The Love Boat Returns

The Love Boat docks in Cape Town for a 70s Disco/ Funk extravaganza that starts in the afternoon and carries on long after anyone planned to go home. Indulgent, exaggerated, flirtatious and gloriously over the top, this is the most loved and unapologetically cheesy chapter of the Cheese Parties story. Everything is romance. Everything is desire. Everything is completely outrageous.

The Captain’s Cocktail Hour sets the tone from 3pm to 5pm. Half-price cocktails, sushi and beer/ cider buckets sun on the rooftop, confidence rising with every glass. You might meet the Captain, you might meet a shipmate, heck you might even mate with a shipmate, or you could even mate with the ship, depending on how many cocktails you’ve had. Eyes linger, smiles are dazzling, introductions come with a swagger, and when you get that love to love feeling, you can never say goodbye.

DJ playing from 3 to 5 is, an absolute Cape Town legend unmissable,

As the afternoon boogies into the evening, the disco takes full control. I Feel Love sneaks up when you least expect it, Le Freak breaks out without warning, We Are Family suddenly feels dangerously accurate, Gimme Gimme Gimme turns into a shared request, Boogie Wonderland becomes the only destination that matters, and Staying Alive is less a song and more a group ambition.

This is a couples night. This is a singles night. This is a couples-meeting-singles night. This is an all-together-on-the-dancefloor night. This is whatever happens at a Cheese Party stays at a Cheese Party night.

Come with a lover. Find a lover on board. Come with a lover and leave with another.

Dress up like you mean it. Disco silhouettes, satin, sequins, skin, swagger and confident bad taste are all part of the deal. Participation is everything.

The Love Boat promises romance. Loud romance. Silly romance. Sexy, ridiculous, disco-fuelled romance that only makes sense on a rooftop in Cape Town, with a cocktail in your hand and funk in your soul.

All aboard.