aruba? jamaica? ...us virgin islands?

In my last post, I wrote that we were going to try to go to Hawaii for the honeymoon. As of today, we have made a formal decision (ok, it wasn't so formal) to go somewhere else (probably in the caribbean). Hawaii would be great and wonderful... BUT

1. We think there would be SO much that we would want to see that it would be impossible to fit it all in 5 days- and chances are, once we go we won't be going back. So we thought, maybe we should just start saving money after the wedding and plan a supernice longer trip to Hawaii. And by then we'll have kids, so it would be extra nice :) (we have discussed that our children WILL be staying with grandparents during that trip!)

2. Hawaii is so expensive! Oh my goodness. We figured out that we could physically get to Hawaii and have a place to sleep... but that might be it. We would rather use the money we are getting from our parents and that we've saved in other ways and not use ALL of it on the Honeymoon.

So, that being said, I feel really good about this decision. I hadn't really thought about the fact that we wouldn't even be gone a whole week! Flying to Hawaii is like 16+ hours from here... so we would lose two days right there.

We started looking at possible places to go. We love the idea of all-inclusive. We are probably going to talk to our friend's mom who is a travel agent sometime in the next few weeks.

Have you been to any of the islands in the Caribbean? Any places we should or should NOT go?