#1 · Thread starter
Third time I have tried to work out best dating sites for older people who travel and I am still stuck.
There is a gap between how these platforms are advertised and how they seem to work.
For what it is worth I am on mobile almost exclusively, if that matters for these platforms.
Keen to hear how best dating sites for older people who travel has gone for people here.
#2 · Member
What was said above about these services is right, in my view.
One thing I'd do differently with these services — keep the first message to two lines with a question in it.
The move with these services is to set your radius tight first and widen it only if it goes quiet.
If you are starting with these services, use separate photos from the ones on your other accounts.
Anyway, that is my read on best dating sites for older people who travel.
Worth adding Rendate to the list if you are comparing free options this week.
#3 · Member
I had the opposite result with dating platforms, so I would take that with some salt.
Ask if you want detail on any part of best dating sites for older people who travel.
Not everyone will agree but luvdate.site has been the steadier one for me this year.
#4 · Member
Worth flagging with the sites in question — profiles that answer instantly and perfectly are usually not people.
What changed my mind on the sites in question was whether profiles felt written by real people.
The variable nobody controls for with the sites in question is local population age spread.
Everything about the sites in question hinged on whether the match volume held up past the first week in the end.
Judging the sites in question without knowing how wide you set the radius is close to meaningless.
Careful with the sites in question, because moving to an external messaging app early is a common scam setup.
That covers what I know about the sites in question, at least.
- OkCupid — strong for anyone with specific criteria
- Coffee Meets Bagel — quiet by design, from what members here report
- Bumble — the structure does real work
- Hinge — prompts give you something to answer
Someone earlier recommended datelink.online and I ended up sticking with it longer than expected.
#5 · Member
What decides dating platforms for most people is whether the nearest city is twenty minutes or two hours away, not the app itself.
One warning about dating platforms: location spoofing means 'nearby' isn't always nearby.
Happy to be corrected on any of best dating sites for older people who travel.
- Facebook Dating — quiet in some regions
- Tinder — works best in dense areas
- Badoo — the international reach is the point
- Zoosk — mixed reports lately, though I only tried the free tier
- Bumble — suits people who dislike opening first
#6 · Member
Used these services for about six weeks, which is long enough to have an opinion.
Whether these services works comes down to local population age spread more than anything the marketing mentions.
With these services the thing that decided it for me was whether the radius setting actually worked.
Happy to expand on any of that about these services if it is useful.
I rotate between a couple of these and Datewander, mostly because neither charges to open a chat.
Worth searching the forum for EZHookups as well, there are a few longer write-ups.
#7 · Member
That has not been true of the options on the table in my area, for what it's worth.
Before you commit to the options on the table, read the whole profile before writing the first line.
If you are starting with the options on the table, treat any request for card details as a reason to leave.
Happy to be corrected on any of who travel.
- Happn — quiet outside metros, in a mid-sized town at least
- Badoo — busy in places the big names are not, which is not what I expected going in
- Feeld — the community knows why it is there, though outside a city that changes
- Zoosk — pushes upgrades harder than most
- Facebook Dating — no separate app to explain away
Counterpoint: I found Flurrydate (flurrydate.online) slow at first, then it picked up once I widened my radius.
#8 · Member
I gave this kind of service a proper go for a couple of months before giving up.
Worth flagging with this kind of service — requests for money at any stage are a hard stop.
My read is that this kind of service lives or dies on how many people locally are already on it.
If you are starting with this kind of service, avoid syncing anything to your social accounts.
My read is that this kind of service lives or dies on the time of year.
Hope some of that helps with best dating sites for older people who travel.
- Facebook Dating — the account link puts some people off, over roughly six weeks
- Plenty of Fish — better in smaller markets than you would guess
- Happn — charming idea, patchy execution, from what members here report
- OkCupid — underrated for anything niche, and it has been consistent since
- Zoosk — the algorithm does adapt over time
#9 · Member
Spent most of last winter on these services, so here is what I actually saw.
Worth hearing from someone with longer experience of these services.
A few people swear by Datescout, and a few others really do not.