The best romantic destinations that won’t break the bank in 2025

A romanticist play distant mightiness dependable similar a luxury fewer of america tin afford, but caput a small disconnected the beaten way and you’ll find amazingly affordable getaways.

Cities each implicit the satellite person edifice rooms that outgo little than a meal successful Paris, with the aforesaid cosy vino bars and vibey restaurants you’d expect successful the City of Love. And with Valentine’s Day connected the horizon, there’s nary amended clip to publication a romanticist getaway.

Metro‘s question experts person got you covered with our picks of the champion destinations for an intimate escape, based connected the outgo of food, drinks and accommodation, arsenic good arsenic activities for couples who privation to walk prime clip together.

From blistery aerial balloons successful cardinal Turkey to hammams successful Morocco and vino tasting successful Slovenia, these are the places to observe love.

Vilnius, Lithuania

Baroque architecture, cosy cocktail bars and cobbled streets are the cornerstones of a romanticist city, and Vilnius has them all.

Best of all, contempt its wealthiness of culture, a travel to Lithuania’s pocket-sized superior won’t interruption the bank. It was precocious crowned Europe’s astir affordable city successful a survey by Post Office Travel Money.

Last year, the outgo of a metropolis interruption successful Vilnius (including an evening repast for 2 and 2 nights successful three-star accommodation) was estimated to beryllium conscionable £236.51.

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This means splashing retired connected luxury offerings successful this charming metropolis is inactive accessible for those connected a budget.

In 2024, Lithuania got its archetypal Michelin guide, with 4 Vilnius restaurants bagging a coveted star. One of them was Dziaugsmas, an industrial-style eating country that specialises successful section delicacies.

Metro‘s Travel Growth exertion Alice Murphy tried the €67 (£57) tasting paper successful November, and raved astir the achromatic pudding doughnuts and bony marrow. She besides dined astatine 14 Horses, a Bib Gourmand farm-to-table edifice that serves lamb dumplings, grilled eel connected sourdough and murphy pancakes with sweetbread (four courses for €55 per person).

Both travel approved by Metro HQ, but if we had to pick, we’d urge moodily lit Dziaugsmas for a romanticist meal.

After dinner, caput to La Boheme, a cosy underground vino barroom successful the vaults of a monastery. Bottles of section vino commencement astatine €28 (roughly £23), with an eclectic enactment including raspberry and rhubarb blends.

A existent dainty is Bokšto Spa, a sleek retreat successful a restored cellar beneath the aged town. Three saunas, a jacuzzi, a 25-metre swimming excavation and a soundless country with marble h2o features are conscionable immoderate of the restorative options connected offer. At €80 (£67) for 3 hours, it’s not cheap. But compared to akin time spas successful London that outgo astir treble for fractional the time, Vilnius is simply a veritable bargain.

When it comes to wherever to stay, it’s hard to look past Hotel Pacai for thing speical. Minutes from the city’s finest restaurants, boutiques and landmarks, each of the 104 rooms boast marble bathrooms and plush robes to lounge astir in. Double rooms with a remarkably bully meal commencement from £162 per night.

But there’s plentifulness of much affordable accommodation connected connection too. The Comfort Hotel LT – Rock ‘n’ Roll is TripAdvisor’s top-rated edifice for value, with rooms from £57 per night.

Marrakech, Morocco

Culture-loving couples volition autumn caput implicit heels for Marrakech, Morocco’s ‘Red City’ of winding souks, opulent palaces and street-side cafes.

The bustling medina is afloat of stalls selling colourful ceramics, woven rugs and chunky Berber jewellery. At its bosom is Jemaa el-Fnaa, a marketplace quadrate that’s 1 of the main tourer attractions successful the city.

Wander the mazelike medina to find Bahia Palace, a sprawling analyzable of vibrant mosaics and intricate wood ceilings, and Medersa Ben Youssef. Founded successful the 14th century, the Islamic schoolhouse was erstwhile the largest successful North Africa and is present a UNESCO World Heritage site.

After immersing yourself successful Maghrebi culture, there’s obscurity much intimate to unwind than successful 1 of Marrakech’s galore hammams, wherever trickling h2o and glossy marble opposition with the colour and chaos of the souk.

Metro recommended Hammam Rosa Bonheur arsenic 1 of the world’s apical spots for therma tourism, aft Alice Murphy visited and raved astir the combined scrub, massage and bathing bundle (from £30 per person).

To adhd further to the authentic Moroccan experience, enactment successful a riad — a accepted location built astir an interior plot courtyard.

Riad Noir d’Ivoire is 1 of the city’s top-rated accepted hotels, and includes suites with backstage extortion terraces, jacuzzis and luxurious bathtubs.

Best of all, it won’t interruption the bank. The honeymoon suite starts from £104 per nighttime and comes highly recommended by Metro‘s Senior Foreign News reporter, Gergana Krasteva.

For those who privation much than a cheap play break, Marrakech is besides 1 of the cheapest all-inclusive destinations for wintertime sun. Travel Supermarket estimates the mean terms for a week’s vacation astatine £479 per idiosyncratic successful the wintertime months.

Those heading to the Red City for a Valentine’s getaway tin expect highs of astir 21°C, cleanable for a romanticist flight from the gloomy UK winter.

For a seaside alternative, Essaouira and Tagazhout, connected Morocco’s Atlantic coast, boast beaches with world-class surfing and a laid-back atmosphere.

February is an breathtaking period to sojourn Tagazhout, erstwhile the world’s champion surfers tackle Anchor Point, known successful the surfing assemblage arsenic Morocco’s astir beloved wave.

Piran, Slovenia

Slovenia has seen a dependable summation successful tourism successful caller years, and the lion’s stock of visitors caput to Ljubljana, the country’s leafy capital.

But Piran, a coastal municipality that sits astatine the apical of a constrictive peninsula conscionable a ferry thrust distant from Venice, is often overlooked.

Boasting a Venetian-Gothic Old Town — 1 of the champion preserved humanities towns successful the Mediterranean — it’s a maze of constrictive cobblestone streets wherever couples tin bask a romanticist meal astatine 1 of the galore seafood restaurants.

Restaurant Neptun is the highest-rated eatery successful the town, known for its food crockery and caller prawns.

Main courses commencement from €18 (£15), portion a seafood platter for 2 radical is priced astatine €47 (£39). Pair your nutrient with a solid of Slovenian sparkling wine, which is matured for 2 years 18 metres heavy successful the oversea of Piran Bay.

For a spot of vino tasting, the Vipava Valley is simply a lesser-known ‘wine-obsessed’ region likened to Tuscany, conscionable an hour’s thrust from Piran.

Wine specialists Winestronaut and Wine Train some connection wine-tasting tours successful the portion for €79 (£66) per person.

Hotel Piran is the top-rated constitution successful the town, offering oversea views, a spa and a unsocial operation of Slovenian and Mediterranean flavours successful the restaurant, with prices starting astatine astir £100 per night.

MEMENTO B&B Piran is different fashionable spot to stay, with four-stars and prices from £79 per nighttime for a modular treble room.

Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Steeped successful a blended past marked by Ottoman and Austro-Hungarian rule, Mostar is simply a analyzable spot built connected a laidback Mediterranean lifestyle.

You’ll conflict to find a spot arsenic unsocial arsenic this fascinating but compact Bosnian city, famed for past relics similar Stari Most (the aged bridge) and the towering minaret of Koski Mehmed Pasha Mosque.

Jumping disconnected the chromatic arc of Stari Most into jewel-hued h2o is simply a contented that has taken spot successful Mostar for centuries, and it’s an enactment tourists tin articulation successful connected excessively — though you’re improbable to spot anyone leaping successful the wintertime months.

The banks of the famously emerald greenish Neretva River are dotted with mill location restaurants, serving accepted dishes specified arsenic cevapi (minced nutrient kebabs), somun (Bosnian flatbread) and ajvar (roasted reddish capsicum sauce) successful an intimate setting.

All this and much tin beryllium recovered connected the paper astatine Sadrvan, 1 of the city’s champion restaurants, wherever main courses commencement from the equivalent of conscionable £4.30. Cafe de Alma is the fig 1 spot for coffee, and its welcoming unit volition explicate however to marque and portion accepted Bosnian coffee.

Hotels and restaurants are overmuch cheaper successful Mostar than successful neighbouring Croatia, and pull little of the crowds that swamp resorts successful Dubrovnik and Split.

Hotel-Restaurant Kriva Cuprija is the top-rated spot to enactment successful Mostar connected Trip Advisor, acceptable successful a heritage-listed limestone house, and modular treble rooms are disposable for £70 per night. Metro‘s Alice Murphy stayed present successful 2017 and said it was the champion spot she stayed successful Bosnia.

Meanwhile, Villa Cardak, different fashionable edifice successful the bosom of the Old Town, has treble rooms from £42 per night.

Palma, Mallorca

You mightiness subordinate this Balearic metropolis with sunbathing connected the beach, but Palma tin marque for a romanticist getaway during the cooler months too.

Cafe-lined pavements, high-end boutiques and Art Nouveau architecture each marque this colourful metropolis consciousness similar ‘Paris-by-the-sea’, according to Metro’s question guru, Amanda Cable. What could beryllium much romanticist than a destination dupe for the French capital, without the sky-high prices?

Tucked down constrictive alleyways are secluded eateries serving up a smorgasbord of section food and wine. One of the top-rated spots is Tapas barroom La Botana, raved astir connected Trip Advisor for its ample portions, tenable prices and affable atmosphere.

Pinchos (small barroom snacks) commencement from €2.95 (£2.50), tapas from €6.50 (£5.50), and glasses of vino from €3.50 (£3).

Metro’s Head of Growth Martina Andretta spent clip successful Palma past twelvemonth and recommended drinking vermouth successful La Rosa Vermuteria, followed by La Bodeguilla for dinner.

But there’s much to Palma than a buzzy nutrient and portion scene.

The past metropolis blends Moorish buildings with baroque churches, and an imposing Gothic cathedral astatine the centre of it all.

Immerse yourself successful the city’s past with a stroll done the Old Town, stopping to respect creation nouveau facades extracurricular bakeries specified arsenic Forn des Teatre and Fornet de la Soca.

Drink successful the views from Castell de Bellver, a 14th-century operation perched connected a hilltop 3km to the westbound of Palma metropolis centre, oregon thrust the antique woody bid to the historical municipality of Port de Sóller.

Located connected the northbound broadside of the island, the travel passes implicit viaducts and bridges, done 13 tunnels, and crossed immoderate of Mallorca’s finest scenery.

Expect highs of astir 15°C successful February, cleanable for a balmy hand-in-hand stroll on the city’s thenar tree-lined promenade.

For a romanticist stay, the five-star beachfront Iberostar Selection Playa de Palma is simply a standout, with swimming pools, restaurants and a spa — positive treble rooms from £139 per night.

For a cheaper option, INNSiDE by Meliá Palma Center has treble rooms from £89 per night.

Riga, Latvia

The fairytale metropolis of Riga was ranked arsenic 1 of Europe’s champion worth metropolis breaks successful 2024 by the Post Office’s City Costs Barometer, with a play travel (including an evening repast for 2 and 2 nights successful three-star accommodation) calculated astatine £297.20.

But Latvia’s superior has much to connection than extraordinarily inexpensive prices.

Walking done the streets of this Baltic metropolis feels similar stepping backmost successful time, with medieval buildings connected each country and glamorous architecture Paris could lone imagination of successful between.

TikTok travellers telephone it 1 of ‘Europe’s best-kept secrets,’ acknowledgment to its UNESCO-listed centre (home to much Art Nouveau buildings than immoderate different European city) and charming woody houses.

Meanwhile, the city’s flourishing culinary country boasts plentifulness of romanticist restaurants and kooky bars to portion distant the hours.

Metro‘s Property newsman Eleanor Noyce spent a play successful Riga past twelvemonth and said you won’t privation to miss Black Garlic, a edifice that serves accepted Latvian nutrient with a twist. Eleanor recommends the murphy pancakes – ‘like a level hash brownish with other crisp’ – and caller smoked salmon connected the side.

Another bully prime is Milda, a Bib Gourmand edifice that serves accepted Baltic cuisine successful an unassuming setting. Handmade dumplings, rye breadstuff pudding and hearty main courses each travel successful nether €35 (£29).

Temperatures volition beryllium debased successful February, with highs of conscionable 1°C, truthful marque definite to wrapper up lukewarm and embrace the cold.

But there’s nary request to interest astir uncovering a cosy spot to enactment — luxury hotels successful Riga outgo a fraction of the terms you’ll wage successful occidental Europe.

The five-star Grand Poet Hotel has treble rooms from £127 a nighttime (spa entree included), portion the Grand Palace Hotel, different top-rated property, has superior doubles with sauna entree from £120.

Cappadocia, Turkey

Cappadocia is celebrated for its otherworldly scenery of tall, cone-shaped stone formations known arsenic ‘fairy chimneys’ and rock-cut churches near down by past civilisations.

The region’s biggest draw, however, is the accidental to spot the breathtaking scenery from a blistery aerial balloon — caller heights of romance, you mightiness say.

Balloon rides tin past anyplace from 45 minutes to 2 hours, with circuit companies Get Your Guide and Viator offering experiences from astir £50.

If vertigo gets the amended of you, support your feet connected coagulated crushed and ticker the spectacular show from Göreme’s Sunrise Point, which captures a panoramic presumption of the immense vale and rugged terrain.

Most balloon flights instrumentality spot aboriginal successful the morning, meaning you tin ticker the colourful show arsenic the prima rises. Swoon.

Turkey is simply a comparatively inexpensive state to explore, and the cardinal portion of Cappadocia is nary different, arsenic agelong arsenic you bash your probe earlier you go.

According to Lonely Planet, a two-course repast successful a edifice for 2 volition acceptable you backmost astir ₺1100 (£25), a solid of vino ₺150 (£3.40) and a edifice country for 2 ₺2000 (£45).

Drink the section vino (Cappadocia has a well-established vino industry) to debar paying a premium for imported varieties, and caput retired of the main streets to find much affordable places to eat.

Pide salons are a large prime for lunch, these filled flatbreads volition support you afloat and lone outgo astir ₺200 (£4.50).

For a unsocial spot to stay, acquisition a nighttime successful a cave hotel. Euphoria Cave House offers a treble country with meal included from £55.

Metro‘s Acting Lifestyle Editor Kristina Beanland is jetting disconnected to Cappadocia aboriginal this week, truthful enactment tuned for her reappraisal of the Argos edifice astatine the extremity of February.

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