Quote: (09-29-2014 10:31 PM)Vacancier Permanent Wrote:
Awesome dsutmdo! Looking very much forward to that data sheet of yours on VGO!
Cheers man!
First shot at data sheet ever so if it sux, I apologize...
VOG would be good for two reasons as I mentioned, the History and the Girls. The local girls there were the hottest I have ever seen in my travels. Only place I would say that would be comparable chick-wise would maybe be Bucharest or Kiev during the Mid-2000's.
Arrival: The airport is pretty bare. Although right when you get to Baggage claim there is a taxi stand "Taxi Bonjour" worked great 900 Rubles to get Downtown.
I stayed at the Hotel Intourist. Great place, great location, right in the heart of the area where the action is: + good breakfast when you get in at the AM(for those that have been there its right at the start at the Alley of Heroes. Great location to see sites and walk back from majority of the Clubs.-can be found on many hotel booking sites.
Day places to drink beer -"Bamberg" look it up on-line and a better place that is newer with hot/nice waitresses-forgot the name, address was on the Street "ul. Marshala Chuykova #37-near the Panorama museum. Also a Street with a lot of outdoor cafes is pl. Pavshikh Bortsov.--potential day game area. Was filled starting at about 3ish in afternoon while I was there.
Nightlife: the places that I went too were all centered around/on the Volga. The best club I was in was called "Velvet" it can be seen from Google maps (2nd floor) and does have a website. Website looks lame but place is awesome, get there at 9ish and enjoy great attitudes in there plus drinks were cheap. At worst it was 50/50 dudes/chicks thurs-sat, and the best way to describe it would be, no S*it basically ALL the chicks in there were professional baseball players' wives and wanting to dance and party. As of Sept 2014, this would be the place to go. I remember saying to myself this is amazing that this goes on. As you work your way down that entertainment center on the Volga there are more clubs/restaurants that you can hit after Velvet closes the one on the end towards the North is great too- check google maps, the locals said it was a little shady in there but I had a good time..that's where I met the two girls that I spent the evening and half the morning with... The Clubs on the Volga are good thurs-sat.
Other places: Karaoke is pretty big here the two places I went that stay open till 6 every day. DJ BAR on krasnoznamenskaya #8 , great pretty fancy place, I got no love from locals in here but it kept the night going. The other was Labyrint(check Facebook) I hooked up with some locals there who invited me over to their table ended up singing and watching the sun rise over the Volga. Another area I would have tried if the Volga club area had sucked was the area around the last stop on the above ground Metro Stop named "Ploshchad Chekistov"--- Club " Serebro" in the Mall area there looked solid, open 7 days a week till 5 and across the street was Karaoke bar " push" open weds-sat, looked like it had potential.
Reference Google maps: Draw a line From Metro stop "Ploshchad Chekistov" to Ploshchad Lenina and push towards the river would IMO be considered the area where you want to concentrate. (Basically that is the center of the city)Many restaurants, clubs and people out....things to do, people to see, day game OPS.
GAME. I felt the chicks were very receptive to a foreigner. You were almost halfway home by saying you were from USA. (although, I did not flag here.... however, I have gotten my Russian flag in both Sunny Beach and Yalta, but that's not the point of this forum) I would consider my game average. However, I do like to dance and dudes in Russia in general to be frank cannot so if you get out there the chicks should come. If you can do that here you're in, as many chicks should come by you and a simple "Hi" not "privet" should get it started. As mentioned before, many people spoke broken English and I know some Russian to at least amuse someone/ find out if the girl wants to stay and talk , so, in my experience not too much of a language barrier, If you speak Russian that would put you that much higher. I know conversational Spanish and ended up having Sushi at the end of the night with those two chicks speaking Spanish(thought I was going to get the bang but no.... but we drank at their pad until no sh*t 1000am, still a fun experience)
As I mentioned I did not experience cockblocking or hostilities from dudes when engaging girls, and from those that have traveled to Russia the "Door guards/bouncers" were nothing like Moscow or St. Peter's, very little static about entry into the clubs.
Negatives. I arrived Late on a Weds night went directly to Labyrint karaoke bar as it was one of the only drinking establishment open. The town was VERY dead other than that. SO, Sun probably through Weds you may be looking at a dead-a$$ town?? Bad deal, Thurs -Sat, no prob, as it was going off. Did not experience Mosquito's, I just returned about 3 weeks ago, locals did mention the bugs tho. Other negatives it is hard to get to as I believe you can't get there from anywhere but inside Russia, you must travel from Moscow. So it does take some time to get there and as mentioned by other poster one does need to invest some time on the ground here.
Black Dog bar(look it up on line) was also decent place to start, but it got a little young in there for me. Club Amsterdam was open late too but was not very good on Sun when I went.
IMO VOG has not been yet been spoiled by the attitude of the West. (no Baseball hats, Converse All-Stars worn by the Chicks, bad attitudes etc.) The Girls are hot as F*ck and I felt one has a high Foreigner status there + you have many WWII sites to Boot. If you go, no need to look further than Velvet, get on the dance floor and work +, now as mentioned your almost playing with the houses money as the Ruble is down big time combined with the cheap prices of VOG. I hope this helps spur some thoughts.
