Alright, guys. Let's settle this once and for all.
Are the romance socials worth the exorbitant prices that are charged? Which locations are the best value? Which company provides the best service? Or is the the whole romance tour thing an absolutely overpriced joke?
I was wondering if you could pay for it on the spot. You know, arrive a few days earlier to see the special girl you wanted to meet, and it didn't work out? Then go to the event.
Why? Well, I'm sure most guys would recover quickly if a first meeting didnt go well and then there was access to several hundred available ladies to meet in person and then write to when you returned home...
I wouldn't go to one just as means in itself. Too much like a cattlemen's market approach for me...
Apart from being lazy, I don't see the need for these socials, what's to stop any girl going for a laugh and a free wine? Take your time on thses sites, try to get the phone number of the girl your interested in, asap, and build a RELATIONSHIP.
Even if you met a goirl at a social, who's to say she won't meet someone else at the next one?
You know what puzzles me is that with all the socials and the profits of throwing one, why there aren't ANY real testamonies from dozens of guys saying how great it was and they met their current wife from one...
Don't seek the dream when the reality is far from the truth...
As one who has actually ATTENDED two sets of Romance Socials - two different cities, with two different companies, I can answer you question regarding whether or not they are worth the money with an unequivocal """YYYYEEEEEESSSSSS!!!!!!!"""
I do love it when people who have no clue and no experience descirbe them as "cattle calls".
You want a guarantee, zeeco, that the girl you meet will never meet another guy? Are you that insecure? If you are looking for some sort of warranty then maybe Romance Socials AREN'T for you. (And maybe dating ANYONE isn't either.). There are no warranties express or implied.
All I can do is testify to my experience - I paid the money - I had the experience. And it was worth every penny.
Apal - why would guys who have met their wives that way, be hanging around here giving testamonials. I know several guys who have met their wives at Romance Socials. They are very happy. Sorry if they don't take the time to come here and tell you about it directly.
apal: The first Romance Social I attended was in Odessa. It was expensive, over $3,300 (but worth EVERY penny) because I let the tour company doo everything for me. The deal included a flight from JFK. I had to pay for my connecting flight to JFK from Green Bay.
But while ON that tour - I noticed a few very smart guys who had booked a room at the same hotel and who were ONLY attending the Romance Socials. So that si what I did the last time. I found out what hotel they were using and booked my own flight from Green Bay to Dontesk. I also booked my own stay at the same hotel. I ONLY paid for the Romance Social itself. The two I origianlly booed in Donetsk costed me $600. I booked the third scheduled Social in Mariupol for another $200 (plust $25 for the bus ride). i saved a bundle and STILL had the time of my life.
Okay - after looking over my last entry I realize I should have checked spelling and grammar before I posted. I humbly apologize to all readers here and will dutifully check grammar and spelling for all future entires.(And if you believe that I have some swamp land for sale you might be interested in.)
Jet, I thought you were going to tell us a story that English is really your THIRD language. :))
Gonna be up in Green Bay.......packers vs carolina, hopefully I won't freeze my 'gootys' off again.
Seriously?.... You're going to be in Green Bay? I'll have to check the schedule to find exactly when that is - write me at jetmba@yahoo.com maybe we can get together.
Jet - I didn't say a social was bad idea. I just said I'd want to do exactly what you did the last one you went on - pay for it locally if the meeting I had with a girl didn't go as planned. I don't want the full monty, I would just go for the social event where the single, more sincere girls all congregate together at one time and one place.
Again, I cant see a better way to get over disappointment then to have access to a hundred other available women, maybe even better than the girl who originally disappointed you.
To go to one, and not to write a special girl beforehand? Personally, if I didn't go to see one girl beforehand, it might seem too much like a cattle call approach to me personally and although I haven't been to one, one can get a pretty good idea with the dozens of videos online that shows what happens at one.
Even though I haven't been to the moon, probably everyone of us have a pretty good idea what its going to look like if we ever went, but the personal up front and close experience is an individual one.
apal: I honestly doubt that either you or I have any idea what its really like on the moon either. The nearly 30 year old videos have certainly made the rounds, but watching something on television is entirely different than actually taking part.
The same comparison CAN be made for the Romance Socials. You've seen the vidoes. I've been IN some videos (shot but never released since I did not give permission) and I can tell you that the feeling of 200 different women being there on each of three nights, competing with each other to try to get your attention, is like nothing you have ever felt before.
If you CANNOT meet someone on the spot (actually several differnt quality women of your choosing that you can schedule dates with throughout the week) then perhaps you have serious social issues that will prevent you from being succesful under any circumstance.
About two thirds of the guys at the second set of Romance Socials DID start writing to women from the extensive listings, and inviting them for meetings at the Romance Socials. Almost UNIVERSALLY the girls either didn't show up, or were disappointments when the guy finally did meet them. The consensus was that it was a waste of time and energy to have written to the women involved when it was so much easier to see if that "chemistry" exists with REAL LIVE WOMEN (not lonely hearts ads) who were right there at the Romance Social.
I could, no doubt, tell you guys how great Romance Socials are until I am "blue in the face" - and you will continue to "know better". That's fine. I have nothing to gain or to lose by your continued insistance that you kow all there is to know. I'm just telling you how it actually was. Do with the imformation what you will.
Dont get all worked up with moonwalking and the fact I won't be seeing myself exclusively going to a social as the one and only thing to do.
Sure it might be fun to do once, if it doesn't work out with the next girl I might want to visit, but I dont have as much a problem meeting pretty girls locally as some do. My problem is finding someone true and pure of heart (the rarest of the rare in this day in age). The chances diminish considerably if I just find some really cute girl that likes me at some huge social...
It's why I am here and not at the bar picking up some young hottie in my own town... I can do that, but its not what I'm really after..
All I've been saying is to each their own... I'm not knocking it, but your talking to a guy who thinks most local singles clubs are meat markets, so huge single's events in the FSU are rightly called cattle calls by me because to me they are pretty much inline with my thinking as far as I call it.
apal: Most local singles clubs ARE meat markets. And I wouldn't be caught DEAD going to a singles bar. That is my point EXACTLY.
I'm a PADI certified scuba diver - and I can tell you with certainty that deep water diving in Lake Michigan lacks are of the wonderful colorful features you find in the ocean. In fact at some depths, and in some light, the silt looks remarkably like moon dust from those old videos you refer to. Local divers call it "moonscape".
A guy like you could see those old moon videos and videos my friends might make of the "moonscape" that appears at the bottom of Lake Michigan and assume that the two were nearly identical. THEY AREN'T. And should you ever actually go into space, a reasonable person might have to convince you not to wear your scuba fins, and spear gun. Things that look the same aren't necessarily the same at all.
Romance Socials are entirely different than singles bars. That is my point exactly.
There not for everyone, romance socials., my thoughts is they are over priced, can be rigged by the agencies with there own ringers to lure men for the purposes of obtaining money by deception ( not genuine women but cash cows for the agency with a kickback to the ladies in cohoots with them ), a great big blind date and speed dating exercise that rarely works, no guarantee or protection against professional daters..whores and scammers that can and do infiltrate them and its totally blind chance, no lead time to build or establish a relationship with any woman..you have a better chance winning a lottery..a total fooken waste of time..BUT FOR SOME, THEY ARE GOOD PARTIES IF ONE WANTS TO BE SURROUNDED BY A LOT OF STRANGE BEAUTIFUL WOMEN COMPETING WITH 40 OTHER GUYS FOR ATTENTION..will it work for you and you get a bride..fat chance!
Its no better than writing to a scammer except you are giving a lot of money to the agencies that run them and the curious fsu women that will attend them, most will be curiosity seekers out for a good party time and not serious, some will scammers, some prostitutes and a tiny few may be genuine seeking a foreign husband but you will have to compete with lots of other guys for the very few good apples here.
Lets see if you can book a seat on the next space shuttle flight guys who believe in this nonsense, the chances are about the same as flying on the next shuttle flight as what it is to find a woman at these over priced events who wants to marry you!