208 Romantic & Fun Date Ideas To Develop a Strong Connection

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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.