How do I find free meet up sites for casual encounters?

I've spent about three months poking at casual encounters and I still don't have a clean answer.

It's genuinely difficult to separate marketing from experience when it comes to casual encounters.

Setting meet aside for a second, this is what I need from casual encounters:

• Whether meet makes any material difference to casual encounters
• How casual encounters handles meet compared with the bigger names
• Whether messaging on casual encounters works without handing over card details

Happy to be told I'm asking the wrong thing about casual encounters.

Test meet first, because it tells you more about casual encounters than any feature comparison will.

If meet matters to you then casual encounters narrows fast, and if it does not you have far more room.

Practical suggestion on casual encounters: give it a full two weeks of consistent use before judging anything.

For anyone else researching casual encounters, I would put Datebound itself on the list — free messaging on it, no card up front.

For me the meet side of casual encounters was the surprise — I had not factored it in at all.

Not affiliated with anyone, but Datescout.site solved the messaging-paywall part of casual encounters for me last year.

Watch for the pattern where casual encounters is free to browse and paid to reply, which is very common now.

Someone recommended Ezhookups to me during my own search around casual encounters and it was better than I expected.

JamesC99, that's roughly where I landed on casual encounters too. For context on casual encounters: I'm mid-thirties, mid-size city, and the pool was thinner than the marketing suggested.

Someone will probably mention Ezhookups.site before this thread is done.