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. The dates often last no longer than 5 minutes and people are encouraged to ask lots of questions very quickly. The drawback is of course that its very hard to learn what a person is like when you have such a small amount of time and in such a high-pressure situation. The organizers of a new ‘dating cruise’ think they have the answer.

New York based company, ‘Moving Love’ are in the final stages of planning for their next singles luxury cruises after their first trip was a huge success. 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 last cruise traveled around South America for 4 weeks and 3 days, and took a massive 3000 single people. 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. 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.

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