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10 romantic getaways for every type of traveler

10 romantic getaways for every type of traveler

Depending on your taste, where to celebrate love, chocolate and adventure on the most romantic day of the year

Traveling with your beloved on the most romantic holiday of the year: an adventurous way to celebrate love, or a crucial (and necessary) step to realizing that he or she is not The One? 

Whatever your reasons, there are romantic getaways designed for just about every type of traveler and we've pulled out 10 of them on the off chance you're able to take a vacation this Valentine's Day. 

chocolate tour
Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, samples some chocolate with her valentine in California.
1. Foodies: Gourmet walk, Los Angeles, United States

For those who love to eat more than they love to love, a food tour is the best bet -- and what better place than California?

Six Taste Food Tours provides walks through Los Angeles (a rare occurrence in itself) and the chance to taste test the city's diverse cuisine. 

The company offers seven pre-planned tours, including a Hollywood Food Tour and Thai Town Food Tour, using guides who not only know food, but also know the culture and history behind the selected location. 

Six Taste can also build private tours for two to 200 people (although the larger is probably the less romantic option). And for February only, there's an "Indulgence" Valentine's Food Tour, a limited edition tour that goes through the posh Beverly Hills neighborhood giving tastes of truffle popcorn to the kitchen of Thomas Keller's Bouchon

Six Taste Food Tours; +1 888 313 0936; www.sixtaste.com

Czech Beer Tasting
Soon you'll be taking the "crawl" part literally.

2. Singles: Pub crawl, Prague, Czech Republic

Our recommendation for a group of single friends looking for a great time in a beautiful neighborhood? The Prague Pub Crawl.

The company hosts a Czech Beer Tasting experience, as well as a Beer Master's Brewery Tour

On the Beer Tasting experience guests can get a chance to taste seven beers, both major and micro brewed, many that are unique to Prague, and learn the six steps of properly assessing beer (no chugging here).

But if you're willing to go a little bit crazier, try the Brewery Tour, which takes guests to three microbreweries and offers 10 varieties of Czech beer. Plus, the tour means guests get to travel by tram though Prague's beautiful New Town. Everything is a little bit sexier on a buzz.

Pub Crawl Bar: Dlouha 24, Praha 1, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic; +420 731 067 775; www.beertasting.cz

Round Hill Hotel and Villas
Kids, your mom and dad need some alone time.

3. New parents: Round Hill Hotel, Jamaica

What better way to deal with the kids, than to give them their own vacation?

Jamaica's Round Hill Hotel has been around since the 1950s and was originally meant to be a private getaway for celebrities like Frank Sinatra and JFK. So while the hotel is plush, the atmosphere is homey -- and more than open enough for kids to tear through without judgment. 

Each private villa comes with an expert in-house team, with housekeepers, butlers and chefs who maintain the villas, clean up after the kids and cook breakfast. 

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The hotel also offers a complimentary Pineapple Kids’ Club and 7-Up Club. Round Hill offers a team of nannies, many of whom have been employed for years, who keep the kids occupied with activities such as tie-dyeing T-shirts, driving around the resort in a golf cart or swimming in the calm beach or kiddie pool.

While the kids are having a blast, parents can get their romance on without a worry. 

Round Hill Hotel & Villas: John Pringle Drive, Montego Bay, Jamaica, West Indies; +1 800 972 2159; www.roundhill.com

denmark
Warning: Do not attempt this without helmets.

4. Outdoor lovers: Biking around Denmark 

With more than 10,000 kilometers of marked bicycle routes and mostly flat terrain, Denmark is best explored on two wheels. 

Bike along the 7,314 kilometers of coastline and rest up at one of the many nature camp sites (some are free, some not) or just fly into Aarhus, which has a bus service to take passengers to the railway station.

From there, bike rentals are easy to find, and the Open Air Museum is a short ride away. It has 0.34 square kilometers of land to ride around and shows Denmark as it was in the 1600s to the 1900s -- though much of the focus is on the 1800s, the time of Hans Christian Andersen. 

Picnics are also allowed (so get a bike with a basket). Aarhus also offers a cycle route that takes bikers through the city centre, the City Hall and ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, an art museum that's topped with a rainbow-colored skywalk.

From Aarhus, bikers with stamina can ride to Copenhagen while their jelly-legged friends catch the train. 

Once in Copenhagen, bike by The Little Mermaid statue in Langelinie and then go south, to see the Gefion Fountain in the Nordre Toldbod area and make a wish.

Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen's most famous amusement park with the world's tallest carousel, The Star Flyer, the Pantomime Theatre and several outdoor scenes with live music, as well as fireworks displays at night also count among Copenhagen's offerings. 

Open Air Museum: Kongevejen 100, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark; natmus.dk

Natural History Museum
Natural History Museum's "Sexual Nature" exhibition last year in London.

5. Cash-strapped: Natural History Museum, London, England

Those looking for a special but not too expensive way to be turned on should check out the Valentines Night Safari at the Natural History Museum in London.

For £25-£28 (US$40-45), visitors can check out the museum in the dark and talk with scientists about the birds and the bees -- and opt to go on the "Turn me On" tour or the "Turn me Off" tour. Though the former sounds more appropriate. Or inappropriate.

The "Turn me on" tour displays specimens relating to love in the natural world, while the "Turn me off" tour explores the "scariest, grossest and most dangerous creatures" in the museum's collections.  

Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, United Kingdom SW75BD; +44 20 7942 5000; www.nhm.ac.uk

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