I loved being able to provide you Cheap Daters inexpensive and creative ideas for the last year or so. As you may have noticed, posts have been few the past month because my life travels have taken me out of the Cleveland area, my hometown. While I would love to continue the suggestions and events, taking time to learn my new home and its fun offerings has trumped my desire to continue this project. It shall remain on the Internet, however indefinite.
In my new city, I hope to continue my passion for the cheap with a similar site dedicated to the budget-conscious population. I would love to pass the reigns to someone who would give Cheap Date Cleveland the same love as I have — I never made any money here, as I only wanted to show you that Cleveland CAN be a fun, unique and exciting place for couples of all relationship statuses, ages, backgrounds and wallet size. Feel free to email me, if you are interested: dating@cheapdatecleveland.com
Cheers!
Tags: Goodbye
I love this Cleveland event, and I’m thrilled for its return to our harbor.
FREE! Tall Ships Festival from July 7-10, with plenty of activities, boat tours and fun to last your next four days, located behind the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame at the North Coast Harbor. Tonight, Parrots of the Caribbean (Buffet tribute band, natch) from 6-9pm. Farmers Market on Thursday (grab your lunch date!) with a steel drum band setting the mood. Live music, DJs on Friday and Saturday night. Bring a partner AND your dancing shoes.
Great non-cheap date idea: We will not cater to you ALL of the time, but sometimes it is fun NOT being a cheap date. Thesunset dinner cruise on the Nautica Queen during the Tall Ships festival is a definite exception (and definite Top Ten of my favorite date nights). While decidedly not “cheap” enough for our standards, it really is a fantastic way to celebrate a special occasion, if you got one.
It’s OK. A splurge on an amazing night out is welcome sometimes (and appreciated, if only for its unique and memorable qualities). And “cheap” is all relative, right?
Tags: FREE!·Harborfest·Non-cheap date·Tall Ships
Whew. Cannot believe the last week has flown by so quickly! My bike is on the fritz, so I suppose I don’t need to feel guilt over my love of an air-conditioned apartment.
I didn’t get anything posted last week as I had wished for the huge holiday weekend full FREE! fun in Cleveland. I hope that you have had every bit as fun with your love as I did. And feel free to tell us about the unique, inexpensive places you have discovered in our city in the comments.
If you have upcoming July Cheap Date fun in Cleveland, please send your fliers, links and event info to dating@cheapdatecleveland.com.
Visit our Facebook fan page or Twitter Page (@cheapdatecleve) – if I don’t get here for updates, I get up quick daily or weekly posts there, as well as contributions for our “fans.”
Also, if you are interested in contributing your great date ideas, contact me at that same email.
Best of holiday weekends to you, Cheap Daters!
Tags: holiday
Grab your date and join fellow bike lovers for a FREE! bicycle tour of mass proportions. Meet at Public Square at 6 pm for Cleveland’s monthly Critical Mass. Ride will start promptly at 6:30, circling back around to same beginning point at 7 pm. Ride is approximately two hours, ending at a local bar for a refreshing celebration. Cleveland Critical Mass meets every last Friday of the month.
Weather is going to be AWESOME for this. See you there!
Tags: Bike Love·Cleveland Critical Mass
This is a great suggestion from Positively Cleveland about the WONDERFUL Metroparks that surround the Cleveland-Akron area. There are various events scheduled throughout the year at each reservation, from biking to hiking to outdoor movies and night nature hunts (awesome!). If you have pets, you can even WALK them together on any of the 60 miles of paved, all-purpose trails. Get out the bikes, grab the rollerblades, buy some steaks and stuff ‘em in a picnic basket too. If you just plan the date — you can do it (well not that) in some portion of the park’s 21,000 acres of land.
I’m giving you everything you need (together with Cleveland Plus) to make your next (or first) date more memorable.
Isn’t it about time you explored something together? Aside from each other, OF COURSE.
Tags: Cleveland Metroparks·Outdoors
This Thursday, June 10th, join Cleveland Public Art (CPA), Zygote Press and Ohio City Near West for an event that won’t leave you hungry: Be a Nomad!
From 5:30 pm to 9 pm, Cleveland food cart vendors will feed artists and voyeurs alike in front of CPA’s Ohio City office on West 26th Street. That’s a Happy Hour AND a Dinner Date in ONE, lovers.
Zygote Press artists’ prints will be on display in CPA’s office gallery. Scratch that Double Date scenario, this is a triple-date-threat with a gallery visit as well. Be still my foodie-and-art-lovin heart.
West 26th Street will be closed so we can eat in the street! And I hear there’s a new foodie (sushi pop?!) truck in town, a collaboration between Dante restaurant in Tremont and Dim & Den Sum.
Might I recommend taking the bikes out for this fabulous mild weather week?
Cheap foodie eats, free fine art — this a yummy Cleveland date that makes perfect cents and sense!
Tags: artsy-fartsy date·Be a Nomad!·Bike Love·Cleveland Public Art·Food carts·Foodies Unite!·local arts·Ohio City·Zygote Press
Comedy for the Cure presenting Dave Landau
Featuring Bill Squire, Keith Bender & Josh Womack
Wednesday, June 16th – Doors at 8:30; Show at 9:00pm
Fox & Hound; 1479 SOM Center Rd; Mayfield Hts.
Tickets $8.00 adv; $10.00 door
$3 of each ticket goes to Susan G. Komen
RSVP: Mike Bishara (216) 334-7595
or David Darr (440) 554-1068
Tags: Comedy Date·east side
Throughout the June 11-12 weekend, join Gordon Square Arts District Day for Made in the 216 — featuring local independent designers, DJs, bands and more. More, you say? That’s MORE shopping, MORE music, MORE food (ahem, and BETTER beer).
Special midnight feature of “Out of Place” at the Capitol Theater on June 11. I saw it at the Cleveland International Film Festival this year, and it is a MUST SEE!
Visit Room Service for more information.
Tags: Creative·Gordon Square·local arts·Made in the 216
Bicycle Lovers Stay Together
Cleveland Bicycle Week has arrived! I hope you’ve recovered from last week’s Hooley and Walk+Roll because this Saturday, it’s back to the bike rack with Old Brooklyn’s Pedal for Prizes.
Participants meet at Loew Park and receive a map of twenty merchants & points of interest in Cleveland’s Old Brooklyn neighborhood. Make your way back to the park to submit your tickets to win over $1,000 in prizes (drawing at 3:30 pm).
Old Brooklyn Pedal for Prizes {FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE: If you register on Facebook, you get a “wheel up” on event-day registrants with advance notice of destinations to plan your route}
Date: Activity Date
Pick Me Up: Saturday, May 22, 2010 / Registration at noon; event until 3:30pm
My Place or Yours: Loew Park, Old Brooklyn; 3121 Oak Park Avenue
My Wallet’s Gone!: FREE!
Blind Date: Open to all and helmets are required. Locks are strongly encouraged.
Double Date: Old Brooklyn neighborhood will also display antique bicycles in front of Ameriflag (3307 Broadview Road) OR try Pedal Repulik bicycle polo at Loew Park at 3pm.
Want to Ride Bikes?: Better have your bike (and your health) tuned for this inaugural event.
Cleveland Friendly: Did you know the popular manufacturer of bicycles, Murray, was founded here in Cleveland?
No Thanks, I’m Washing My Hair: Event is open to teams, couples or singles.
Somebody Forgot to RSVP!: Old Brooklyn is bike-friendly throughout the riding season!
Old Brooklyn Pedal for Prizes is a grassroots volunteer endeavor organized by a small group of neighborhood residents and business owners.
Tags: Bike Love·Cleveland Bicycle Week·National Bike Month
Explore a part of downtown with your better half! Take a Hike tours last just a little over an hour, with “guest appearances” by John D. Rockefeller, Frances Payne Bolton and Alan Freed. Impress upon your date your comprehensive Cleveland knowledge, but allow your guides to school you with a bit more concise local history. Do I smell a Trivial Pursuit challenge?
Bring it! Your walking shoes, that is…
Schedule your meet-up on any of the following days from May through September 12):
Tuesdays at 6pm – PlayhouseSquare Tour / Meet at the State Theatre Lobby (1519 Euclid Avenue)
Thursdays at 6pm – Historic Gateway Neighborhood Tour / Meet at The Arcade (401 Euclid Avenue)
Saturdays at 10am – Historic Warehouse District Tour / Meet at Constantino’s Market (1278 West 9th Street)
Sundays at 10am – Canal Basin Park Tour / Meet at Settlers Landing RTA Station (1025 West Superior Avenue, bottom of the hill)
Tours are FREE! (but DCA welcomes your donations to fund future tours). Pending cooperating weather, visit one of downtown’s fantastic outdoor patios. Perhaps the newly-opened Metro Bar + Kitchen in the Warehouse District?
Tags: Be a Cleveland Tourist!·Cleveland urban legends·DCA·downtown·FREE!·Take a Hike!
I cannot tell you how geeked I was after reading this:
The turnaround at the ride’s halfway point will have games of “Spin the Water Bottle for Cycling Truth or Dare” and some yummy slumber party snacks like popcorn, cookies and Twizzlers!
LOVE! Bravo to whomever at Century Cycles or the Towpath Trail planned such a great date night. Like minded bike geeks (and their partners): the Pajama Party Night Ride begins at 8 this Saturday, May 15 in Peninsula.
I’ll be packing my glow-stick jewelry. I hear it complements my skin tone.
RAWR!
Tags: Bike Love·National Bike Month·Pajama Party Night Ride·Peninsula·Towpath Trail
We consider bicycling to be the best threesome opportunity for any Cleveland date. As the month of May brings with it some gorgeous Northeast Ohio weather, we make whoopee with National Bike Month. And if you’re not interested, we know there’s someone else to take your place. Hmph. Better than being a third wheel.
Cleveland Bicycle Week is May 15-23. You can go ahead and block of the ENTIRE Saturday that week because we’ve already selected an entire day of date ideas for you and wheel horse.
An always-FREE! Saturday Social (10am) with the Ohio City Bike Co-op travels as a group on a sight-seeing joyride. Loaners bikes and helmets are available. Drink to River Day and the Cuyahoga River’s natural and historical landmarks — Mention Cleveland Bicycle Week for a FREE! coffee or juice. We don’t recommend getting drunk on the river water.
It’s the return of Walk+Roll (12-4pm). In coordination with the Kamm’s Corner Hooley (12-8pm), walkers, bikers and skaters alike are invited to take part of three events in one! The new Hooley festival on Lorain Avenue kicks off Cleveland Bicycle Week, with several blocks closed to motorized traffic. When the wheels and sneakers are put away, blow off some steam with a specially-crafted Kamm’s Lager (created by Akron’s Thirsty Dog) available at any Kamm’s Corner/West Park neighborhood bars or pubs.
Later Saturday (May 15; 7:30-10:00pm), is the Towpath Trail’s Pajama Party Night Ride. It’s never too early in a relationship for comfy pants — especially if you’ll be enjoying all twelve sweaty summer miles together. There will be cereal. Oh, yes. The perfect dessert to complete your date with the bikes.
Do you know how much we love FREE? Sláinte, Cleveland.
Tags: a date with cereal·Cleveland Bicycle Week·Kamm's Corner·National Bike Month·Ohio City Bike Co-op·Pajama Party Night Ride·The Hooley·Towpath Trail·Triple Threat FREE!·Walk+Roll·West Park
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