Cruising Your Way To Love

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. The dates often last no longer than 5 minutes and people are encouraged to ask lots of questions very quickly. 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 after their first trip was a huge success. In order to get onto the cruise you need to be single and need to have proof of 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. It was deemed very successful by the organizers who claimed that over 400 couple was made on the trip and around 25 of those are already planning marriage. 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.