Good Date Ideas

From the very first post I admitted that I’ve struggled in the past to find good date ideas. I review products online but only ones that I have personally used so finding a product to help me personally and also review it for others seemed like a great idea. So…I bought and read Michael Webb’s, 300 Creative Dates and here is my honest, in-depth review of the book.

Click here to visit Michael Webb’s 300 Creative Dates Official Website

STRENGTHS:

• There are quite a lot of good date ideas.
• Many are fairly unique or at least have a new twist on a date idea you’ve already heard of.
• There is a lot of variety to the ideas for dates.
• There are ideas all the way from first dates to date ideas for couples.
• There are some fairly useful tips on how to have a good date experience.
• Most are fairly inexpensive date ideas.
• For me many of the ideas inspired me to come up with some good date ideas of my own.
• There’s a 60 day money back guarantee.
• You can download this eBook and some bonuses right after you buy it.

WEAKNESSESS:

• Not all of the ideas fit what my wife and I like to do and I’m sure it will be the same for you.
• A small number of the ideas were kind of cheesy.  Fortunately not too many though.
• There were some references in the book that showed its’ age a little.  The ideas were still relevant but just certain references to technology, etc. showed that the book is a few years old.  It was kind of amusing but I think they should update these.

OVERALL:

The book 300 Creative Dates mostly delivered what I was hoping for.  There are a lot of free lists of date ideas on the web but most of them didn’t really help me much.  The ideas were either not something we like to do, something we already knew about, or just about a place to go. The book kind of gave advice on how to make each date idea special. Not just where to go but how to combine things to make the overall experience fun and romantic! Again, not every date idea was for us but enough were that this book really got me going in the right direction.

I hope this review was helpful.

Randy.

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It’s Friday evening and suddenly it dawns on me that my work week is done and it would be nice to have some good date ideas for the weekend. I thought about a movie but that sounds pretty predictable and my wife only kind of likes going to the movies. We could go to the park but it’s really hot and we’ve been doing that a lot lately. It’s a pretty good place to go on a date but like anything else you don’t want to burn it out.

We’ve got to eat anyway so I think we’ll go to a little restaurant that has great food and a nice outdoor eating area. During dinner I’ll ask my wife if there’s anywhere she’d like to go do some window shopping. She loves shopping and as long as we’re not in any store too long it’s usually fun for me too.

So it’s now Saturday morning. We had a nice dinner last night and we went to a unique shop that has some really cool and unique home decor stuff. It was a fun date! We only bought a couple of small things but we found lots of other stuff we really liked. We’re thinking of buying a house, hopefully soon, and on the way home we drove through a couple of neighborhoods we’re considering and talked about how some of the furniture and home decor stuff we looked at earlier would fit in homes with different sizes and layouts.

I know this doesn’t really sound like a data idea. We tend to think of dates as having to be super romantic but a lot of the time, at least for couples, you’re just looking for something fun to do together. Also shopping for something that has to do with your future, in our case buying a home, is kind of exciting to do as a couple. So dinner and a shop, not a movie, goes on the list of good date ideas.

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There are lots of good date ideas that are fun and inexpensive like going for a walk in a new place. Whenever you’re driving around notice places that look like they might be nice to walk through.

You can also look on a map or in a local guide book for places with trails that look like they might have some nice scenery.

You can also take a picnic lunch or check beforehand to see if there’s a nearby restaurant. What makes this a good date idea is that it gives you a chance to talk and enjoy each others’ company while exploring a new place.

If you like shopping you can walk instead through areas that have lots of shops. Again, the idea is just to walk around, explore, talk, laugh, and have fun. This is a basic but fun date idea.

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While good date ideas can certainly be spontaneous usually a little planning is a good thing. First off what kind of date idea are you looking for? Are you looking for fun date ideas or this time is it more important to find romantic date ideas?

Is it a special occasion or your second date this week? Is it just the Two of you or will you be going with friends? You get the idea. You don’t have to spend hours planning or anything just think about the kind of experience you’d like you and your date to have.

Of course romantic date ideas should also be fun but not all fun date ideas are also romantic. For example, playing board games is something my wife and I love to do. It’s fun but not particularly romantic. Going out to a fancy restaurant is romantic but if it’s too formal that may not be fun for you.

Again just think ahead to what you would want your date to remember from it? This was really fun or boy I sure do love that guy? Maybe both.

In some previous posts I talk a little about some of these things:

Good Date Ideas with Personal Touches
Good Date Ideas That Don’t Cost a Lot
Good Date Ideas for Couples
Good Date Ideas Fashion Shoot Date
Tourist Date Idea
More Good Date Ideas
Good Date Ideas Takes a Walk
Stumped for Good Date Ideas?
Good Date Ideas Including a Review of 300 Creative Dates

Hope this helps.

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Last Fall my wife and I took a train ride through the countryside and it is now on our list of good date ideas to do this next fall. I wasn’t expensive. We just had to drive to a nearby town where they offer a train ride to another town and back. The idea is just that the countryside you go though is full of beautiful fall colors. The tickets for the train weren’t expensive either.

For us at least, this was a new experience. We love having little adventures and also a train ride is kind of romantic. The only thing I would have done different was to find a good restaurant before we left. We wound up just getting some OK food at a snack stand. It was alright but I think a real meal would have been a nicer way to finish the date.

Certainly another related date idea that would be at least as fun would be a boat, plane, or car ride through any pretty area. Good date ideas are about spending time together doing something fun. Sometimes I use Trip Advisor or other tourist websites to find ideas like this that we wouldn’t have thought of otherwise.

Have Fun,

Randy.

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My wife and I really enjoy vacations together and we go out on lots of little dates while we’re there. Obviously we can’t go on vacation every week but some good date ideas always seem to come out of each vacation we take.

Basically if we’re trying to think of a fun date idea we just imagine we’re tourists visiting the town we live in. Or one nearby. We research things to do, places to stay, different places to eat, and so on. Then we go and do one or more of those things. It’s a blast!

We’ve gone on train rides and tours and learned a lot of things we didn’t even know about the place we live. It’s also kind of romantic since it feels more adventurous than just an ordinary date.

This is a date idea that I think anyone can use. Just image you’re visiting the place you live and explore and have fun. I’ve even used websites like Trip Adviser to find things in our area that are geared towards tourists. Especially romantic places and ideas.

Hope you find this date idea useful.

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My wife and I went out to just enjoy the day last Autumn and by accident discovered something I think falls well into the good date ideas category.

We saw a beautiful park with lots of fall colors. My wife was wearing this really cute fall outfit so I jokingly asked her to pose and I took some pictures as if I were a famous photographer and she a famous model showing off the latest fall fashions. We had a blast and the photos actually turned out really well. I think so anyway.

I was pleasantly surprised when I later saw this same basic idea in the book, “300 Creative Dates” which I review in a later post. A date idea like this sometimes just happens but it really helps to also have some sources for good date ideas. A book, articles, ideas from friends, and so on.

Anyway, we later did a Winter photo shoot date and same for Spring and the start of Summer. Sounds silly but it really is fun and we enjoy looking at the photos from time to time. Neither of us take it seriously it’s just an excuse to get out and enjoy the seasons in new locations. My Wife also like an excuse to buy nice clothes so it’s only kind of a free date. It’s a really fun and creative date idea!

Stay tuned for more good date ideas.

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When you’re single and unattached sometimes you envy people in relationships who don’t have to come up with good date ideas. After all, they don’t have to go through the nervousness and uncertainty of meeting someone new, asking them out, and then assuming they accept figuring out what to do on your first date. They get to just focus on being together and having fun. Well as a person who’s been married for a few years now I can say that is and isn’t true.

The true part is that yes you don’t have the nervousness,
awkwardness, and uncertainty of the first date. The false part sometimes is that it’s easy to just have fun together. My wife and I have a lot in common and really enjoy each others’ company but still find that it’s easy to get in a rut and become quite bored with the places we go and things we do on our dates. You’d think a good date idea would be easy when you know each other so well but it isn’t. So here are just a few good date ideas to help:

• Double date. This seems obvious but really go out of your way to find nice couples that have similar interests. I think the biggest reason this helps is that more people mean more new and interesting things to talk about. Conversation between two, even very compatible, people can get a little slow. You’ve heard each others’ stories, etc. Also other couple may have other fun ideas of where you might go.

• Make a list of places you like to eat. Make another list of places you like to shop or even just window shop. And finally make a list of nice outdoor places you like to walk or explore. Then just pick one from each list. Be creative! Make other kinds of lists too. Sometimes trying to find one big date idea is hard but if you find a few smaller things to do other things kind of come out of it. You get in the habit of exploring and finding fun new things to do.

• Mix it up. Kind of like the idea above mix more active things with restful relaxing things. This one’s kind of vague but I find just thinks about date ideas this way helps you figure out what works and what doesn’t.

• Find one or more good resources with good date ideas. I have been using, 300 Creative Dates by Michael Webb and have found it to have a lot of good ideas. There are also a lot of free date ideas on the web but I haven’t found too many really good ones. Fun date ideas are more than just places to go. The best ones also have activities and ideas to make the places you go more memorable.

All it takes is a few good date ideas to really make things more fun again. If you find that you and your sweetheart are saying, “I don’t know what do you feel like doing” very often that’s probably a sign that it’s time to look for a new date idea or two. Be fun, playful, and light-hearted about it and you’ll do great!

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Guys tend to think we have to spend a lot to impress our date but good date ideas aren’t really about how much you spend.  While cheap date ideas certainly won’t impress your date neither will expensive date ideas that don’t have any character to them.

The best date ideas are the ones that are creative and fun.  Sounds simple but how do you do it?  Well, according to date expert Michael Webb involving your senses is important.  If you like romantic picnic ideas for example, try finding a spot with moving water like a river or fountain.  This soothing sound will add a lot to the experience.  Again, cheap date ideas are bad but ideas for dates that are genuinely fun and creative and just happen to be inexpensive are fantastic!

Obviously things like picking a time when you’ll see a beautiful sunset enhances the visual aspect of even ordinary romantic date ideas.  You can also involve touch, taste, and smell by doing things like lighting candles, being near fragrant flowers, and good tasting food certainly never hurts either.

So be creative.  Ideas for dates don’t have to be complicated or expensive.  You can do simple things but add nice touches to them that make them romantic and fun.  Good date ideas can be easy.

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In my first post I admitted that I’m pretty sad when it comes to finding good date ideas.  Sometimes it seems even harder when you’re trying to find date ideas for couples.  Ones that you haven’t already done 1,000 times before.  I love my wife and want to do much better at picking fun and romantic date ideas that she’ll love.  So…I recently read an eBook I ran across called, 300 Creative Dates which really did have a lot of good date ideas.  Maybe not all 300 of them but I liked how many of these fun date ideas gave me other ideas of my own.

One of the things the book’s author, Michael Webb, emphasized was that if you know some of your date’s preferences you can use them to make the date idea much more special and memorable.  At first I thought…well I don’t need a dating expert to tell me that.  I already knew to take my wife to her favorite restaurant.  After reading more of the creative date ideas in the book though I realized what he was saying.  It’s more subtle than just a favorite restaurant.  You can take any date idea and just put small touches that are personal to your date.  Intrigued, I decided to try it out.

One day I invited my wife to lunch which is not something I usually do on a weekday.  We stopped off at a nice restaurant she loves but instead of sitting down we got some picnic-style food to go.  I think she was already a little surprised and curious.

Next we went to an awesome park she likes that’s not too far from where we live.  The spot I picked at the park was by a beautiful pond that has lots of ducks.  My wife thinks ducks are, “cute, cure…cute, cute, cute.”  The date was a big hit!  Why?  A picnic in a park isn’t really all that creative.  Going to a restaurant my wife loves isn’t really all that creative.  Knowing that my wife likes ducks and picking that spot, along with good food that I knows she loves along with eating it in a different location is what made all the difference.

I also think a little bit of the fun for her was that she wasn’t expecting it.  She has already talked about it several times since we went on that date.

Again, the lessons I learned are:

• Know what your date likes
• You can pick even common date ideas and make them great with little personal touches
• The fact that you took the time and effort to make it personal will mean a lot to your date
• You will both have more fun when you combine date ideas (picnic at a fun location instead of just going to a favorite restaurant, etc.)
• Creative date ideas don’t have to be expensive or complicated.  Keep it simple, fun, and full of things your date likes.

I’m looking forward to trying more of the creative date ideas in the book as well as coming up with more of my own that are inspired by the book.  I’m actually starting to feel like I might just be able to get good at this.  Stay tuned….

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