DAY 23 - 10/09/2014
Started off with some daygame at Jungfernsteig. I think I made something like a dozen approaches - but still, nothing sticking. For running tourist game, the non-hook responses so far overwhelming break down into three types. Either:
1) She doesn't speak English
2) She doesn't know the place where I'm asking for directions and excuses herself
3) She knows exactly where it is, tells me, and then excuses herself.
I know that there are girls who will often just come down for a stroll (all three of the girls I've managed to "insta-date" so far said that's what they were doing when I met them) and I want to try and focus on them. Maybe it's a question of timing. So far I've usually been hitting the area at around 3pm till 5pm-ish, figuring that's when the most foot traffic would be. I'm guessing that maybe it would be better to go before noon to find the girls just out for a stroll or grabbing a coffee or whatnot. Though until university starts back up here in the last week of September/first week of October, this is likely the best place for daygame I can find. Sourcecode, I'm definitely planning on making the University of Hamburg area my primary focus on daygame once classes start. So that for sure will be done.
Finished up downtown at around 5:30pm and headed to my German-language class. I did end up talking with the cute French brunette again, and I did manage to number close her while suggesting we grab drinks soon. (I threw in that I could definitely use the chance to practice my French, and she replied by saying she could definitely practice her English - so I really haven't set a hard "interested" frame.) Nothing in the way of kino yet, but I figure I can get her out on a weekday next week. Maybe something after class, I dunno.
In terms of nightgame, I did end up checking out (or, at least, trying to get in) Club du Nord, in the Winterhude quarter. Got turned aside - another one of Hamburg's need-girls-or-connections clubs. Ugh. Ended up finding a fairly packed cocktail bar called Zaza just down the road, and I opening on a solid 8 - depending on your preferences, as high as a 9/9.5 easily. I got to chatting with her and the friend she was with (the friend works at Zaza) and they invited me to join them for the night, cause they wanted to go to Club du Nord and I figured I could try to get back in. We eventually rolled out to there - but I got blocked again by the bouncers. I ended up grabbing both of their numbers before letting them go. I didn't manage to much in the way of kino going with the original target, since I figured I could go for the isolation+escalation once we were at Club du Nord - but getting blocked out twice screwed that up. Afterwards, I looked around for a place with a crowd but everything else was thinning out, so I decided to head back by bus (thanks again Sourcecode for the info on that.)
So that was that night. My thoughts right now:
- Cocktail bars seem to be a more viable option for gaming the more attractive -looking girls. Right now I've been stuck in a dilemma where I can try to go to nightclubs where the girls are more attractive but harder to access, or where entrance is easier but the talent isn't that high. Right now, the only high-endish club on the Reeperbahn that I've been able to get into is called Club Hamburg - this might end up being my go-to spot for solo wheeling in a nightclub environment. Anybody able to offer suggestions for good cocktail bars here in Hamburg?
- The Winterhude district itself might be one of the hidden gems here in Hamburg as well, from what I can gather from my entirely unscientific observation of last night. The district is fairly upscale, so you can figure that the girls here can be of at least above-average attractiveness (from what I saw in Zaza last night, the quality here can easily set the standard for female beauty here in Hamburg.) There are only 3 or 4 bars and 1 nightclub, so the nightlife in the area is fairly concentrated. From what the friend of my target last night told me, it was usually a lot busier than what I walked into - and Zaza's was pretty packed as is. It's right smack in the middle of a residential area, so your chances for SNL are likely a lot higher than on the Reeperbahn - and I figure that not many foreigners venture into that area, so you can probably stand out more in that regard. From what I saw last night, it can combine the SNL-ability of the Sternschanze with the quality you're looking for on the Reeperbahn. Definitely something to keep my eye on.
- Zaza's itself is pretty good for gaming structurally. It's basically a small room with a straight bar on one end and long booth-style couches on each wall towards the entrance. Drinks are pretty pricey (€8 for a gin and tonic) but if you get there early and grab a centre seat at the bar, you can open pretty much any girl that goes to get drinks (and believe me, there's more than enough talent there.) There are also tables outside for smoking/isolation, so all in all it's pretty well set up.
- Looking at a couple nightlife advisors for Hamburg, I'm finding that a lot of these cocktail bars are open almost everyday of the week. So what I'm thinking in terms of nightlife planning is to focus on the cocktail bars and avoid the Hamburg nightclubs if I'm not rolling in a social circle - unless its Club Hamburg from Thurs-Sat, since I'm fairly certain I can get in there solo.
Gonna be clubbing with a social group I've managed to get into tonight - so I'll update on if anything happens there.
As always, any questions, comments, queries, etc. are welcome.
Started off with some daygame at Jungfernsteig. I think I made something like a dozen approaches - but still, nothing sticking. For running tourist game, the non-hook responses so far overwhelming break down into three types. Either:
1) She doesn't speak English
2) She doesn't know the place where I'm asking for directions and excuses herself
3) She knows exactly where it is, tells me, and then excuses herself.
I know that there are girls who will often just come down for a stroll (all three of the girls I've managed to "insta-date" so far said that's what they were doing when I met them) and I want to try and focus on them. Maybe it's a question of timing. So far I've usually been hitting the area at around 3pm till 5pm-ish, figuring that's when the most foot traffic would be. I'm guessing that maybe it would be better to go before noon to find the girls just out for a stroll or grabbing a coffee or whatnot. Though until university starts back up here in the last week of September/first week of October, this is likely the best place for daygame I can find. Sourcecode, I'm definitely planning on making the University of Hamburg area my primary focus on daygame once classes start. So that for sure will be done.
Finished up downtown at around 5:30pm and headed to my German-language class. I did end up talking with the cute French brunette again, and I did manage to number close her while suggesting we grab drinks soon. (I threw in that I could definitely use the chance to practice my French, and she replied by saying she could definitely practice her English - so I really haven't set a hard "interested" frame.) Nothing in the way of kino yet, but I figure I can get her out on a weekday next week. Maybe something after class, I dunno.
In terms of nightgame, I did end up checking out (or, at least, trying to get in) Club du Nord, in the Winterhude quarter. Got turned aside - another one of Hamburg's need-girls-or-connections clubs. Ugh. Ended up finding a fairly packed cocktail bar called Zaza just down the road, and I opening on a solid 8 - depending on your preferences, as high as a 9/9.5 easily. I got to chatting with her and the friend she was with (the friend works at Zaza) and they invited me to join them for the night, cause they wanted to go to Club du Nord and I figured I could try to get back in. We eventually rolled out to there - but I got blocked again by the bouncers. I ended up grabbing both of their numbers before letting them go. I didn't manage to much in the way of kino going with the original target, since I figured I could go for the isolation+escalation once we were at Club du Nord - but getting blocked out twice screwed that up. Afterwards, I looked around for a place with a crowd but everything else was thinning out, so I decided to head back by bus (thanks again Sourcecode for the info on that.)
So that was that night. My thoughts right now:
- Cocktail bars seem to be a more viable option for gaming the more attractive -looking girls. Right now I've been stuck in a dilemma where I can try to go to nightclubs where the girls are more attractive but harder to access, or where entrance is easier but the talent isn't that high. Right now, the only high-endish club on the Reeperbahn that I've been able to get into is called Club Hamburg - this might end up being my go-to spot for solo wheeling in a nightclub environment. Anybody able to offer suggestions for good cocktail bars here in Hamburg?
- The Winterhude district itself might be one of the hidden gems here in Hamburg as well, from what I can gather from my entirely unscientific observation of last night. The district is fairly upscale, so you can figure that the girls here can be of at least above-average attractiveness (from what I saw in Zaza last night, the quality here can easily set the standard for female beauty here in Hamburg.) There are only 3 or 4 bars and 1 nightclub, so the nightlife in the area is fairly concentrated. From what the friend of my target last night told me, it was usually a lot busier than what I walked into - and Zaza's was pretty packed as is. It's right smack in the middle of a residential area, so your chances for SNL are likely a lot higher than on the Reeperbahn - and I figure that not many foreigners venture into that area, so you can probably stand out more in that regard. From what I saw last night, it can combine the SNL-ability of the Sternschanze with the quality you're looking for on the Reeperbahn. Definitely something to keep my eye on.
- Zaza's itself is pretty good for gaming structurally. It's basically a small room with a straight bar on one end and long booth-style couches on each wall towards the entrance. Drinks are pretty pricey (€8 for a gin and tonic) but if you get there early and grab a centre seat at the bar, you can open pretty much any girl that goes to get drinks (and believe me, there's more than enough talent there.) There are also tables outside for smoking/isolation, so all in all it's pretty well set up.
- Looking at a couple nightlife advisors for Hamburg, I'm finding that a lot of these cocktail bars are open almost everyday of the week. So what I'm thinking in terms of nightlife planning is to focus on the cocktail bars and avoid the Hamburg nightclubs if I'm not rolling in a social circle - unless its Club Hamburg from Thurs-Sat, since I'm fairly certain I can get in there solo.
Gonna be clubbing with a social group I've managed to get into tonight - so I'll update on if anything happens there.
As always, any questions, comments, queries, etc. are welcome.
HSLD