The guys at Uber will be continuing to support Safer Dating in London, by offering free cab rides to 30 Dates blog readers! If you've never used the app before, the code 30DATES will get you a free £20 cab ride, or £20 off a more expensive fare. No strings attached! Offer is valid until January 2016. Read More

Every week on 30 Dates, I ask dating industry experts to write guest posts for the blog. This week the ‘City Matchmaker', Natalie Alexander joins the blog to talk about Success and the City. Natalie with Charly at the UK Dating Awards The Power Couple: Success and the City How did it all begin? The role of women has evolved greatly over the past century and with this came an even bigger shift in the dynamics of relationships. Women were no longer confined to traditional female roles and so women started ditching the apron for a suit, the broom for a briefcase and began Read More

This year on the blog (or at least while things continue with the Rugby Boy!) I'm be changing the way I review date ideas. Going forward, both the Rugby Boy and l will be covering the date ideas, so you get both a girl and a guy's perspective on each venue. The first location to get both of our opinions is the Cadogan Arms on the King's Road. The Rugby Boy and I went to the pub for cocktails on our third date. She Says … I love this pub. This was my choice of date venue. Having eaten at the Cadogan a Read More

We all know dating can be expensive. Paid dating sites regularly cost as much as £40 a month to join, dating events range from £10 to £60 a night, and then there's the even more expensive bespoke search methods, like matchmakers, or dating coaches. Even if you're using free sites or apps to date, the cost of going dates can certainly add up. However 2015 sees a whole different era of dating costs … some more weird than others! Tinder Plus Back in 2013, Tinder changed the online dating world for several reasons. Two of the most powerful ways Read More

I recently realised someting rather important about dating advice. If you're giving advice to women, and you're also a woman, you need to be approachable. You need to be real. Your problems need to be their problems, and you need to understand those problems. If you're giving advice to women about dating, and you're a guy, you need to be the kind of guy those women want to date. It's the reason Matthew Hussey had women practically flinging their knickers at him at the O2 this month, and also the reason Lucy Watson's ‘The Dating Game' fell Read More