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Travel for Couples

Couples travel is its own category — long dinners, slow mornings, and the kind of trip you actually want to share a room for. Here you will find romantic destinations, honeymoon and anniversary ideas, adults-only stays, and itineraries that balance downtime with just enough adventure to make the photos interesting.

  • Monteverde

    Monteverde

    Monteverde’s cloud forest hangs at 4,600 feet with hanging bridges, zip lines through the canopy, and a biodiversity per square meter that makes the muddy trails worth every step.

  • Drake Bay

    Drake Bay

    Drake Bay is one of the few places left where you arrive by boat or plane and leave wondering why the rest of Costa Rica feels so crowded.

  • Krems

    Krems

    Krems sits at the edge of a UNESCO valley where 1,000-year-old vineyard terraces still produce the Riesling poured at dinner tonight.

  • Passau

    Passau

    Three rivers meet at Passau’s tip in different colors — blue, green, and black — and the view from Veste Oberhaus makes it click.

  • Linz

    Linz

    Linz gets overlooked for Vienna every time — which is exactly why it works. A UNESCO City of Media Arts with the world’s oldest cake recipe.

  • Galway

    Galway

    Galway is Ireland’s west coast city with trad music in every pub, the Claddagh, and a gateway to the Aran Islands and Connemara — the Atlantic defines everything here.

  • Hakone

    Hakone

    Hakone is Tokyo’s mountain escape with hot spring ryokans, Lake Ashi beneath Mount Fuji, and a pirate ship cruise that somehow works as serious tourism. The onsen culture is the real draw.

  • Dominical

    Dominical

    Dominical is Costa Rica’s laid-back Pacific surf town — consistent waves, howler monkeys in the trees, and Nauyaca waterfalls a short drive inland. No resorts, just jungle.

  • Fairbanks

    Fairbanks

    Fairbanks sits below the Arctic Circle with the northern lights visible up to 240 days a year, ice sculpture championships in winter, and midnight sun that refuses to set in June.

  • St. Paul

    St. Paul

    St. Paul is Minneapolis’ twin across the river — the state capital with Summit Avenue mansions, a winter carnival that embraces the cold, and a cathedral modeled after St. Peter’s.

  • Joshua Tree National Park

    Joshua Tree National Park

    Joshua Tree sits where the Mojave and Colorado deserts meet — surreal rock formations, stargazing with zero light pollution, and the trees themselves looking like something from another planet.

  • Lübeck

    Lübeck

    Lübeck was the capital of the Hanseatic League with brick Gothic architecture, marzipan that’s been made here since the 1400s, and a Thomas Mann heritage the city wears proudly.

  • Haarlem

    Haarlem

    Haarlem is Amsterdam’s quieter neighbor with a Grote Markt square, Frans Hals paintings, and a canal charm that lets you skip the Red Light District crowds 15 minutes away.

  • Leiden

    Leiden

    Leiden is a Dutch university city where Rembrandt was born, the Pilgrim Fathers left for America, and canal-side museums fill a town small enough to walk in an afternoon.

  • Delft

    Delft

    Delft is Vermeer’s hometown and the birthplace of Delft Blue pottery — a small Dutch city where the canals are quiet, the Nieuwe Kerk towers over the market square, and the ceramics are still hand-painted.

  • Maastricht

    Maastricht

    Maastricht is the Dutch city that feels French — a hilltop fortress, the oldest church in the Netherlands, and a bookshop inside a Dominican church that’s been converted perfectly.

  • Assos Village

    Assos Village

    Assos is a tiny Kefalonia village with a Venetian fortress on the peninsula, a handful of tavernas by the water, and a pace of life that resists everything modern.

  • Upper Sava Valley

    Upper Sava Valley

    The Upper Sava Valley in Slovenia stretches from Kranjska Gora to Bled with Julian Alps framing every view — a valley where ski resorts and emerald rivers share the landscape.

  • Honolulu

    Honolulu

    Honolulu puts Waikiki Beach, Pearl Harbor, and Diamond Head within city limits — Hawaii’s capital is urban in a way that still feels tropical and never feels mainland.

  • Banff National Park

    Banff National Park

    Banff National Park has Lake Louise, Moraine Lake, and the Icefields Parkway connecting it all — the Canadian Rockies at their most photographed and most accessible.

  • The Hague

    The Hague

    The Hague is the Dutch seat of government with Mauritshuis’ Girl with a Pearl Earring, a Scheveningen beach, and an international law identity that gives it gravitas without pretense.

  • Cartagena

    Cartagena

    Cartagena preserves colonial architecture behind 16th-century stone walls along Colombia’s Caribbean coast — the old town’s color, music, and fruit vendors make every street a scene.

  • Kochi

    Kochi

    Kochi is where India’s layered history unfolds across islands and peninsulas — Chinese fishing nets, Dutch palaces, Jewish synagogues, and Kerala spice markets sharing one harbor.

  • Oia

    Oia

    Oia is the caldera-edge village that put Santorini on every bucket list — blue domes, white cave houses, and a sunset that draws hundreds to the castle ruins every evening.