Internet Dating Site Reviews :: Lavalife

What Lavalife say about themselves

Lavalife is a new brand...a new community...a new world...a new vision for single life. Lavalife is solely dedicated to enhancing the lives of singles.

More specifically, Lavalife offers singles anytime, anywhere connections that make single life a positive, fulfilling and self-esteem building experience through relationship opportunities, social interaction and a like minded community of ideas and information

Our Lavalife Review

Lavalife has over 5 Million registered profiles internationally. you can choose to sign up to their International site or their various sites worldwide. The Lavalife online dating site has three distinct communities: Dating, Relationship and Intimate Encounters. You will find the site professionally designed, easy to use and the membership very active.

Signing Up to Lavalife

We decided to sign up to the Lavalife International online dating site that is in english. we were told there was 16,576 members actually active on lavalife at that time.. impressive!

You can run a quick search before signing up to lavalife to get a feel of what type of profiles are available., but you cannot view more than the very basic details and the photos are minute. to get a good feel of the site you need to sign up and add your free profile.

We liked the way you can join the Lavalife site, add just your basic details and add the rest later. I hate filling in long forms at once, and prefer to have a look round and fill in the descriptions etc later.

The search features are good, allowing you to search by a few different criteria, including, who's new, who's online and who has features such as video.

It takes a little while to get used to the layout of the lavalife online dating site and find all its features , and to get used to the instant messenger that pops up quite a lot.

You will find after a while that to carry out most activities on Lavalife you need to buy credits. For free you can :

• Add your Profile
• Upload
• Free to Create Your Profile
• Search Profiles and photos
• Send Smiles
  You can send a smile to show your interested before purchasing any credits and see if the object of your interest smiles back
• Reply to Messages
• View public video profiles

If you decide you want to make contact with other members and view their profiles in depth you need to purchase credits. These entitle you to :

• Send Emails
• Initiate Instant messaging
• request backstage video profiles
• request backstage Instant Messaging with Video

credits

Mail messages = 6 credits (further mail messages to that member are free)
20 minute instant messaging session = 6 credits
60 minute instant messaging session = 12 credits
During an instant messaging session, you can send unlimited instant messages to as many members as you'd like!

Conclusion

Lavalife grew on us once we had bought some credits and tried out the instant messaging and video instant messaging. At first the site seemed a bit confusing and it wasn't too clear what could be done with and without credits or how many credits certain activities would cost. Actually it is all quite simple but looks rather different to a lot of other online dating sites. it is easy if you just start by searching out a profile that interest you ( there is an awful lot to choose from~) then choosing the different options for communication from there. The cost works out pretty much the same as an average subscription to a top online dating site, but you are not limited to carrying out all your activities within a set period as you would be with a monthly subscription.