Ø      Cruise the Caribbean on a private boat with your own crew, stopping in ports for shopping, activities and meals.  Or stay onboard and swim boat side, and scuba dive, fed by your own chef.

 

Ø      Go to a spa in Arizona, New Mexico or California.  Stay the weekend and be pampered, massaged and fed.  Swim and work out, take long walks and enjoy great, healthy food.

 

Romance on a Budget

All of this sounds great, doesn’t it?  But what if you just don’t have the money to fly to Fiji and stay in a thatched roof hut for a week? 

 

Here are some great romantic ideas you can pull off for a small investment and some of them don’t cost much at all. 

 

Of course you WILL have to eat, but other than that, the investment is minimal.  

 

Ø      A stay-at-home weekend with the phone, TV and other disturbing devices unplugged.  Plan a ‘full your fantasy’ weekend.  Get your food in the house and plan things to satisfy your partner. 

 

You can plan to split the weekend so that you spend Saturday pampering your partner and they spend Sunday pampering you, or split morning and afternoon pampering.  Whatever you prefer! 

 

Be sure to have candles, wine, massage oil, and other romantic tools on hand and luxuriate in each other’s company. 

 

Music is allowed, but no TV, computers or cell phones.  Don’t answer the door!

 

Ø      A camp-out weekend on the beach, with a picnic basket, a blanket and the stars, and a great bonfire. 

 

Ø      A camping trip to the woods, with the tall pines watching over your campfire at night.  Plenty of good camp fire food (steaks or marinated fish, wine, bread, etc.)

 

Ø      An old-fashioned town fair weekend staying at a bed and breakfast and going to the county fair.