Central Florida Date Night Ideas

Date nights are a must for keeping your relationship new and fresh – no matter what season of life you’re in. Here’s a list of some awesome date night ideas. We even included some great options right in Central Florida!

 

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Date Nights Ideas for Foodies:

1. Eat at a new restaurant together (Café Tu Tu Tango or Boxi Park)
2. Satisfy your java fix at a trendy coffee shop (Axum Coffee, Drunken Monkey Coffee Bar or Orlando Cat Café)
3. Grab a drink at a unique bar (The Courtesy Bar, Mathers Social Gathering or Cocktails & Screams)
4. Go out for ice cream ( Kelly’s Homemade Ice Cream or Twistee Treat)
5. Check out a local food truck event (Tasty Takeover in the Milk District or Disney Springs Food Trucks)
6. Go to a build-your-own pizza bar (Mod Pizza or Blaze Pizza)
7. Bake something together (Publix Apron’s Cooking School  or Truffles & Trifles)
8. Try a Dinner Show (Pirates Dinner Adventure, Mango’s Tropical Café or The Royal Palm Dinner Train)

Photo By: KMD Creations Photography & Film

 

Date Nights in the Great Outdoors:

1. Try for a Hole in One (Pirate’s Cove Adventure Golf, Top Golf or Winter Summerland at Disney)
2. Have a Picnic in the Park (Leu Gardens or Bok Tower Gardens)
3. Hike Hand-in-Hand (Seminole-Wekiva Trail or Ocala National Forest)
4. Spend the Night Under the Stars (Observatory at Orlando Science Center or the Planetarium at Seminole State College)
5. Live the Lake Life (Swan boat ride on Lake Eola, Paddle Boarding with Lake Life Paddle or Tubing at Rainbow Springs)
6. Pick Your Own Flowers or Practice Building a Bouquet (Southern Hill Farms or Mick Farms)
7. Bioluminescent Kayaking (A Day Away Kayak Tours or Get up and Go Kayaking)
8. Have a Shoot-Off with Trap & Skeet (Mission Inn Resort’s El Cazador)

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Rainy Day Dates:

1. Check Out a Movie (Enzian Theater or Silver Moon Drive-In)
2. Grab Some Quarters & Get Your Game On (Player 1 Video Game Bar or Joysticks Arcade Lounge)
3. Get Locked In at a Local Escape Room (The Escape Effect, Lockbusters or Escapeology)
4. Laser Tag (Ultrazone Extreme Laser Tag, Warrior Sports Park or Main Event Entertainment)
5. Throw Axes Together (Epic Axe Throwing Orlando)
6. Muse Around a Museum (Science After Sundown at Orlando Science Center) (1^st Thursdays at the Orlando Museum of Art)
7. Stay home and play board games or check out The Cloak & Blaster
8. Check Out Some Intense Virtual Reality Gaming (The Void – Disney Springs)

Photo by: Heather Rice Photography

 

Date Nights for your Inner Artist:

1. Take a Pottery Class Together (All Fired Up)
2. Make a Woodworking Craft for the House (Hammer & Stain)
3. Swing by a Local Art Festival (Mount Dora Art Festival or Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival)
4. Go to a Play ( Phillips Performing Arts Center, Orlando Shakes or The Ice House)
5. Sing Karaoke Together (CityWalk’s Rising Star or Big Daddy’s Orlando)
6. Paint Some New Wall Art (Painting with a Twist)
7. Check out a Comedy Show (Sak Comedy Lab or The Improv Orlando)
8. Participate in Open Mic Night (Open Mic Orlando)

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Date Nights We Couldn’t Forget:

1. Go on a Scavenger Hunt (City Hunt, The Go Game or Operation City Quest)
2. Volunteer Together (Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando, Give Kids the World or Feeding Children Everywhere)
3. Say Cheese! (Engagement Session with KMD Photography or a Boudoir Session with Bumby)
4. Get Matching Tattoos (Hart & Huntington Tattoo Co. at CityWalk)
5. Visit a New Place Neither of You has Been (Disney’s Boardwalk or Tarpon Springs)
6. Go to a Trivia Night (Yellow Dog Eats Café or Toll Road Brewing)
7. Check Out a Local Brewery (Mount Dora Brewing, Castle Church Brewing or Orlando Brewing)
8. Have a Couples Spa Getaway (Spa Marbella at Mission Inn Resort)Photo By: Cricket’s Photo & Cinema

Looking for more date night ideas?

Come visit us at Mission Inn Resort where you can enjoy one of our many restaurants, a round of golf one of our two championship courses, spa services and boating and fishing on Lake Harris.

Photo By: Cricket’s Photo & Cinema