Describing your dating self at Dating Direct is a breeze; once you’ve registered you build virtually all your dating profile via drop down choice boxes. There are four main sections to complete: ‘personal info’, ‘your description’ where you describe your height, weight, style etc – and if you are trendy, cool or bohemian etc, ‘your lifestyle’ where you can show what type of films, music, sports you like, and finally ‘your match’ where you can try and define your perfect partner. Finally there is one big open text box for you to write about yourself which must be approved by the Dating Direct staff.

 

Dating Direct is one of the best known U.K dating sites and so I expected a large database of dating members. I pulled up a few searches using different age ranges and cities and wasn’t disappointed, getting great numbers of active daters.

Dating Direct offers a number of ways to find a date, quick search using just age range and location, and advanced search using the criteria from your profile to find a more exact match. Then there’s two one click searches I particularly liked, ‘same birthday as you’, and on the flip side - ‘its their birthday today’ – great ways to break the ice and open a conversation. Finally there’s a keyword dating search, so if there’s a film or band important to you can put it in and see if there’s someone who feels the same.
Searching and browsing on Dating Direct is great, the site is quick, uncluttered by heavy graphics and easy to navigate.

You can contact possible dates in the usual ways, email, send a wink, and instant message/chat. You can also save dating members as favorites (a feature I always like on a dating site), as well as seeing who’s added you as a favorite, so if they’re being a bit shy you can make that first move.
Dating Direct has a quick link to shows dating members online, great for instant chat fans. Finally it has full mobile phone contact features to make dating connections whilst on the go.

 

Dating Direct offers their affinity test to members; these are designed to look at your values, opinions, personality etc and to assess scientifically your compatibility with other Dating Direct members.

If you’re looking for a well known online U.K dating site with a large database and a simple but great user experience then Dating Direct is for you. There are relatively few gimmicks and frills from what is one of the UK’s most established dating sites, but as is clear from the large numbers of active members this is still what most online daters are looking for, and in that Dating Direct definitely does the job.