First: Shopping. If you still need to grab a great gift ahead of the day, there are plenty of great local options at Heart Mercantile, Luna Gifts & Botanicals, or Agnes & Orson's new location, which is slated to be open by early February.
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Credit: Contributed photo
Learn to swing dance: Being able to swing your partner around and up and down is indubitably romantic. Between SwingOutDayton, Gem City Swing, Dayton Ballroom Dance Club, and Ballroom Dance Dayton, you can find a swing dancing class any day of the week.
Credit: Tom Gilliam
Credit: Tom Gilliam
Do you both love beer? How about a Tour de Breweries? Park in the Oregon District and walk to four fantastic breweries within a mile radius of each other. Or, splurge on an Uber and tour as many area breweries as you can from our brewery guide, without worrying about driving home.
>> Dayton's craft beer walking trail is growing
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Take a couple's cooking class and eat your heart out. Classes run about $135 per couple and can be found at Dorothy Lane Market's Culinary Center, The Little City Cooking School in Oakwood or The Learning Kitchen in West Chester Twp. Classes fill up fast, so plan a month in advance.
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Celebrate under the stars, without dealing with winter weather. The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery is hosting a public event on Valentine's Day in the Planetarium, featuring classic love songs, fun couple's trivia, and timeless love stories set to full dome Digistar 5 special effects. Details & registration info here.
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Hit up your closest Esther Price location or Oakwood's new Madame Delluc's Artisan Chocolatier and stock up on sweets to share with your sweetheart. You can customize and build your own box of chocolates, and test out samples of everything first. Couple it with a nice bottle of bubbly — we'll even help you pick it out.
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Customize your perfect three-course meal by planning an epic restaurant tour. Hit up three separate — but nearby — eateries for an appetizer, entrée and dessert. Be adventurous and test out at least one place you've never been … you may even get that dessert to go!
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Take a day or weekend trip over to Lebanon or Waynesville — you can give yourselves new names and pretend to be completely different people! Or squirrel away for a weekend, rent a cabin in Hocking Hills and take the annual Sweethearts Hike. What could be more romantic? We've got plenty of ideas for activities within driving distance of downtown Dayton.
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Be kids together again! Take your date go-kart racing, sip wine while creating artistic masterpieces, or play some laser tag for epically fun memories.
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