It’s easy to heat up your romance on cold winter days! Here are a few suggestions on where you can take your sweetheart while enjoying Kelowna’s cool season.
Slip, Sip and Learn About Wine
Slip & Sip features a self-guided hiking or snowshoeing excursion to the top of The View’s 100 acre estate, followed by an intimate, wine paired cheese and chocolate fondue inside their 100 year old historic winery and cidery building.
The cost is $35 per person and includes snowshoe rental, a flight of five wines, and cheese and chocolate fondue served with fresh fruit and an artisan baguette.
More information and reservations can be found at https://theviewwinery.com/events/
Go for a Skate
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A skating rink can be a lovers’ paradise! Imagine gliding around on ice hand-in-hand with your honey, and you can do it for free in Downtown Kelowna at the Stuart Park Ice Rink if you bring your own skates and helmets.
Open daily from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m., you can take advantage of its proximity to nearby restaurants to prolong your date night. If you need to rent equipment, skate and helmets are available from 11 a.m. to 8 p.m.
Looking for a place to warm up? Head to the fire pit on the north end of the rink, lit daily from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. on weekdays and 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on weekends.
Ski Day
With Big White Ski Resort and SilverStar Mountain Resort only about an hour’s drive away, you have plenty of options when it comes to finding the perfect ski run! Both mountains are open daily until early April and have world-class facilities to accommodate skiers and snowboarders of all levels.
With everything from budget to luxury accommodations available in Kelowna, it’s easy to make a trip to one of our local ski resorts for a romantic weekend getaway.
Don’t ski? The resorts also have day spas, tubing, skating, horse-drawn sleigh rides, snowmobile tours, and more.
Showoff Your Mini-Golf & Arcade Skills
Impress your date with your putting skills at Scandia Golf and Games. With an indoor jungle mini golf course and the largest arcade in Okanagan, this is the place to drum up some friendly competition.
Here’s a tip: if you really want to dazzle your date, get a hole-in-one on the 18th hole to score a free game.
Get a Strike
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Bowling is a fun game that is easily enjoyed with your special someone. It can also be a relaxing ice-breaker activity for first dates since you can always talk about your skills.
Home to several bowling options, here is a list of where you can get a strike around the Kelowna area:
- The McCurdy Bowling Centre features 30 lanes of 10-pin bowling with an on-site brewpub
- Lake City Bowl is a 10-pin bowling establishment with cosmic bowling that starts every night at 7 p.m.
- The Capri Bowling Lanes offers 16 lanes of 5-pin bowling in a licensed facility
- BNA Brewing is a pub and eatery that hosts 6 lanes of by-the-hour 10-pin bowling lanes
