New Love Cruises Lead The Way

November 22, 2009

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. 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. The organizers of a new ‘dating cruise’ think they have the answer.

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. “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 last cruise traveled around South America for 4 weeks and 3 days, and took a massive 3000 single people. 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 there is currently a German cruise planned for next year on a 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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