About Date Spark

The research is our job. The date is yours.

Date Spark started in Vancouver, the way most Vancouver stories start: with a forecast nobody trusted and a plan nobody had. Planning a good date here meant forty open tabs, three expired listicles and a group chat that never reached quorum. We thought the research should be somebody's job. So we made it ours.

900+

verified date ideas

cities covered

Free

no catch, no paywall

Verified, every idea

Real hours, honest price tiers, a current rating snapshot and a weather fit - checked and swept so a closed venue never wastes your evening.

The whole evening, built

Pick any idea and the planner builds the date around it: a warm-up stop, the main event, somewhere to wind down, timed to the minute with real travel between stops.

The sky gets a say

The forecast is checked for your actual date, and live events are filtered so only the ones worth building a night around make the list.

Keeping the details current

The Date Spark team checks venue information, organizer announcements and local reporting. Research tools help monitor changes, with dates, prices and practical details checked against primary sources. Found something that needs updating? Let us know.

Start somewhere good

It covers Greater Vancouver and Victoria, and it exists to get you out the door with a plan instead of a debate.

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Questions? Say hello at hello@datespark.ca. A real person reads it.