New Cruise Dating Service Launched
Unless you’ve had your head in the sand for a while you would have heard of the phenomenon known as speed dating. 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. The downside of this style of dating is that people are very rushed and often do act as they would when they were more relaxed. A new ‘dating cruise’ company think they can solve these problems.
Australian based company, ‘Love Works’ are now planning their second singles luxury cruises following the success of their first trip. The cruises are strictly for single people and you need to able to prove your occupation. “These are the only requirement of our holiday makers”, Mike Flemming of Love Works commented. “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 original cruise was around the Indian Ocean and took place over 3 weeks, catering for more than 2500 singles. 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. Plans are already in place to run local 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.
