Most people have heard about speed dating, which is a phenomenon that started around 10 years and is still going strong. Speed dating works on the idea that lots of single people get to meet each other in one location and have ‘mini dates’ in a round robin style meeting. The dates often last no longer than 5 minutes and people are encouraged to ask lots of questions very quickly. 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.
New York based company, ‘Moving Love’ are in the final stages of planning for their next singles luxury cruises which comes only 4 months after their first cruise went very well. The cruises are strictly for single people and you need to able to prove 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. They are planning to expand the cruises to 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.
