50 Amazing Date Ideas To Keep the Romance Alive

If dinner and a movie or a walk along the beach while eating ice cream is your idea of a date night, it might be time to invest in a few new ones. Whether you are only starting to date someone, have been dating someone for a while, are in a committed relationship, or are married, it’s crucial to keep the romance alive. 

Dates are one of the most important activities you and your significant other can participate in. Not only do they allow you to get to know one another, but they also allow you to share experiences and grow your love for one another continuously.  

However, finding fresh, fun, and entertaining date ideas can be a daunting and tiring task. Boring date nights will not allow you and your partner to create memorable experiences, nor are they going to bring you closer to each other. 

If you have run out of date night ideas and need to find some inspiration, this list might interest you. We will look at 50 amazing date ideas guaranteed to keep the romance alive in your relationship. 

1. Seek Out Keepsakes

One of the quaintest date ideas you and your partner can participate in together is searching for memorable keepsakes. Treasure hunting at flea markets, second-hand stores, and yard sales is always a fun endeavor and will allow you both to find items that remind you of the day you spent together. 

2. Tour a Few Restaurants in Your Area

There are bound to be many restaurants in your city that you have not had the time to try out or have been meaning to visit. Why not set aside a day and tour the popular restaurants you have been dying to try out. You don’t have to eat large meals at every place you visit. Yet you can try out the small items on the menu that intrigue you both. 

3. Participate in a Stargazing Evening

Stargazing in the city is almost impossible. For this date, you might need to head to the countryside. Grab a blanket and a few snacks and head out to the nearest area where you can gaze at the stars above and each other to your heart’s content. 

4. Head Out to the Nearest State Park

If you both enjoy outdoor activities, visiting a state park might be well overdue. Go on a hike together or take a refreshing dip in one of the lakes or waterfalls. Don’t forget to take pictures, as you are bound to want the spectacular natural setting to act as your backdrop for the memories you make. 

5. Take a Weekend Road Trip

Road trips together don’t always require months of planning and saving up leave. Often you can take an adventurous weekend road trip and explore the surrounding towns near where you live. 

6. Participate in a Dinner Cruise

Now we know dinner might be a boring date night idea at times. That’s why you should think outside the self-imposed box and plan a romantic dinner cruise. A three-course meal while being surrounded by the open waters is not only romantic but relaxing too. 

7. Take Cooking Classes Together

If neither of you is good in the kitchen, taking a cooking class together can be a fun bonding experience. Picking up a few skills in the class will allow you to have many more fantastic date night cooking experiences at home. 

8. Visit an Art Gallery

A day at an art gallery can be an enlightening experience. Not only will it be engrossing to see the various works of art, but you both might find an art style that you particularly enjoy. It will also guarantee excellent conversation and debate surrounding your different tastes in art. 

9. Have a Games Evening

Having a games evening isn’t restricted to only board games. You and your partner can participate in video games or head out for a trivia evening at your local pub while grabbing a quick bite to eat.

10. Go Ice Skating

If rollerblading seems too cliche, why not plan an ice skating date. Heading out on the ice together is a fun way to spend a few hours, especially if one of you is better at maintaining their balance. Hand holding and laughter will be constant companions while you skate around the rink. 

11. Take a Romantic Beach Bike Ride

Walking along the beach holding hands can become a boring date experience. Why not liven the beach date idea up by exploring the coastline on your bikes. You could even engage in a friendly race that leads to a refreshing mid-afternoon swim. 

12. Visit an Up-and-Coming Coffee Shop

If tea is a no-go and you both enjoy a strong cup of coffee, you can plan a romantic coffee date. Instead of visiting well-known coffee houses like Starbucks, you can try out a new up-and-coming brewhouse. You might just find your next favorite small-scale coffee house to gather on cold winter mornings. 

13. Attend a Music Concert

A music experience is one of the best ways to bond with one another. If you both enjoy a particular band and they are playing in your city, book tickets and get ready to loudly sing your hearts out. 

14. Go on a Relaxing Zoo Trip

Most people love animals and learning about nature. That’s why a zoo trip could be an ideal date. Take your camera and walk around while learning more about animals together. 

15. Take a Day Trip to Your Nearest Theme Park

Thrill-seekers and adventure junkies can head over to their nearest theme park for a day of adrenaline-inducing rides, cotton candy stands, and arcade games. While there, don’t be shy, challenge each other to a few games at the various stands, and see who can win the best theme park prize. 

16. Try a Daring Activity

If theme parks are too mundane and you both enjoy scarier, more heart-pounding activities, set aside a date day for a daring activity. You can book a bungee jumping or sky diving experience or stay closer to land and participate in white river rafting or zorb balling down a mountainside. 

17. Challenge One Another to a Bowling Tournament

Bowling can be a dull date if you don’t spice it up. Challenge one other to a bowling tournament and set a specific prize for the winner. Nothing brings out a competitive spirit like trying to win a game of bowling.

18. Take a Pottery or Painting Class Together

Art classes can help a couple connect. Two of the best types of dates involve pottery classes and painting classes. You can easily discover if either of you has any hidden talents or create a piece of art that you can keep as a keepsake for your home together. 

19. Head Out to Your Nearest Park for a Picnic

An enjoyable yet straightforward date day experience is participating in a picnic. Not only is this date reasonably inexpensive, but it allows you both to engage in some quality conversation while taking in the scenery. 

20. Attend a Favorite Sporting Team Event Together

If you both like a specific baseball or football team, why not attend one of their home or away games together. Screaming and shouting for your team to win can be silly fun that ensures you both have a good time. 

21. Go on a Wine Tour

Wine is often associated with romance. So it makes sense that participating in a wine tour together would be romantic. During the wine tour, you could discover a new vintage you both enjoy and learn more about wine culture, all while getting a feel-good buzz. 

22. Volunteer With a Local Charity

If you want to know if your significant other has a heart of gold, you can plan a date that involves volunteering with a local charity you are passionate about. Not only will you learn important details about your date or partner, but you will also be helping someone or something while doing it.

23. Sign Pp for a Salsa Dance Class

Dancing is one of the best ways to show your love for someone else. Signing up for a salsa dance class will likely awaken your passion for one another and help you both communicate in a way that isn’t talking. 

24. Book a Hot Air Balloon Flight

Should neither of you be afraid of heights, a hot air balloon flight could be a perfect date day experience. Being high up in the sky will give you time alone to talk and potentially profess your love for one another. 

25. Redecorate a Room in Your Home Together

If you live together and don’t want to always go out for a date, why not redecorate a room together. Redecorating a room can be a joyful experience as you create something new together in a space you both frequent often. 

26. Visit a Jazz Club

Visit a local jazz club and whip out your dancing moves. Dancing up a storm in an atmospheric jazz club will be fun, and you’re sure to impress your date. 

27. Go for a Couples Massage Together

It might seem scary unclothing around a date or a masseur, but going to a couples massage can be a great way to relax together. Relieving tension and accepting a few hours of pampering can do wonders for a relationship. 

28. Take a Reclusive Weekend Away

Sometimes, weekend getaways don’t need to be busy affairs. Often a solitary weekend away can be more enjoyable. In a reclusive setting, you are more likely to open up to one another, participate in deep conversations and fill your time with mundane tasks that relax and unwind you both. 

29. Go and See a Comedy Show

Laughter in a relationship is crucial to its success. That’s why attending a comedy show together is a superb idea. Book seats at your favorite comedian’s show or try out a new comedian you have been dying to listen to. A comedy show will ensure your night will be filled with laughter, smiles, and good memories. 

30. Create a Drive-in Movie Experience at Home

Drive-in movie nights are always a blast. Yet you don’t need to go out and find one when planning the perfect date. It’s simple to set up a drive-in movie night at your house. All you need are a few blankets, pillows, and snacks, and a white screen or wall and projector. 

31. Participate in a Couples Photoshoot

The truth is, not many couples are good at taking photos with one another, which can be a point of frustration. If you and the person you love don’t have many shareable pictures together, why not book a couples photoshoot? You can choose the theme and dress up, which is romantic and is sure to invoke feelings of love. 

32. Take a Tour of Each Other’s Respective Hometowns

If neither of you has toured the other’s hometown, it could be a perfect date idea. Taking a trip through the hometown where your date grew up can enlighten you to who they were when they were younger. You both will get a good idea of the other’s favorite pastimes and learn more about each other. 

33. Book In at a Local Bed and Breakfast

When neither of you has the time for a long-winded date affair that involves a weekend getaway, you can book in at a local bed and breakfast. Often booking in somewhere overnight will relax you both and allow you to step away from your busy lives and reconnect. 

34. Go Swimming With the Dolphins

Traditional beach and lake swimming dates are not that much fun. A swimming date that involves swimming with the dolphins, however, is an entirely different story. Swimming with dolphins is an awe-inspiring unique experience that is sure to be incredibly exhilarating and memorable. 

35. Attend a Fireworks Display

There are many events that involve incredible fireworks displays. Take your significant other to watch fireworks if you want a night of excitement. 

36. Have a Scrapbook Evening

You have likely managed to make many memories together that you have captured through pictures. If you want to be creative and enjoy a date day indoors, why not find the images you love the most and create a scrapbook of your memories together. You could even design an entire scrapbook dedicated to pictures you have taken while on dates. 

37. Host a Bake-Off Competition

Whether you both can bake or not, hosting a friendly bake-off against one another can be a fantastic experience. Pick a simple cookie, cake, or scones recipe but don’t forget to be creative. At the end of the date, you will be able to try out the other’s cooking and likely be closer than ever.

38. Create a Love Song

Even if you are both tone-deaf, creating a love song together is an amazing bonding experience. Think of your love and work alongside one another to put it into the words of a song. If you want to immortalize it, you can hire a professional singer to help you get the tune down pat and sing a recorded version. 

39. Visit a Local Play

When art galleries, museums, and concerts aren’t enjoyable, attending a local play is the next best thing. You and your date can pick a play you both are interested in and discuss your thoughts surrounding it afterward. 

40. Take a Mystery Trip

Not every trip you and your partner take together has to be planned down to the last detail. A mystery trip is an excellent way for you both to be spontaneous and see where your hearts want to take you. 

41. Take a Language Class Together

If either of you has a particular interest in a language you can’t speak or have always wanted to learn a different language, you can take a language class together. Learning a language others around you don’t know can be a brilliant way for only the pair of you to communicate with one another. It can also be an entertaining experience watching one another try to learn something so alien. 

42. Go Fishing at the Beach, Lake, or River

Fast-paced dates are fun, but slowing down the pace can lead to a more fulfilling date day experience. Going fishing together at a beach, lake, or river can be relaxing and thrilling, especially when catching fish. Fishing together will also be peaceful and give you time to talk.

43. Have a Book Reading Evening

It might sound boring, but participating in a book reading evening with your significant other can be entertaining. Not only will you be learning more about what kinds of books the other enjoys, but you can also engage in heated debates and conversations surrounding the events transpiring in the book. 

44. Create a DIY Waterpark in Your Backyard

Going to a water park can be an expensive date, and not everyone is comfortable around people they don’t know in a bathing suit. That’s why it’s a brilliant date idea to create your own DIY waterpark. All you need is some old 2-liter bottles and a hosepipe connected to a water source. It might be rudimentary, but it’s sure to be fun. 

45. Meet Up for Coffee at a Local Landmark

If you live in a city with an abundance of landmarks, why not plan a coffee date involving them. Iconic landmarks often lead to iconic moments. 

46. Participate in a Home Workout Class

Working out can be fun, especially if you are doing it with someone else. A home workout is a smart way to get fit and invoke a camaraderie spirit between you and your partner. Put on a home workout video or, better yet, create your own home workout schedule.

47. Participate in a Sport Together

Regardless of if either of you is athletically inclined, participating in a sport together can be a heart-poundingly wonderful experience. Some of the best sporting activities for couples include golfing, skiing, tennis, and swimming. 

48. Go Foraging for Mushrooms

It might sound strange but foraging for mushrooms is actually an incredibly pleasurable pastime for couples. You effectively go on a hike looking for mushroom treasure that you can use in the evening meal you and your partner can cook together. 

49. Have a Brew Your Own Beer Evening

Driving to the store to get a few beers for your date is easy to do, but where is the fun in that? Why not make your date night about beer and brew your own together at home. Simply purchase a beer-making kit online and get to work. Who knows? You both might enjoy the brew you create. 

50. Sign Up for a Color Run Event Together

If you want to participate in some non-competitive fun, signing up for a color run with your significant other could be the way to go. Color runs offer a perfect bonding environment, and you can both enjoy the celebratory finish line parties that occur.