So DH are wanting to go on a second honeymoon next year. DH would like to go to China next year because we celebrated 20 years of marriage (i.e. china) last year. Between us we have a wish list of places to go probably over a metre long but because we have 4 wonderful children and elderly relatives, along with the fact that my DH spends 8 months of the year abroad working, time to ourselves is rare. At first I'd thought China would be awesome but in starting to research it have come across quite a few people who didn't have good experiences. I'm not talking about the type of people who really shouldn't be given passports and allowed to leave British shores, more people that are well travelled and open and eager to learn about new cultures. Its worried me because a) this will cost a lot of money b) leaving my children is a big deal c) my mother, who has wonderfully offered to look after them night and day, is getting ever more frail. The option of taking them with us is impossible because a) one of them will be just starting A'Level and another doing GCSEs b) we'd be going from the cost for 2 people to the cost for 6 but more importantly c) 3 of them are on the autism spectrum and I've not forgotten the episode recently of trying to get one of them on a plane to Rome and having to literally prize their fingers off the doorway into the plane - they then spent the rest of the trip informing the poor air hostesses that they were mad to fly on planes and would be bound to die soon!
So can you recommend China or should I change our plans to say Costa Rica or Macchu piccu (sp!).