OK, I've been sitting on a few data sheets for a few months, way too lazy to type them up. Here's the first one. Hopefully a few more coming in the next couple days.
Prague, Czech Republic
Quality of Women: 3.5 / 5
Ease of Hook Up: 3 / 5
Things to Do: 3.5 / 5
Time Spent: Three trips, two for four days each, one for 2 weeks. So like 3 weeks total.
Lays: 1 (Flag acquired)
Executive Summary: Prague may as well be two cities in one. There's the beautiful, tourist-ridden old city, and then the outskirts with all of the locals -- the real Prague. Your experience here is going to vary greatly depending on your ability to get off the beaten path... if you want to, of course.
The Women: I'll start with the locals. The local women are beautiful, but not spectacular. Prague is the gateway to Eastern Europe, and the women will get hotter as you go east. But that's not to take anything away from the locals here. They are hot. And if not for the over-abundance of tourists and backpackers skewing the rating down, I would have given the quality rating of 4/5.
Being the gateway to Eastern Europe, Prague's culture falls perfectly halfway between East and West in many ways. And the women are no different. They are obviously more feminine and sexier than Western women, but at the same time, they're more out-spoken and assertive than their Eastern counterparts.
The language barrier is an immediate problem. My experience was that only about 50% of Czech girls speak passable English. But often you'll have trouble even getting that many to speak it to you. Czech culture is very perfectionist, and so Czech people are conditioned not to attempt to do something unless they're confident they can do it. As a result, there are many Czech people who can speak some decent English but who won't try because they're too embarrassed or lack the confidence to. Unfortunately, unless you can speak a little Czech, this isn't going to change. I hooked up (and almost pulled) a girl who spoke no English, and it wasn't until after an hour together and making out non-stop that she finally worked up the nerve to try and ask me my name.
Many Czech people speak German instead of English, so if you speak German that may give you more options.
The tourist girls are basically what'd you expect. The center of Prague is absolutely overrun with backpackers. Other than Amsterdam, I have never seen the center of a city ruined by so many drunk backpackers in my life. There are bars full of nothing but tourists (listed below), and if you didn't know better, you could spend your entire time in Prague and never meet a local.
As is typical, the backpackers are mostly American, British, Irish and Canadian. They're usually very drunk and very easy to lay, assuming you have your own room. Prague is a very walkable city, so logistics should never be much of an issue. Taxis are notorious for ripping tourists off, but trolleys and the metro run all night and are free, so it's easy to get around.
The Nightlife
Prague's nightlife, from what I understand, is quite cyclical. It's going to vary a bit depending on the time of year. Thursday through Saturday is good year round. And Tuesday and Wednesday are good when the students are in town (not summer). During the summer, the students leave and tourists show up, so the venues with tons of prospects will shift. Nightlife also dries up a bit with cold winters. My guess is the best times to go would be in the Fall and/or Spring.
Nightlife runs fairly late, until 3-4 most nights and as late as 5AM on the weekends in some places. Most places don't start to fill up until midnight or so.
Karlovy Lazne: This is the most hyped-up club in town, especially to all of the tourists. Avoid if at all possible. It's promoted as the biggest club in mainland Europe (five floors). And yeah, it is pretty big. And yeah, there are a lot of people there. But it's you and every other greasy tourist in Prague. I've been here 4-5 times, probably approached 20 girls here total and never run into a Czech person here who wasn't the bartender. Ratio is usually awful. You run into a lot of middle aged people who think they're living it up on vacation or whatever. It's weird to be hanging out by a dance floor and see people who look like your mom and dad sipping on overpriced Mai Tais.
The size and the fact that it at least has people just about every night of the week is enticing, but please... don't go here unless you have no other alternative. Whenever I meet someone who raves about Prague, I ask them if they liked this place. If they say yes, it tells me that they never actually saw the real Prague.
Bombay Bar: More of a bar scene. 90% tourists. Horrible ratio both times I went. Avoid.
Aloha Cocktail Bar: I like this place. It's a very chill and low-key cocktail bar. More of a 25-35 year old scene, but a mix of ex-pats, tourists and Czechs. Good for a quiet night or cougar-hunting.
Lucerna Music Bar: There may not be a bar in the world that I have such a love/hate relationship as I do with Lucerna. The place is filthy, plays awful 80's music, is 60/40 tourists to Czechs, but for whatever reason, I've always had good luck here. This may be Prague's bar for locals who want to meet a foreigner (I've noticed most cities in Eastern Europe have a place like this). Both Czech girls I hooked up with came from here. The quality is lower than the clubs out in the 'burbs, but you can usually find at least a couple girls in here to hold your interest.
For whatever reason, half the nights I went out, I'd end up back here. This was my last resort venue, and it felt like every time I went, I did pretty well. I'd say if you're a newbie or intermediate, this place should be your bread and butter on weekends.
Roxy: Only went once. No idea who the DJ was when I went, but apparently he was a big deal and he was fucking killing it that night. I'm not a huge electronic music fan, but I almost forgot there were even girls there he was so good. Fun place. My experience though was that most of the girls were pretty young. Drinking age in Czech Republic is 16 I believe, and there were a lot of high school age girls here.
Phenomenon: Small club in a basement out in the 'burbs. About a 10 min metro ride from the city center. This place was either dead or packed every time I went. 80/20 Czechs to tourist ratio. Good guy/girl ratio. First time I went my student and I met two Czech porn actresses. Unfortunately my student blew it pretty hard. That one killed me to let go (and reminded me why I charge these guys money). All in all, recommended.
Sa Sa Zu: This was my favorite club the whole time I was in Prague. Out in the suburbs. Nice big upscale club. 50/50 Czechs to tourists, but the tourists were mostly Russian -- which I really liked after spending a month in Russia. I just love Russian girls. Girls here are hot. A significant step up from any place in the city center. They're also harder to game. Language barrier becomes a legit issue here. Big dance floor and loud music as well. Rumor had it that Russian mob guys hang out here, but I don't know how credible that is.
Mecca: Reputation as the most high-end place with the hottest girls. Also in the suburbs. I found it to be a bit cramped and cheesy. Ratio wasn't great, but seemed like almost all Czechs. I didn't stay long because my friend wasn't feeling well. Worth checking out again.
Strip Clubs: Avoid all strip clubs. They're massive rip offs. Prague is a major P4P city, and it's kind of hilarious to have a girl sit on your lap and offer to give you a lap dance for twice as much as it costs to walk down the street and fuck a pro. These places are notorious for scamming people and overcharging you in all sorts of subtle ways. If you're going to go this route, you might as well just go talk to pros. Save yourself time (and money).
Day Game
Prague is an excellent day game city. There are constantly tons of people walking around the old city. You can't really go wrong anywhere in it. But a couple of great places are the main road by the Mustek train station, the old square, and there's a large Tesco a few blocks from the city center with lots of girls walking around.
Really you don't have to look far. Just stay in the old city and you can't miss tons of opportunities.
Things to Do:
Prague is a huge tourist destination for its architecture and old sites. Tyn Church and the Old Town Square are worth a visit. A walk along the Charles bridge and visiting the castle is cool too. There are a couple of more minor museums, but honestly not a whole lot of sightseeing stuff beyond a day or two. It's a beautiful city though -- one of the most beautiful I've ever been to, so just walking around in and of itself is pretty noteworthy. There are river cruises if you want to chill and take in the city. And the usual bus tours. But honestly I don't think either are necessary.
Prague is also a huge cultural center for art and music. It surprisingly has a pretty major jazz scene and a number of festivals in the summer. Lots of great music comes through the city and I was able to see a couple cool concerts while I was there.
Prague, Czech Republic
Quality of Women: 3.5 / 5
Ease of Hook Up: 3 / 5
Things to Do: 3.5 / 5
Time Spent: Three trips, two for four days each, one for 2 weeks. So like 3 weeks total.
Lays: 1 (Flag acquired)
Executive Summary: Prague may as well be two cities in one. There's the beautiful, tourist-ridden old city, and then the outskirts with all of the locals -- the real Prague. Your experience here is going to vary greatly depending on your ability to get off the beaten path... if you want to, of course.
The Women: I'll start with the locals. The local women are beautiful, but not spectacular. Prague is the gateway to Eastern Europe, and the women will get hotter as you go east. But that's not to take anything away from the locals here. They are hot. And if not for the over-abundance of tourists and backpackers skewing the rating down, I would have given the quality rating of 4/5.
Being the gateway to Eastern Europe, Prague's culture falls perfectly halfway between East and West in many ways. And the women are no different. They are obviously more feminine and sexier than Western women, but at the same time, they're more out-spoken and assertive than their Eastern counterparts.
The language barrier is an immediate problem. My experience was that only about 50% of Czech girls speak passable English. But often you'll have trouble even getting that many to speak it to you. Czech culture is very perfectionist, and so Czech people are conditioned not to attempt to do something unless they're confident they can do it. As a result, there are many Czech people who can speak some decent English but who won't try because they're too embarrassed or lack the confidence to. Unfortunately, unless you can speak a little Czech, this isn't going to change. I hooked up (and almost pulled) a girl who spoke no English, and it wasn't until after an hour together and making out non-stop that she finally worked up the nerve to try and ask me my name.
Many Czech people speak German instead of English, so if you speak German that may give you more options.
The tourist girls are basically what'd you expect. The center of Prague is absolutely overrun with backpackers. Other than Amsterdam, I have never seen the center of a city ruined by so many drunk backpackers in my life. There are bars full of nothing but tourists (listed below), and if you didn't know better, you could spend your entire time in Prague and never meet a local.
As is typical, the backpackers are mostly American, British, Irish and Canadian. They're usually very drunk and very easy to lay, assuming you have your own room. Prague is a very walkable city, so logistics should never be much of an issue. Taxis are notorious for ripping tourists off, but trolleys and the metro run all night and are free, so it's easy to get around.
The Nightlife
Prague's nightlife, from what I understand, is quite cyclical. It's going to vary a bit depending on the time of year. Thursday through Saturday is good year round. And Tuesday and Wednesday are good when the students are in town (not summer). During the summer, the students leave and tourists show up, so the venues with tons of prospects will shift. Nightlife also dries up a bit with cold winters. My guess is the best times to go would be in the Fall and/or Spring.
Nightlife runs fairly late, until 3-4 most nights and as late as 5AM on the weekends in some places. Most places don't start to fill up until midnight or so.
Karlovy Lazne: This is the most hyped-up club in town, especially to all of the tourists. Avoid if at all possible. It's promoted as the biggest club in mainland Europe (five floors). And yeah, it is pretty big. And yeah, there are a lot of people there. But it's you and every other greasy tourist in Prague. I've been here 4-5 times, probably approached 20 girls here total and never run into a Czech person here who wasn't the bartender. Ratio is usually awful. You run into a lot of middle aged people who think they're living it up on vacation or whatever. It's weird to be hanging out by a dance floor and see people who look like your mom and dad sipping on overpriced Mai Tais.
The size and the fact that it at least has people just about every night of the week is enticing, but please... don't go here unless you have no other alternative. Whenever I meet someone who raves about Prague, I ask them if they liked this place. If they say yes, it tells me that they never actually saw the real Prague.
Bombay Bar: More of a bar scene. 90% tourists. Horrible ratio both times I went. Avoid.
Aloha Cocktail Bar: I like this place. It's a very chill and low-key cocktail bar. More of a 25-35 year old scene, but a mix of ex-pats, tourists and Czechs. Good for a quiet night or cougar-hunting.
Lucerna Music Bar: There may not be a bar in the world that I have such a love/hate relationship as I do with Lucerna. The place is filthy, plays awful 80's music, is 60/40 tourists to Czechs, but for whatever reason, I've always had good luck here. This may be Prague's bar for locals who want to meet a foreigner (I've noticed most cities in Eastern Europe have a place like this). Both Czech girls I hooked up with came from here. The quality is lower than the clubs out in the 'burbs, but you can usually find at least a couple girls in here to hold your interest.
For whatever reason, half the nights I went out, I'd end up back here. This was my last resort venue, and it felt like every time I went, I did pretty well. I'd say if you're a newbie or intermediate, this place should be your bread and butter on weekends.
Roxy: Only went once. No idea who the DJ was when I went, but apparently he was a big deal and he was fucking killing it that night. I'm not a huge electronic music fan, but I almost forgot there were even girls there he was so good. Fun place. My experience though was that most of the girls were pretty young. Drinking age in Czech Republic is 16 I believe, and there were a lot of high school age girls here.
Phenomenon: Small club in a basement out in the 'burbs. About a 10 min metro ride from the city center. This place was either dead or packed every time I went. 80/20 Czechs to tourist ratio. Good guy/girl ratio. First time I went my student and I met two Czech porn actresses. Unfortunately my student blew it pretty hard. That one killed me to let go (and reminded me why I charge these guys money). All in all, recommended.
Sa Sa Zu: This was my favorite club the whole time I was in Prague. Out in the suburbs. Nice big upscale club. 50/50 Czechs to tourists, but the tourists were mostly Russian -- which I really liked after spending a month in Russia. I just love Russian girls. Girls here are hot. A significant step up from any place in the city center. They're also harder to game. Language barrier becomes a legit issue here. Big dance floor and loud music as well. Rumor had it that Russian mob guys hang out here, but I don't know how credible that is.
Mecca: Reputation as the most high-end place with the hottest girls. Also in the suburbs. I found it to be a bit cramped and cheesy. Ratio wasn't great, but seemed like almost all Czechs. I didn't stay long because my friend wasn't feeling well. Worth checking out again.
Strip Clubs: Avoid all strip clubs. They're massive rip offs. Prague is a major P4P city, and it's kind of hilarious to have a girl sit on your lap and offer to give you a lap dance for twice as much as it costs to walk down the street and fuck a pro. These places are notorious for scamming people and overcharging you in all sorts of subtle ways. If you're going to go this route, you might as well just go talk to pros. Save yourself time (and money).
Day Game
Prague is an excellent day game city. There are constantly tons of people walking around the old city. You can't really go wrong anywhere in it. But a couple of great places are the main road by the Mustek train station, the old square, and there's a large Tesco a few blocks from the city center with lots of girls walking around.
Really you don't have to look far. Just stay in the old city and you can't miss tons of opportunities.
Things to Do:
Prague is a huge tourist destination for its architecture and old sites. Tyn Church and the Old Town Square are worth a visit. A walk along the Charles bridge and visiting the castle is cool too. There are a couple of more minor museums, but honestly not a whole lot of sightseeing stuff beyond a day or two. It's a beautiful city though -- one of the most beautiful I've ever been to, so just walking around in and of itself is pretty noteworthy. There are river cruises if you want to chill and take in the city. And the usual bus tours. But honestly I don't think either are necessary.
Prague is also a huge cultural center for art and music. It surprisingly has a pretty major jazz scene and a number of festivals in the summer. Lots of great music comes through the city and I was able to see a couple cool concerts while I was there.