Some couples can find themselves in a rut; every Valentine’s Day and anniversary, they dutifully book an overnight in a sweet B&B or private boutique hotel, only to flip on the TV and watch crime dramas until bedtime. This is not what Valentine’s Day weekend getaways are all about! This year, do it right: Have a truly romantic weekend getaway vacation, and consider packing a few surprises for the trip.
Every couple has their favorite getaway vacation spot for holidays like anniversaries and Valentine’s Day; Luxury Travel has several. Pack a romantic gift basket, and bring the love back to the weekend trip.
Recommended Items for a Romantic Gift Basket:
Chocolate is the classic Valentine’s Day gift, but skip the giant Toblerone and add some luxury class, limited batch Valrhona to the romantic gift basket. Valrhona is one of the world’s best luxury chocolates (in an admittedly contentious competition), and the high end chocolate company is always creating new combinations and designs to its dark chocolates. This year, the most romantic chocolate from Valrhona are the new Tradi and Trendy Minis. They are mini chocolates – bite size, hint hint – with a colorful ganache atop the small squares, infused with with orange blossom honey, passion fruit mint, or blackcurrant basil.
Romantic luxury vacations usually involve some champagne – but it’s gotten to be trite. A high-end basket for a high-end trip would be more original with a nice bottle of red wine. After all, red wine is full of antioxidants, which improve heart health. There’s also something sensual about the mouthfeel of red wine, compared to the busy bubbles of champagne. Luxury Travel recommends the spicy, dark fruit flavors of top-rated Syrahs. Good for the heart, and warms the heart; pretty nice.
Lush handmade bath and body products always please. The company’s use of fair trade, organic ingredients whenever possible, and the incredible array of fresh scents in Lush massage bars and lotions makes it hard to choose favorites. The newest romantic gift basket for Valentine’s Day is Lush’s “Long Lost Love Box.” Retired products that long-time customers miss are here: Queen of Hearts soap, It’s a Date bubble bar, Black Magic massage bar, Potion body lotion, and a Kiss Me Klimpt bath bomb. This bath bomb is coated with fine gold dust.
Also from Lush, happily, is the Perfect Match gift set. This includes one solid perfume and soap combo, either honey-scented Honey I Washed the Kids, or Silky Underwear. Luxury Travel highly recommends the Silky Underwear set. The dominant jasmine scent is incredibly romantic. Alkmaar soap, smelling of jasmine and honeysuckle, is part of the package. Add a massage bar to this gift basket to add to the romantic night; one that especially work with the Silky Underwear is the new Lush massage bar, Play Your Cards Right. It’s hard to resist a massage with this one, and hard not to feel very romantic throughout: Jasmine, sage, and ylang ylang complement each other and don’t overwhelm, and the bar melts upon contact with skin (it’s the fair trade cocoa butter that melts). Lush fans will recognize the scent, as its the same as that of the Sex Bomb bath bomb.
