Date night probably looks a little bit different at the moment as we will be spending Valentine’s Day in lockdown but you can easily adapt some of these ideas to do over facetime and quite a lot of them are ‘at home’ friendly too! Hopefully, in the not too distant future, the more adventurous ones that require something outside of lockdown restrictions will soon be a part of a romantic date night again soon!
Date night is always something to look forward to. I think allocating specific time for each other to go and do something rather than just hanging out regularly is so important for stopping you from settling into a mundane routine. It’s a chance to have a bit of time together away from any distractions and is a fab way of trying something new (if you’re into adventurous dates) or just remembering how much fun you have when together. So if you’re after some romantic date night ideas then I’ve hopefully got you covered!
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February is a busy month for me and my boyfriend as it’s his birthday, our anniversary and Valentine’s Day all in the space of about 10 days. By the time it got to Valentine’s Day, I’d run out of present ideas to decided to make a list of date night ideas for us to do this year. Sadly, coronavirus has meant we’ve had to spend much of the year apart and we’ve barely had any proper date nights but I’m hoping that we will soon be able to do something normal again!
There should be something to suit every couple in this list and I’ve tried to put together a date for every budget and evening – date nights don’t have to involve spending money. It should be about the time you spend together that matters rather than spending a fortune! Hopefully, you find something in this list to try out and I’d love to know how it goes!
NIGHTS IN
You don’t always need to go out to have fun. Sometimes the best nights are the ones where you can chill out, eat your favourite food and snuggle up to watch a film or do something you both love. I love having a night in with my boyfriend so here are some suggestions! These are all perfect for lockdown!
1. Watch a film with all the cinema snacks
Go to town and buy all of your favourite sweets, set up a little duvet den and pretend you’re at the cinema!
2. Play cards or a boardgame
Bring out each other’s competitive sides by playing a board game – one of the first things me and boyfriend ever did was play cards and it was fun to see how competitive we got. You can even give each other forfeits if you lose!
3. Build a den and camp out all night
Build yourself a little duvet cocoon and spend the night in it!
4. Cook your favourite meal together and set the table
Bring the traditional restaurant meal to you and cook your favourite foods, put your phones away and chat!
5. Have an indoor picnic
This is perfect for if the weather isn’t looking great and it can be so much fun to build a little den and camp out with your picnic!
6. Have a pamper session together – facemasks, massages, facials!
Go to town and show a little self-care by pampering each other
7. Bake something together
This is fun whilst you’re baking and even better cause you get to eat something delicious at the end!
8. Have your favourite takeaway and watch a new TV series
Find something to binge-watch on Netflix, order a takeaway to take the night off from cooking and settle down to watch.
9. Make chocolate fondue
You can’t go wrong with chocolate on a date!
10. Plan a holiday
You could plan your dream holiday together with a wild budget and dream of the times when you can travel again.
11. Teach each other something new
Whether this is a language, a video game or blogging, this can be a fun activity to do when you’re bored!
12. Do portraits of each other
This is even more fun when both of you can’t draw!
13. Give each other massages
14. Do a blindfolded taste test
DAYS OUT
Equally, you don’t need to have a date night. Evenings aren’t the only romantic time of the day and having a day date is so much fun and makes the date last longer!
15. Go for a walk and leave the phones behind
Leaving your phone behind on a day date is the perfect way to ensure you have no distractions
16. Watch a sunset together
17. Go stargazing
Maybe once the weather gets a bit warmer, this is fun to spend the night looking at the stars.
18. Go out for dinner
Obviously, when restaurants open again this is one of the more traditional date night ideas but it’s still a good one!
19. Go out for breakfast
I love breakfast as a meal so I absolutely love going for breakfast dates!
20. Visit a beach
21. Go to the cinema
Don’t look at what’s on, turn up to the cinema and pick something random!
22. Visit a museum
23. Pick the cheapest train and take a day trip to wherever it goes
This is something I’d really like to do!
24. Go swimming
25. Go out for coffee
26. Do the Poundland challenge
Go to Poundland and find the weirdest and most random item for the other person. This can be funny and you never know what you can find in Poundland!
27. Go to an arcade
28. Play mini-golf
29. Play a sport together
30. Browse an antique shop
Obviously, some of these date night ideas are dependent on COVID restrictions but I’m hopeful that soon romantic date nights will be a thing again. I know that the past year has been tricky for many relationships and adapting to virtual dating or only being able to speak to each other on facetime has been tough but there are still many ways that you can have fun despite lockdown.
What romantic date nights have you been doing during lockdown? Do you have any other ideas?
Love these ideas! My favourite date ins are living room campouts and movies while my favourite date out is a short road trip outside the city. Can’t wait to go stargazing once it’s a little warmer out. Thanks for sharing these ideas x
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Oooh yes me too!
Love all. Of these ideas 😍❤️ definitely some fab ideas here and something for everyone 💋💕💖 xo
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These are some fantastic ideas. Date nights at home really can be so much fun, especially since we gave little choice at the minute. Board games and movies with all the snacks are some of my favourites. I’m also a huge fan of breakfast dates because I love breakfast food! It’s a great idea to leave phone behind too, as it’s easy to be distracted and not give each other full attention.
I love breakfast dates so much!
Some really great ideas here – I particularly like the idea of mini golf!
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These are some wonderful ideas Tash; and I think they are very adaptable to the current situation! I always like to have a pamper night with my boyfriend regardless, and end up getting him those shark or monkey patterned facemasks for children (anything to keep them interested!) which is fun. Hope that you can see/have more date nights with your boyfriend soon.
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Me too! I love a good pore strip on a pamper night!
These are so cute! My boyfriend and I love cooking and movies, so this is pretty much the standard for us haha, but I love the idea of painting or doing facials together! We would never do this normally, so this could be a good one for Valentines Day!
Let me know if you try it out!
these are really great dating ideas. We like to cook a nice meal and watch a movie here during corona, and it feels nice to do a bit more out of things at home.
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Some really great ideas here! I think this pandemic has really taught us how to make the best of every situation xx
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I love all of the ideas you listed! I don’t have a boyfriend, but in general, I am very much a homebody so I would love to try them all! the idea of a fort or camp out all night sounds like true fun! I think though, that drawing portraits of each other surely would win! Thanks for sharing x
Thank you! I love that idea too
These are lovely and adorable date night ideas Tash! x
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Ooh loved this! Definitely going to be referring back to this post for ideas 🙂
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I started doing pamper sessions with my husband and it has been so nice (also kind of hilarious as he is new to doing it as is delightfully clueless). I love all your ideas here, I’m going to be using quite a few of them!
Ahhh that sounds like so much fun!
Gonna bookmark this for when im struggling for ideas! But i actually have a at home diy pamper session planned for valentines day and i think its gonna be so fun!
These are great suggestions! Drawing portraits of each other would be hilarious. I love the idea of the duvet cocoon too. Thanks so much for sharing!
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So many lovely ideas specially going out for a breakfast and star gazing..
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Love these ideas! I don’t have a boyfriend but I’m sure this will help lots of people 🙂 P.s Your new website looks amazing ❤ xx
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First off, loving the new blog look! Very classy.
Second off, love that you have ‘in’ and ‘out’ ideas! I am all about having fun and doing it responsibly and you have something here for everyone. I am a terrible drawer so whatever portrait I would come up with would, I hope, be a golden laugh treasured forever. 🙂
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Thank you – I think the portrait one will definitely create some fun memories!
These are some great ideas! Especially as Valentine’s Day is around the corner and in March it’s my 3 year anniversary with my boyfriend, so this is super helpful. Thanks for sharing 🙂
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Love all of these different date night ideas! Oooh, I love the idea of playing a board game – you can’t go wrong with friendly competitions either. Even looking at Pinterest for inspo is a fun date night idea. Wish we can go out again with everything going on. Playing sports together is always fun! Thanks for sharing these ideas!
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Great ideas. Even with lockdown, there are good ideas and you mentioned a lot of them. The indoor picnic is awesome and I can see how fun it would be. Thank you for sharing!
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Great ideas on here! Thanks for sharing! 🙂
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Great post, and fantastic suggestions! I think the nights in ideas are particularly relevant at the moment, with all of us locked down again. We’ve been really trying to get into banking recently, then having the bread with a fancy evening meal.
Love the suggestions which involve putting your phone away, too. Such a great idea 🙂 thanks for sharing!
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Aw I love these ideas for fun date nights, especially at the moment 🙂 thank you for sharing Tash, I think it’s a great idea to mix up date night ideas. I love your new blog look x
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These are all great ideas for a date night in and some could certainly be modified to include any children in the house. Thanks for sharing!
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This has given me some fab ideas! Was just talking about this today and then I see this! Thanks for sharing! Can’t wait for nights in the garden under the stars with a fire pit burning.
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Such a great post, especially with current circumstances! I love that you’ve categorised sections for staying in and going out!
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These are lovely ideas. We are going to have a family valentines day this year because it’s a Sunday.
But I can’t wait to have some proper adult only time, we are very over due and date night’s are my favourite x
Me too! Hope you manage to plan a date night soon!
Lovely post and just in time for me! I love nothing more than getting a huge take away and eating and drinking the night away in the kitchen.
I think I’m going to do an M&S dinner in for 2 this V Day!
Rosie
Yes, that’s often the best way to do it!!
Some great suggestions here and I personally love the blindfolded taste test haha! I might suggest that to my boyfriend. I really miss nights out for a meal and things like that. It’s the little things that this pandemic has made me really miss and feeling so much more grateful for! x
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Some great ideas here to keep thing interesting! If only I had someone to date 😂😂
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I love all these ideas and I’m definitely going to use a few of these throughout the next few months! I think for Valentine’s Day we’ll just chill out on the sofa with a takeaway and a film!
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Yes, that sounds perfect!
So many cute plans for a date night! I love the idea of building a den together or an indoor picnic, that sounds adorable.
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Perfect and timely post to give us ideas for the upcoming vday! I believe that our current situation would bring out the best in our creativity and resourcefulness to make our loved ones know and feel how much we treasure them 😉
I hope you’re doing well, Tash! Take care!
Cheers,
Hanna / Heydays With Hanna
Yes I agree, sometimes those ideas are often the best too! Hope you’re doing okay too 😊
Needed this because me and my boyfriend are sooooo bored because of the lockdown!
Hope you find something useful on there!
Me and the boyfriend are long distance because of education, and it has sucked so much during corona.
We do video calls, and do “live” training together and go on walks “together” where we talk while walking.
These are some really lovey ideas! And in perfect time for Valentine’s Day. I wish it was warmer in the evening because I would definitely go star gazing! X
Me too – it would be so much fun!
These are some great ideas! It is so hard right now but sometimes you just have to improvise and do what you can. Similar to you myself and my partner have our anniversary days before Valentine’s day haha. But we have never actually got presents for Valentine’s as we don’t tend to celebrate it at all. But this year we are just going to have a nice dinner on our anniversary(homemade by my partner), probably watch some movies and just relax/spend time together. With us both working from home it can be hard for us to switch off or do something a bit different xx
That sounds lovely – I hope you have a great evening!
We’ve never actually done a chocolate fondue despite my LOVE of all things chocolate. I think, with the lockdown here still ongoing, this is the perfect time to give it a try. After all, date night doesn’t end just because we can’t go out and do the activities that we did before. Now to go on a search online for a fondue pot that I can easily have delivered to the house lol
Now that sounds like a great idea! Hope you manage to find a fondue pot!
There are so many cute ideas on the list! An indoor picnic sounds like such a fun date night idea 🙂 x
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I agree, you can’t go wrong with chocolate! I had some success with hot fudge sundaes! Thanks for the plethora of ideas.
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My partner and I are having a valentine’s evening of board games, wine and making a meal together! These are all great suggestions x
That sounds like so much fun!
These are great ideas 🙂 We prefer date nights in and usually watch a movie with snacks. I love the idea of the indoor picnic, I might have to plan something 🙂 xx
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Love these dates ideas (even though I’m single lol)! I’m planning to have a coffee date with my friend (singles buddies) or buy something for myself x
That sounds lovely!
So many great ideas! I’ve always wanted to go stargazing/take photos of stars!
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These are very lovely ideas Tash, thanks for sharing! Playing board games with my partner would be great for Valentines! x Penny/ whatdidshetype.blogspot.com
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