Events & Adventures Reviews

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.

I’ve joined around three events so far. The very first time was bowling. I had a blast because I like bowling. It was great and that’s the reason I went because I knew if I didn’t deal with the people, I wouldn’t care because the activity would be fun for me. It went great and two ladies exchanged phone numbers with me. We’ve texted and communicated so that was fun.

I also went to salsa dancing and it was my favorite. I have always wanted to do that. It was amazing. I met wonderful people. This was a whole new group of people from my first experience. I felt that I could do it where it was judgment-free and nobody knew me. They shared that Tuesday volleyball is a thing to do. You’ll see the same people there because it’s so much fun. There was an event that I wanted to do but I had a conflict because my son plays football so Friday nights is hard.

A lot of the events that I really wanted to do were falling on nights that I have a family obligation. There was also an event that I wanted to do but got canceled due to lack of participation. I’m not a big drinker and a lot of the things tend to be around breweries. I’m not opposed to going because there’s still food there, and you can meet people, and they have non-alcoholic options. I just have to find something that fits in my schedule.

Later I’ll probably do trips. Right now, I have a senior in high school. It’s cool that you can do these trips and it’s something I’m looking forward to because I have two years within my purview so I have time.

I’ve had a wonderful time doing new things with people who are like-minded, interested in doing those activities. It’s not like you go there and there’s a negative Nancy. The people who are there want to be there so it’s a positive experience because of the expectation that we’re going to have a good time. That’s exactly what has happened on the engagements that I’ve participated in. I have already shared about Events & Adventures with some people.

The new calendars come out on the 15th of every month and I just go there and look at it. You have the same calendar that has all the events, and you have a separate spot that shows you the events you're signed up for. If Events & Adventures would arrange that by date, that would be really helpful. Right now, I don't even know how it's sorted, but you have to dig. I've missed several events because I thought it was on a different day. I always thought the soonest one would be at the top, but it's not organized like that. But I don't really plan too far ahead because I never know when I'm working so usually I'm pretty short-notice to sign up.

The events people are very friendly and nice and I can tell that they care about their roles. My interactions with the host or hostess have been usually fine and helpful, because they've gone out of their way to make sure that people can find their way and connect. They're there during the event. However, I've also had some personal issues where I didn't even ask to pause my subscription, where I had a couple of deaths in the family that I had to take care of and my mom was dying. It was months of back and forth with the hospital. I wasn't even thinking to pause but other than that, nobody has reached out to me to even say, "Hey, what's going on? You haven't been signing up. So, is there something going on?" I signed up for over two years. So, I made an investment.

I've had a quite long subscription and I've had some pleasant experiences. But it has not been the experience that I thought it would be, so I haven't signed up for much since I haven't looked on calendars to even to go. If I think of it and Events & Adventures has something, I'll join it. The last thing I went on was two months ago, where I went to an escape room. Again, I had to drive an hour and fight traffic during rush hour, which was stressful.

Events & Adventures needs to do some work on their business model and how they structure, at least, in the South Florida chapter. Not everybody wants to go to a rooftop and drink alcohol, constantly have a party. Some of us can't do that because we have an hour's drive. Also, one of the things that I have wanted to take advantage of is going on one of the group trips, but if I'm not gonna necessarily enjoy the people that I'm around, then I don't know that I wanna spend 10 days on a trip with them out of the country. I had hoped to make some better connections.

Events & Adventures really needs to think about the membership audience that they have, because they have a quite wide range of people who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s, through 60s and 70s, and not everybody does the same thing. While I would want to do some zip line experiences, I don't think being at almost 60 I'm gonna do zip line experiences. I personally don't wanna have to fix this for them. They have enough smart people that they can figure it out for themselves. Would I renew? Absolutely not. I wouldn't recommend it to anyone as well.

I’ve been to three events already. I also went to a bingo and my favorite was the boat cruise on 4th of July to watch the fireworks. It was just an old-timey paddle boat that went around the Lake Union as we watched the fireworks and it was fun. I met a lot of people. There were no cocktails though. It was BYOB. But they did have food. That was a little more to be desired, but everything else was fine. I was signed up for a fourth one, but I ended up working 16 hours that day and I was too tired and didn’t end up going.

Events & Adventures is a good program. But the thing is I’m older and there’s not as many older people doing it and that’s where it falls down a little bit. It’s usually for more younger people between early 20s to 40 and I’m almost 60, so there’s just a little bit of an age disparity there. But that didn’t stop me. There are still a few individuals that are older. So I plan to still continue to attend the events and doing things. For me, it’s getting out. I don’t look my age and I like to be active, go out and do stuff.

I will still encourage others because it’s fun to have friends and places. They have a good schedule and activities.