Okay, I just got back from a short visit to Oslo. Overall I thought it was a pretty good city (aside from the Cost Of Living insanity that has been discussed ad nauseam).
Overall thoughts:
- I picked a perfect weekend to go, sunny and over 20 (Celsius) every day, girls were out in full force during the day and Sentrum as packed. If it is rainy or shitty weather that may change some of the places.
- Coming from Germany I noticed a increase of attractiveness and openness from Norwegian girls. As stated earlier I noticed interactions were I went more direct than indirect did better on average.
- Having said that I found overall fashion sense to range from terrible to average. Particularly rampant were jorts (i.e. the ones that were cut from jeans because you can see the pockets hang out from the bottom of the jort and worn up above the belly bottom, see below)
- 2/3 days is probably too short for most people for a flagging mission, you will have to follow
Roosh's guide on the accelerated program. I was getting a lot of interest from girls easily enough, but finding the ones that are down will be your problem on such a short trip, I think my odds of getting the flag would have gone up significantly I had two more nights/days.
- It was mentioned that logistics are not that important, I agree and disagree with this. I think you definitely need some alcohol back at your place, since places close down everywhere at 3:30 and everyone spills out onto the street. I got three different answers when it came to afterhours/parties: (1) doesn't exist, after part at apartments, (2) exists but don't know where they are/need connections, (3) exists but too incoherent to provide accurate intel. I'm leaning towards answer 1 based on what I saw, having said that have alcohol and music cued up to a reason to bounce for an afterparty.
- Recommendations on areas to stay:
Soliis Plass or
Sentrum. (Just watch out in
Sentrum because there are a lot of hookers out, but they are easy to I.D. and just walk past/brush off.) Both were slammed with people walking home with ample targets to make last minute attempts. I didn't hang out in Gronlokka like many of the others so maybe it is the same.
- Cockblocking was moderate at worst. I had several good interactions where the girl I was talking to go dragged away by her friend, but other times they seemed complete cool with a stranger talking to their friend.
- I actually didn't mind the high alcohol prices (don't get me started on food prices though), as it forced me to chill on my alcohol consumption so I wasn't as drunk and more aware of the game I was running, unlike in Germany where I can get 3 Euro beers or 6 Euro Vodka Sodas and drink them like they are going out of style, which you simply can't do when the beers are $12(72-78Kr) and well drinks are $18(102Kr).
Day Game:
- As mentioned by previous members, in nice weather day game has amazing potential, pretty much packed from Najionatheatre tram/metro station to the main train station
- Also good is the royal gardens as there were many opportunities to chat up sunbathing girls (none topless though).
Night Game (run down of spots):
Lawo: Hyped to me by a super fly girl I chatted up in the "L'Etoile Bar" (Rooftop bar of Grand Hotel Rica, which I will mention below). Pretty much an Airball on Friday night, but I was told that Fridays aren't that great in Oslo, but I that with a grain of salt, though I did walk by on Saturday night and it did look more full.
Johns: Directly next to Lawo, it was more packed on Friday night, didn't go in because there was a line. A few cuties outside, but don't know what the ratios were on the inside.
Inernasjionalen: Decent crowd on Friday night, several groups of cute girls, you can do worse.
baroque: This place frustrated me. It has a lot of potential, but except for about 20 minutes was pretty lame, though the girls that were here were mostly fly/well dressed. Of course everyone swore up and down that "it is
never this empty on a Saturday night." Maybe if it has a good crowd it would be worth the 130Kr cover, but not with how empty it was.
Nox: This place was recommended to me by a girl from baroque (they are right around the corner from each other). I was skeptical, but there was a big line to get in, but that plus I saw a bunch of groups of hot girls leaving made me not wait in line and pay another cover.
Soliis This was my favorite place from Saturday night. No cover, lots of above average girls to talk to. Met some cool expats/students and hung out with them for a while.
Brass Monkey?? Hyped to me by the expat/students as "the place to be" in Oslo. We didn't get in but say above average girls get turned away so maybe there is something too it. Also they weren't 100% sure what it's name was (didn't have a sign on the door, but I marked its location on my google places map, near Soliis).
palace grill/skågrams(??) This place is also around the corner from Soliis, had a big line on Saturday night where we met some other U.S. students/expats. Apparently older crowd, but I can't really say one way or the other. The sign on the outside says "palace grill" but it was referred by the people I was with as skågrams (estimation of the spelling).
L'Etoile Bar" (Rooftop bar of Grand Hotel Rica). Decent crowd, slightly older, there was one group of about 15-20 people with about 3-4 really attractive girls that gave this place a boost (this was early evening on a Friday), not sure how often that happens and if you take that group away the talent was not that great.
Q Lounge (Rooftop bar of Grims Grenka Hotel) Nice spot, good views but light on talent, one of those hit or miss type places that will randomly be good one night but suck +75% of the time.
Supposedly the "best" Sunday night spot. There's a band that has been playing there on sundays for the past 15 years, it was packed when I got there at 10pm. There is an outdoor terrace, which serves alcohol until like 10:30, then then wont let alcohol out of the building and you can only smoke outside. After the band shuts down at midnight, turns into more of a nightclub with DJ. Decent quality, a lot of cute, but not hot girls, which for a Sunday was good. Heavy international crowd, English was widespread, much more so than some of the other places I visited. Ratios turned south after 11:30 midnight.
Link to the Google Places map above:
http://goo.gl/maps/K5vVF with some other assorted places/cafes thrown in.