How to get VIP treatment on your honeymoon

So here's how you can get celebrity-style VIP treatment during your stay just by mentioning your status as a newly-married couple:

While traveling

• Upon check-in at the airport, you might get upgraded to first-class seats
• The airline may allow you access to their VIP lounge at the airport, even if you don't have first-class tickets. Rather than waiting on those rows of plastic seats at the concourse, you can find yourselves in an upscale lounge with free champagne.
• Tell your cabdriver you're on your honeymoon, and he or she will give you lots of recommendations for the best places to eat where the locals go. One couple, during their honeymoon to Chicago, writes in that their cabbie turned off the meter for them and drove them past notable tourist sites and great views, giving them the history and notable facts about the city.

  At the hotel

• You may get upgraded to a better room or suite with a better view and in-room features like a canopy bed, a rainfall showerhead, a Jacuzzi, and so on
• The resort may automatically send up free champagne and a fruit platter, or vases of flowers, to your room as a welcome
• You may find luxury spa robes in your hotel room, a presidential suite perk given to you just because you're VIPs
• You may be granted access to the resort's First Class lounge, a separate, keycard-access lounge where their celebrity guests relax and enjoy a drink
• Housekeeping may have a policy to sprinkle rose petals on the beds of honeymooners
• You may get free treatments at the resort's spa, or free access to the resort's tennis club or golf course
• Some hotels arrange for free rounds of golf at a private club nearby, since you're a VIP guest
• Tell the concierge who you are as honeymooners! Many concierges are given free concert and show tickets, or free passes to museums and aquariums, or discounts at local attractions to give out to VIP guests, or they may be able to make a phone call to get you into the hottest restaurant or club in town that has an endless waiting list and long lines to get in. As a VIP, you'll be escorted right in.
• The hotel may give you free use of their limousine or town car for your formal dinners out, rather than your having to take a taxi
• Honeymooners can be granted early check-in or late check-out with no extra charges

  Out on the town

• At restaurants, you might get the best, most romantic table in the place
• Restaurant and bar owners may send over a complimentary bottle of wine or champagne, or buy you a round of drinks
• Restaurant owners might offer you free desserts of your choice as a congratulations
• The restaurant might offer the bride a long-stemmed rose as a welcome, special for honeymooners and other VIP guests
• You may be invited to meet the chef or tour the restaurant's wine cellars
• Don't be surprised if other diners buy you a drink when they hear you're on your honeymoon. Long-time-married couples love to 'get the happy couple off to a great start' and so something sweet to make their day.
• Owners and curators of wineries, museums, and other attractions may give you special treatment, take you on insider tours, or add on extra perks to your visit (such as a picnic lunch in the vineyard or an advance viewing of an art collection)

  Meeting other honeymooners

• When you run into other pairs of honeymooners, you may just make friends for life! Join up for select daytrips, activities such as snorkeling, and visits to nightclubs or restaurants for double the VIP treatment.
• With other honeymooners, you find people who will take your picture as a couple or hold your videocamera while you're paragliding.
• When you meet a couple on their second honeymoon, you may find an inspiration in them, plus great advice on how to make a marriage as happy as theirs is. (Note: some cruises and resorts actually arrange cocktail parties and mixers between newlyweds and longtime-marrieds for just this purpose!)

  Just One Warning
  Don't get power-hungry with your Honeymooner VIP status. Demanding special treatment is only going to backfire. So be subtle and gracious when mentioning you're on your honeymoon, and watch what happens...