My first thought upon departure - what a crazy country. I've never seen so much concentrated debauchery as a socially accepted way of life before. I've been to crazier cities during a known celebration (i.e. Pamplona for the bull run), but Reykjavik is truly a remarkable city. It was myself and two friends, and here's my 11 night report. Warning, it's a bit long but I thought I might as well be overinclusive than leave some things out. Special thanks to Caligula for his great info during my time there (got to hang out a few nights too).
About us: I'd say we are three decent to good-looking guys. Myself (5'11, white, average shape right now [have really gorged myself and skipped the gym recently]) , Friend #1 (5'9, Persian, decent shape), Friend #2 (6'0, white, good shape). All early 30s. We had different girls compliment our looks at least once each throughout the trip, though it wasn't as if that happened every day. Also, I read Roosh's recent post about the Eye Contact Test on the last day of our trip and noticed it happening. We definitely had girls looking at us when we first walked into venues, so maybe we stood out as non-Icelanders.
Logistics/Other crap: From the airport take the flybus in to a spot nearby where you are staying. Can also take the Iceland Excursions bus from the airport too. Return you can do the same thing as its easy, cheap and there's free wifi on board. You can get SIM cards from the tourist shops on Laugavegur from Vodaphone. Make sure you have the right gear if you are coming in winter, can get cold and slushy and clothes are damn expensive out there. The city is so small you can walk it easily. Finally get and read a copy of Bang Iceland. I found it to very accurately describe the culture and everything else, with the exception of a few things (make outs, leaving early). Go to the blue lagoon, it's pretty cool.
Food: I really loved the food here. We tried out a bunch of things, and can recommend the following:
-Grill Market: best starter bread I've ever had. Get the monkfish entrée and the whale appetizer. Skip the lamb and horse.
-Fish Market: Monkfish here was good too, as was the whale. The smoked puffin appetizer I thought was very good.
-Sea Baron: Lobster soup is fantastic.
-Sushi Samba: Favorite meal of the trip. We got the Icelandic Feast menu plus the surf and turf roll and the foie gras roll. Also added some watermelon fries. Seriously absolutely delicious. Everything was fantastic except one course, the catfish. The whale is amazing. Watermelon fries? Ridiculous. Also attracts a lot of attractive girls.
-Prikid: Pretty good burgers
-Next to Gill & Sulfur (or something called that) there is the "best soup in town." Very good soups and free refills on the soup.
-Kex Hostel: By the bar area you can order food. Very very good food, the lamb, chicken and bone marrow were excellent.
-BBP (hotdog stand): Big disappointment. All I kept hearing was how it’s the best in the world, etc. I wouldn't even waste a meal here to be honest.
You can cook too, we did a lot of that after shopping at Bonus. Also, you can drink the tap water, just let the cold water run first so it gets out the sulfur from the hot water.
Culture: Holy fuck do they like to drink, but only on weekends. People get shitfaced here, as stated in Bang Iceland. But it's really something to see out in real life. Girls are wobbling, guys have no idea what's going on, people are falling, fighting, breaking glasses, it's insanity. I loved it.
Everyone speaks English and the girls are very friendly. Conversations will start easily but sometimes die out quickly if there is no chemistry. No issues with safety whatsoever.
The social circle thing here is absurd. Within my stay alone I started running into the same people over and over and over again. Crazy to think about it, but everyone knows everyone in this damn town.
Lodging: We got a three bedroom apartment near Lebowski Bar. If at all possible, I'd try to get a place between B5 and Austur. I lost a few afterparty opportunities because I was just on the outskirts of where people wanted to walk to. What's funny is the town is so small you are talking a difference of maybe 5 minutes max, but still I saw it was a factor. We paid less than $100/night for the place.
Costs: I'd say LA prices. Not anywhere close to Norway/Sweden which was a relief. But not cheap like EE either. Alcohol at the store is super expensive, meals out at nice places are expensive too. Buy as much alcohol as possible at duty free.
Guys: Interesting dichotomy they present. They don't really hit on girls, but their presence alone is a cockblock because of the damn social circle thing. Also when they drink they can get aggressive in both fighting and attempting to cockblock your efforts. Looks wise on physical traits nothing special, but their style is very well done.
Girls: Roosh describes it well in Bang Iceland. They span from all ranges from superfatties to supermodel types, but overall I was very impressed. One major point – THEIR SKIN IS AMAZING. I've never seen such an abundance of nice skin on girls in my life. Not sure if it’s the sulfur in the water, the lack of sunlight or what but I was repeatedly in shock during my entire stay there. This leads to an overall very consistently high score on the face scale. The sad part is a decent amount of them tend to carry some extra pounds, but their faces/skin makes the ones that look like they have some babyfat very bangable. Lots of light eyes, very white looking girls. My style so I was happy.
Personality wise I liked them. Very friendly and if they are interested in you they show it quickly but subtly. For example, they will invite you to walk with them, go sit down with them, etc. I actually found that after Brazil, this was the next quickest meet to make out culture I've been to. If she likes you, you can be kissing her within minutes (one of the small variations I noticed from Roosh's experience). However, no bang was had on this trip that started with a makeout at the bar/club.
And as mentioned above, they drink a shitload to the point of massive inebriation.
TIP: Beware of gold digging sluts that just use you for drinks. Only ran into this at B5, but they will straight up ask you to buy them drinks. DON'T. They will stick around for a few minutes and then go from guy to guy doing the same thing. In fact, I had more girls offer to buy me alcohol in general on the trip, moreso than any other place I've been to. So there is no reason to buy a girl a drink.
Also, you get hit with the social circle thing. She will know everyone everywhere. It's hard to work around but the two good things I noticed were that if she's into you, she will eventually come back or not leave you too far behind and, second, girls really don't cockblock here. They'll separate, leave their friends, one actually told me to go fuck her friend, and so on. If anything you may find competition from the girls on who gets to have you.
The girls generally do not like Icelandic guys. They think they are boring, scared to approach and overall lack the full package to offer. Reactions to cold approaches were usually the following: very welcoming leading to 5+ minute conversations (30% of the time), open and nice but convos would end (60% of the time), total blowout/end within 30 seconds (10% of the time). There are some bitches here though - I got a "go away" to an innocent question and Friend #2 got the shoulder/head turn and no response to an innocent opener.
Pipelining: Useless. I tried that einkamal site and it's all fatties or weird couples looking for BDSM.
Game: Mostly my standard American game, early kino. Tried to tone down the cockiness going off of previous members' advice. Be aggressive and nice and approach. I easily approached over 100 girls this trip. Friend #2 is an entertainment personality so he's very good at opening/rambling. He'd walk into many different groups of girls sitting and eating/drinking by themselves and get us in very quickly. Hardly got rejected actually now that I think about it.
My opener was always either "do you have a light" or "do you know what the best place is for tonight?" I'd try to ramble from there. I did notice that if they asked where I was from that usually went better than if I had to keep pulling teeth. They would always ask what I'm doing here and I'd usually respond with I'm here to try Puffin. I'd probably need a few more weeks to figure out the ideal game to bang, but those are some initial thoughts. The biggest problem you'll run into is either one of you being too drunk, or social circle interruptions. The girls here are pretty open to sex it seems.
Don't bother with numbers. It may seem like a last ditch effort but really nothing ever materialized with numbers, even if I had made out/brought a girl home but didn't bang. Even the guys who would give me their numbers to show me around or what not would be useless. Actually, and this is not a joke, it's much more likely that you will run into the girl again than her responding to your texts/calls. At least for me it was.
Daygame: No idea, I was dead hungover most days until I got to the night.
Nightlife: Endless amounts of bars and clubs. Other than a holiday/special night, it was very fruitless to head out Sunday to Wednesday. Everything happened on Friday/Saturday, but I'd still go out on Thursdays because you never know. Places close at 1 except for Fri/Sat which is 4:30-5ish. Those special nights they close at 3. 20oz beer pours were about 7-10 bucks and mixed drinks around the same. Here are some specific places:
B5: What an insane place. Small place majority of it is a dance floor. I'd say easily the top talent I saw in Reykjavik. Get there before 1:30 a.m. to avoid the mayhem that is the line. Seriously the line is ridiculous and since the smoking area is by the entrance it's a great place to go watch people killing themselves to get in. Watch out for the gold digging sluts that just use you for drinks. Do not buy a girl a single drink would be my recommendation. Lots of younger girls go here, and everyone gets shitfaced. Have to say it was my favorite place.
Austur: Like B5 but much larger, with a bit older crowd that is more jersey shorish and contains the coke/speed whores. This place was also a lot of fun just given the higher number of girls compared to B5. Also great smoking area that's covered. Easy to go bar, smoking area, dance floor, repeat. This was my second favorite place.
Dolly: New place, I was actually too drunk to recall what it was like. But my buddy pulled a solid 7.5 from here and I know others have pulled here too, so it must be good.
Prikid, Lebowski, English Pub, Hresso: Never really found these places to be any good. Popped my head in a few times.
Café Laundromat: Good place to go during the week, if you want to try and barge in on girls at their tables eating.
Kaffibarrin: This place is always busy and probably your best bet for the weekdays. But I really started disliking the crowd here. Very social circle and very hipsterish in the not so good way. Ended up there a lot early on in the trip then gave up on it.
10-11: Their version of 7-11 but this place goes nuts after the clubs let out on the weekends. It's seriously crazy in there, people are hammered talking to randoms trying to buy food, drinks, etc. Great place to go to try to pull the afterparty move.
The streets: Do NOT underestimate your ability to pull off the streets. Invite to an afterparty and go from there. It worked for us several times, I think we hosted 5 afterparties or so in the 11 nights we were there. We also ended up at two combined afterparties from street game. DO NOT GIVE UP UNTIL YOU SEE NOBODY LEFT ON THE STREETS.
Nightly Log: To give an overall idea of how it was like for 3 American guys in Iceland, I'll recap each of our nights:
Wednesday (12/26, closing time 3am): Arrive in the morning and apparently it is a special night in Reykjavik the day after xmas. Head out and meet up with Caligula at Kaffibarrin, very cool guy. We pull two girls to walk with us to Dolly and it gets a bit foggy for me. Friend #2 left around 1am with one of the girls we brought from Kaffibarrin, but apparently he was so drunk he fell over and she ditched him. Turned out great because she was a 6 at most, then he came back, met another girl outside Dolly at closing who took him to her house for an afterparty (very cute, 7.5 I'd say). He stayed up drinking till about 9am, they had arguments over Obama and Romney, and apparently her and her roommate fought over him, she won and he ended up hooking up with her and staying over. Myself and Friend #1 tried to get a bunch of girls to our place but didn't work. From outside Dolly to the late night eateries we got somewhat close but never was able to convince anyone to come by. If we lived closer to Dolly I think we could have done so.
Thursday (12/27, closing time 1am): Nothing much going on anywhere. We start at Vegamot where Friend #2 starts off chatting with two pretty cute girls at a table next to us. One was half Lebanese half Icelandic and the other was just normal Icelandic. Girls just came for a few drinks and left. We end up at Café Laundromat where Friend #2 barges in on a table of 7 girls. Chat them up, they are receptive and stick with us until closing when they leave. I drank a LOT this night as it soon turned out. On the walk back we see a group of guys and girls, start talking to them and somehow I'm arm in arm with one girl while the rest of the pack followed. We get everyone to the afterparty at our place, 4 girls 2 guys plus us. I end up making out with the original girl, then with another girl who had a boyfriend as one guy told us (and who later showed up). So I went back to original girl, all of us drinking a lot. Everyone leaves but I tell my girl to stay, get her in my room, naked and… fucking no juice in my rocket. I barely remember that part, after about 20 minutes trying to get myself going I just give up. Lost the bang, horrible.![[Image: angry.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/angry.gif)
To demonstrate how drunk I was, the next day I had to ask my friend what she looked like. Right when I was about to say the only thing I remember was she was a tall black haired girl, he goes she was a short blonde. So fuck me for drinking too much, to the point where I had no clue what the girl looked like and lost what turned out to be a super easy bang I pulled from the street.
Friday (12/28, closing time 5am): Head out around 1am to Vegamot, again Friend #2 gets right to work on a table of about 6 girls or so. Myself and Friend #1 sit down, start chatting them up. One immediately grabs my hand and won't let go and I swear I could have made out with her within a minute. She tells me she is a lesbian and she wants a guy to fuck her from behind while she goes down on her friend. Probably trying to get a reaction from me but I played it cool. At this point, a very good looking girl just walks over to Friend #1 and asks if she can sit down next to him. They start chatting and everyone parts ways. Friend #2 goes back to the girl's house from the first night. Friend #1 stays with the girl that just came up with him and I leave with the supposed lesbian and her friends to Kaffibarrin. Eventually, I get social circle'd out at Kaffibarrin, and Friend #1's girl leaves him because she has a boyfriend and if she stayed she said she would fuck him. Sucks. End of the night I'm hanging outside Kaffibarrin and go to some afterparty but spent the entire time waiting to use the bathroom. Eventually gave up and went home.
Saturday (12/29, closing time 5am): We go to Austur and holy shit this place was going insane. Just quickly, during the night I saw several fights, a guy being literally carried out by two bouncers, people getting drinks thrown at them, etc. Go to smoking area and open two girls that are smoking and Friend #2 comes by to help. They immediately take to us. Unfortunately, it wasn't until my girl took off her jacket that I noticed she was way too thick. Having had some bad nights so far and the ease of which she was into me, my friend and I stayed with them for a bit (his girl was better so I also wanted to stay for that). We both had makeouts very early, sat at a table with them, etc. After about an hour we go outside and my girl is talking to some other guys and I see my escape route. So I start chatting up another girl, very cute with just a tiny bit of babyfat that makes her look even better somehow. She shows interest but then thick girl comes back. Had to decide whether to take the sure thing or go for the cuter one, and I just couldn't take the sure thing since I was much more attracted to the other one. Take the other one with me, we go dance, walk around, etc. Convince her to leave grab our jackets but then she starts looking for her friends and I lose her. At this point the club is closing and I just position myself by the exit until I see her again, grab her hand but now she is with her friends. One was EE looking one and one fatty with a kid. The fatty was actually great, she told me I should take her friend home and bang her. We leave, these girls are hungry and despite my pleas to just walk over to my place and eat, they stop at 10-11 next door which was ironically almost as good as the club. Drunk people everywhere at this convenience stores. Eventually get them to agree to walk back, and her two friends drop out and take a taxi home. Get my girl in my room, she won't take off her pantyhose and underwear and keeps saying she's on her period. I told her I don't care but she wouldn't relent and then passed out. In the morning she woke up and threw up twice and left. Never heard from her again despite her giving me her # and telling her to text me. Damnit, she was either too drunk or I found the one prude of Iceland.
Now the side story of all this is my other two friends were still walking around Austur. Friend #1 was dancing with 5 Russian girls but they started getting picked off one by one. Friend #2 was with our original two girls and the thickie was looking for me all night apparently. Anyway, my friends leave eventually and ended up pulling two girls off the street on the walk home from Austur. They start playing drinking games, and Friend #1 makes out with both girls and eventually one of the girls stays after an argument with her friend. They went straight to fucking, she was super horny and at one point screamed "You need to make me cum…right now!" Hilarious. They would just argue and fuck and so on. Psycho girl.
Sunday (12/30, closing time 1am): I don't take nights off on trips, and even though you would think this would be a good night to take off (after the weekend, before NYE), I still went out. Especially given my friends both got their flags, I was even more motivated. We all head out around 11 to find anything reasonable. Start at Lebowski and it's dead. Head over to Kaffibarrin where it's decently crowded. Make approaches and nobody is getting anywhere. After it closes I try a few street approaches but it is so bitingly cold that I couldn't stay outside and just gave up and went home.
Monday (12/31, NYE, closing time 5-6am): Started off at the church up the hill in town to watch the fireworks, crazy atmosphere. Lots of people out however there were a lot of tourists. It seems a lot of locals either see family for NYE or go to house parties. Afterwards we went to Austur again, and despite approaching everything in sight nobody really hooked anything. On the walk home, this girl comes up to me and starts talking about how we met and good to see me again. I go oh yeah at Kaffibarrin a few nights ago, she responded no we met at so and so place (don't remember). At this point I was pretty drunk, told them let's go afterparty and off we went. Us three, and her, 2 other girls and some random dude from another country. One of the girls was cute (not the one that snatched me), the other two were bangable but again thick per the country's MO. Get back, start drinking and I try to pull the thick girl that approached me to my room with no luck. They start to leave and the one cute girl stays behind for a few minutes and in an attempt to get her to stay I drunkenly yell out: "You should stay…we will all fuck you." Not sure if she understood it completely but she left after that. I got the # of the thick girl, but later on she was not responsive to text. I actually went out again by myself after they left (around 7am) to see if there are any stragglers and approached a few girls but nothing was taking, came back and crashed out.
Tuesday (1/1, closing time 3am): Friend #1 was sick so he stayed in, went out with Friend #2 to Austur. Everyone was super dressed up – dresses/suits. Not much going on really, though did have a few girls approach us (tall slutty looking girl) and was trying to game this one girl with a boyfriend and son. Long story short, nothing much happened here, went to Kaffibarrin where this hideous girl with a whale of a laugh was implying she'd have sex with me if I had weed. Thank god I wasn't that drunk. Left, tried to pull a girl off a street and got close, but then social circle intercepted. Went to bed.
Wednesday (1/2, closing time 1am): Only I went out, and it was dead. Came home after 45 minutes.
Thursday (1/3, closing time 1am): We all headed out, ended up at Dolly talking to three flight attendants from Iceland. For whatever reason I was drinking a LOT and got the most drunk of the entire trip. At closing one of them in response to my request that she should come and have a drink instead of going to sleep asked where I was staying. When I told her she said nah too far and jumped in the car and went home. Damn logistics. On the walk home friends stop and get pizza and I thought they had ditched me, so I went on a blitz approaching everything on the street. Apparently met some army girls from Norway and got their # but no afterparty. Then things get a bit blurry, but apparently I invited a 40 year old woman, two men with beards and a likely retarded Russian girl that wouldn't let anyone touch her massive hat she was wearing over to our place for an afterparty. Nothing happened other than my friends saying it was the worst after party ever. Given how drunk I got that night I decided that I should tone it down if I'm going to get anywhere this final weekend.
Friday (1/4, closing time 5am): We finally decide to hit up B5 and we get there about 1:15 am. Full on pandemonium, and filled to the brim with hot girls. Immediately upon entering we have a group of young girls with us, dancing, making out, etc. Spent most of the night with this one girl, only at the end to get cockblocked by social circle again (her ex was there, her brother's friends, and so on). Tried everything I could to get her back to my place until the point she thought I was stalking her, so I gave up. The Norwegian army girls texted me to meet up so I told them to come there having no idea what they looked like since I was so drunk the night before. They came, the vibe was good but couldn’t get them back to my place. On the way back we ran into three other Norwegian girls that were at B5 and they agreed to come over for afterparty. Fucking cunts went buckwild, spilling champagne everywhere and stealing a Viking hat we had. Friend #2 made out with one of the girls before mother hen went in for the swoop and leave move. Still we had fun and two were cute, and mother hen was bangable. Should have been more aggressive in just pulling girls into our bedroom.
Saturday (1/5, closing time 5am): Our last night out, and still no flag for me. Despite gaining like 10 pounds this past month I went with my #1 outfit in terms of getting laid and made myself fit into it. We liked B5 so much we went back there and got in just before 1:30. The line was INSANE afterwards, people clawing to get in as if the world was about to end. Within 5 minutes of being inside, I had a cute girl all over me to only find out she was using me for drinks. I bought her one drink and her friend tried to order herself shots which I had to stop her and tell the bartender no. Fucking bitches. Later saw the same cute girl making out with another guy, him getting her shots, then later another guy and so on. Complete users.
At this point it's almost 2:30 a.m. and I'm wondering if I should leave for Austur or stay or what. Go outside to the line and people are still going nuts trying to get in. I see the girl from NYE afterparty, the cute one that I told her to stay so all of us could fuck her. I go to the bouncer and try to get her in to no avail, chit chat with her then go back inside. Come out a few minutes later she eventually gets in and talk to her for a bit, etc. See the line outside again and I see vomit girl, the cute one I had in my bed earlier that week. Thinking that was my best shot, I go back inside to wait for her to get in. Here I run into the NYE afterparty girl again, start chatting and get some mild signs of interest. Eventually her friends come to leave and she says she wants to stay here. Nice. One friend stays with her however and now we all have to leave to go to some other damn bar.
We all go to this new bar and her friend gets denied entry (they are all 18 and have fake IDs). So now NYE afterparty girl and her friend and I are talking, and my girl says I'm going to go drop off my friend then I'll come back. I say great, I'll go with you. On the way to the car, her friend says she wants to keep partying (![[Image: dodgy.gif]](https://rooshvforum.network/images/smilies/dodgy.gif)
) so we all go back to my place. Thankfully her mom keeps calling her, so my girl says I have to take her home. Again, not wanted to leave her side, I say I'll go with you. We all go, she drops her friend off and we come back to my place. At no point did her friend try to cockblock. There I try to offer her a drink and she says she doesn't drink. I was shocked considering how drunk these girls get in Iceland. Go in for makeout, get into my bed and get resistance at the panty level. After about 20 minutes of both physical and debate based LMR countering tactics, finally get her to relent and we bang it out 3x. Have a great time, she has an amazing body being 18 and thin, and 5'11 to boot. Got my flag from the only sober girl in Reykjavik – go figure.
A quick sidenote on how small this town is. So this was our 11th night there, and just at B5, we ran into: the half Lebonese girl and her friend we met at Vegamot, the airline stewardesses we met at Dolly, the NYE afterparty girl, the vomit girl, one of the Russians from Austur, and some of the girls that approached us at Austur. And that's just what I remember.
Negatives: Overall I had a great time but this place is not without its negatives. First, it is expensive. Groceries are not really cheap and we were dropping about 60-80/each on those fancy dinners. Soups are 10-15 each. Alcohol is insanely expensive at the store ($50 for a 1L Absolute). Second, if you like the sun the winter is not for you. Can go a bit stir crazy I would imagine if you are a sun lover. Third, the girls are a bit lacking in terms of substance – there will be no great debates, no super affectionate relationships, no girls making you food and so on. I also highly doubt fidelity is something that is treated with respect here. Fourth the guys are aggressive when drunk and you may find yourself in a fight if you are not careful. And they like cockblocking you with their girls. Fifth, and this is coming from someone who absolutely loves thinness over everything else, there are a lot of thick girls here. Sometimes you think you have a thin girl only to see the fatness come out once they delayer themselves from all the winter clothes. The thin ones with the great faces tend to be bitchier and only give you a few seconds of your time. Unlike for example Ukraine where I think you CAN get the 8+ with some hard work, learning Russian etc., here I think you have to be very entwined in the social circle to get that. Finally, and this is important, this is not some magical place where you can fuck drunken white girls by just showing up. The three of us combined, for 11 nights, fucked 1 girl each. That's a lot of nights out and many many many approaches combined. You have to be ready to put in some effort. I will temper this however by saying the guys who lived there or visited often I think do better because they've calibrated their game already. I think VonAwesome was there a bit longer than me, so maybe he can chime in too. Caligula seems to have Reyk figured out pretty good.
Conclusion: That said, I'm going back to check out the summertime. I really enjoyed this Country as an overall whole and had a great time with the girls there. If the girls were universally thinner and it was a bit cheaper, it would be pretty hard to top this place...for me anyway.
About us: I'd say we are three decent to good-looking guys. Myself (5'11, white, average shape right now [have really gorged myself and skipped the gym recently]) , Friend #1 (5'9, Persian, decent shape), Friend #2 (6'0, white, good shape). All early 30s. We had different girls compliment our looks at least once each throughout the trip, though it wasn't as if that happened every day. Also, I read Roosh's recent post about the Eye Contact Test on the last day of our trip and noticed it happening. We definitely had girls looking at us when we first walked into venues, so maybe we stood out as non-Icelanders.
Logistics/Other crap: From the airport take the flybus in to a spot nearby where you are staying. Can also take the Iceland Excursions bus from the airport too. Return you can do the same thing as its easy, cheap and there's free wifi on board. You can get SIM cards from the tourist shops on Laugavegur from Vodaphone. Make sure you have the right gear if you are coming in winter, can get cold and slushy and clothes are damn expensive out there. The city is so small you can walk it easily. Finally get and read a copy of Bang Iceland. I found it to very accurately describe the culture and everything else, with the exception of a few things (make outs, leaving early). Go to the blue lagoon, it's pretty cool.
Food: I really loved the food here. We tried out a bunch of things, and can recommend the following:
-Grill Market: best starter bread I've ever had. Get the monkfish entrée and the whale appetizer. Skip the lamb and horse.
-Fish Market: Monkfish here was good too, as was the whale. The smoked puffin appetizer I thought was very good.
-Sea Baron: Lobster soup is fantastic.
-Sushi Samba: Favorite meal of the trip. We got the Icelandic Feast menu plus the surf and turf roll and the foie gras roll. Also added some watermelon fries. Seriously absolutely delicious. Everything was fantastic except one course, the catfish. The whale is amazing. Watermelon fries? Ridiculous. Also attracts a lot of attractive girls.
-Prikid: Pretty good burgers
-Next to Gill & Sulfur (or something called that) there is the "best soup in town." Very good soups and free refills on the soup.
-Kex Hostel: By the bar area you can order food. Very very good food, the lamb, chicken and bone marrow were excellent.
-BBP (hotdog stand): Big disappointment. All I kept hearing was how it’s the best in the world, etc. I wouldn't even waste a meal here to be honest.
You can cook too, we did a lot of that after shopping at Bonus. Also, you can drink the tap water, just let the cold water run first so it gets out the sulfur from the hot water.
Culture: Holy fuck do they like to drink, but only on weekends. People get shitfaced here, as stated in Bang Iceland. But it's really something to see out in real life. Girls are wobbling, guys have no idea what's going on, people are falling, fighting, breaking glasses, it's insanity. I loved it.
Everyone speaks English and the girls are very friendly. Conversations will start easily but sometimes die out quickly if there is no chemistry. No issues with safety whatsoever.
The social circle thing here is absurd. Within my stay alone I started running into the same people over and over and over again. Crazy to think about it, but everyone knows everyone in this damn town.
Lodging: We got a three bedroom apartment near Lebowski Bar. If at all possible, I'd try to get a place between B5 and Austur. I lost a few afterparty opportunities because I was just on the outskirts of where people wanted to walk to. What's funny is the town is so small you are talking a difference of maybe 5 minutes max, but still I saw it was a factor. We paid less than $100/night for the place.
Costs: I'd say LA prices. Not anywhere close to Norway/Sweden which was a relief. But not cheap like EE either. Alcohol at the store is super expensive, meals out at nice places are expensive too. Buy as much alcohol as possible at duty free.
Guys: Interesting dichotomy they present. They don't really hit on girls, but their presence alone is a cockblock because of the damn social circle thing. Also when they drink they can get aggressive in both fighting and attempting to cockblock your efforts. Looks wise on physical traits nothing special, but their style is very well done.
Girls: Roosh describes it well in Bang Iceland. They span from all ranges from superfatties to supermodel types, but overall I was very impressed. One major point – THEIR SKIN IS AMAZING. I've never seen such an abundance of nice skin on girls in my life. Not sure if it’s the sulfur in the water, the lack of sunlight or what but I was repeatedly in shock during my entire stay there. This leads to an overall very consistently high score on the face scale. The sad part is a decent amount of them tend to carry some extra pounds, but their faces/skin makes the ones that look like they have some babyfat very bangable. Lots of light eyes, very white looking girls. My style so I was happy.
Personality wise I liked them. Very friendly and if they are interested in you they show it quickly but subtly. For example, they will invite you to walk with them, go sit down with them, etc. I actually found that after Brazil, this was the next quickest meet to make out culture I've been to. If she likes you, you can be kissing her within minutes (one of the small variations I noticed from Roosh's experience). However, no bang was had on this trip that started with a makeout at the bar/club.
And as mentioned above, they drink a shitload to the point of massive inebriation.
TIP: Beware of gold digging sluts that just use you for drinks. Only ran into this at B5, but they will straight up ask you to buy them drinks. DON'T. They will stick around for a few minutes and then go from guy to guy doing the same thing. In fact, I had more girls offer to buy me alcohol in general on the trip, moreso than any other place I've been to. So there is no reason to buy a girl a drink.
Also, you get hit with the social circle thing. She will know everyone everywhere. It's hard to work around but the two good things I noticed were that if she's into you, she will eventually come back or not leave you too far behind and, second, girls really don't cockblock here. They'll separate, leave their friends, one actually told me to go fuck her friend, and so on. If anything you may find competition from the girls on who gets to have you.
The girls generally do not like Icelandic guys. They think they are boring, scared to approach and overall lack the full package to offer. Reactions to cold approaches were usually the following: very welcoming leading to 5+ minute conversations (30% of the time), open and nice but convos would end (60% of the time), total blowout/end within 30 seconds (10% of the time). There are some bitches here though - I got a "go away" to an innocent question and Friend #2 got the shoulder/head turn and no response to an innocent opener.
Pipelining: Useless. I tried that einkamal site and it's all fatties or weird couples looking for BDSM.
Game: Mostly my standard American game, early kino. Tried to tone down the cockiness going off of previous members' advice. Be aggressive and nice and approach. I easily approached over 100 girls this trip. Friend #2 is an entertainment personality so he's very good at opening/rambling. He'd walk into many different groups of girls sitting and eating/drinking by themselves and get us in very quickly. Hardly got rejected actually now that I think about it.
My opener was always either "do you have a light" or "do you know what the best place is for tonight?" I'd try to ramble from there. I did notice that if they asked where I was from that usually went better than if I had to keep pulling teeth. They would always ask what I'm doing here and I'd usually respond with I'm here to try Puffin. I'd probably need a few more weeks to figure out the ideal game to bang, but those are some initial thoughts. The biggest problem you'll run into is either one of you being too drunk, or social circle interruptions. The girls here are pretty open to sex it seems.
Don't bother with numbers. It may seem like a last ditch effort but really nothing ever materialized with numbers, even if I had made out/brought a girl home but didn't bang. Even the guys who would give me their numbers to show me around or what not would be useless. Actually, and this is not a joke, it's much more likely that you will run into the girl again than her responding to your texts/calls. At least for me it was.
Daygame: No idea, I was dead hungover most days until I got to the night.
Nightlife: Endless amounts of bars and clubs. Other than a holiday/special night, it was very fruitless to head out Sunday to Wednesday. Everything happened on Friday/Saturday, but I'd still go out on Thursdays because you never know. Places close at 1 except for Fri/Sat which is 4:30-5ish. Those special nights they close at 3. 20oz beer pours were about 7-10 bucks and mixed drinks around the same. Here are some specific places:
B5: What an insane place. Small place majority of it is a dance floor. I'd say easily the top talent I saw in Reykjavik. Get there before 1:30 a.m. to avoid the mayhem that is the line. Seriously the line is ridiculous and since the smoking area is by the entrance it's a great place to go watch people killing themselves to get in. Watch out for the gold digging sluts that just use you for drinks. Do not buy a girl a single drink would be my recommendation. Lots of younger girls go here, and everyone gets shitfaced. Have to say it was my favorite place.
Austur: Like B5 but much larger, with a bit older crowd that is more jersey shorish and contains the coke/speed whores. This place was also a lot of fun just given the higher number of girls compared to B5. Also great smoking area that's covered. Easy to go bar, smoking area, dance floor, repeat. This was my second favorite place.
Dolly: New place, I was actually too drunk to recall what it was like. But my buddy pulled a solid 7.5 from here and I know others have pulled here too, so it must be good.
Prikid, Lebowski, English Pub, Hresso: Never really found these places to be any good. Popped my head in a few times.
Café Laundromat: Good place to go during the week, if you want to try and barge in on girls at their tables eating.
Kaffibarrin: This place is always busy and probably your best bet for the weekdays. But I really started disliking the crowd here. Very social circle and very hipsterish in the not so good way. Ended up there a lot early on in the trip then gave up on it.
10-11: Their version of 7-11 but this place goes nuts after the clubs let out on the weekends. It's seriously crazy in there, people are hammered talking to randoms trying to buy food, drinks, etc. Great place to go to try to pull the afterparty move.
The streets: Do NOT underestimate your ability to pull off the streets. Invite to an afterparty and go from there. It worked for us several times, I think we hosted 5 afterparties or so in the 11 nights we were there. We also ended up at two combined afterparties from street game. DO NOT GIVE UP UNTIL YOU SEE NOBODY LEFT ON THE STREETS.
Nightly Log: To give an overall idea of how it was like for 3 American guys in Iceland, I'll recap each of our nights:
Wednesday (12/26, closing time 3am): Arrive in the morning and apparently it is a special night in Reykjavik the day after xmas. Head out and meet up with Caligula at Kaffibarrin, very cool guy. We pull two girls to walk with us to Dolly and it gets a bit foggy for me. Friend #2 left around 1am with one of the girls we brought from Kaffibarrin, but apparently he was so drunk he fell over and she ditched him. Turned out great because she was a 6 at most, then he came back, met another girl outside Dolly at closing who took him to her house for an afterparty (very cute, 7.5 I'd say). He stayed up drinking till about 9am, they had arguments over Obama and Romney, and apparently her and her roommate fought over him, she won and he ended up hooking up with her and staying over. Myself and Friend #1 tried to get a bunch of girls to our place but didn't work. From outside Dolly to the late night eateries we got somewhat close but never was able to convince anyone to come by. If we lived closer to Dolly I think we could have done so.
Thursday (12/27, closing time 1am): Nothing much going on anywhere. We start at Vegamot where Friend #2 starts off chatting with two pretty cute girls at a table next to us. One was half Lebanese half Icelandic and the other was just normal Icelandic. Girls just came for a few drinks and left. We end up at Café Laundromat where Friend #2 barges in on a table of 7 girls. Chat them up, they are receptive and stick with us until closing when they leave. I drank a LOT this night as it soon turned out. On the walk back we see a group of guys and girls, start talking to them and somehow I'm arm in arm with one girl while the rest of the pack followed. We get everyone to the afterparty at our place, 4 girls 2 guys plus us. I end up making out with the original girl, then with another girl who had a boyfriend as one guy told us (and who later showed up). So I went back to original girl, all of us drinking a lot. Everyone leaves but I tell my girl to stay, get her in my room, naked and… fucking no juice in my rocket. I barely remember that part, after about 20 minutes trying to get myself going I just give up. Lost the bang, horrible.
To demonstrate how drunk I was, the next day I had to ask my friend what she looked like. Right when I was about to say the only thing I remember was she was a tall black haired girl, he goes she was a short blonde. So fuck me for drinking too much, to the point where I had no clue what the girl looked like and lost what turned out to be a super easy bang I pulled from the street. Friday (12/28, closing time 5am): Head out around 1am to Vegamot, again Friend #2 gets right to work on a table of about 6 girls or so. Myself and Friend #1 sit down, start chatting them up. One immediately grabs my hand and won't let go and I swear I could have made out with her within a minute. She tells me she is a lesbian and she wants a guy to fuck her from behind while she goes down on her friend. Probably trying to get a reaction from me but I played it cool. At this point, a very good looking girl just walks over to Friend #1 and asks if she can sit down next to him. They start chatting and everyone parts ways. Friend #2 goes back to the girl's house from the first night. Friend #1 stays with the girl that just came up with him and I leave with the supposed lesbian and her friends to Kaffibarrin. Eventually, I get social circle'd out at Kaffibarrin, and Friend #1's girl leaves him because she has a boyfriend and if she stayed she said she would fuck him. Sucks. End of the night I'm hanging outside Kaffibarrin and go to some afterparty but spent the entire time waiting to use the bathroom. Eventually gave up and went home.
Saturday (12/29, closing time 5am): We go to Austur and holy shit this place was going insane. Just quickly, during the night I saw several fights, a guy being literally carried out by two bouncers, people getting drinks thrown at them, etc. Go to smoking area and open two girls that are smoking and Friend #2 comes by to help. They immediately take to us. Unfortunately, it wasn't until my girl took off her jacket that I noticed she was way too thick. Having had some bad nights so far and the ease of which she was into me, my friend and I stayed with them for a bit (his girl was better so I also wanted to stay for that). We both had makeouts very early, sat at a table with them, etc. After about an hour we go outside and my girl is talking to some other guys and I see my escape route. So I start chatting up another girl, very cute with just a tiny bit of babyfat that makes her look even better somehow. She shows interest but then thick girl comes back. Had to decide whether to take the sure thing or go for the cuter one, and I just couldn't take the sure thing since I was much more attracted to the other one. Take the other one with me, we go dance, walk around, etc. Convince her to leave grab our jackets but then she starts looking for her friends and I lose her. At this point the club is closing and I just position myself by the exit until I see her again, grab her hand but now she is with her friends. One was EE looking one and one fatty with a kid. The fatty was actually great, she told me I should take her friend home and bang her. We leave, these girls are hungry and despite my pleas to just walk over to my place and eat, they stop at 10-11 next door which was ironically almost as good as the club. Drunk people everywhere at this convenience stores. Eventually get them to agree to walk back, and her two friends drop out and take a taxi home. Get my girl in my room, she won't take off her pantyhose and underwear and keeps saying she's on her period. I told her I don't care but she wouldn't relent and then passed out. In the morning she woke up and threw up twice and left. Never heard from her again despite her giving me her # and telling her to text me. Damnit, she was either too drunk or I found the one prude of Iceland.
Now the side story of all this is my other two friends were still walking around Austur. Friend #1 was dancing with 5 Russian girls but they started getting picked off one by one. Friend #2 was with our original two girls and the thickie was looking for me all night apparently. Anyway, my friends leave eventually and ended up pulling two girls off the street on the walk home from Austur. They start playing drinking games, and Friend #1 makes out with both girls and eventually one of the girls stays after an argument with her friend. They went straight to fucking, she was super horny and at one point screamed "You need to make me cum…right now!" Hilarious. They would just argue and fuck and so on. Psycho girl.
Sunday (12/30, closing time 1am): I don't take nights off on trips, and even though you would think this would be a good night to take off (after the weekend, before NYE), I still went out. Especially given my friends both got their flags, I was even more motivated. We all head out around 11 to find anything reasonable. Start at Lebowski and it's dead. Head over to Kaffibarrin where it's decently crowded. Make approaches and nobody is getting anywhere. After it closes I try a few street approaches but it is so bitingly cold that I couldn't stay outside and just gave up and went home.
Monday (12/31, NYE, closing time 5-6am): Started off at the church up the hill in town to watch the fireworks, crazy atmosphere. Lots of people out however there were a lot of tourists. It seems a lot of locals either see family for NYE or go to house parties. Afterwards we went to Austur again, and despite approaching everything in sight nobody really hooked anything. On the walk home, this girl comes up to me and starts talking about how we met and good to see me again. I go oh yeah at Kaffibarrin a few nights ago, she responded no we met at so and so place (don't remember). At this point I was pretty drunk, told them let's go afterparty and off we went. Us three, and her, 2 other girls and some random dude from another country. One of the girls was cute (not the one that snatched me), the other two were bangable but again thick per the country's MO. Get back, start drinking and I try to pull the thick girl that approached me to my room with no luck. They start to leave and the one cute girl stays behind for a few minutes and in an attempt to get her to stay I drunkenly yell out: "You should stay…we will all fuck you." Not sure if she understood it completely but she left after that. I got the # of the thick girl, but later on she was not responsive to text. I actually went out again by myself after they left (around 7am) to see if there are any stragglers and approached a few girls but nothing was taking, came back and crashed out.
Tuesday (1/1, closing time 3am): Friend #1 was sick so he stayed in, went out with Friend #2 to Austur. Everyone was super dressed up – dresses/suits. Not much going on really, though did have a few girls approach us (tall slutty looking girl) and was trying to game this one girl with a boyfriend and son. Long story short, nothing much happened here, went to Kaffibarrin where this hideous girl with a whale of a laugh was implying she'd have sex with me if I had weed. Thank god I wasn't that drunk. Left, tried to pull a girl off a street and got close, but then social circle intercepted. Went to bed.
Wednesday (1/2, closing time 1am): Only I went out, and it was dead. Came home after 45 minutes.
Thursday (1/3, closing time 1am): We all headed out, ended up at Dolly talking to three flight attendants from Iceland. For whatever reason I was drinking a LOT and got the most drunk of the entire trip. At closing one of them in response to my request that she should come and have a drink instead of going to sleep asked where I was staying. When I told her she said nah too far and jumped in the car and went home. Damn logistics. On the walk home friends stop and get pizza and I thought they had ditched me, so I went on a blitz approaching everything on the street. Apparently met some army girls from Norway and got their # but no afterparty. Then things get a bit blurry, but apparently I invited a 40 year old woman, two men with beards and a likely retarded Russian girl that wouldn't let anyone touch her massive hat she was wearing over to our place for an afterparty. Nothing happened other than my friends saying it was the worst after party ever. Given how drunk I got that night I decided that I should tone it down if I'm going to get anywhere this final weekend.
Friday (1/4, closing time 5am): We finally decide to hit up B5 and we get there about 1:15 am. Full on pandemonium, and filled to the brim with hot girls. Immediately upon entering we have a group of young girls with us, dancing, making out, etc. Spent most of the night with this one girl, only at the end to get cockblocked by social circle again (her ex was there, her brother's friends, and so on). Tried everything I could to get her back to my place until the point she thought I was stalking her, so I gave up. The Norwegian army girls texted me to meet up so I told them to come there having no idea what they looked like since I was so drunk the night before. They came, the vibe was good but couldn’t get them back to my place. On the way back we ran into three other Norwegian girls that were at B5 and they agreed to come over for afterparty. Fucking cunts went buckwild, spilling champagne everywhere and stealing a Viking hat we had. Friend #2 made out with one of the girls before mother hen went in for the swoop and leave move. Still we had fun and two were cute, and mother hen was bangable. Should have been more aggressive in just pulling girls into our bedroom.
Saturday (1/5, closing time 5am): Our last night out, and still no flag for me. Despite gaining like 10 pounds this past month I went with my #1 outfit in terms of getting laid and made myself fit into it. We liked B5 so much we went back there and got in just before 1:30. The line was INSANE afterwards, people clawing to get in as if the world was about to end. Within 5 minutes of being inside, I had a cute girl all over me to only find out she was using me for drinks. I bought her one drink and her friend tried to order herself shots which I had to stop her and tell the bartender no. Fucking bitches. Later saw the same cute girl making out with another guy, him getting her shots, then later another guy and so on. Complete users.
At this point it's almost 2:30 a.m. and I'm wondering if I should leave for Austur or stay or what. Go outside to the line and people are still going nuts trying to get in. I see the girl from NYE afterparty, the cute one that I told her to stay so all of us could fuck her. I go to the bouncer and try to get her in to no avail, chit chat with her then go back inside. Come out a few minutes later she eventually gets in and talk to her for a bit, etc. See the line outside again and I see vomit girl, the cute one I had in my bed earlier that week. Thinking that was my best shot, I go back inside to wait for her to get in. Here I run into the NYE afterparty girl again, start chatting and get some mild signs of interest. Eventually her friends come to leave and she says she wants to stay here. Nice. One friend stays with her however and now we all have to leave to go to some other damn bar.
We all go to this new bar and her friend gets denied entry (they are all 18 and have fake IDs). So now NYE afterparty girl and her friend and I are talking, and my girl says I'm going to go drop off my friend then I'll come back. I say great, I'll go with you. On the way to the car, her friend says she wants to keep partying (
) so we all go back to my place. Thankfully her mom keeps calling her, so my girl says I have to take her home. Again, not wanted to leave her side, I say I'll go with you. We all go, she drops her friend off and we come back to my place. At no point did her friend try to cockblock. There I try to offer her a drink and she says she doesn't drink. I was shocked considering how drunk these girls get in Iceland. Go in for makeout, get into my bed and get resistance at the panty level. After about 20 minutes of both physical and debate based LMR countering tactics, finally get her to relent and we bang it out 3x. Have a great time, she has an amazing body being 18 and thin, and 5'11 to boot. Got my flag from the only sober girl in Reykjavik – go figure. A quick sidenote on how small this town is. So this was our 11th night there, and just at B5, we ran into: the half Lebonese girl and her friend we met at Vegamot, the airline stewardesses we met at Dolly, the NYE afterparty girl, the vomit girl, one of the Russians from Austur, and some of the girls that approached us at Austur. And that's just what I remember.
Negatives: Overall I had a great time but this place is not without its negatives. First, it is expensive. Groceries are not really cheap and we were dropping about 60-80/each on those fancy dinners. Soups are 10-15 each. Alcohol is insanely expensive at the store ($50 for a 1L Absolute). Second, if you like the sun the winter is not for you. Can go a bit stir crazy I would imagine if you are a sun lover. Third, the girls are a bit lacking in terms of substance – there will be no great debates, no super affectionate relationships, no girls making you food and so on. I also highly doubt fidelity is something that is treated with respect here. Fourth the guys are aggressive when drunk and you may find yourself in a fight if you are not careful. And they like cockblocking you with their girls. Fifth, and this is coming from someone who absolutely loves thinness over everything else, there are a lot of thick girls here. Sometimes you think you have a thin girl only to see the fatness come out once they delayer themselves from all the winter clothes. The thin ones with the great faces tend to be bitchier and only give you a few seconds of your time. Unlike for example Ukraine where I think you CAN get the 8+ with some hard work, learning Russian etc., here I think you have to be very entwined in the social circle to get that. Finally, and this is important, this is not some magical place where you can fuck drunken white girls by just showing up. The three of us combined, for 11 nights, fucked 1 girl each. That's a lot of nights out and many many many approaches combined. You have to be ready to put in some effort. I will temper this however by saying the guys who lived there or visited often I think do better because they've calibrated their game already. I think VonAwesome was there a bit longer than me, so maybe he can chime in too. Caligula seems to have Reyk figured out pretty good.
Conclusion: That said, I'm going back to check out the summertime. I really enjoyed this Country as an overall whole and had a great time with the girls there. If the girls were universally thinner and it was a bit cheaper, it would be pretty hard to top this place...for me anyway.