Is your relationship sizzling in the early day flames of passion? Or perhaps your smokey embers of romance need a good stoking?

With Valentine’s Day (Tuesday 14 Feb) fast approaching, now’s the time to put plans in action to take advantage of your purple patch – or get out of that form slump!

No need to rack your brain for inspiration. We’ve found you some fun and unique Valentine’s Day date ideas and hotels for the night. You just relax and save yourself for showtime.

Valentine’s Day at the Alliance Française de Sydney
The thought of flying your Valentine to Paris for a romantic evening is an admirable one, but probably best left a well-intended fantasy. The jet-lag would be horrendous - not to mention all those charming French types with their French accents to compete with.

If you want to experience a taste of the land of love, take your date to a very special Valentine’s Day dinner at Alliance Française. Grand Café by Bécasse will be creating a three course haute cuisine while a live jazz band and delicious French red wine transport you into a ‘joie de vivre’ mood.

A perfect end to the evening would be a night at the Observatory Hotel Sydney in the Rocks area, voted one of the best hotels in the world for service in the Condé Nast Traveller Gold List 2011 (UK).

The rooms are outstanding, location perfect and you can start or finish your rendezvous at La prairie day spa - caviar manicure with champagne, anyone?

See more great Sydney hotel deals for February 14.

Ooh la la Lady Chatterley’s Lover under the stars, Melbourne
Before toe-sucking royal paparazzi shots, upper class romantic scandal came in the shape of lusty novels.

Impress your maiden with tickets to the classic DH Lawrence erotic tale, Lady Chatterly’s Lover, performed by the Australian Shakespeare Company on the lawns of Rippon Lea House and Gardens near St Kilda.

Bring a blanket and cushions to lounge on and take a few sensual gourmet picnic treats to hand feed to each other – and embarrass the genteels in the crowd. There’s also an on-site bar for coffee, beer and wine.

Relax back at the Parkview Hotel St Kilda Road Melbourne, and wake up to breakfast in the Lime café over a newspaper, coffee and a choice of scrumptious options.

See more great Melbourne hotel deals for February 14.

Join the joyride at the Roxette concert, Brisbane
“It must have been love” - because we can’t think of any other logical reason why an entire planet went crazy for two Swedish pop groups in one lifetime.

Head to the Brisbane Entertainment Centre on 14 Feb (or 24 Feb)  to see late 80s and early 90s band Roxette perform some of their 33 chart topping singles (apparently so), as well as songs from their latest album.

It’s a real nostalgia trip for Gen X and tail-end Baby Boomer couples, while for those who’ve only ever experienced Roxette on MTV video reruns (and then had the annoyingly catchy tunes stuck in their head all day), a chance to step right into 80s retro.

The Hotel Urban Brisbane is one of those lounge-around-the-pool properties that make you feel like you’re on an island rather than in the middle of a CBD.

The rooms are decked out in finishing touches and pieces that make you ‘wonder where they got that from’.

See more great Brisbane hotel deals for February 14.

Classic crooning and swooning at the Adelaide Moonlight Cinema
You don’t needs bells, whistles or synthesised drum machines when you can snuggle up with popcorn in front of one of the greatest romance movies of all time, Breakfast at Tiffany’s.

And seriously, what better place to backdrop Audrey crooning ‘Moon River’ than under moonlight surrounded by Adelaide’s beautiful Botanic Park gardens?

Once Holly’s gone lightly, you can curl up with your very own Hollywood starlet or heartthrob at the Majestic Old Lion Apartment Adelaide.

See more great Adelaide hotel deals for February 14.

Image of Roxette by Ilya Volkov (Kreecher) (Own work) [GFDL or CC-BY-3.0], via Wikimedia Commons