Budget Breaks For Valentines Couples by Anna Stenning

How easy is it to find Valentines breaks that won’t break the bank? For most of us the months following Christmas are a little tighter than usual in the savings department, therefore spending out on a romantic night or weekend away in February seems a bit extravagant, but why should this be?

This year I have made up my mind that I will scour every source available to find Valentines breaks on a budget, purely and simply because it would be great to spend some quality time with my man on a day that is all about celebrating your love for that someone special in your life.

Since having children, money has been tight, there has always been something to pay out for, a school trips, school uniform, and football kit for example, which has meant that we treat ourselves less and less, this year it will be different. Being a parent as many of you will agree, tends not only to drain resources some what, but also have a huge impact on quality adult time you have together, so for just this one day of the year I am putting us first.

When I say I have been searching for Valentines breaks on a budget, what I really mean is that I don’t particularly want to be paying through the nose for a weekend away which, on the average weekend would be reasonable but because it’s Valentines weekend you end up paying top dollar except nothing much has changed.

I’m sure there are plenty of hotels out there offering the full works, the idyllic romantic setting, roaring log fire welcoming you, candlelit dinner in an ambient surround, relaxing drinks in the lounge, followed by your luxury room with four poster bed and luxury Valentines hamper supposedly thrown in for free, but then you then notice the price! Your dreams are now shattered, as the price resembles the same as a week’s family holiday on the Costa Blanca or a small mortgage and its back to the drawing board!

Valentines breaks need not cost the earth though, I am not setting my sights too high, but with that I don’t want to lower the standard of my weekend either, I have found a quaint little country Inn offering just that. My Valentines break will be special for us, still a romantic location we will have dinner served to us for a normal price, real home cooked dinner, after dinner we will still be able to relax in a lounge with a bar in the corner and perhaps some light atmospheric music in the background, our bedroom won’t have a four poster bed, not even a luxury hamper, but it does have an en suite, double bed and no children! What more could we ask for? Nothing, purely and simply we are just spending time together, which is a treat in itself.

I have had so many Valentines days which although have been very nice have consisted of, husband getting home, sitting down to a last minute candlelit dinner with the children still awake, trying to relax in front of the television with a glass of wine before putting the children to bed and having the usual gifts of chocolates or a cuddly novelty teddy saying ‘I love you’ on its t-shirt.

This year gifts will not be necessary, children will not be allowed and cooking of dinner will be left to somebody else (and the washing up!) and just maybe we will even be able to enjoy quality time in our room, even if that’s watching the television from bed with a box of chocolates, undisturbed.

Now when I think of my simple, low cost valentines break, I think you could probably offer me one of the most expensive Valentines breaks available, but they still wouldn’t match up to my Valentines break on a budget!

Anna Stenning Looks into the wide variety of Valentines Breaks available for couples on a budget, do all breaks increase in price because of Valentines Day?

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