Quote: (04-20-2015 06:25 PM)Mr.Conflicted Wrote:
So next month or June I'll be going on my very first vacation. And I'll be going alone. There isn't a single friend I'd like to go anywhere with so solo it is. The thing is I don't know where to go.
I want to go mainly to relax and chill on a beach, but I also want to go to a place that's happening and has lots of potential for hooking up. I'm about 32 without too much game, honestly. I've been trying to work on it for the last year. I'm thinking vacay would be a could opportunity for practice.
So far I've gotten down to two destinations. Either Cuba or Cancun. I'm just not well versed on which one has what I'm looking for. Any tips would be much appreciated.
I've done a number of trips like the type I think you're planning to do (a 1 week all-inclusive package to a beach resort somewhere warm). Although somewhat counter-intuitive, I haven't found that they are the optimal situation for hooking up as a solo traveler. At minimum, I think you would want at least one solid wingman and, failing that, to travel with some kind of group of people heading down together.
If you're traveling in June, be aware that a lot of the all-inclusive resorts in Mexico and Cuba will have large youth groups there in the form of 'grad trips'. These are often organized by some big company (a well known one when I was in high school was 'S Trip'). You'd think that it would be a major positive that there is all this 18 year old pussy walking around, but they really seem to stick to hooking up with other people from the group. They also hold events at the resort each night (theme nights like 'Toga Party' or 'Foam Party' kind of thing) but you have to be traveling with the group to get in to them.
The prevalence of grad trips at this time of the year is part of a larger jailbait problem you'll find at these resorts. Girls there with the grad trip or even with their family who are 14-18 years old. It can be a tricky situation because usually this entire age range is drinking and hanging out at the disco (even with an 'official' drinking age of 18, most resorts are serving all teenagers). I'm guessing at 32 that your target demographic is more the 19-24 age range.
I've been in Cancun before when it was also one of the weeks of Spring Break and so there were a lot of college students around. The hotspot for a lot of college-aged people was the Oasis Resort complex (2-3 Oasis Hotels beside each other down the road from the nightlife area). I don't know if it's still the party resort outside of this time, however. I've walked the grounds and it's pretty nice there, and you can use the facilities (like pools, restaurants and bars) of all the hotels within the complex if you stay at just one of them, which makes it a good place to stay. Nice beach also. I really got the vibe, however, that most people were traveling down there as groups and sticking within them. If you do want to hook up your best bet is probably to hang out in the pool area during the day and pickup girls there, hit the discos at night and see if you can separate a girl from her girlfriends to bring her back to your room and bang.
Cancun also has nightlife in a central area along Boulevard Kukulkan. Saw some places that were really busy on the weekend, often with popular DJs, for example CocoBongos and Dady'o. Seemed to be a bit of a sausage fest however and the niche there is more of the 'bro' look. Definitely very few if any guys going suited up. There is basically one main strip of hotels in Cancun and buses for really cheap run up and down there 24/7, so it's easy to get around. Stay away from the Mayan Riviera area, the beaches are nicer than Cancun but it's more families and older couples down there.
From a logistical standpoint if you're flying from Canada, check Sunwing to see if they have any good prices on packages. The tour operator has committed to a certain number of rooms and seats on a plane, so there are often huge last minute discounts when they're trying to fill the unsold seats. Sunwing is also much better than Air Canada, having flown both numerous times. As a single traveler taking one of these packages, you will get screwed over on the 'single supplement' meaning you have to pay usually about 175% of the price for two people since the prices of all packages tend to be based on double occupancy.
In Cuba, you'll find that nightlife is more restricted to the resort and less people from the resort venture out at night to the clubs. In many smaller Cuban cities, there basically aren't even any clubs or bars in the 'town' worth checking out. Because nightlife is usually a resort affair, make sure you stay at a large enough resort. There are a few with just 200 rooms, which will mean there may only be like 10-30 single girls between 18-30 at the whole place and the resort disco won't exactly be live. There are also no Americans at the beach resorts in Cuba (yet), so it will be mostly Canadians and also some Europeans (a lot of Italians and Germans where I was).
The unfortunate paradox with looking to hookup with traveling is that often the shittiest places have the best girls while the best places have the shittiest girls. If you find a combination of a nice place and nice girls, that's your pussy paradise. These places exist, but if you only have a week a lot of these places won't be fruitful enough for you. It also sounds like you want somewhere not too far from Canada.
A good medium might be to head to Florida instead. Pick a second-tier place with a large population, a lot of Colleges around and close proximity to a beach. For example, Tampa/St. Petersburg. Even Orlando has been promoted here on the forum before for its easiness, although it's about an hour away from the coast where the beaches are. If you rent a car you also have good logistics, whereas in many tropical Caribbean destinations you're more limited to picking up girls in your resort or the surrounding area. I think it will be easier in Florida than any major Caribbean resort area to pick up white girls on vacation. You can work a lot more niches here which will be valuable if your game is not the jacked-up bro and you won't get a reputation as that one older guy at the resort traveling alone who is trying to get with all the young girls. Remember, at one of these beach resorts you'll be eating, drinking and by the pool with a lot of the same people all week. Word gets around.