Ever wondered what couples with double income and no kids (DINKS) do with the cool pay packets they carry home? For a change, they are not stashing it away. Instead, they are spending it to rekindle the romance that the years of marriage and the toll of the hectic city life has taken away - the honeymoon way!

“The city routine can be really taxing on a married life with everyday almost the same. To top it all there is so much of travel. One hardly gets an hour or two with each other,” said Shikha Ahuja, 26, an entrepreneur married for two years, and back from her second honeymoon from Europe. It was the adventure, time spent together and deciding the things and places to visit together that enhanced the experience for this couple.

“Ours was an arranged marriage and we did not get much time during our courtship days so together we required more time to know each other. It is very different when you are away from the city grind. You can be your true self for each other,” adds her spouse Vishal Ahuja, 26. “The second honeymoon allows you to be more adventurous. We did parasailing, skiing and all other adventures we did not try the first time,” adds Shikha.

But for a couple like Karishma Shetty, 27 and Prakash Shetty, 34, married for six years, the “second honeymoon was an opportunity to put our best foot forward after six long years of marriage. It was different. There were no squabbles, we were more accommodating and the idea was to add some spice which was a little lost somewhere in the middle,” said Karishma, who takes a lot of pride in the fact that she paid for the 22-day-long trip to Kerala.

“I would in fact go for the fifth honeymoon before thinking of a kid,” adds Karishma. Most of these couples spent lakhs as compared to thousands for their first honeymoon. According to Javed Akhtar, CEO TravelPort, “The booming economy is the fuelling factor for these second honeymoons. Adventure, sports and rekindling a lost romance have become reasons for travel. Second honeymoons are all about new experiences.”

But it is not only the longer married couples that are thinking about the second honeymoon. For a couple like Jilani Hakam, 26, married for just six months the hectic city life and work schedules with little time allowed on the first honeymoon, is good enough a reason to try out the second one.

“The second one is in the pipeline. We have not got much time as I have been busy in office and my wife being a doctor was always busy studying. Now that we know each other a lot better, I think the second outing will be more fun and adventure together,” said Jilani.