Where will Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce honeymoon? Our travel editors weigh in with their best advice

At 6.01 pm on Tuesday, an hour into a five-hour train to Edinburgh, my phone buzzed – then buzzed again, and again, and again. The BBC News ‘breaking news’ notification chimed: Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce announce their engagement. Along with 13 million other chronically online people, I zoomed in on the ring and tried to work out where the engagement shoot had happened. But soon, my thoughts turned to the most exciting part of any wedding – the honeymoon. Where will the internet’s royal couple choose to spend the biggest holiday of their lives? Will they go low-key and off-grid, seeking out a super-secluded private island, perhaps? Maybe they’ll return to a previous holiday hotspot or seek out a Euro summer? Wherever they choose, we can all but guarantee it’ll kickstart a trend for romantic getaways to that location – so I asked our team of travel editors to weigh in with guesses, ideas and recommendations.

Lake Como, Italy

Sarah James, digital editor

It doesn’t matter if you’re a billionaire celebrity power couple or an ordinary spouse-to-be – the romance and allure of the Italian lakes is everlasting. Something Taylor and Travis know All Too Well, as they cleverly chose Lake Como for a getaway last year. Why not return, then, for the most romantic holiday of all – their honeymoon? I’d recommend booking one of the private villas at Grand Hotel Tremezzo, a film-set-like, Grand Budapest Hotel-style property with staggering views across the water.

South Africa

Olivia Morelli, digital features editor

When I picture Taylor and Travis on a honeymoon, I imagine them all giddy with excitement and desperate for some time alone, away from crowds and snapping photographers. But, having said that, I can’t see either of them as the type of people who can sit still for long. A holiday that feels far removed from reality but has plenty of activities and things to do is my bet – and I think Travis’ golden retriever energy and Taylor’s wide-eyed wonder of the world lend themselves nicely to a safari honeymoon. South Africa provides plenty of options to choose from – a classic safari destination with renowned private conservation areas and game reserves. The Farmstead at Royal Malewane (owned by the Biden family, no less, who Taylor famously endorsed back in 2020) should do the trick, with private, secluded villas, vast sweeping views across the 30,000 acres of Thornybush Game Reserveplains and plenty of romantic corners to watch the sunset and catch a glimpse of a lion or two (we will, of course, be waiting with bated breath in the hope that Travis gifts us with a post-Big Five sighting quote as iconic as his “I just gave a squirle a peice of bread” Tweet).

Utah

Amber Port, senior manager, audience development

We all heard about Taylor and Travis’s trip to Big Sky in Montana, a region of the US well known for its dramatic landscape and beautiful outdoors. It was the perfect balance of enjoying what’s on your doorstep, but in serious style. With a couple as famous as these two, they will undoubtedly be looking for a good dose of peace and quiet while on honeymoon – a place to get away from the public eye – and what better place to do so than Amangiri in Utah? It’s off-the-beaten track, while still being the pinnacle of luxury – the perfect destination to unwind after what is destined to be a fabulous wedding. I expect we’ll be seeing photos of them enjoying the vast expanse of the Colorado Plateau and sweet pictures of them exploring the untouched desert terrain.

Iceland

Abigail Malbon, global audience development manager