch shifts and the captain's dinner, not even a sailboat. We would like everything to be like in The Talented Mr Ripley, but the reality is that ships move day and night. They are romantic, but they have the sea below and a luggage loaded with Biodramina is not the best omen. Let's save this for when we get to know each other better.
5)If you go to Japan on your first escape do not book a Love Hotel for the first night . That's going to make us very funny the second or third, but debuting in a place that simulates a hospital, a school or Barbie's castle can be anticlimactic. Better start at the Park Hyatt, a ryokan or an impersonal little hotel.
6) Caution with very small and family hotels. You probably escape with a fantasy in your suitcase: that of being the two of you alone and out of context. Do not choose a family hotel with two rooms where you have to have breakfast with the owners and you pass them in the corridor. Or if you do, then you consult your therapist.
A family hotel but without having to have dinner with the owners
7) Think that trips are, above all, to make memories. Work to make them pretty. Don't scramble for fifteen euros. They can make the difference between remembering or forgetting. It is always better to go two nights to an interesting place than seven to a mediocre one. Memories are not the product of abundance: they are flashes. And the flashes last for minutes . A study developed by TNS for Meetic states that 36 percent of Spanish singles consider that a month is enough time to go on a trip with their partner for the first time. One month. The last people who went on vacation for a month were the protagonists of Verano Azul.
Trips to make memories
8) Now, you true romantics are going to say that the important thing is the company and I will remain as a superficial heartless . Of course I am/we are happy on a park bench eating pipes, on the sofa in front of the laptop and camping (not even glamping), but fresh flowers, a scandalous size bed and good lighting are never enough. But yes, the important thing is to be together...
9) It is a hotel, not a Decree Law. Nothing happens if we don't get it right. If it turns out to be loud, ugly and smelly we either react or laugh really hard. The search is exciting, but we do not need to prepare an Excel with the candidate hotels nor let us dizzy each other with the decision. It is a hotel. It's a night. There will be many more. Or not, but that doesn't matter now.
10) And now the question is: where do we book? The answer, like so many others, we stole from Miguelito el de Mafalda: "Since when do we enthusiasts have to provide solutions?"
The important thing is the company (but the hotel too)