Galloping Goose Ride to Roche Cove

The two-lake, sandy-beach, Garry-oak-trail date fifteen minutes from downtown Victoria that somehow costs nothing except May-to-September parking.

A full Nordic circuit on a restored 1943 barge at Ship Point, three saunas, cold plunges and hot tubs with the Inner Harbour lapping beside you.

Six ziplines and a treetop obstacle course in Langford: the cure for every polite, seated, sitting-across-a-table date.

Victoria's first board-game café, eight dollars buys you all night, a game guru, paninis, milkshakes, and at least one minor dispute.

Downtown's most licensed way to throw sharp metal at things, with a scoreboard that'll tell you everything you need to know.

Forty classic cabinets, twenty-five pinball machines, and the largest pinball collection in Western Canada, in atmospheric Trounce Alley.

Seven galleries, an 1889 mansion, twenty thousand works, and a Japanese garden with a real Shinto shrine waiting out back.

A 120-year-old garden in an old limestone quarry, where Jennie Butchart invented romance out of an industrial problem.

An 18-hole haunted-house mini-golf course downtown with rocking chairs, transforming portraits, and a private ping pong lounge for the rematch.

Nine acres of themed gardens in Saanich, a Takata Japanese garden, and Canada's largest outdoor bonsai collection for a few dollars.

Hold a tarantula at this tiny downtown menagerie of 50 species and discover exactly how brave your date actually is.

Over 13,000 square feet of climbing terrain in Central Saanich, with certified instructors and the world's most naturally occurring flirting.

A 1909 bank vault of a bookshop on Government Street, on every world's-best-bookshop list, and it costs nothing to wander.

The rugged coastal scramble locals call the West Coast Trail you can do in a day, with ancient petroglyphs and the Pacific doing its best.