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Valentine’s Day is around the corner and love is in the air!
Looking for fun and romantic date ideas? I’ve been feeling inspired lately and came up with a list of over 200 date ideas of all kinds of variety!
This ultimate list of date ideas will help inspire romance, excitement, and connection for you and your date.
Whether it’s the first, eighth, or a hundredth date, this list can help you plan a great date.
- Go on a classic dinner date at a romantic restaurant
- Go see a broadway show, play, or musical
- Check out a garden in your area
- Go to a unique or romantic cocktail bar for drinks
- Get to know each other by playing a question game (my recommendation)
- Sign up for a wine and painting class
- Go see a movie at the theater
- Have an outdoor picnic
- Cook dinner for your date
- Go to a themed party together
- Go out dancing together
- Go to a dessert restaurant
- Check out a concert or live music show
- Attend a comedy show
- Make some pottery together
- Paint pottery together
- Go on a private boat ride or water taxi
- IKEA date
- Rent a swan boat and go for a ride
- Go on a boat tour or ferry ride
- Go to an arcade
- Go on a double date with friends
- Visit the farmers’ market together
- Visit a plant store together (and become plant parents)
- Go to a lake or scenic spot and watch the sunset together
- Go wine tasting
- Go to a brewery
- Bake something together
- Go stargazing together
- Attend a fair or carnival
- Go on a hot air balloon
- Go to a theme or amusement park
- Go on a food tasting tour
- Take a sunset dinner cruise together
- Watch the sunrise together
- Make a meal together
- Take a cooking or baking class
- Try new food together
- Try a unique restaurant experience such as the blindfolded dining experience
- Have a baking or cooking competition
- Have a breakfast or brunch date
- Share a milkshake together
- Go to a museum
- Attend an art gallery
- Go to a poetry reading or open mic event
- Play a virtual reality game together
- Go to a water park
- Have a beach day
- Go to the beach at night
- Watch an outdoor movie or drive-in movie
- Find a pool or hottub and go for a swim or hang out in the hottub
- Go fruit picking (berries, apples, or pumpkins)
- Check out a cat cafe
- Go to a farm & pet or feed the animals
- Try rock climbing
- Play mini golf or putt putt
- Play topgolf
- Go to a driving range
- Come up with a story together
- Shoot a video or short film together
- Record fun youtube or tik tok videos together
- Do each other’s makeup
- Come up with a song together
- Have a rap battle
- Write poetry together
- Go to a sports game
- Take a dance class together
- Go to a dinner show
- Visit the food trucks
- Restaurant hop for a different appetizer, entree and dessert
- Make it out of an escape room
- Build something together like a lego set (or find an instructables project)
- Make a craft together like origami or jewelry
- Try out fun & interesting science experiments
- Have an at-home game night & play board games, card games, Jenga, charades, or even Twister
- Solve a puzzle together
- Play improv games together
- Have a photoshoot
- Find a photobooth and take silly & cute photos together
- Check out open houses together
- Test drive luxury cars
- Go ax throwing
- Try archery together
- Try out acro yoga or couples’ yoga
- Do a goat yoga class
- Take a meditation class
- Go to a magic show
- Go to the gym and work out together
- Take a hike
- Go on a scavenger hunt
- Walk (or run) a 5k
- Play tourists and take a guided tour in your city
- Find an experience on groupon, airbnb experience, tripadvisor, or explorehidden
- Explore your city or a nearby town together
- Go on a train ride
- Go ice skating
- Go roller skating
- Go bowling
- Go bungee jumping
- Go skydiving
- Try out indoor skydiving
- Go ziplining or treetop trekking
- Go on an obstacle course
- Go to a trampoline park
- Sing karaoke duets together
- Volunteer together such as donating blood or going to an animal shelter
- Go to a music festival
- Go to an art show or festival
- Check out a food festival
- Go to a film festival
- Go to a burlesque or drag show
- Go horseback riding
- Go kayaking or canoeing
- Go paddle boarding
- Go sailing
- Go parasailing or paragliding
- Fly a kite together
- Rent out a boat
- Go tubing (or water skiing)
- Go on a jet ski together
- Go river rafting
- Visit natural springs, waterfalls, caverns, or volcano
- Go snorkeling
- Try out scuba diving
- Go surfing at the beach
- Ride on ATVs
- Go skiing or snowboarding in the snow
- Play in the snow (snowball fight, make snow angels, build a snow fort)
- Visit a zoo
- Go on a drive-thru safari
- Visit an aquarium
- Go to a planetarium
- Go on a ferris wheel
- Go to a library or bookstore and read to each other
- Have a lazy day in together
- Have a movie marathon or binge watch a tv show
- Go on a road trip together
- Have a staycation at a hotel in your city
- Stay at a unique b&b, like a treehouse, cabin, or tiny home
- Book a spa day (get a couples’ massage, take mud baths, hang out in jacuzzi or sauna, or try a float tank)
- Have an at-home spa day
- Go camping (or glamping)
- Build a campfire or bonfire and roast marshmallows
- Play a sport together (tennis, badminton, ping pong, beach volleyball)
- Attend a class or lecture together
- Go to a psychic reading together
- Play laser tag
- Play paintball together
- Have a water gun or water balloon fight
- Go to a gun range together
- Take a martial arts or self-defense class together
- Hire a private chef to make you both a meal or go to a chef’s table
- Go on a helicopter or private plane tour ride
- Take a day trip
- Play hide and seek together
- Learn a new skill together
- Teach each other a skill
- Make unique cocktails together
- Have an at home blind taste test
- Race go karts
- Make tie dye shirts together
- Attend a ballet or dance performance
- Go to a circus show
- Take an improv class together
- Tackle a home improvement project together
- Book a couples shoot together
- Go shopping together (thrift shopping, antique shopping, etc.)
- Play a video game together
- Play darts or pool
- Attend an outdoor concert
- Go to a tea room or unique café
- Go to starbucks and target together (or an errand date)
- Join a meetup together
- Have a trivia or bingo night
- Look through old childhood photos together
- Throw a private party just for the two of you
- Host a themed party or a murder mystery party for you and your friends
- Draw portraits of each other
- Draw a single picture together, taking turns
- Rent a limo or a luxury/sports car
- Ride a carriage
- Try out (legal) urban exploration
- Go on a ghost tour or visit a cemetery
- Visit a candy factory
- Go bird watching
- Find a crowded location and people watch together
- Listen to a podcast or audiobook together
- Role play meeting for the very first time
- Go on a date and take on different identities or accents
- Try to break a world record
- Try social experiments or challenges together
- Go see a race (auto, horse, weiner dog, etc.)
- Have an up close animal encounter such as petting a wolf or swimming with dolphins
- Build a pillow and blanket fort
- Have a nap and cuddle date
- Start a scrapbook together
- Make a collage
- Throw paint at a canvas & have a paint fight
- Make a time capsule
- Ride scooters or go for a bike ride
- Create a bucket list or date night ideas jar
- Go to a smash or rage room
- Launch your own rocket
- Go for a scenic drive
- Go bar hopping
- Go to a casino and try your luck gambling
- Hang out at a hookah lounge
- Get matching tattoos (henna for non-permanent tattoos)
Whatever you choose to do, I’m sure you’ll enjoy yourselves and create new and lasting memories together! Feel free to even try combining ideas for the perfect unique date.
If you’re going on dates, during the spooky season, check out this list of ideas for fun activities to do during the spooky season. If you’re planning a birthday date, check out this list of things to do for a birthday.