Love the concept and it's great to get these events in Bristol when other cities normally get the fun. Was a great way to meet people and the activities definitely helped smooth off the edges.... Ver mais
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Was at the recent event In Glasgow at golfang. It was a good night although the mix of males and females was definitely more weighted towards males (I know this is maybe not a reflection of the compan... Ver mais
For anyone who wants to make genuine connections with wonderful people, you have to check out Haystack events. The event in Bristol was absolutely fantastic. Very well organised and the matching al... Ver mais
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Haystack are fantastic at providing a…
Haystack are fantastic at providing a low pressure, casual vibe. I've done 5/6 events and I've never run into a single bad apple. Lucy is an enormous character and so incredibly dedicated to this business. She makes a point of speaking to as many of us as possible and she genuinely remembers people which is a really nice touch.
My only critique would be that the environment of having 400 people in a space can be overwhelming for someone who's very shy. However, Haystack do make the effort to make introductions and you always have the small matching groups to fall back on.
Overall, a really fun, casual experience which can serve just as well at helping you find friends as it can helping you find someone to date. Well worth a try
17 de dezembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Thank you so so so much for your review Adam, we absolutely love having you at our events and hope to see you again soon! We totally hear you on the numbers feeling overwhelming and it’s honestly such helpful feedback thank you - we’re on looking at smaller events for the future! x
10/10 recommend the climbing events
I went to the climbing event, and I had a blast, the groups that were set up were great, it felt really comfortable. Lucy was fun and helped make connections and made people feel welcomed. I not only met potential partners, but also friends, and had a fun time climbing.
I’ve been to other singles mixers and this by far was so much better. I loved that it was activity based, not drinking based, and it felt so much more welcoming. Also you killed it for the guy to girl ratio, and there were actually quality guys there! Which okay, low bar, but other events I’ve been to have pulled very drunk men into the bar and said “have fun lulz”, so yay Haystack!
13 de dezembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Thank you so so so much for joining us Jess, we absolutely loved meeting you at our climbing event and are already excited to see you again soon! Team Haystack xx
Lots of cool people
I really enjoyed the Haystack dating I went on. Even if you don’t meet anyone, you still get to chat to cool people, and I played cricket for the first time!
These events are always a bit difficult to navigate, but I thought, compared to others, it was quite cool.
Well done Lucy!
18 de outubro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Thank you so much for coming Vivi and supporting our small business we absolutely loved meeting you at the Sixes event! We’d love to see you at another event soon! xx
This was the worst singles event I have…
This was the worst singles event I have ever been to. I left feeling more single than ever.
I had very high expectations, and was severely disappointed by this event. Given the £30+ price tag, I assumed it would be incredibly organised and we may even get the first drink free. This was not the case. The event was over booked, predominantly by women, and there wasn’t even space on some of the tables to sit, so you had to awkwardly stand behind. It was really confusing to know where you were supposed to be sitting, the woman who had a microphone was drowned out by the noise and the whole event felt incredibly chaotic and disorganised. Staff seemed to be doing nothing but standing around chatting to each other and drinking. I am not sure where my money was spent as the level of effort was incredibly low and we were passed random pieces of crumpled paper with some of the answers from our questionnaire beforehand and there was no algorithm pairings at all. I would very much avoid if you are seeking a romantic connection (especially if you’re a woman!)
28 de novembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Hermoine hi, it’s Katie from team Haystack here! I am so so so sorry to hear you didn’t have a good experience with us, please could you email dillan@haystack-dating.com so we can sort this you out for you immediately? I’ve just run the data, the ratio of men to women at the event was 1 to 1.6 and algorithm matching for this was three rounds, but again I am really really gutted and sorry to hear you didn’t have a good experience. We put a lot of time, effort and love into what we do and we really want to make this right so please do pop us an email so we can resolve for you. Thank you also for the feedback on the reps, we’ve passed this onto the team so they can do better for the next event and if you have any more feedback at all as to what we could to improve things please do email, we really only ever want the best experience for everyone!
Basically a chaotic meetup for £30
It's basically a meetup in a pub that you have to pay for. Lots of people (60+). Started off well but soon turned into chaos. Too loud, hard to have conversations. No organisation, so people ended doing whatever they wanted.
You're better off going to a meetup because at least it's free. No refunds is kinda of a scam as they don't even provide a free complementary drink.
Also, reviews on their site are just cherry picked texts from people. You might find someone you like, but there are better, cheaper events that are organised properly.
28 de novembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Hey Felix it’s Katie from team Haystack! I’m so sorry and gutted to hear you didn’t have fun with us at our event! With regards to organisation, there was three rounds of algorithm co-ordinated group matches done on common interests, age, sexuality, gender and beyond. We work super hard to give everyone the best chance possible of meeting someone amazing but I’m again really sorry to hear we didn’t nail it for you this time. Our reviews on our site are DM’s we get from our community and we’ve double checked the data, we have no members in the 60+ community and 280 ticketed people at the event so please do let us know the challenge here in case we’ve miss understand the comment! We’re really sorry again you didn’t have the best experience with us, we work really hard to make sure people do and if you have any other feedback but how we can do feedback please please do email us, we would genuinely love to hear from you so we can be the best business possible for everyone!
Worst dating event I’ve ever been to
Went to a Manchester event where we were meant to be matched by compatibility. Abysmal gender ratio and groups seemed to be organised completely at random. Exploitative ticket prices at £30+ each, then expensive drinks on top. The organisers were dragging random men off the street into the event, and bribing them with free shots to stay, a complete disgrace considering what we spent on ticket prices. If you leave them any comments or reviews they’ll try to have them removed, look at the responses on social media. Seen negative reviews about working for them too - just a cash grab for the owner. Don’t put yourself through the embarrassment of attending one of these. Wish I’d found the reviews before we’d all dropped £££ on tickets.
23 de maio de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Hi EA, I hope you’re really well! Katie from Haystack here, I am so so so sorry to read you didn’t have a good time with us at our Manchester event. I’ve just had a quick look into the ticket sales data, confirmed purchased for the evening were 19 women and 23 men. I’ve spoken to the reps who ran the evening, they have confirmed that they did not drag any men off the streets, nor were free shots given to anyone, as confirmed by the venue, throughout the evening. We don’t remove any reviews as you can likely see, we respond to all of them and we don’t censor our social media. We love where we work and are really proud of the company we are building, if you have any other feedback or there’s anything else we could do to improve please do drop us an email to dillan@haystack-dating and I’d be really happy to chat or jump on a quick call if that’s easier for you :)
Unbiased and honest opinion as a first time attendee
This is an unpaid review and totally unbiased. I'm an individual with no previous history/link to this company. My name is Yash and I attended their Event on Cardiff , Golf Fang a few days ago. The event promised a lot of things , with how their application form was and how their reviews seemed I expected a lot from the grouping/matching event.
For context the venue was perfect the staff were amazing but the event overall was far off from what advertised. I'm a 20 year old and I got matched into groups with 28-30 year olds when their advertisement says age inclusive. It wasn't just me , a few more people on the venue complained about this as well. I understand that it's hard to keep it age inclusive but I emailed them regarding it a day before asking if it's possible and if not I wouldn't book a ticket. Got no reply as expected.
I played golf and just went home , no one wanted to talk to me and overall I felt alienated because of my age which was counter inclusive to what this event was supposed to be.
Overall a waste of £32. You can attend normal golf fang events for less than £20 . This was more like paying for a brand rather than promised service.
Would not recommend, their advertisement seems to target lonely people for a reason.
12 de novembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Yash hey, I hope you’re really well, it’s Katie here from team Haystack! I am so, so, so sorry we missed your email the day before, the team were busy matching but I totally hear that this annoying and we’re really sorry again for that. We’re working hard to get a WhatsApp set up soon so we can be more rapid with responses, especially before event days and promise we’re always doing our best to get back to everyone. Regarding age inclusivity, we just took a quick look through the ticket data for your group, the average age was mid 20s but on speaking to the reps on the night it sounds like people moved groups a fair bit which we always encourage people not to do! We’re in Cardiff again next year, if you’d like to pop us an email, we can check the age data for you right up until the event and if it’s not the best fit for you we can let you know right away. We’ve marked your email as a “safe sender” so it 100% comes through to us and we really can’t apologise enough again. RE no-one speaking to you this is shocking and very upsetting to read, we have raised this with our reps to make sure no-one ever has an interaction like that again. Thank you so much for taking the time to feedback, we genuinely really appreciate it and we are here if there is anything else at all we could do. x
Don’t waste your money. 30 pounds no free drinks, staff just stood around and drank, music was way too loud for anyone to hear anything.
Don’t waste
26 de setembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Camille hey, it’s Lucy here the founder of Haystack. I am so so sorry to hear you didn’t have a great experience with us, this is the opposite of how I’d ever want anyone to feel after one of my events.
I can see your ticket was for London Bridge on September 26th so I called the team directly who worked the event to understand exactly what’s gone on here.
Music: our live musician was apparently awesome but definitely too loud and the team did their best to get this turned down as soon as is possible. I am really sorry this made things difficult to hear, we’ve taken the feedback on board and will stay way closer to make sure it never happens again.
Staff: the Haystack rule is that neither me nor any of my staff are meant to drink until the shift is finished which at every event I’ve run to date we’ve stood by. The event lead for the 26th has flagged we had someone on trial who broke this and will no longer be working with us. We did have 3 other amazing members of staff working that evening who were running around doing their best but again I am really sorry this was the impression left. My team are genuinely amazing!
On the free drink, a lot of our guests don’t drink so we choose to invest ticket revenue into staff, entertainment and tech instead.
If you wanted to send over an email I would love to have you back to an event as my guest, come meet you personally, introduce you to the team and do everything we can to make sure you have a great experience with us. I am really really sorry again you didn’t this time and would really like to show you how great we can be!
Lucy + team Haystack
Avoid!
I went to their first event in Manchester back in April and it was really good, but this second one felt like there was no real thought or consideration of value for money for the customer. The ratio of men to women was off, more women, I feel short changed and it’s not what it claims to be. The staff left after two hours. What sort of event is this and where’s the safety management. Just avoid
18 de setembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Viant hey it’s Lucy here the founder!
I’m so happy to hear you had an awesome time at the first event in Manchester and really sorry we didn’t live up to expectations this time.
I’ve just taken a look at the data, the tickets sold ration was 1-1.8 but we had a few men not show up which I totally appreciate is annoying.
In terms of value, we had really good feedback about the electric shuffle experience and please know we put a huge amount of love and time into the matching and everything we do.
Please do always email the team if you were ever to have anything less than an amazing experience with us, we would always really really want to help and again I am so sorry it wasn’t perfect this time around, we always want everyone to have an amazing experience.
I wasn’t at the event but I heard from the team that they left you guys in the hands of the awesome Electric shuffle staff around 9pm as everyone had been matched, was enjoying the games and having a good time. I’ve made a note to make sure we stay a little longer next time and speak to every person individually before leaving to make sure everyones feeling settled.
If there’s any other feedback please genuinely do let us know, we’re trying our best to build the best business for everyone and next time we’re back in Manchester I’ve made a note to pop you an email to have you to the event as my guest if you’d be up for joining us again.
Best wishes for a great weekend,
Lucy + team Haystack
Not exactly what it claims to be
It's a nice idea and I might even give another event a try but lets be clear it isn't what it claims to be on the tin. Lets look at the key claims:
"Our algorithm will match you up with a group of people you have something in common with".
I don't like to be negative but I seriously doubt there is an algorithm anywhere near this. The questions you are sent before hand are paper thin and consist of some random nonsense like would you like to meet Ant and Dec. You could clearly see the small number of organisers quickly using the sort function on a spreadsheet to try and create new groups during the event. Hardly a high tech dating service.
"Our staff will be wandering the event matching people and helping out". While there where a couple of people wandering the event, they seemed far to busy filming clips and posting on social media about the event to actual run the event. I understand that they need to sell tickets to maintain a business but I quickly got the impression that they weren't as interested in us once we were in the door.
"We don't just shove you in a room and leave you too it". Well yeah they very much do and that is were the honesty needs to come in. If you want to go to a singles event that is just a large group of people crowded together in a room, then these events are perfectly fine but that is all they are. All of the Instagram vibes and sparkle making out they are more than that is just that and nothing more.
It is a real shame because I feel like if they actually did all of the things they claim they do these could be really excellent but at the moment they are just expensive versions of a Thursday event.
As for the stuff a lot of the one star reviewers have said, well yes I agree I saw similar things happen during the event but I'm willing to give them the benefit of the doubt an assume the scam edge to the whole thing wasn't intentional.
12 de setembro de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Hi Ben, it’s Lucy here the Haystack founder!
We have a lot of Ben’s in the ticket data so it’s difficult for me to distinguish which event you went to and I’m really sorry you didn’t have a good experience, that’s the opposite of what I’d ever want for anyone!
We introduce everyone to a group as they come in, if for whatever reason the team weren’t able to this time please pop me an email with which event you were at and I’ll look into what went on? On reps, we only ever have one on social media and the algorithm is tech we’re super proud to have built. Anyone being added into groups last minute are people who purchased tickets post 4pm as the data would have been run already and sheets printed.
If you’d be up for popping over an email I’d really really like to look into this further for you, hear you out properly and if you’d be up for it offer you a comped ticket to the next event so I can some say hey in person, introduce you to the team and make sure you have an amazing experience this time?
Thank you again for your feedback and coming along,
Lucy and team haystack
A women-founded and powered dating business, yay!
It's actually embarrassing how quick we are to jump on a bandwagon of tearing female founded business owners down. People should be ashamed of themselves. Haystack is a company founded by a cancer survivor who experienced horrendous online trolling and converted it into a mission to make accessible products and events for everyone. The events are created from a place of love; they are fun, empowering and growing (rightly so). Note to anyone reading; negative regurgitated comments about women or women founded business tend to lack context and are part of a patriarchal obsession with tearing women down, often by other women. Go team Haystack, keep doing what you're doing :)
24 de agosto de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Thank you so much for your awesome review! We too are very upset and hurt by the defamation campaign launched by an employee who didn’t pass probation and have thousands of reviews we’re super proud of, from genuine verified customers who bought tickets, all of which can be found on our website here.
https://www.haystack-dating.com/reviews/
Thank you for your support!x
awful experience
attended their vauxhall event on 24 august and it was the worst dating event i’d ever been to in my life (and that’s saying a lot)
table numbers were literally scribbled on a4 piece of papers. i had no idea how many rounds of matching there would be, couldn’t find company reps anywhere, some women were matched and had no men, at most 1 man on their table in a table full of 5 or more women…
not worth the £30 ticket (which is like 3x more expensive than thursday dating, and also worse lol)
24 de agosto de 2025
Avaliação não solicitada
Resposta da Haystack Dating
Hiya,
We are sorry again you did not pass your probation with Haystack. As discussed with you, your work was externally audited and came back with a performance score of ‘poor’, for which we have the full paper chain of events.
We continue to be incredibly upset and hurt by the defamation campaign you’ve launched against both the business and all of us internally, across numerous channels.
Not limited to but including your creation of this trustpilot page on our behalf which you continue to inundate with negative reviews, attacking many of us personally and making numerous claims of things you know in a million years we would never say or do.
We’re genuinely not even sure what else to say at this point, you’ve caused a lot of hurt and upset and we would please, please ask you to leave us alone and please never be so unkind and hurtful to anyone else again.
Here is a link to our genuine reviews, submitted by genuine customers who went out of their way to DM and email us following their experiences for anyone who may be interested.
https://www.haystack-dating.com/reviews/
Lucy + team haystack
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