Uniformdating.com's original aim was to match up lonely servicemen and women, police officers, nurses, and all other uniformed service people, but the site also now attracts loads of civilians keen on snagging themselves a sexy uniformed other half.
The beauty of the service is that wherever you're deployed, as long as there''''s web access, you can look for potential love matches back in the UK.
If you work in a uniformed service, or you''''ve got a thing about members of the opposite sex in uniform, this site will be right up your street. You can post a profile for free, search and send a quick hello but to make contact properly you need to upgrade to full membership.
Who is it for?
Originally aimed at lonely servicemen and women, police officers, nurses, and all other uniformed service people, the site has now expanded to cater for any civilian keen to meet a uniformed other half.
For those deployed away from home and with web access, there's the facility to look for potential love matches back in the UK.
Profile creation
How long to fill out a profile? Approximately: 15 minutes.
It's quite easy and fairly straightforward to create a profile on this site, you can save data at every step, and complete in stages in your own time rather than doing it all in one go. It's not the most in-depth, but that means you'll get up and running more quickly without getting bogged down in a huge lengthy list of questions. Your profile will be reviewed before it goes live.
Features
Comprehensive search facility, webcam chatroom, the ability to send quick 'ice-breakers' as an alternative to longer mails, such as hello, smile, flirts, winks, hug, kiss and virtual gifts like flowers and chocolates.
As usual on sites like this there's the standard personal messaging, plus a match test which lets you input what you're looking for in a partner to help steer you towards someone that really floats your boat.
Searching
The full basic search facility is open to free members and standard (nonpaying) members can browse all profiles and send the 'icebreakers' freely. As a paying member, the options you have available are:
standard search
advanced search
newest members
recently active
profession
keyword
county search
Unusually for a site of this size, there's no postcode search, but full (paying) members get access to a county search and other search options are good and give a great deal of flexibility.
Viewing Profiles
Well laid out, and easy to see all the information on one page. Not overloaded with info, so nothing to get bogged down in, but hopefully enough info to get an adequate idea of personality.
Contacting members
There are loads of ways to contact other members for the fully paid up subscriber. Apart from the usual email messaging system common to most sites, choose from quick 'ice-breaker' options such as sending a 'hello', 'smile', 'flirt', 'wink', 'hug', 'kiss' or a virtual gift such as flowers or chocolates. So no excuses for not getting in touch then!
Email alerts
Weekly newsletter - keeps you informed of new members, new features and offers 'how to' guides, as well as useful information regarding dating both online and off.
Newest members - fortnightly email showing new members that live in your area.
You have mail - fortnightly email alerting you to the presence of unread emails in your inbox.
Member contact - an email to let you know that another member has sent you a message.
Profile help emails - occasional emails to offer help to complete your profile.
Value for money
Not the cheapest, but nevertheless, not bad value for money. If you particularly want to meet servicemen/women, then this site offers a fairly inexpensive way of doing so. And the ability to try the site out for just 5 days is great, many of the sites reviewed here ask for a minimum of 1 month, so this one definitely wins in that respect.
Best bits
Facility to test the site out with a brief 5 day membership, and better still, payable by PayPal – quick to sign up, and if it's not for you, you won't have spent much time or money on finding out - which we like!
Worst bits
Rather sluggish to load, due to fiddly drop-down menus and clumsy overlaid layers. Web 2.0 gone a bit bonkers we say! Not always the most intuitive site to use either, but not terrible once you get to understand its little nuances. If simplified, and with the fancy layers taken away, it would be a great site...
Pricing
1 month: £19.99 3 month: £34.99 6 month: £59.99
What you think of Uniform Dating
As many call it more ’online mating’ - loads of blokes wanting one night stands or casual sex.
Some of the men I exchanged phone numbers went on to send me pictures of their pen*s - totally unsolicited by me.
I was really really disappointed in the website.
Not many people are actually ’uniform’.
You can’t work out looking at profiles who are members and who aren’t.
I found this a total waste of money & not to be repeated ever.
Alex - - Thu 12 Jan
I tried this site and was pleasantly surprised. As long as you don’t expect a completely free to use site, there is lots to do and a huge amount of people. There are as many normal people as there are uniformed, but the site is open to the general public i guess. Overall, great experience and excellent fun. It’s also had an recently that makes everything a lot easier to use! Also available on your phone! A
Jenny O_o - - Tue 3 Jan
In fairness I had contact from a fair few men, BUT I joined it because I wanted to meet men in uniform...hence UNIFORM dating...call me shallow if you like, but not one of the guys on that contacted me seemed to be in a Uniformed profession.
Lauren - - Thu 29 Dec
absolutely dreadful a complete waste of money, difficult to chat, difficult to understand, messages not responded to - are they actually real people. save your money.
Andrea - - Tue 6 Sep
Would not recommend. Hard to navigate from page to page, very little is available for free, lots of people who just looking for casual sex, also it is very difficult to unsubsribe. You have to actually call their office in their working hours, wait till they pick up the phone, tell your personal details to someone on the other side and only then they will cancel your subion. Not user friendly. stay away.
Anna - - Wed 31 Aug
It’s all good until you realise you can’t do much without subscribing i.e. paying money. Which is such a shame, because it’s an easy to use website, has a good search system, and I genuinely wanted to get in touch with some people. They won’t even let you read your messages without paying! Ridiculous.
Emma - - Sat 9 Jul
Too many fake profiles, all the ladies are stunning, photos too professional. messages dried up in the last 10 days, but once it expired, i recieved about 15 messages in 8 days. Save your money
Sam - Fri 3 Sep
its a really good site freindly people and a good laugh for all service personal. but sometimes people dont understand the service humour
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