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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.

  • Bad Gastein

    Bad Gastein

    Bad Gastein rises along steep mountainsides with Belle Époque hotels, a waterfall crashing through town center, and thermal springs that have drawn visitors since the Habsburg era.

  • Budapest

    Budapest

    Budapest straddles the Danube with Buda’s castle on one side and Pest’s ruin bars on the other — the thermal baths, parliament building, and goulash are the constants that tie both banks together.

  • South America

    South America

    South America stretches from Caribbean coast to Patagonian glaciers — a continent where the Amazon, the Andes, and a dozen distinct cultures fit between two oceans.

  • Mauritius

    Mauritius

    Mauritius has an underwater waterfall illusion, seven-colored earth at Chamarel, and a Creole-Indian-French culture that shows up best on every dinner plate.

  • Virgin Islands

    Virgin Islands

    The Virgin Islands split between US and British territory with trunk bay snorkeling, Tortola’s sailing, and a Caribbean pace where flip-flops count as formal wear.

  • St. Lucia

    St. Lucia

    St. Lucia has the Pitons rising from the sea, volcanic mud baths you can actually swim in, and a Caribbean setting that makes other islands feel flat by comparison.

  • Dolomites

    Dolomites

    The Dolomites are Italian Alps that don’t look like any other mountains — pale limestone towers, pink sunsets called enrosadira, and via ferrata routes bolted into vertical rock.

  • Northern Italy

    Northern Italy

    Northern Italy runs from Milan’s fashion to Venice’s canals to the Dolomites’ peaks — a region where Lake Como, Verona, and the best risotto in the country compete for your days.

  • Rioja

    Rioja

    Rioja is Spain’s most famous wine region with Haro’s wine battle festival, Frank Gehry’s Marqués de Riscal hotel, and Tempranillo tastings that cost less than a Madrid taxi.

  • Hilton Head Island

    Hilton Head Island

    Hilton Head is a South Carolina barrier island with 12 miles of beach, 24 golf courses, and a bike-path network that makes cars feel optional from check-in to checkout.

  • Rothenburg ob der Tauber

    Rothenburg ob der Tauber

    Rothenburg ob der Tauber looks exactly like a medieval German town should — half-timbered houses, a night watchman tour, and a Christmas shop open year-round inside the walls.

  • Yosemite National Park

    Yosemite National Park

    Yosemite has El Capitan’s 3,000-foot granite face, Yosemite Falls dropping 2,425 feet, and a valley floor that John Muir called the grandest of all special temples of nature.

  • Muscat

    Muscat

    Muscat is wedged between the Hajar Mountains and the Gulf of Oman — the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Mutrah Souq, and a wadis-and-fjords coastline that rival Norway’s.

  • Zion National Park

    Zion National Park

    Zion’s canyon walls glow red and orange with the Virgin River carving through the bottom — Angel’s Landing has chains bolted to rock for the last half mile and the views earn every grip.

  • Kaprun

    Kaprun

    Kaprun has year-round skiing on the Kitzsteinhorn glacier and a village at the foot of the Hohe Tauern range — the Austrian Alps at their most accessible and least pretentious.

  • Saalbach

    Saalbach

    Saalbach-Hinterglemm connects 270km of ski runs across a valley in the Austrian Alps — the Skicircus lives up to its name with après-ski that matches the terrain.

  • Moorea

    Moorea

    Moorea is a 30-minute ferry from Tahiti with volcanic peaks, a lagoon that glows blue-green, and a quieter pace that makes Bora Bora feel like a resort and Moorea feel like an island.

  • Gent

    Gent

    Ghent sits where three rivers meet with a Gravensteen castle, a Michelin-starred food scene, and a student energy that keeps the Belgian city from feeling like a museum.

  • Zanzibar

    Zanzibar

    Zanzibar’s Stone Town is a UNESCO maze of carved doors and spice-scented alleys — the beaches on the east coast are the postcard, but the history is the reason to go.

  • Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv has Bauhaus architecture in the White City, a Mediterranean beach strip, and a nightlife that starts after midnight — Israel’s modern, secular counterweight to Jerusalem.