Destinations

59 Romantic Things to Do in Florida for a Couple

• September 22, 2021

Florida is famous for its beaches, theme parks, natural sceneries, and orange orchards. It has abundant sunshine and, a warmer subtropical climate makes it ideal for couples and tourists. Romance starts from a walk on the beautiful pristine beaches with clear water with views of mesmerizing sunrise. Enjoy water sports, scuba diving, and snorkeling. The day ends with a romantic candlelight dinner witness the gorgeous sunset.

Florida has many historical sites well preserved, and restored mansions, factories, hotels, and more give a glimpse into the past. Stroll around the best shopping area ranges from luxury boutiques to street stalls. Florida has a rich culture shown in different festivals held all around the year. Enjoy the art, music, and food presented on the streets of Florida.

1. Bok Tower Garden

Bok Tower Gardens is an enchanting lush garden and bird sanctuary contain 126 species of birds located north of Lake Wales, Florida. The gorgeous garden was created by Edward W. Bok and his wife spread on 250-acre. Main attractions are the 205-foot tall Singing Tower with its carillon bells, Pine Ridge Trail, Pinewood Estate, and a visitor center.

2. Drive-In Movie Theaters

Experience the nostalgic memories of your childhood by watching a classic or new movie at the Drive-In theater. Florida still has most of the Drive-In fully working across the state. Enjoy the romantic night with your partner at Drive-In theaters.

3. Fishing

Fishing is something you must experience on Florida's eastern and western coasts of the state. Florida is famous for saltwater fishing. They also offered fishing tours for the beginner who wants to wet their feet. You can catch spotted Sea trout, snook, red drum, largemouth bass, panfish, grouper, snapper, and many more.

4. Butterfly World

Butterfly World is the largest butterfly park in the World, located in Tradewinds Park in Coconut Creek, Florida. It opened in 1988, houses around 20,000 live butterflies. The butterfly world is divided into 8-regions contains species according to the region of the World.

5. Everglades Tour

Everglades National Park offers world-famous airboat tours. The famous attractions are Swamp Buggy Tour and enjoy the natural beauty of a cypress forest and, the animal safari view tigers, lions, otters, and over 100 alligators in Animal Sanctuary. Also, visit the gift for cool refreshments and souvenirs from Everglade park.

6. Club Med

Club Med is a 4-star all-inclusive luxury hotel set on the East Coast of Florida Sandpiper Bay stretched along the St. Lucie River, with lush greenery. Enjoy the all-inclusive ski, water, and land sports, cruise, scuba diving, golf, and a spa and fitness center.

7. Florida Museum Of Natural History

The Florida Museum of Natural History exhibits that focus on the flora, fauna, fossils, and historical peoples of Florida state, located at the University of Florida. Discover the biological richness and cultural heritage of Florida. The museum does not charge for admission fee for most exhibits exceptions are the Butterfly Rainforest and traveling exhibits.

8. Art Basel

Art Basel is a for-profit, privately owned, and manage international art fair and staged annual shows at Basel, Switzerland, Miami Beach, Florida, and Hong Kong. Art Basel works in collaboration with 4,000 emerging contemporary artists, attract a large flock international audience. The fair showcases artwork like paintings, sculptures, photography, film, and digital art.

9. Daytona 500

The Daytona 500 is a 500-mile-long NASCAR Cup Series motor race held annually in the month of February at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida. The race only takes place once a year, the track is available for viewing, visiting, and tailgating all year round. Also, you can enjoy a tour of the speedway, attend a smaller-scale event or race, and get tickets to a country music festival held in the stadium.

10. Ed Leedskalnin's Coral Castle

Coral Castle is a sculpture garden built by one man, Latvian-American eccentric Edward Leedskalnin. Leedskalnin single-handedly and secretly spent more than 28 years carved over 1,100 tons of coral rock and created one of the World's most mysterious monuments. The sculptures form walls, carvings, furniture, and a castle tower.

11. Busch Gardens

Busch Gardens are two amusement parks owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. Busch Gardens in Tampa is a house of 12,000 animals from 300 different species. The park offers an animal safari tour in an open-air vehicle across the 65-acre Serengeti Plain. The park is a heaven for thrill-seekers has the best roller coaster and thrill rides.

12. Discovery Cove

Located in Orlando, Discovery Cove is a theme park owned and operated by SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment. The park offers to interact with a range of marine animals including, bottlenose dolphins. You can swim, play, talk, and touch bottlenose dolphins. An underwater tour is a fascinating feature of this theme park where the visitors wearing a dive helmet allow to touch unique marine life.

13. Munch On Delicious Seafood

Florida's fishermen catch grouper, pompano, mullet, stone crab, pink shrimp, spiny lobsters, and Spanish mackerel. You can enjoy delicious seafood at Lynn's Quality Oysters, Boon Docks Restaurant, Dixie Crossroads, Dewey Destin's Harborside Restaurant, Up the Creek Raw Bar, Apalachicola,

Killer Seafood, Mexico Beach, and Key Fisheries, Marathon.

14. Coconut Grove Art Festival

It is the largest outdoor art festival held in February for three days. The art show features the artwork of 360 internationally recognized artists in different mediums. The festival celebrates fine art with live music performances and cooking demonstrations with tastings by the celebrity chef. The visitor can enjoy the live music with delicious food along the Biscayne Bay.

15. Ca' d'Zan Mansion

Ca' d'Zan Mansion is the winter house of the former American circus owner, developer, and art collector John Ringling and his wife, Mable. The Mansion is a Venetian Gothic revival architect in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay. After their death, the Mansion is open for public tours featuring different art exhibits and a glimpse of the Ringling lives.

16. Dry Tortugas National Park

Dry Tortugas National Park comprises seven islands set in the west of Key West. The park has impressive coral reefs, marine life, scuba diving and snorkeling spots, turtles, a bird sanctuary, a lighthouse, and a Fort Jefferson, a 19th-century fort. The park is only accessible by boat or seaplane.

17. Ernest Hemingway House

It is a residence of American writer Ernest Hemingway in 1930, situated on the island of Key West in Florida. The house has turned into a museum that honors his life and contributions to society and literature. The museum has famous six-toed cats who live on the museum grounds are descendants of that original cat named Snow White.

18. Castillo De San Marco

The Castillo de San Marcos is the oldest masonry fort in the United States, built by the Spanish to defend Florida and the Atlantic trade route. Fort is located on the western shore of Matanzas Bay, in St. Augustine city Florida. Constructed from stones composed of tiny fossilized shells and, the soft rock made the fort more resistant to attack by absorbing the impact of cannonballs.

19. Food Festivals

Florida is home to food festivals varying cuisine from the Caribbean to the Southern. The food festivals organize in Florida all around the year. In January, you can enjoy delicious seafood, chocolate, and wines. In February, the month is dedicated to garlic lovers. Florida is heaven for true food lovers all around the year.

20. Duval Street Key West

Duval street is a famous tourist attraction downtown commercial zoned street in Key West, Florida, running north and south from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. The street burst with vibrant day and nightlife posses several trendy restaurants, shops, seafood shacks, and pubs.

21. Everglades Alligator Farm

Everglades Alligator Farm is the oldest farm located outside Miami and near the Everglades National Park entrance. The park offers airboats tours showing off the beautiful scenery of Everglades poses 2000 alligators, snakes, and caimans & crocodiles. The farm features a snake and alligator show and an alligator feeding show, where you can interact with these animals.

22. Mount Dora

Mount Dora is a city in central Florida known for its antique shops and annual festivals. The picturesque town is home to friendly people. The streets crowded with vendors selling art, spices, wine, and unique knick-knacks. The city has a tranquil lake, country inns, outdoor cafes, gourmet restaurants, galleries, and wineries.

23. Augustine Historic District

The oldest city in US State and a busy tourist hub. Historic District furnished with Spanish-Colonial landmarks like the 1600s Castillo de San Marcos and the González-Alvarez House. St. George Street has Old-fashioned shops that sell local crafts and candy. The city is filled with old-timey avenues and unique restaurants that serve Southern and Spanish fare.

24. Gaylord Palms

Gaylord Palms is a luxury resort and, the convention center provides spacious accommodations with top-class amenities. The resort has a family water park Cypress Spring, an elegant spa, fitness center, and three outdoor pools. The resort has an upscale restaurant that serves seafood, three bars, and a coffee shop.

25. Miami Seaquarium

The Miami Seaquarium is a 38-acre oceanarium founded in 1955, located on Virginia Key island in Biscayne Bay, Miami-Dade County, Florida. It features fish, sharks, sea turtles, birds, reptiles, and manatees. You can swim with dolphins, nurse the dolphins, pet the penguins, and interact with stingrays.

26. Stetson Mansion

The Stetson House, built for hat manufacturer John B. Stetson, is a historic home in DeLand, Florida. It presents an excellent example of high-style Victorian architecture designed by the noted architect George T. Pearson in 1886. It is open for guests and showing the embellished halls and rooms of the Mansion.

27. Gumbo Limbo Nature Center

The Gumbo Limbo Nature Center is an environmental complex center operated by the city of Boca Raton. The complex has a butterfly garden, hardwood hammock boardwalk trails, and a touching pool. The center support wild-life by running many programs like guest can adopt a resident sea turtle at Gumbo Limbo.

28. Shopping

Florida boasts some of the best shopping experiences has a wide array of up-scaled shopping malls, prestigious luxury stores, and colossal discount outlets. You can buy vintage items, interior decor, trendy clothes, artworks, glassware, jewelry, and many more.

29. The Orlando Eye

The Orlando Eye is a 400 ft tall giant observation wheel in Orlando, Florida, set at ICON Park Orlando. It runs by the same company-owned London Eye. It is open all seven days of the week and, visitors enjoy the 360 panoramic views of the city.

30. National Naval Aviation Museum In Pensacola

It is a military and aerospace museum located at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida. The museum explains the history of military aviation of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard. It has more than 150 aircraft, helicopters, biplanes, and spacecraft are on display.

31. Woodland Walls

Woodland walls are a unique outdoor destination featuring enormous and colorful street murals, exhibit street art from over 50 well-known graffiti artists from around the globe. It begins in 2009, created by the late Tony Goldman to develop the area pedestrian potential and convert Wynwood's warehouse buildings with no windows into beautiful street art.

32. Legoland

A colorful, family theme park inspired by the construction toy system Lego. The park has rides, tours, a water park, and more kid-friendly attractions. The three different shows of different Lego characters are present by the park. Enjoy the tasty food in the dining court and buy Lego playsets from stores at the park.

33. The Turtle Hospital

The turtle hospital is a small nonprofit organization focus on sea turtle rescue & rehabilitation centers. The Turtle Hospital contains up-to-date equipment needed to perform surgeries on different species and sizes of sea turtles. They offer guided public tours and educate people about the lives, struggles, and rehabilitation of endangered sea turtles.

34. McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary

McCarthy's Wildlife Sanctuary is a home of hundreds of native animals that were sick or injured. They offer exciting and thrilling adventures provides a close glimpse of rare Wildlife in on-site tours. You will see Gila monsters, bearded lizards, rhino iguanas, leopard geckos, tigers, lions, pythons, and eagles.

35. Water Parks

Florida has the elaborated and happening water parks in the United States. The biggest one is in South Florida is Rapids Water Park in Riviera Beach, Florida. It occupies 30 acres features 42 slides, a wave pool, seven-story speed slides, and a quarter-mile lazy river.

36. MLB Springing Training

During February or March, the teams visit the stadiums in many Florida cities to play exhibition games and get warm-up before starting the regular season. Some cities where the New York Yankees play, Jupiter, Fort Myers, and many more are Sarasota, Clearwater, and Tampa. You can catch a ball game at a fair price.

37. Kennedy Space Center

The Kennedy Space Center is the visitor center at NASA's Kennedy Space Center that takes you to infinity and beyond on Merritt Island, Florida. It has a hub for rocket launches and space exploration. Also, possess exhibits and displays to show historic spacecraft and memorabilia, shows, two IMAX theaters, and a range of bus tours of the spaceport.

38. Sea World

SeaWorld is a family theme park and marine zoological park in Orlando, Florida. The park is equipped with hyper rollercoasters, thrilling rides, animal shows, and presentations. You can experience interactions with animals like dolphins, penguins, stingrays, sharks, pelicans, and sea lions.

39. The Ringling Art Museum

The Ringling is a State Art Museum of Florida constructed by John Ringling in 1927. He acquired a hearty Art collection of European Art in the late 1920s. In 1931 the Art Museum open to the public. The Ringling Museum of Art displays the Late Gothic and Renaissance period in Northern Europe from 1350 – 1550. The French artists, Rome and Northern Artists in Rome, 1600-1700, and Art in Italy, 1350 - 1550.

40. Lighthouses

Florida has an impressive collection of lighthouses including, some of the oldest and tallest in the United States. There are thirty lighthouses in Florida. Most of them beautifully preserved and undergone a complete restoration allows visitors to climb their spiraling staircases and take in the dazzling view from their lofty lanterns. Some are not open to the public, are located in public parks, and can be easily viewed at close range.

41. Water Taxi In Fort Lauderdale

Hop on the bright yellow water boat and explore Fort Lauderdale. The water taxi runs from the beach to the shopping and dining district along Las Olas Blvd, the Convention Center, Riverfront, and Hollywood. Enjoy narrated water taxi tour has 11 stops for shopping, eating, and play. Witness the captains and crew's picturesque homes and yachts show South Florida history.

42. Sarasota Opera House

The Sarasota Opera House is a historic theatre that opened on April 10, 1926. It is a three-story entrance containing eight shops on the ground floor, 12 offices on the second floor, and 12 furnished apartments on the third. The theatre auditorium has an orchestral pipe organ. The opera house supports young talent all around the World.

43. Tampa Bay Food & Craft Beer Tours

A 3-hour walking food and craft beer tour around Tampa by local experts guide. A walking journey of history, flavor, and excitement. Taste delicious food and adult beverages from the best local restaurants around town and learn the exciting culture and history of Tampa Bay.

44. Lion Country Safari

Lion Country Safari is America's first drive-through Wildlife preserve and walk-through amusement park located on over 600 acres in Loxahatchee, in Palm Beach County, Florida. Open in 1967, homes to over 1,000 animals like lions, zebras, rhino, and giraffes. You can touch the nose of passing giraffes and zebras by open the vehicle windows. Also, you can pet rhinos and cheetahs.

45. The Wizarding World Of Harry Potter

The Wizarding World of Harry Potter is two theme parks, Islands of Adventure and Universal Studios Florida. The area is themed to the Harry Potter media franchise, adapting elements from the film series and novels by J. K. Rowling. Hop on the Magical rides, experience the fabulous shows, dine in wizard's castle, and gulp down a jug of butterbeer in Diagon Alley. You can also shop things of wizard craft from the stores.

46. Naples Botanical Garden

Naples Botanical Garden is a 170-acre botanical garden located in Naples, Florida. It is a paradise garden that features designs from the finest landscape architects and cultivated gardens of Florida, Brazil, Asia, the Caribbean, and a Water Garden filled with water lilies, lotus, and papyrus. The 90-acre preserve is segmented into seven ecosystems like mangroves, marshes, and untouched forests that houses hundreds of animal species and 300 species of exotic and native plants.

47. Palm Beach Zoo

The Palm Beach Zoo & Conservation Society is a nonprofit zoological organization in West Palm Beach. The zoo houses more than 550 animals, tigers, and other big cats, koalas, sloths, Komodo dragons, Capuchin monkeys, and more within 23-acres of lush tropical habitat. The zoo has Interactive Play Fountain, Wildlife Carousel, Safari Train, and Tropics Cafe.

48. Augustine Distillery

St.Augustine distillery is a working distillery restored in 1907, offers tours and tasting. The distillery was founded by 20 local families and community-owned craft distilling producing world-class spirits. Explore the history and the oldest ice plant of the St.Augustine distillery. Discover how they make their spirits unique and different from others.

49. The Dali Museum

The Salvador Dali Museum is an art museum dedicated to the works of Salvador Dali in St. Petersburg, Florida. The museum catalogs collections of his paintings, sketches, sculptures, and photographs. The main building is a simple rectangle that makes a free-form geodesic glass bubble known as the enigma. Avant garden creates a unique environment of learning and tranquility on the waterfront of Tampa Bay.

50. Ride A Hot Air Balloon In Orlando

Air balloon ride is the most romantic ride on the earth. Many companies in Orlando provide an adventurous and romantic ride for you. You can discover your love in the air while exploring the Orlando spectacular views of the forests, orchards, and waterways of Central Florida. You may also get to see when air balloon high in the sky, Walt Disney World, Epcot, Universal Studios, and Disney Springs.

51. Amelia Island

Amelia Island is a popular holiday destination known for its luxury resorts, golf courses, and several sandy beaches. Live the dream of a romantic sunset horseback ride on Amelia Island beach. It is a once-in-a-lifetime experience as you stroll into the water and wonder at birds and other creatures.

52. Personal Champagne Cart in Destin

Enjoy the romantic dinner on the pristine beach of Destin, Florida, known as the Panhandle. Home to stunning white sandy beaches, emerald green water, and known as the World's Luckiest Fishing Village. You can have a picnic planned for you with a luxury Champagne cart and a personalized playlist. The cart includes Roses, a candlelit dinner, chocolate-covered strawberries, and champagne.

53. Scuba Diving

Florida has the best sites for scuba diving, explore the water with your partner. You can go with Captain's Corner is a fully equipped professional dive training facility and has been a PADI 5 Star Dive Center that has Key West's only on-site training pool.

Hop on the boat and enjoy getting up close with the third-largest coral barrier reef in the World.

54. Sunken Gardens

The Sunken Gardens is a well-established botanical garden set on 4 acres located in St. Petersburg, Florida. This 100-year-old garden is home to some of the oldest tropical plants in the region. The Sunken Garden has meandering paths, lush with exotic plants from around the World. Explore cascading waterfalls, flowers, and a walk-through butterfly encounter.

55. Rosemary Beach

Rosemary Beach is an unincorporated planned community in Walton County, Florida. Rosemary Beach is a trip inside a close-knit social community that offers days on the beach or at one of four swimming pools and evenings relaxing on the porch. Explore boutiques and galleries and dining at the al-fresco.

56. MILA Restaurant

MILA is a 4-star Asian fusion restaurant, rooftop lounge, and mixology bar located in Miami Beach that serves High-end Mediterranean & Japanese cuisine. The 250 seated embrace an elevated dining experience and pleasure together with a magical, glamourous, vibrant atmosphere. Enjoy your dinner with live performance and music.

57. Sandestin Golf And Beach Resort

It is a 4-star luxury resort situated along Miramar Beach, Florida. The resort offers elegantly designed accommodation with top-class amenities. The resort is famous for a couples massage treatment at the award-winning Serenity by the Sea Spa. It has a private room for side-by-side massages and is popular with honeymooners.

58. Lovers Key State Park

Lovers Key State Park is a 712-acre filled with extensive activities and elegant spaces. Florida State Park is located on Lover Key and three other barrier islands Black Island, Inner, and Long Key. Heaven for Wildlife, West Indian manatees, bottlenose dolphins, roseate spoonbills, marsh rabbits, and bald eagles.

59. Vizcaya Museum And Gardens

The Vizcaya Museum and Gardens is the former villa and estate of businessman James Deering, of the Deering McCormick-International Harvester fortune, on Biscayne Bay, Miami. They recently opened up a farmer's market where couples can taste the local cuisine as they explore the farm and village.