Events & Adventures Reviews

And the only major complaints I've seen from people who have interacted with the group is about the membership fee. And that usually comes from people who, they sign up and the group isn't what they expected to be, and then they try and get out of the contract and they're not able to.

I've made so many friends because now, my social calendar is overloaded. I have invitations to birthdays and get-togethers but I can't be in two places at once. As far as a significant other, I have somebody I've been talking to for the past month but we’re not there yet.

The problem with Events & Adventures is that most people we meet are above 50. I'm in my 30s but it's once in a blue moon I see someone below 40. Out of 10 people, at least 8 people is above 60. That's a big caveat. We are paying monthly, but for every event you want to attend, there's an additional charge. Very few young people would be interested in paying monthly. They can simply go to a pub and enjoy. Maybe that's the reason why I don't see younger people there, because that kind of affordability only comes after a certain age with a certain bank balance.

It's a good place to explore and meet new people. If you're strictly looking to find a partner, I wouldn't recommend this. But if you're looking to find a group to just have fun with, Events & Adventures is a wonderful platform to have.

After I signed up, I started becoming an active member of the group. I would start scheduling my first events and my first activity. I was a little bit disappointed because in concept, they are good, but in the practice in the real life, it's not good. The groups are lacking people, especially young females. Most of the groups are people around 40s. They treat you well but if it is a young man in his 30s, not even mention 20-something, trying to find a female, it's almost impossible.

Secondly, most of the meetings is just guys. You go to a meeting hoping that you can find at least three girls that you can talk or have a good time with. Suddenly, there are only guys. The three ladies are over 40 years old and with a whole family. Their kids are my age. You don't know how many people are signed up to this or that meeting. You need to show up and see what happens. The hosts know how many people there will be and they know if they're all girls or boys. They share each other the information.

I have the opportunity to know some of these guy members that have been active for a couple of years and say the same thing that there aren't too many choices. If you want to hang out, it's not as great as I imagine it's gonna be. I don't even think that it's even worth it for the money I'm paying off, especially that there are other choices out there.

On my first meeting with E&A, it was just the host and three guys. My second meeting was five guys. The other two or three meetings after those were more or less the same thing. I don't think it's gonna get better in the next couple of months. I would like to cancel my subscription. I'll move forward with something else. When I was doing my interview, they mentioned that usually there are more girls than guys, but in reality, it's the opposite. The price is not worth it for the final result.

About two days later, I went to a new member mixer. It sucked. I thought I had wasted my money. I couldn't talk to people. There was loud music. It was a huge bar scene. There was a mix of non-E&A members with E&A members. I couldn't navigate my way through the crowd. It was a struggle. I then signed up for several events with smaller groups and I had the time of my life.

I signed up to go apple picking with a group of E&A members. We went out to the farm. I just went there to hang out with people. There was a nice lady who I met and she had never been apple picking before and I had done it many times in my life. So, I went around with her and helped her pick apples because I'm 6'2" and she was almost 5'3". I could get the apples off the top of the tree for her. Any apples she wanted, I picked them for her. I picked some apples for me just because I was there. We had a blast.

A week later, I went to a trivia event and she showed up again. It was nice to have somebody I knew and we were talking. Then, this other lady sat down next to me and I didn't even notice her at first. Several events later, she showed up again and she remembered me and she talked to me about my interests. Then, there was a third event and she sat next to me. There was a fourth event at the Shedd Aquarium where it was a dance and Latin music and tacos and we danced. We went out on our first date last week.

The only thing is for the last two weeks, they've had no events that I could go to. They schedule dinners at 8:00 at night. I'm on the south end of Chicagoland. I'm way down at the bottom, and all their events are gonna be in the more affluent neighborhoods. So, I'm gonna have an hour drive to and from any event minimum. I accepted that when I signed up, but if I'm eating dinner at 8:00 and dinner takes two hours and I'm getting out of the place at 10:00, I'll be home, at best, by 11:00 on a work night. That was not working. They sign up for a karaoke event that starts at 9:45 PM on a Monday.

I was a little frustrated for the last two weeks. But starting on Friday next week, I have events that I'm signed up for starting with that Friday all the way through to the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Overall, I had a blast with the things I did through E&A. Even though I really didn't hang out with the whole E&A crew, it was still fun. The fact that I've made five friends that likely will be good friends, given enough time to get to know each other, out of this was worth every penny I paid.

I joined Events and Adventures as I was interested in making friends, and I made invaluable friends. That was the best part ever. My friends and I were joking it was expensive, but I would have paid more to have these friends. The friendships that we built there are really solid. The very first event was at a bar and it was for a bingo thing. I felt uncomfortable at first because it seemed like everybody knew everybody else. Now, when I go to events for meet and greet, the first thing I do is not talk to all my friends. I introduce myself to all the new people so that they don't feel like what I did.

But by the second time I went, we were at Safety Harbor Spa and we were all dancing. People were more open. That was when I made those friends. I'm with one of my friends now and we're tight. We also just had a birthday party with some people that are still in Events & Adventures and some that weren't. We went to Cocoa Beach together.

I've done a lot of Florida staycation events. I've done bumper cars and an adult bounce thing too. We've also gone to many bars where people drink. I don't really drink, but I dance a lot. We've had a picnic where all the group gets together and they cook for us. There's been a pool party where everybody brings an inflatable pool and they play a movie when you hang out in your pool with your friends. I haven't been able to go on a boat because it's usually on Sunday and I don't do the Sunday.

In Florida, our area is great. I live in the most congested county, Pinellas, Tampa and St. Petersburg, and we have a lot of events, like two or three a day. We did a Memorial Day event when Carrie was there. She was the best host we ever had. We were on a plantation and there was a bunch of houses and it's right on the water. You do something to help out your friends but she wouldn't let us do anything. She and her friend cooked everything and cleaned everything as well. I didn't even know that's what it felt to be that relaxed.

When I was sold the membership, I was told that there were more single women than men in the Atlanta area, and that there would be plenty of opportunities to meet someone that fit what I was looking for. I haven't seen that. The first event I went to was pickleball. There were 2 women there and 6 men. I went to the Halloween party thinking, “I'll be able to meet a much larger percentage of the membership, and there were many more men than women."" But the that were there didn't fit. The only two women that were attractive to me weren't even members. I was disappointed after the Halloween thing, and I haven't signed up for any other activities at this point. I'm evaluating whether it's worth my time. I generally date once a week off the dating apps, and I'm busy otherwise. I feel I was sold a bill of goods that isn't true.

They seem like nice people, but I sat at the Halloween Party thinking, “This looks like a Dungeons and Dragons convention.” Even the women. “I might expect to see several of these women at a cosplay thing for Dungeons and Dragons or comic books.” That's not my scene. I go out dancing and do things on my own that are much more fun than that. And the quality of dates that I get is much higher than what I saw there. I would bet that most of the guys that are in that group aren't able to get dates, as well as the women. The pool of potential people to date is a specific subset of people who probably have had trouble getting dates most of their lives. I don't know why I pay a premium to access people who I wouldn't date normally. The person organizing things in Atlanta has to do a better job of attracting people, especially on the female side, and make sure that there are events that attract those types of people.

Events & Adventures is a good resource. But then I got busy so some months, I do nothing. On average, I do two a month. I work in DC and live in Arlington. Most of the things that are at night that I would be interested in are in DC. It's too long a wait in between work and the event. I go home and sometimes don't feel like going back out. There are some things that I'm interested in that looked interesting, but I don't go because it's a lot of bars and drinking. I'm trying to cut back and improve my health. I wish there wasn't as much bar stuff, but I get it. That's how a lot of people meet each other. I was also surprised with how young the people are. They are lot younger than me. I thought it would be a wider range of ages.

I've been on one trip. I rate that as average, but others have gone and had great times. Most people that could go on the trips, especially international, really enjoy them. Personally, I don't think they’re for me. I think, from a cost standpoint, I can go and get a lot more for my money going independently, not with our group. But a lot of people like it.

I've also dated and have friends in the club. I would tell people to pursue it and do different things, meet different people. They should start with that. As for the price that you pay to attend events, it depends. Dinners can be pricey. But that's a member’s option. The schedule of events are set up to accommodate the members.

They’ve been good. The only thing is that they say they do a background process on people or you vet your people to be there. But that’s clearly not the case since there are some very weird people. Otherwise, the events are really nice. Our guy, Nate, does a lot of work and finds a lot of good stuff.

The overall cost is pretty high. I know that deters a lot of people from joining, because I’ve tried to get people to join. I told them how much it is, and they’re like, never mind. But the prices of the events aren’t that bad. I know they keep it very close to the price of what it would actually be to try something like that.

I’ve had a good interaction with other members, and that was what made it enjoyable. It's a chance just to get out and mingle. It's been a good experience for me so far. I don't have any complaints.

Getting to the calendar page on the website took me a couple of clicks. It has something to do with the landing page to the calendar. You’re there and you can see that you’re supposed to put a credit card in. But something in there always slowed me down. It didn’t change my frequency of visiting the website but just slowed me down some.

Getting out the door is half the battle for me. So, Events & Adventures has gotten me into this routine of going and engaging with others. I had a really good experience with the things that I was involved in and met some cool people. I would definitely recommend Events & Adventures.

I’ve got a great group of friends because of it. It’s been a great experience. I’m really glad that I joined, and I'm still active.

I’ve met good people and we hang out. They’re welcoming and trying to get you to go to events, but the amount that you're paying ends up going towards the salaries of the people that are putting the events together. And there's not really any discounts for the groups coming in. Any input that I've had on some events or even hosting one seems to go by the wayside.

I did this to hang out with people. I'm newly single, separated. There's some things about the single mingle for over 40. I posted in some of the groups and there's a Facebook group, where some people are like, it was boring and don't even try it. So, there's a few negative Nancies.

I haven't even been on to see the current calendar because I'm so busy with work. My biggest problem is that I can't cancel the contract at any point in time. Because I had three days after I bought the thing. I bought it in December. And I didn't have my daughter living with me. I had more time to do things. Now, my daughter lives with me full-time, and I can't do as much. I only got two weeks in a month to do things, and then some of the stuff is expensive to go to. I'm already paying $2000 to be a part of this club, and I have to turn around and pay another $150 for this.

A lot of it seems to be pool parties during the summer, and some really laidback stuff. But I really wanna do some adventures. A lot of them center around drinking. I don't mind drinking, but again, I live two hours away. I can't always grab a hotel room and come and do these things. They work really hard on planning different events, but some of it is the exact same events every month. I'm in my 40s. I'm not going out to a wine bar and socializing or maybe even a club night. One of the events that I wanted to go to was catered towards 20-year-olds. I'm sorry, I'm not gonna be there hanging out with a bunch of 20-year-olds. I have children in their 20s.

I'm kind of there to see other singles and guys. So, even having those kinds of speed dating nights where you can actually meet other people that are looking for relationships would be fabulous. More weekend things. Cause I see one or two, most of the things that I saw last month were weekend getaways. I'm sorry, I can't pay for a hotel down on the coast. They went to Cocoa Beach for Labor Day weekend. I can't afford that, and I would have loved to have been able to do something else.

I know one of the events next month is a trip to Universal Studios. I live in Orlando. I have a badge because I kind of work with all the theme parks. So, I have an entry badge to get into any theme park. I would love to go with the group, but I'd have to pay the amount of money and go to the hotel. I live next to the Epic Universe. I would love to be a part of that. So, why am I gonna pay all that money for a hotel that I don't need, because I have my own house, or to get in? I don't need the food because I get free meals behind the scenes. There's things like that. I still promote Events but if we could have an Orlando group, that would be amazing.

I had a little bit of trouble finding the group when I went to the first event. I signed up, and they said that I could show up in 15 minutes because they just started bowling half an hour ago. They weren’t even expecting me, and I didn’t know what I was doing. When I finally found them, the host gave me a rundown of what was going on. The second event was a lot easier because I actually had a phone number to contact them. The people were open and nice. I’ve made a lot of friends and we’ve done holidays and ski trips together outside of the club.

I have a few issues with them, though. The management is very predatory with the way they set up their contracts with little options to back out of it. Their website needs improvement. At first, it looked like it’s made in the 90s. They did the updates, and now it looks like it’s made in the early 2000s. They’re still two decades behind. We’ve been asking for apps. When the owner comes to town, he scares away the local groups with his personality. The corporate culture of it is just something that we avoid in the local group. It’s also overpriced. I got a good deal because I signed up with them during COVID. If I didn’t have that, I’m not re-signing up.

The trips look interesting but it’s one of those things that I could do cheaper on my own if I went to those places. Overall, it’s different than what I expected so I would tell people what I thought of it and let them make their own opinion.