Anastasia Date Reviews

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Membership Costs:

FREE basic membership! However, in order to read and write emails, and view exclusive photo sets and videos you must purchase credits. Credits can be bought with your credit card or using Paypal. Credit pricing is as follows...

• 1000 credits: $399.00 (equivalent to 40c per credit) - best value!
• 500 credits: $249.00 (equivalent to 50c per credit)
• 320 credits: $185.00 (equivalent to 58c per credit)
• 160 credits: $96.00 (equivalent to 60c per credit)
• 80 credits: $56.00 (equivalent to 70c per credit)
• 40 credits: $30.00 (equivalent to 75c per credit)
• 20 credits: $15.99 (equivalent to 80c per credit)

 

Features:

• Owned and operated by the largest mail order bride network, Anastasia International.
• Anastasia Date is Anastasia International's flagship site, and the most popular mail order bride service on the internet.
• Most geographical locations covered, focusing mainly on Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova.
• See how proficiently each of the women in the database speak English - this can be a really useful guide in knowing which women to pursue
• A variety of communication tools, including:
  • Internal email service, giving you your own inbox, sent mail folder and deleted mail folder
  • Live chat service, allowing you to instant message any woman of your choice - requires the purchase of credits
  • Arrange a video date with any woman you choose. This is a great way of having a "virtual date" with someone before arranging to meet them - requires the purchase of credits.
  • International Phone Translation Service: This is a 3-way call between you, the lady of your choice and (if required) an interpreter. The interpreter will not only provide high quality translation but will also do her best to represent you in the most favorable light. There are 3 ways of making a phone call:
    1. Phone reservation: to make sure the lady is available, the interpreter will call ahead and reserve a time for the conversation.
    2. Instant call: Anastasia Date's operators will do their best to connect you right away.
    3. Collect call: If you activate this feature, then ladies may also call you provided you are willing to accept the charges. The operator will ask you each time you receive a collect call if you are willing to accept the charges.
• Add ladies to your favorites folder, to keep a track of your favorite ladies
• View many large thumbnail images of each lady for free.
• Gain access to full-size exclusive photo sets by emailing the lady of your choice or reading one of her emails. The exclusive photo sets you are given access to are then added to your own "Exclusive Photos" folder for easy viewing at a later date.
• Many women have videos posted, which you can also view for 10 credits
• See who's online right now by clicking on the "Online Ladies" link in the left hand menu
• Anastasia Date also has a limited number of profiles of Russian girls who are already living in the US who are looking for partners. Simply click on the "Russian Ladies in USA" link to view these.
• Order gifts or flowers for the woman of your choice using Anastasia Date's delivery service
• Date a Lady: a service whereby Anastasia Date help you arrange a face-to-face meeting with the lady of your choice. In order to "Date a Lady" you must have exchanged 5 emails with the lady of your choice and be willing to travel to her home country. A formal meeting is booked online at AnastasiaDate.com. The meeting is scheduled for a minimum of 1 ½ hours and takes place in the lady’s hometown, initially at the lady’s home agency, in a conference room or lounge in the office. Upon mutual agreement, together with an interpreter, your meeting may move to another location, restaurant, cafe, etc. Anastasia Date charge $70 to arrange this meeting, which includes 1 ½ assistance from an interpreter. Should you wish to extend your meeting and require the interpreter for longer, each additional hour of the interpreter's services costs $15.
• Help in reserving an apartment: should you decide to "Date a Lady", then Anastasia Date can also help you book an apartment in the lady's hometown. Apartments can be welcome alternative to a hotel, offering more space, more privacy, and allowing you to have several guests stay over.
• Matchmaking Tours: Anastasia Date arrange regular tours to various major cities in Russia and Eastern Europe where you travel with other hopeful AnastasiaDate.com members and get to meet many different women in one single trip. Flights, accommodation, food, airport transfers and all social events are organized for you by the tour operators. Each social event will last up to 6 hours, and the many women attending will be by invitation only. About two thirds of the women at each social event speak English, but interpreters will be available at each social event to help out at no extra cost.
• Have Anastasia Date email you regular matches based on your search criteria if you choose.
• Read interviews with various women - just click on the "Interview" tab at the top of each profile to learn more about them
• Email translation services, where needed
• Fiancee Visa and immigration support available
• Excellent technical support.

 

Joining:

• You may perform a search and view UNLIMITED pages of profiles before joining. You may also read all the profiles in their entirety before signing-up, including all the pictures a woman has posted of herself.
• Joining is very easy and free - there is a simple 3-step process, which asks you for your name, DOB, email address, marital status, whether or not you have children, and some personal information such as your hair color, eye color, religion, employment, etc.
• You'll have the opportunity to upload photographs of yourself, which is highly recommended. Bright, well-lit photographs clearly showing your face, preferably smiling, always get the most attention.
• The basic membership is completely free. In order to contact other members however you must purchase credits - see above for costing info.

 

Performing a Search:

• A full search facility is available, allowing members to search by:
  • geographical location: country, city or tour region
  • age range
  • weight range
  • drinking / smoking preferences
  • has children?
  • newest members
  • eye color
  • hair color
  • religion
  • zodiac sign
  • proficiency at English
  • keyword search
  • unique ID number of a particular lady
  • reverse age search - filters results for women who are interested in men of your age only
• You may also filter your search results by
  • women with videos
  • women who allow video dates
  • women with birthdays soon
  • women who are currently online
• You may sort your search results by
  • age (ascending/descending),
  • last entries first,
  • beautiful ladies first(!)

 

Editor's Verdict:

Having reviewed hundreds of dating sites in many different categories, including many mail order bride services, we can honestly say that we have never seen women as beautiful as those that appear on Anastasia Date! Whether you prefer blondes, brunettes or redheads, whether you like your women tall or petite, slim or voluptuous, we guarantee that you will not be disappointed with the truly massive selection of hopeful young women looking for romance with a Western man on AnastasiaDate.com.

Anastasia Date is part of a much larger network of sites owned and operated by Anastasia International Inc. The Anastasia network of mail order bride services was established in 2001 and is now the largest network of mail order bride sites on the net. AnastasiaDate.com is Anastasia's new flagship site and (according to its Alexa traffic rank) the most popular of all the mail order bride websites we've reviewed.

Having reviewed as many mail order bride services as we have, we are often surprised by the somewhat amateurish appearance of some of the sites on offer - even those popular, established sites that have been around for many years. This is not the case with Anastasia Date. The site is beautifully presented, logically structured and easy to navigate. It also contains the most advanced set of features available in the industry, with a full and comprehensive search facility, and some cutting edge communication tools, including built-in email, live chat (or instant messaging), video chat, and phone calls, with or without an interpreter on-hand.

The fact that you can search for women based on their proficiency at English is a great feature. Relationships are hard enough as it is, without a language barrier getting in the way. Pursuing women who have at least an intermediate English speaking skill will vastly improve your chances of long-term success. The keyword search option is also a useful and often overlooked feature. This allows you to search women's profiles for particular keywords and can be a very useful way of finding women with the same interests and ambitions that you have. For instance, if you like scuba-diving or skiing, then you can search for these keywords and find all the profiles that contain these words. If used properly, this feature can be very effective at finding someone with whom you share an interest.

As with all mail order bride websites, Anastasia Date is not without its share of scammers - women trying to extract money from you, making false claims that they need you to pay for their immigration visas or pay for their flights to visit you, etc. As with all websites, you should never send money to people you have never met and should immediately report such behavior to AnastasiaDate.com. Anastasia Date enforce a strict scammer policy and will deal with the matter promptly. Due to the enormity and popularity of the site, Anastasia Date attracts more scammers than most, but also has the most active anti-scam policy we've come across, with many staff dedicated to combating scammers. As a result, the vast majority of the women on the site are sincere in their quest for love and romance with a Western man. Just be careful never to send money to women on any mail order bride site unless you're sure of their intentions.

In summary, Anastasia Date is our No. 1 mail order bride service for the following reasons:

• It is the largest and most popular mail order bride service on the web, with more Eastern European and Russian women than any other site we've reviewed.
• It has more beautiful women than any other site we've come across. Period. The pictures of all bikini-clad beauties on AnastasiaDate.com are well worth the free membership in themselves.
• The site is beautifully crafted, with an intuitive navigation structure
• It has a wide variety of communication tools, including the ability to video chat - a feature we have not come across on any other mail order bride website. This will allow you to have a "virtual date" with the woman of your choice, before deciding whether you want to fly half way around the world to meet her.
• Many profiles now feature videos of women. This is a new feature on AnastasiaDate.com - expect more and more new profiles to contain videos as time goes by. Again, this is a feature that is lacking on most other mail order bride websites.
• Outstanding matchmaking tours: tours are offered by many different mail order bride sites, however with more beautiful women than any other site, you can be sure that the matchmaking tours organized by Anastasia Date will be a lot more fun than those organized by the competition. Anastasia Date also have a dedicated website for this, and will arrange all aspects of the tour for you. If there's a particular woman you'd like to meet on any tour, just let the team at AnastasiaDate.com know and they will do their best to help you.

With offices in both the United States and Moscow, and both telephone and email support, AnastasiaDate looks after its members well and is definitely worth checking out if you're looking for a foreign bride, particularly one from Russia or the former Soviet block.

 

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