New Dating Cruises

Most people have heard about speed dating, which is a phenomenon that started around 10 years and is still going strong. The concept is that lots of single people turn up to a bar or other venue and then each person has a mini-date with all the other people individually in a round robin style event. These mini dates often last around 5 minutes and the daters have to learn as much about each other as possible in this short time. Where this type of dating event falls down is that people are under a lot of pressure to make a good first impression in a very short time and they cannot really learn very much about each other as it is so rushed. A new ‘dating cruise’ company think they can solve these problems.

Australian based company, ‘Love Works’ are now planning their second singles luxury cruise which comes only 4 months after their first cruise went very well. For the time being you need to be a single person to get a ticket for the cruise and must have evidence to back up your occupation. “That is all that we ask of our passengers” states Mike Flemming, MD of Love Works. “They have the whole trip to get to know the ins and outs of the other holiday makers, which is typically 4 week long enough to get know someone pretty well we think.” The Mediterranean was the location for the initial cruise, which took over 2000 passengers and lasted just over 3 weeks. The cruise was a definite success according to the company, who have said that over 350 couples got together on the cruise and some are already planning to get married. Going forwards the company would like to localise by running river cruises and one is already scheduled to take place in Germany next year on one of the Rhine river cruises

Flemming has commented that the success of the new dating cruises comes from the fact people are more relaxed on the boat as they treat it as a holiday and they also are not forced to act quickly when meeting people as there is plenty of time for everyone.

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