Alternative Holidays For Active Couples

Dive right in

A diving holiday can be romantic without being contrived. The best place to dive short-haul is the Red Sea, so book a cheap-as-chips week at the new Sea Breeze Resort in Sharks Bay, Sharm El Sheikh and take advantage of the onsite dive centre for daily adventures into the big blue. Despite how built up the area has become, the diving’s still excellent, with an opportunity to spot reef sharks and turtles along with a kaleidoscope of fish. Back at base, chat about your underwater excursions over cocktails at the Shisha barbecue.
Do it! One week in December from £376.60pp including full-board and flights with Monarch Holidays.

Helpful holidays

Instead of lounging around on a cabana-for-two watching sunsets, you could join Hands Up Holidays’ 12-night Bush and Reef tour in Mozambique, part of which includes helping to build a medical clinic alongside people from the local community. Your base, Guludo Lodge, is set on a deserted palm-lined beach and most certainly romantic, however bush walks to find elephants on Rolas Island and a boat trip to Ibo Island, along with the volunteering, keep things exciting enough not to veer into a couples holiday cliché.
Do it!Hands Up Holidays Bush and Reef tour from £2500pp excluding flights.

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Dance off

If you’ve been sitting together in front of Strictly one too many times, perhaps it’s time to get off the sofa and give it a go yourselves. Club Dance’s seven-night Ballroom In Calpe trip, includes daily learn and improve workshops and ballroom and latin for beginners, but also leaves you both plenty of time for sightseeing and lazing around the pool. There’s music and dancing every night, and a farewell dance party on the last evening, so you can show off your new moves together.
Do it! One-week ballroom holiday in Calpe, Spain from £699pp including tuition, accommodation, flights and half-board at the Hotel AR Diamante Beach and Spa. Cick here for more info.

Sail away

Book yourselves in for a week of messing about in boats at Sunsail’s Club Vounaki in Greece. Learn to sail (tuition’s free) or improve your skills, and if that doesn’t float your OH’s boat (groan) there are loads of other activities for either of you to chose from, including tennis, paddle boarding, mountain biking and windsurfing. Evening entertainment, including Greek nights and quizzes, steers you nicely away from any forced romance come night fall.
Do it!Last minute offers include a week in September for £699pp including flights.