Janom Coleman
I have been in Events & Adventures (E&A) for 1.5 years and can say that E&A can be a good way to try new things and meet new people (though you will meet some who are not single). I have attended some really fun events and alternately, there were a few months where I didn’t attend any events because nothing piqued my interest. We recently got a new awesome local Events Manager so I am confident we will start seeing more & more interesting new events on the calendar. But it really depends on your personal activity preferences. While I have generally enjoyed my time in the club, I am still a bit upset by the fact that the organization (at a corporate level) does not have the members’ best interest at heart. When I was diagnosed with COVID last year after the event cancel deadline, I tried reaching out to our event manager at the time to try to cancel, per their policy to not attend events if you are sick. While I did reach out on Friday for a Sunday tasting tour event, no one returned my messages until the following Tuesday (claiming my multiple messages went to spam). The rep Jocelyn concluded that "more advance notice" was needed so "we can do our best” to get me a refund and that “many venues are not willing to refund because they lose profits as well”. If they had at least tried to reach out to the vendor regarding getting my $105 refunded, that would’ve have been better than them just telling me they flat-out weren’t even going to try because they were more concerned about the venue’s or their own profits than the member losing their hard-earned money. Heck, I would’ve even been ecstatic with a credit to attend a tour of the venue on my own since I really wanted to attend this event but they didn’t even TRY to work anything out. That whole situation left a sour taste in my mouth that has dampened my E&A experience ever since. In summary, E&A does deliver on their promise to provide dozens of events monthly for (mostly) single people - just don’t expect them to try to work hard to provide just resolutions to any unexpected issues that may arise. And if you get sick, make sure it happens BEFORE the cancel deadline, since corporate seems to think that that is in our control.
