Skeppsholmen - romantiskt och modernt

Ett romantiskt hotell i Stockholms hj�rta. Runt Hotell Skeppsholmen k�nns det som om man �r i en oas. Trots att man �r mitt i Stockholm �r atmosf�ren avslappnad, lyxig och en varm. Hotel Skeppsholmen �r en blandning av modern design av Claesson Koivisto Rune i en historisk byggnad fr�n 1699. H�r har man n�ra till b�de Moderna Museet och Arkitekturmus�et.

H�r har man rum speciellt f�r de som vill ha ett romantiskt hotell. Deras s� kallade "Love Rooms" ger er en bekv�m 140 cm Queensize-s�ng, f�r par som vill mysa n�ra. Rummen �r 16-19 m2, alla med tv� stora vackra f�nster med klassiska f�nsterluckor i tr� f�r att ge maximal nattfrid.

I samma rumskategori finns ocks� ett antal charmiga vindsrum . Alla rum har underbar utsikt, mot tr�dg�rdarna, parken eller vattnet, ett skrivbord med en komfortabel designf�t�lj. H�r finns ocks� modern lyx s� som uttag f�r laptop och mobiltelefon, tr�dl�st Internet, en 32" platt-tv och en dvd f�r romantisk filmkv�ll. I badrummet hittar man det unika Boffi-handfatet, produkter fr�n Byredo Parfums och dusch med integrerat ljus.

Helt enkelt ett mycket romantiskt hotell i Stockholm.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/skeppsholmen-romantiskt-och-modernt.html

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Skeppsholmen - romantiskt och modernt

Ett romantiskt hotell i Stockholms hj�rta. Runt Hotell Skeppsholmen k�nns det som om man �r i en oas. Trots att man �r mitt i Stockholm �r atmosf�ren avslappnad, lyxig och en varm. Hotel Skeppsholmen �r en blandning av modern design av Claesson Koivisto Rune i en historisk byggnad fr�n 1699. H�r har man n�ra till b�de Moderna Museet och Arkitekturmus�et.

H�r har man rum speciellt f�r de som vill ha ett romantiskt hotell. Deras s� kallade "Love Rooms" ger er en bekv�m 140 cm Queensize-s�ng, f�r par som vill mysa n�ra. Rummen �r 16-19 m2, alla med tv� stora vackra f�nster med klassiska f�nsterluckor i tr� f�r att ge maximal nattfrid.

I samma rumskategori finns ocks� ett antal charmiga vindsrum . Alla rum har underbar utsikt, mot tr�dg�rdarna, parken eller vattnet, ett skrivbord med en komfortabel designf�t�lj. H�r finns ocks� modern lyx s� som uttag f�r laptop och mobiltelefon, tr�dl�st Internet, en 32" platt-tv och en dvd f�r romantisk filmkv�ll. I badrummet hittar man det unika Boffi-handfatet, produkter fr�n Byredo Parfums och dusch med integrerat ljus.

Helt enkelt ett mycket romantiskt hotell i Stockholm.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/skeppsholmen-romantiskt-och-modernt.html

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The Single Dude?s Guide to Dallas, TX

The Big D. No, no, this is not another description of Raul!?s gift with women, but a great city for getting it on with some high quality blonde bombshells. Be warned, single dudes, Dallas is not for the yellow-bellied. Stay in Topeka until you are ready.

Dallas! What could be said about this international city/metroplex that has not already? Well, for starters, what you have read or heard about Dallas is probably out of date. It is a fast changing city that looks very different after the last ten years (like Las Vegas or Thailand). Ten years ago, you would not venture downtown for anything but crack. Now with new development, stadiums, lofts, bars, clubs, and art, it is a go to place for meeting some quality chicks. Let me tell you this in advance. If you think Dallas chicks are going to be a mosey in the park, you are wrong. They will have a little attitude. They will challenge you. They will make you work. At least that is what I pick up from other guys. Don?t forget, I am Raul!, and this blog is for you.

Some different types of girls you are going to encounter in Dallas are:

1. Intelligent professional semployees of huge international companies:

These girls are what you want. They have been there and done that. With Texas bucking the trend of unemployment in our Unstable States of America, you can expect to find some well paid and well educated Little Misses that are looking for a man like you. You will be able to talk to this chick all night and might even visit an art museum with her.

2. Regular Texas chicks:

These are just your run of the mill hot blonde Texas chicks. They are not as well traveled or read, but still have jobs. Perhaps they have not been to Europe, but Austin is only a 3 1/2 hour drive away. You will run into these girls, but more often than not in a place like Texas, they will be married early or otherwise paired off. Many are fat and stupid like typical American chicks.

3. College Chicks:

These girls will be cute. They will be hot. They will wear short skirts and cowboy boots. Most likely they will have family money. They will be in a sorority. For what it is worth, you can have them. I will not cover them. Been there done that.

4. Alternative Texas Hipstress:

You would be surprised. The hipstresses of Dallas are different than Austin. They have a little more drive and function in a real world. There could be some legitimate targets, but tread lightly.

5. Girls of Ethnicity:

This is a grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat place to put your concentration in Dallas. You have a large black population and therefore amazingly hot black chicks everywhere. You have a huuuuuuge Mexican population with all their mamacitas. And, you have a huge Indian population with hot curry babes. International Europeans, Asians, they?re all there. I could go on and on about the different races in Dallas, but there are tons of every type. You must not forget these chicks. Dallas is international, so are you.

The areas of Dallas, unfortunately, are spread out. There is a slow bus system and a light rail that is really not that convenient. You are going to need some wheels. So where to start? I would generally say that we should work from the inside out in Dallas. This would have been the case years ago, but as I mentioned this is the New Big D with new rules.

Let?s start in the daytime. I would suggest you go to a nice coffee shoppish type place in downtown. You can just walk along Mckinney Avenue and find what suits you. Lucky for you, Dallas is home to one of the most ambitious modern art corridors in the world. They have zoned a large portion of downtown for music, art, drama, etc. I would suggest asking your new friend to go to the Dallas Museum of Art with you. If she says no, well, Raul! is not sure what to do when people say no, since they never do. Perhaps you can head over to the museum for one of their evening singles? events. Museum and gallery mixers are a great place to meet hot chicks and cougars.

Moving north from downtown you can stay along that McKinney Ave I mentioned earlier. This road really has everything. Day, night, all types, it?s all there. Raul! finds this to be the place to go if he has no other option but success.

Keep heading north to the 75 and Knox area of town. This has a few more day type bars and cafes. This is also an area of business. When you are in a town like this, make sure to visit places that have business type girls eating lunch. Many times they will be eating alone staring at an iPhone. Easy kill. Best thing about an impromptu lunch date is it is finite and you can invite her to something after she gets off work, aka happy hour.

Listen, on a side note. Dallas is amazing. The people are super nice. This means the guys, while large, are super nice. They respect women to the point they are afraid to talk to them. The power is in women?s hands in these Dallas on Dallas relationships, but you are not from around these parts. You have the confidence to walk up and talk to anyone. Sure, everyone will stare, but they are just impressed.

A little further north you are going to start running into girl type #3. You will be around Southern Methodist University (SMU). There are some great places around here, but stay east of highway 75. These SMU chicks will be in a sorority and their fathers have more money than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They will, like fembots, have everything you think you want, but they will ultimately destroy you. Move along to that girl who bought her BMW herself.

The great street up this way is Greenville. Greenville travels north/south. Along the northern end you will find more upscale, but still hip eateries and places to meet women. On Lower Greenville you will find a slew of great live music venues and such. There will be some good bands playing and this will give you the chance to dance. This is where you are going to meet that girl who looks like a hipster, quacks like a hipster, but for some reason doesn?t have the angst of a hipster. This is the place where you will start your survey of Dallas, TX tramp stamps and mom tats. I find these girls, as mentioned earlier, to be more approachable than Austin hipsters. Thus, they are not true hipsters.

Go south from Greenville to the area of town where Peak and Live Oak meet. (by the way, get a map) This is an interesting area with places like the Bryan St. Tavern (killing field) and great taco places. Wait, wait, wait, did someone say tacos? Si. This is an area you might find your business Latina. This is a cool part of town where the insides of the bars are integrated and awesome.

The next part of Dallas that can?t be missed are the shopping malls. Between North Park, the Galleria and others, Texans like to shop and you will find some hot chicks in these places. If not, these malls are still known for their museum quality art collections. Pick up line anyone?

Do not go to Texas without making friends and going out on a boat. You can find your new seamen friends anywhere, but I would suggest going to the Gaylord Texan. It is a hotel on Grapevine Lake near the airport. There is always something going on at the huuuuuge pool area and many people will have a boat. Listen, you have been to the art museum already, but you have to check out the quality artwork of Dallas? best plastic surgeons too. World class. Just volunteer to be the coxswain.

Now, let us take a second and relax. We have only covered a few square miles of a metroplex that covers over 9,000 square miles and has almost 7 million people.

You could hang in the area we discussed for a long time and never get tired of it. Best thing is, you will be the different thing in the pond, and just like dudes, women love variety.

One thing to look out for in Dallas is once you get too far from the city centers you run into suburban sprawl. The suburbs are a great place to raise kids, but not hell. Save your gas money and don?t go to parties in the suburbs. Everyone will be married and any chick you are introduced to will have her anti-slut defenses up and if single will be trolling for a husband. Check out all the big diamond rings in Dallas!

For a fun little trip away from Dallas, head over to Ft. Worth. You can start right downtown there in the Sunset Square area. This is where most of the party is happening and you will find the chicks to be more ?Texan? than Dallas. This is not as international a city and generally the people of Ft. Worth think Dallas has it all wrong. Basically it is just two hot sisters arguing over whether it is better to stay true to your roots as you travel or change a little based on what you have seen. Either way, they are from the same stock, they are hot and they are waiting to meet you!

Now, go get your lasso and your assless chaps and take Dallas by the horns!

Related posts:

1. The Single Dude?s guide to Singapore, Part Two ? The Pros
2. The Single Dude?s Guide to Amsterdam
3. The Single Dude?s Guide to New Orleans
4. Austin Guide Part One: 6th Street
5. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kiev, Ukraine

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-dallas-tx/

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Romantik p� Visby hotell

I Visby kan n�stan inte ett hotell undg� att k�nnas romantiskt. Hela stan �r en enda stor romantisk kittel. Vackert och mysigt.

Hotell Visby ett super romantiskt hotell bel�get mitt i Visbys �ldsta delar, ett stenkast fr�n sm�b�tshamnen. Fastigheterna som ing�r i Hotel Visby har haft m�nga anv�ndningsomr�den. De byggdes som medeltida packhus och anv�ndes i slutet av 1600-talet som kronomagasin. Under samma tid fanns h�r en krog som hette Stadshusk�llaren Friheten. Namnet lever kvar idag hos hotellets n�rmaste ?granne? och samarbetspartner ? restaurang Friheten.

M�nga inredningsdetaljer i hotellet vittnar idag om husets historia som g�r tillbaka till medeltiden. H�r finns kryssvalvsrum och pelare mer �n 700 �r gamla.

I dessa lokaler har det drivits hotell sedan mitten av 1800-talet. Hela huset �r som ett stort museum, men samtidigt ett modernt fungerande hotell. F�r inte hade man v�l relaxavdelning redan p� 1800-talet?

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/romantik-pa-visby-hotell.html

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Perfekt att bes�ka.

G�teborg �r den stad i Sverige och kanske ocks� i Norden som har b�st festivaler. I �r s�g �ven jag till att �ka till en av festivalerna. En annan bra sak med detta �r att det �r ganska l�tt att hitta ett billigt boende i G�teborg. Sammantaget �r det en mycket trevlig stad.�

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=128

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Guest Post: Hank Hedgehopper?s Hard and Awesome Fitness Plan

Let me introduce myself. My name is Hank Hedgehopper and I am a FFB (former fat boy).

?Maybe I have bad genetics??
?I must have a thyroid problem.?
?Maybe my insulin sensitivity is bad??
?I think all that plastic in the Weight Watchers containers are leaching chemicals that are giving me my huge man-tits??

Fuck that. I didn?t take responsibility for my self and all of the horrible things I was doing to my body. Traveling around the globe, eating and drinking whatever I wanted was destroying me from the inside out. And now I?m pissed! I spent the last week wandering around Mexico and haven?t done jack shit. Not a pushup, a pull-up, or even a fucking jumping jack. All I?ve been doing is walking around trying to find the hottest women in between shots of first-class tequila.

Now I have to go back to the very philosophy that changed turned me from a FFB to a total bad ass. If it looks hard and awesome, do it. If it looks like your mom can do it, put it aside until you hit menopause.

The Training rules of being Awesome:

There are gyms everywhere. Go in, squat, bench press, deadlift, and press. Power lifting is hard and awesome everywhere.

No gym? Pushups, pull-ups, bodyweight rows (look it up), dips, box jumps, body weight squats all work. Kids playgrounds work amazingly well but try to keep your shirt on, fat boy, because parents won?t look too kindly on you doing shirtless lunges while smiling at their children. I have even been know to grab a heavy rock, find a hill and throw the sucker as far as I can (in as many ways as possible) and sprint after it. Sounds hard and awesome, right?

Lastly, conditioning. One of the greatest and most masculating things you will ever do. Use the golden rule (see the bolded statement above) and make it happen. Do hill sprints, run stadium steps, push a car. Those are NFL player awesome. Long runs are for pussies.

Need to drop some weight? Do the above 4 days a week and add push-aways (push the fucking plate away, dumbass!).

I?m off to push the prowler (look it up, awesome) but I will leave you with a quote from one of the great dude movies of all time, Conan the Barbarian (with a bit of altering): ?The secret of Awesomeness has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Frank. You must learn its discipline. For no one-no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust.?

Now get off your ass and go get working on being awesome. Do it.

Related posts:

1. Guest Post: Jacques? Basic Rules Of Style
2. Guest Post: The Entrepreneurial Spirit
3. Boris? Basic Spare Tire Disposal Plan
4. Guest Post: Jacques? Guide to Casino Survival
5. Guest Post: (Hot) Girls and Hostels

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/guest-post-hank-hedgehoppers-hard-and-awesome-fitness-plan/

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Helg i huvudstaden

T�nkte att jag skulle �verraska sambon med att �ka iv�g till Stockholm ta in p� hotell i helgen. Bara s� d�r. F�r att f� lite milj�ombyte och f� avnjuta en lyxig hotellfrukost med allt gott som de brukar ha att erbjuda.�

N�gon som har tips p� billiga hotell i Stockholm? D� menar jag inte de allra sjaskigaste st�llena utan de som �r rena och bekv�ma men �nd� prisv�rda. Och som ligger hyfsat centralt.�

Man vill ju inte beh�va �ka halva dagen f�r att kunna se allt sev�rdheter inne i centrala delen. Som t ex Gr�na Lund, Djurg�rden, Biblioteksgatan och alla fina butiker d�r och sist men inte minst uteserveringarna runt S�dermalm.�

Men det borde v�l finnas en del st�llen att v�lja p� nu n�r den v�rsta turistv�gen f�rhoppningsvis �r �ver f�r den h�r s�songen. Blir det fint v�der kanske man skulle ta en tur med n�gon b�t ut i sk�rg�rden i ett par timmar. Det vore mysigt.�

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=125

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Romantiskt hotell p� Marstrand - v�stkusten

�r det n�gonstans det finns romantiska hotell p� V�stkusten s� �r det p� Marstrand. Marstrand �r en liten � p� V�stkusten som verkligen lever upp p� sommaren. N�rheten till G�teborg g�r att m�nga �ker hit �ver dagen, men framf�rallt �r Marstrand ett paradis f�r alla seglare.

H�r finns romantiska hotell s� som lilla charmiga och romantiska Hotell Nautic eller det st�rre och lyxigare Villa Maritime (som bl a har uppv�rmd swimmingpool p� innerg�rden). Man kan ocks� v�lja att �vernatta i den gamla soldatbyggnaden p� Carlstens f�stning h�gst upp p� �n. V�lj det som �r mest romantiskt f�r dig.

P� Marstrand finns sk�na promenadstr�k, badm�jligheter, vacker natur, restauranger och butiker. Framf�rallt �r havet hela tiden n�rvarande, oavsett var p� �n man befinner sig.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2011/06/romantiskt-hotell-pa-marstrand.html

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�ka iv�g

Jag har h�rt att Dublin ska vara en riktigt fin stad att vara i, s� jag har faktiskt t�nkt att jag ska f�rs�ka att kl�mma in en weekend i Dublin i h�st. Det vore in helt fel! Dessutom s� kan man f� tag i r�tt s� bra priser p� s�dana resor om man bara ser till att kika p� internet, s� det ska jag se till att g�ra. D� s� kan jag nog �ven f� tag i ett bra boende d�r ocks�, f�r jag vill ha ett hotell som ligger bra till i stan. S� att jag har n�rheten till allt.

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=126

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Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore

Great idea to start running podcasts. Your observations on South East Asian Retardation Syndrome (Seatardation?) is hilarious and spot on, but I think it?s cause is not so much the heat and humidity but rather a ?not in the handbook? mentality. Creative thought and individuality are admirable qualities in the West: In the East they are looked upon as dangerous and subversive unless you are at the top of the food chain.

West ? ?The squeaky wheel gets the grease.?
East ? ?The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.?

Fagbagsters and ladyboys are probably necessary releases of steam from the intense Asian pressure cooker that demands everyone know their proper fucking place.

Looking forward to more podcasts and amending the travel list: Singapore

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/single-dude-radio-episode-1-singapore/

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Perfekt att bes�ka.

G�teborg �r den stad i Sverige och kanske ocks� i Norden som har b�st festivaler. I �r s�g �ven jag till att �ka till en av festivalerna. En annan bra sak med detta �r att det �r ganska l�tt att hitta ett billigt boende i G�teborg. Sammantaget �r det en mycket trevlig stad.�

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=128

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Boende

Vill man kolla in lite olika hotell p� Mallorca eftersom man ska �ka dit i h�st s� kan man ju h�ra runt med sl�kt och v�nner, f�r att se om de kanske kan rekommendera n�got boende, om de har varit d�r tidigare. Annars f�r man s�ka sig fram p� n�tet.

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=129

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Perfekt att bes�ka.

G�teborg �r den stad i Sverige och kanske ocks� i Norden som har b�st festivaler. I �r s�g �ven jag till att �ka till en av festivalerna. En annan bra sak med detta �r att det �r ganska l�tt att hitta ett billigt boende i G�teborg. Sammantaget �r det en mycket trevlig stad.�

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=128

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Romantik p� Visby hotell

I Visby kan n�stan inte ett hotell undg� att k�nnas romantiskt. Hela stan �r en enda stor romantisk kittel. Vackert och mysigt.

Hotell Visby ett super romantiskt hotell bel�get mitt i Visbys �ldsta delar, ett stenkast fr�n sm�b�tshamnen. Fastigheterna som ing�r i Hotel Visby har haft m�nga anv�ndningsomr�den. De byggdes som medeltida packhus och anv�ndes i slutet av 1600-talet som kronomagasin. Under samma tid fanns h�r en krog som hette Stadshusk�llaren Friheten. Namnet lever kvar idag hos hotellets n�rmaste ?granne? och samarbetspartner ? restaurang Friheten.

M�nga inredningsdetaljer i hotellet vittnar idag om husets historia som g�r tillbaka till medeltiden. H�r finns kryssvalvsrum och pelare mer �n 700 �r gamla.

I dessa lokaler har det drivits hotell sedan mitten av 1800-talet. Hela huset �r som ett stort museum, men samtidigt ett modernt fungerande hotell. F�r inte hade man v�l relaxavdelning redan p� 1800-talet?

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/romantik-pa-visby-hotell.html

stockholm vandrarhem centralt

The Single Dude?s Guide to Dallas, TX

The Big D. No, no, this is not another description of Raul!?s gift with women, but a great city for getting it on with some high quality blonde bombshells. Be warned, single dudes, Dallas is not for the yellow-bellied. Stay in Topeka until you are ready.

Dallas! What could be said about this international city/metroplex that has not already? Well, for starters, what you have read or heard about Dallas is probably out of date. It is a fast changing city that looks very different after the last ten years (like Las Vegas or Thailand). Ten years ago, you would not venture downtown for anything but crack. Now with new development, stadiums, lofts, bars, clubs, and art, it is a go to place for meeting some quality chicks. Let me tell you this in advance. If you think Dallas chicks are going to be a mosey in the park, you are wrong. They will have a little attitude. They will challenge you. They will make you work. At least that is what I pick up from other guys. Don?t forget, I am Raul!, and this blog is for you.

Some different types of girls you are going to encounter in Dallas are:

1. Intelligent professional semployees of huge international companies:

These girls are what you want. They have been there and done that. With Texas bucking the trend of unemployment in our Unstable States of America, you can expect to find some well paid and well educated Little Misses that are looking for a man like you. You will be able to talk to this chick all night and might even visit an art museum with her.

2. Regular Texas chicks:

These are just your run of the mill hot blonde Texas chicks. They are not as well traveled or read, but still have jobs. Perhaps they have not been to Europe, but Austin is only a 3 1/2 hour drive away. You will run into these girls, but more often than not in a place like Texas, they will be married early or otherwise paired off. Many are fat and stupid like typical American chicks.

3. College Chicks:

These girls will be cute. They will be hot. They will wear short skirts and cowboy boots. Most likely they will have family money. They will be in a sorority. For what it is worth, you can have them. I will not cover them. Been there done that.

4. Alternative Texas Hipstress:

You would be surprised. The hipstresses of Dallas are different than Austin. They have a little more drive and function in a real world. There could be some legitimate targets, but tread lightly.

5. Girls of Ethnicity:

This is a grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreat place to put your concentration in Dallas. You have a large black population and therefore amazingly hot black chicks everywhere. You have a huuuuuuge Mexican population with all their mamacitas. And, you have a huge Indian population with hot curry babes. International Europeans, Asians, they?re all there. I could go on and on about the different races in Dallas, but there are tons of every type. You must not forget these chicks. Dallas is international, so are you.

The areas of Dallas, unfortunately, are spread out. There is a slow bus system and a light rail that is really not that convenient. You are going to need some wheels. So where to start? I would generally say that we should work from the inside out in Dallas. This would have been the case years ago, but as I mentioned this is the New Big D with new rules.

Let?s start in the daytime. I would suggest you go to a nice coffee shoppish type place in downtown. You can just walk along Mckinney Avenue and find what suits you. Lucky for you, Dallas is home to one of the most ambitious modern art corridors in the world. They have zoned a large portion of downtown for music, art, drama, etc. I would suggest asking your new friend to go to the Dallas Museum of Art with you. If she says no, well, Raul! is not sure what to do when people say no, since they never do. Perhaps you can head over to the museum for one of their evening singles? events. Museum and gallery mixers are a great place to meet hot chicks and cougars.

Moving north from downtown you can stay along that McKinney Ave I mentioned earlier. This road really has everything. Day, night, all types, it?s all there. Raul! finds this to be the place to go if he has no other option but success.

Keep heading north to the 75 and Knox area of town. This has a few more day type bars and cafes. This is also an area of business. When you are in a town like this, make sure to visit places that have business type girls eating lunch. Many times they will be eating alone staring at an iPhone. Easy kill. Best thing about an impromptu lunch date is it is finite and you can invite her to something after she gets off work, aka happy hour.

Listen, on a side note. Dallas is amazing. The people are super nice. This means the guys, while large, are super nice. They respect women to the point they are afraid to talk to them. The power is in women?s hands in these Dallas on Dallas relationships, but you are not from around these parts. You have the confidence to walk up and talk to anyone. Sure, everyone will stare, but they are just impressed.

A little further north you are going to start running into girl type #3. You will be around Southern Methodist University (SMU). There are some great places around here, but stay east of highway 75. These SMU chicks will be in a sorority and their fathers have more money than the Flying Spaghetti Monster. They will, like fembots, have everything you think you want, but they will ultimately destroy you. Move along to that girl who bought her BMW herself.

The great street up this way is Greenville. Greenville travels north/south. Along the northern end you will find more upscale, but still hip eateries and places to meet women. On Lower Greenville you will find a slew of great live music venues and such. There will be some good bands playing and this will give you the chance to dance. This is where you are going to meet that girl who looks like a hipster, quacks like a hipster, but for some reason doesn?t have the angst of a hipster. This is the place where you will start your survey of Dallas, TX tramp stamps and mom tats. I find these girls, as mentioned earlier, to be more approachable than Austin hipsters. Thus, they are not true hipsters.

Go south from Greenville to the area of town where Peak and Live Oak meet. (by the way, get a map) This is an interesting area with places like the Bryan St. Tavern (killing field) and great taco places. Wait, wait, wait, did someone say tacos? Si. This is an area you might find your business Latina. This is a cool part of town where the insides of the bars are integrated and awesome.

The next part of Dallas that can?t be missed are the shopping malls. Between North Park, the Galleria and others, Texans like to shop and you will find some hot chicks in these places. If not, these malls are still known for their museum quality art collections. Pick up line anyone?

Do not go to Texas without making friends and going out on a boat. You can find your new seamen friends anywhere, but I would suggest going to the Gaylord Texan. It is a hotel on Grapevine Lake near the airport. There is always something going on at the huuuuuge pool area and many people will have a boat. Listen, you have been to the art museum already, but you have to check out the quality artwork of Dallas? best plastic surgeons too. World class. Just volunteer to be the coxswain.

Now, let us take a second and relax. We have only covered a few square miles of a metroplex that covers over 9,000 square miles and has almost 7 million people.

You could hang in the area we discussed for a long time and never get tired of it. Best thing is, you will be the different thing in the pond, and just like dudes, women love variety.

One thing to look out for in Dallas is once you get too far from the city centers you run into suburban sprawl. The suburbs are a great place to raise kids, but not hell. Save your gas money and don?t go to parties in the suburbs. Everyone will be married and any chick you are introduced to will have her anti-slut defenses up and if single will be trolling for a husband. Check out all the big diamond rings in Dallas!

For a fun little trip away from Dallas, head over to Ft. Worth. You can start right downtown there in the Sunset Square area. This is where most of the party is happening and you will find the chicks to be more ?Texan? than Dallas. This is not as international a city and generally the people of Ft. Worth think Dallas has it all wrong. Basically it is just two hot sisters arguing over whether it is better to stay true to your roots as you travel or change a little based on what you have seen. Either way, they are from the same stock, they are hot and they are waiting to meet you!

Now, go get your lasso and your assless chaps and take Dallas by the horns!

Related posts:

1. The Single Dude?s guide to Singapore, Part Two ? The Pros
2. The Single Dude?s Guide to Amsterdam
3. The Single Dude?s Guide to New Orleans
4. Austin Guide Part One: 6th Street
5. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kiev, Ukraine

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-dallas-tx/

båt vandrarhem stockholm

I Stockholm finns ju Grand

P� Hotell Grand i Stockholm �r den romantiska faktorn h�g. Med hotellets vackra l�ge, mittemot Kungliga Slottet vid Stockholms str�m, den eleganta inredningen och uts�kta maten, passar Grand Hotell alla som vet att uppskatta livets goda, i stort som i sm�tt.

H�r �r alla rum romantiska, s�v�l de vanliga dubbelrummen som de olika sorters sviterna. Detta romantiska hotell passar verkligen kosmopolitiska par som vill njuta av stad, mat och varandra.

Vill man sl� p� stort kan man f�rst�s ocks� boka deras 330 kvadrat stora svit best�ende av tv� sovrum, vardagsrum med matsal, bibliotek, egen biograf med plats f�r 12 personer och en relaxavdelning med egen bastu. Naturligtvis med en fantastisk utsikt �ver huvudstaden och en air av forna dagars lyx och romantik.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/i-stockholm-finns-ju-grand.html

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Romantik p� Visby hotell

I Visby kan n�stan inte ett hotell undg� att k�nnas romantiskt. Hela stan �r en enda stor romantisk kittel. Vackert och mysigt.

Hotell Visby ett super romantiskt hotell bel�get mitt i Visbys �ldsta delar, ett stenkast fr�n sm�b�tshamnen. Fastigheterna som ing�r i Hotel Visby har haft m�nga anv�ndningsomr�den. De byggdes som medeltida packhus och anv�ndes i slutet av 1600-talet som kronomagasin. Under samma tid fanns h�r en krog som hette Stadshusk�llaren Friheten. Namnet lever kvar idag hos hotellets n�rmaste ?granne? och samarbetspartner ? restaurang Friheten.

M�nga inredningsdetaljer i hotellet vittnar idag om husets historia som g�r tillbaka till medeltiden. H�r finns kryssvalvsrum och pelare mer �n 700 �r gamla.

I dessa lokaler har det drivits hotell sedan mitten av 1800-talet. Hela huset �r som ett stort museum, men samtidigt ett modernt fungerande hotell. F�r inte hade man v�l relaxavdelning redan p� 1800-talet?

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/romantik-pa-visby-hotell.html

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Helg i huvudstaden

T�nkte att jag skulle �verraska sambon med att �ka iv�g till Stockholm ta in p� hotell i helgen. Bara s� d�r. F�r att f� lite milj�ombyte och f� avnjuta en lyxig hotellfrukost med allt gott som de brukar ha att erbjuda.�

N�gon som har tips p� billiga hotell i Stockholm? D� menar jag inte de allra sjaskigaste st�llena utan de som �r rena och bekv�ma men �nd� prisv�rda. Och som ligger hyfsat centralt.�

Man vill ju inte beh�va �ka halva dagen f�r att kunna se allt sev�rdheter inne i centrala delen. Som t ex Gr�na Lund, Djurg�rden, Biblioteksgatan och alla fina butiker d�r och sist men inte minst uteserveringarna runt S�dermalm.�

Men det borde v�l finnas en del st�llen att v�lja p� nu n�r den v�rsta turistv�gen f�rhoppningsvis �r �ver f�r den h�r s�songen. Blir det fint v�der kanske man skulle ta en tur med n�gon b�t ut i sk�rg�rden i ett par timmar. Det vore mysigt.�

Source: http://alltonline.se/?p=125

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Guest Post: Hank Hedgehopper?s Hard and Awesome Fitness Plan

Let me introduce myself. My name is Hank Hedgehopper and I am a FFB (former fat boy).

?Maybe I have bad genetics??
?I must have a thyroid problem.?
?Maybe my insulin sensitivity is bad??
?I think all that plastic in the Weight Watchers containers are leaching chemicals that are giving me my huge man-tits??

Fuck that. I didn?t take responsibility for my self and all of the horrible things I was doing to my body. Traveling around the globe, eating and drinking whatever I wanted was destroying me from the inside out. And now I?m pissed! I spent the last week wandering around Mexico and haven?t done jack shit. Not a pushup, a pull-up, or even a fucking jumping jack. All I?ve been doing is walking around trying to find the hottest women in between shots of first-class tequila.

Now I have to go back to the very philosophy that changed turned me from a FFB to a total bad ass. If it looks hard and awesome, do it. If it looks like your mom can do it, put it aside until you hit menopause.

The Training rules of being Awesome:

There are gyms everywhere. Go in, squat, bench press, deadlift, and press. Power lifting is hard and awesome everywhere.

No gym? Pushups, pull-ups, bodyweight rows (look it up), dips, box jumps, body weight squats all work. Kids playgrounds work amazingly well but try to keep your shirt on, fat boy, because parents won?t look too kindly on you doing shirtless lunges while smiling at their children. I have even been know to grab a heavy rock, find a hill and throw the sucker as far as I can (in as many ways as possible) and sprint after it. Sounds hard and awesome, right?

Lastly, conditioning. One of the greatest and most masculating things you will ever do. Use the golden rule (see the bolded statement above) and make it happen. Do hill sprints, run stadium steps, push a car. Those are NFL player awesome. Long runs are for pussies.

Need to drop some weight? Do the above 4 days a week and add push-aways (push the fucking plate away, dumbass!).

I?m off to push the prowler (look it up, awesome) but I will leave you with a quote from one of the great dude movies of all time, Conan the Barbarian (with a bit of altering): ?The secret of Awesomeness has always carried with it a mystery. You must learn its riddle, Frank. You must learn its discipline. For no one-no one in this world can you trust. Not men, not women, not beasts. This you can trust.?

Now get off your ass and go get working on being awesome. Do it.

Related posts:

1. Guest Post: Jacques? Basic Rules Of Style
2. Guest Post: The Entrepreneurial Spirit
3. Boris? Basic Spare Tire Disposal Plan
4. Guest Post: Jacques? Guide to Casino Survival
5. Guest Post: (Hot) Girls and Hostels

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/guest-post-hank-hedgehoppers-hard-and-awesome-fitness-plan/

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The Single Dude?s Guide to Singapore, Part One ? The Cons

Singapore, a tiny nation-state at the southern tip of Malaysia, is really on the rise these days. A haven for big banking and other big money businesses it is quickly, along with Hong Kong, turning into the economic powerhouse of Southeast Asia. Shit is happening there, skyscrapers are going up all over the place and people are immigrating from all over the region (and the world) to get in on the party.

With that in mind, I went to Singapore for an extended period this summer and I have a lot to say about it. There?s great party there and an enormous number of hot chicks, but despite those advantages Singapore is absolutely not a recommended single dude travel destination.

The first reason is the cost. Singapore is a super expensive place. The first night I was there I went to the bar and ordered a pint of local brew on draft, Tiger Beer. My cost? $18 SGD ($15 USD). That was at a somewhat fancy place and prices at super high end places can be as high as $25 SGD ($21 USD). Add this to the club entrance fees which can often be $30 SGD and up and you can easily spend a couple hundred bucks going out on a weekend night and not even get drunk.

I personally prefer cheaper places where you don?t have to call your broker to sell your investments in order to go out and party, places where you can go out freely without worrying that you?re going to spend your whole paycheck on mediocre Southeast Asian beer. To party well and survive financially in Singapore you have be smart about it. My Singapore nightlife survival strategy includes several tricks to take the edge off the high drink prices:

1. Duty Free ? Every time you come into Singapore from abroad (except from Malaysia, nothing is allowed) you must bring booze from Duty Free. This will save you lots of money over the store price and enormous amounts over the bar price. Unfortunately the duty-free allowance is only 1 bottle of booze (1 liter), 1 bottle of wine (750 ml), 3 bottles of beer (330 ml each), and no cigarettes. If you bring a second bottle of anything you must pay a tax of $70 SGD ($55 USD) or risk a big fine if you?re caught. They will also fine you a shitload if you are seen with even one pack of foreign cigarettes without the import sticker (even if it?s only a partial pack and you opened it before you arrived), so just quit smoking already or get ready to pay $12 a pack for your cancer sticks.

2. Predrinking ? Never go out sober. Have a little predrinking party at your place with your duty free booze or at least cheap beer from 7-11 before you go out and make sure you are pretty drunk when you arrive at the club.

3. Networking ? Singapore is full of cool rich trust fund kids and other door openers, if you?re a cool single dude one might take you under his wing, get you into clubs and start letting you drink his bottle service. Be cool, let him offer a drink first, don?t ask for it. Buying a cheap happy hour drink for one of those guys can often pay off in spades.

4. Flasking ? Singapore is a super safe place, Boris? experience notwithstanding, so they won?t pat you down when you get to the club. That?s good, because I always bring a flask or water bottle filled with vodka or some other high proof spirit with me to the club and then add that to ice or my rare $15 purchased drink.

5. Happy Hours ? Singapore has some pretty good deals (by Singapore standards) for happy hour, like buy one get one drinks, cheap jugs of beer, etc. When possible do your drinking there and then have a chick over for the real party at your place in lieu of going out.

6. Chinatown, Food courts, and Hawker Stalls ? For food, this is the way to go. Why pay a shitload for bad service at a real restaurant when you can get cheap delicious food at the mall food court or hawker stall and pick up chicks while you?re there? That?s what the non-millionaire locals do for food in Singapore and it?s a much better option.

Everything is expensive in Singapore, especially housing. Since it?s such a small country, apartments and hotels are quite expensive. Taxis are OK, although it seems like there?s a surcharge pretty much for everything ? rush hour surcharge, night surcharge, city center surcharge, airport, etc. You?re better off taking the MRT (Metro) and buses which are everywhere and cheap. Get a $7 SGD ($5.50 USD) rechargeable card for $12 SGD ($10 SGD) and refill as necessary with the pocketfuls of change you will accumulate everywhere.

The second major problem with Singapore are the local chicks. I have been around much of the world and so far the Singaporean girls are the worst gold diggers I?ve ever met. They say there that all the Singaporean chicks are looking for the ?5 Cs? in a man- cash, credit cards (which are apparently hard to get there), fancy car, condo, and career. Missing one of the aforementioned Cs is grounds for immediate disqualification by these gold diggers. The normal way that I like to meet chicks ? ?Hi! (smile)? does not seem to work on a Singaporean chick like it works on a Dutch chick ? she?ll often give you a weird forced-half smile and then just turn her back to you. Bitch! The only technique that we?ve found that seems to work is to find a mixed group of Singaporeans and talk to the guys in the group while ignoring the chicks until the chicks start to take an interest in you. Then you can meet the girls. Overall I say it?s not worth the trouble. If she doesn?t like you right away she probably won?t really work that great as a partner anyway.

But don?t lose heart, there?s plenty of other chicks in town. Just like Kuala Lumpur, as a center of business there are chicks from all over the region in town trying to make it, and if they haven?t been infected with the goldiggerism like the Latina girls in Miami are after a couple months you have a good chance to make it work with the foreign chicks.

Another problem with Singapore is that it?s a sausagefest. All the upscale clubs are just filled with douchey Western business-banker types on expense accounts wearing long sleeve striped shirts, if you are making progress with a chick at a club and you leave her alone for a couple minutes, be ready to find her just absolutely surrounded by DAFF English guys when you get back. This is another good reason to focus on meeting girls during the day in Singapore.

The Singaporean guys, oh my. Nice dudes, but there are so many fagbagsters there. For those unfamiliar, here?s the Single dude Travel definition:

Fagbagster ? A relatively new species currently very common in Asia, the fagbagster combines the douchebag quality of self-primping with the pussyness of hipsters, all sewed up in a handy effeminate Asian package. Complete with man-purse, eyliner, frosted tips and Zoolander face pout, the fagbagster is populous and growing in number, especially in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China and God knows where else in Asia. Foreign correspondents, please report back about the other Asian countries.

Or buddy Art Pfister, who has lived there for years detailed for us one of the most common techniques of the Singaporean fagbagster when he picks up a girl. He walks up to a Singaporean girl and shyly asks for her phone number. Then, after she gives it to him, because he?s Singaporean and nonthreatening, he walks away to a different part of the bar and flirts with her via text messages. What a faggot move! But apparently it works, because we see a lot of hot chicks with fagbagsters around town.

One last problem with Singapore is the retardation of the locals. Maybe it?s the heat, but the Singaporean brains just don?t work in the same way that yours and mine work. Expect very bad, slow service, and a complete lack of ability by the locals to make decisions independently or to engage in abstract thought. Blank stares and incomprehensible ?Singlish? are the norm and you must be prepared to wait forever for your change at bars. Singaporean society has a very top-down command structure so the rank-and-file people are not asked to think for themselves. Even the simplest request that is not by-the-book will be met with stupefaction and a ?can not lah? by the locals. Need something at a restaurant or bar? Just get it for yourself and you?ll save 15 minutes. Have a different idea that will be mutually beneficial? Just keep it to yourself unless you?re talking the president of the company.

So that?s a lot of badmouthing of Singapore for one article. I could go on for another 1500 words on the topic, but I think those are the major points. My next article will be on the pros of the place, of which there are several, and where to go if you do find yourself there. Not all hope is lost for the single dude in Singapore, but it?s definitely a high-difficulty location for experts only.

Boris adds:

Unless someone is paying you to be there, there is absolutely no reason to go!

Related posts:

1. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2. The Single Dude?s Guide to New Orleans
3. The Single Dude?s Guide to Amsterdam
4. The night I almost died in Singapore
5. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kiev, Ukraine

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-singapore-part-one-the-cons/

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Romantiskt hotell p� Marstrand - v�stkusten

�r det n�gonstans det finns romantiska hotell p� V�stkusten s� �r det p� Marstrand. Marstrand �r en liten � p� V�stkusten som verkligen lever upp p� sommaren. N�rheten till G�teborg g�r att m�nga �ker hit �ver dagen, men framf�rallt �r Marstrand ett paradis f�r alla seglare.

H�r finns romantiska hotell s� som lilla charmiga och romantiska Hotell Nautic eller det st�rre och lyxigare Villa Maritime (som bl a har uppv�rmd swimmingpool p� innerg�rden). Man kan ocks� v�lja att �vernatta i den gamla soldatbyggnaden p� Carlstens f�stning h�gst upp p� �n. V�lj det som �r mest romantiskt f�r dig.

P� Marstrand finns sk�na promenadstr�k, badm�jligheter, vacker natur, restauranger och butiker. Framf�rallt �r havet hela tiden n�rvarande, oavsett var p� �n man befinner sig.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2011/06/romantiskt-hotell-pa-marstrand.html

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The Single Dude?s guide to Singapore, Part Two ? The Pros

In my previous article on Singapore, I detailed the numerous drawbacks for the single dude to Singapore. Seem from that perspective, Singapore sounds terrible- high prices, gold diggers, fagbagsters, DAFFs, and retardation do not make a good single dude travel destination. But, in case you find yourself in Singapore for some reason beyond your control, don?t lose heart. You can make it work here if your skills are good and your bankroll is decent.

First of all, understand that a visit to Singapore is, in our opinion, only an acceptable idea if you?re being paid to be there. There are so many better, cheaper places to go on vacation in the region that blow Singapore out of the water, like Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, to name a few. So these pros only apply if you?re being paid to be in Singapore, and paid well at that.

Singapore is a great place to meet very nice, cool, well connected door openers. There is a lot of money in the town and some of these guys are just unbelievably stinking rich. We find that there?s a lot of cool and friendly locals with with lots of family money and connections that are very nice cool dudes. Being cool, nice and friendly and helping those guys meet a girl or two is a great way to find yourself in VIP sections of the hot clubs, private planes, yachts, islands, and so on. This is one of Boris? superpowers; where he goes he finds the money people who always seem to really take a shine to him. As I write this we?re sitting in our apartment in Manila with a live in maid that our new friends here lent to us for the next couple weeks. These guys have (as far as we know an incomplete list), a city mansion, a country mansion, a beach house, and an island. Believe us, it?s a good idea to be a cool dude and make friends with everyone you meet, you never know where it will lead you. I?ll make Boris write an article on this concept later.

Singapore also is filled with what we like to call business/banking douchebags (BBDs). We don?t like these dudes very much. They are typically lame and unfriendly Western dudes with identical striped long sleeved shirts (often with shaved heads in Singapore) who spend their days buying credit-default swaps with your grandma?s life savings, sausaging up all the clubs and buying hookers and coke. Basically they are the equivalent of the Eastern European mafia douchebags within a slightly more legal framework. Fuck those guys. The right door openers are usually not the white guys ? the right guys to make friends with in Asia are the other guys, be it Asian, Indian, or Middle Eastern.

Singapore is also remarkable for its general attitude on prostitution. Never before have I been somewhere where it is as socially acceptable to openly discuss getting a hooker. If your colleagues ask you what you did last night, it?s totally ok to say you went to one of the local hooker bars and took a girl home. No shame required. Single dude Travel generally does not condone prostitution and if you have something going for you other than being a rich BBD you shouldn?t need it.

Singapore does have more going for it than money, however. The party in Singapore is all night long and 7 days a week. Other places might be cooler and have better parties, but if you want to get down on a Sunday-Tuesday night you can do it here. There?s also a lot of hot chicks here from all over the world. Singapore is basically just one big shopping mall, so try the mall to meet chicks, and don?t forget the girls working in the shops who are just waiting to be rescued from their retail prison. Another very good option is the stewardesses. Changi airport is an incredibly busy airport with a lot of long haul flights coming and going, which means lots of overnight or even multi-day layovers, so keep your eyes out for the hordes of hot stewardesses coming in from Dubai.

Another good lead in Singapore are the cougars. With money comes trophy wives and high end prostitution. Put those together and you have a lot of hot rich divorced cougars, and a lot of hot lonely married ones. The prostitution epidemic also makes it tough for regular smart professional girls with self respect to find regular non-BBD cool nice single dudes with some class. Enter the single dude traveler. Remember with cougars, be classy, discreet, and respectful. If it?s an affair, conduct it in private.

Singapore is known as the San Francisco of Asia. That means good food and gay guys. Even the straight guys are pretty faggoty ? see Singapore Part One for our definition of the Asian Fagbagster. That means two things ? gay wingmen everywhere and girls that are just dying to meet a real man. I find there?s nothing wrong with growing a little 5 o?clock shadow and going out a little rough around the edges. I?ve even had Asian girls rub their faces on my stubble on purpose with extreme pleasure; the Asian guys generally can?t grow stubble at all.

Singapore is an international city and one of my favorite thing about the place is there?s people from all around the world here. It?s super fun to go out and meet all these people with different perspectives and experiences and talk about their lives. As Mark Twain said,

?Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one?s lifetime.

Word, bro. This is true of travelers in today?s Singapore. For example, I usually dislike French people for being lame, humorless, uptight, arrogant little prigs, but Singapore has a bunch of super cool, fun, nice French people that I got to be quite good friends with. Generally speaking, I think Americans and French people are cooler the farther away from their home countries they live.

The best thing about Singapore is its location. It?s in a super central location for exploring Southeast Asia. The airport is super close (less that 20 minutes by cab) and there?s cheap flight on discount airlines like Tiger Airways (retarded Singaporean airline), Air Asia (Malaysian), Jetstar (Australia) and many others. You can go to all of Southeast Asia for usually $100 USD each way, India is 4+ hours away, and Australia is 7. Anytime you have a weekend free you?ll save money and have a better time if you hop on a cheap flight to Thailand, Bali, or some other beach paradise and party there super cheap.

Here are some Singapore hotspots:

1. Clarke Quay (pronounced ?key? for us Yanks)- the king of Singapore nightlife, CQ has all sorts of bars and clubs fitting all descriptions of nightlife (except cheap, of course). Of special interest is Wednesday, which is Ladies? Night most places. The typical itinerary is Shot Bar for ?cheap? ($6 SGD shots), then Le Noir for $18 SGD beers, then the hot club Attica after that. Make sure you make friends with some door openers or Attica will be hard to get into as a civilian unless you get there early. Look out for flying bottles!

2. Think that Clarke Quay is too cheap? Then try Marina Bay Sands, the new casino/shopping mall megaopolis that looks like three skyscrapers with a big boat shipwrecked across the top of the three. Want to buy your gold digger girlfriend a $5000 Hermes bracelet? This is your best bet. I went to the club there called ?Ku de Ta?, (pronounced like the French coup d?etat) on a Wednesday and the view of the marina and most of Singapore was fabulous. But, my beer was $22 SGD, and it was crowded. There was a nice roped off section with tables though, and so I approached the dude manning the rope. Our conversation:

What?s up, dude?

Hello, sir, how are you this evening?

Great! Great view? So tell me how you get a table? Do you need to buy a bottle?

Yes, sir, we have a per table minimum that you must purchase.

How much is that minimum?

25.

25? 25 what?

25 hundred dollars.

Damn! And they don?t even bother to include the ?thousand? in the price. That $2500 SGD ($2100 USD) would pay your rent in a luxury condo in Manila for 4-7 months! In Singapore it gets you a table at the club on a Wednesday night with some gold diggers and maybe a couple bottles of Grey Goose with mixers. What kind of a retarded waste of money is that?

3. The Singapore Zoo is fantastic. There?s actually 3 zoos, the regular daytime zoo, the Night Safari, and the bird park. The Night Safari is particularly good for a date. What?s better than walking around in the dark stoned with a cute girl on your arm looking at all the weird dog-cat-deer hybrids, exotic sleeping birds, bats, and snakes? A little pricey, but recommended.

4. Sentosa ? The island at the southern tip of Singapore is the place to go on the weekends. The Tanjong Beach Club is the beach party place when the weather is good and a great place to meet people. Make sure to BYOB if you don?t feel like paying $48 SGD for a bucket of 4 beers all day.

5. Other clubs ? There?s lots of good boom boom clubs filled with super hot chicks all over town. My particular recommendations include Helipad on the top of the Swisshotel, Zouk (one of the top 10 clubs in the world by some ratings) and Steriolab in the Pan Pacific Hotel. This is a very incomplete list of clubs and the hot clubs are always changing, so just ask around, and have some door openers bring you along. Bring your checkbook.

6. Hooker bars ? This is a Singapore tradition ? bars filled with hookers and BBDs, tourists, trust fund kids, and regular civilians. Buying a hooker is neither necessary nor recommended. Brix in the basement of the Hyatt Hotel is a favorite with lots of shit-your-pants hot hookers and a fun scene with a great band.

The unquestioned king of the hooker bar scene is Orchard Towers. Called the ?Four Floors of Whores? by locals, it?s a shopping mall by day and a hooker bar complex by night, all night, every night, with numerous different hooker bars of every different flavors, from Thai disco to country to the ladyboy hooker bar. Be careful! Nothing good happens in Singapore after 3 AM and nothing good happens in Thai bars outside of Thailand. Don?t tell me I didn?t warn you.

Related posts:

1. The Single Dude?s Guide to Singapore, Part One ? The Cons
2. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3. The night I almost died in Singapore
4. Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore
5. The Single Dude?s Guide to Thailand

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-singapore-part-two-the-pros/

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Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore

Great idea to start running podcasts. Your observations on South East Asian Retardation Syndrome (Seatardation?) is hilarious and spot on, but I think it?s cause is not so much the heat and humidity but rather a ?not in the handbook? mentality. Creative thought and individuality are admirable qualities in the West: In the East they are looked upon as dangerous and subversive unless you are at the top of the food chain.

West ? ?The squeaky wheel gets the grease.?
East ? ?The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.?

Fagbagsters and ladyboys are probably necessary releases of steam from the intense Asian pressure cooker that demands everyone know their proper fucking place.

Looking forward to more podcasts and amending the travel list: Singapore

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/single-dude-radio-episode-1-singapore/

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Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore

Great idea to start running podcasts. Your observations on South East Asian Retardation Syndrome (Seatardation?) is hilarious and spot on, but I think it?s cause is not so much the heat and humidity but rather a ?not in the handbook? mentality. Creative thought and individuality are admirable qualities in the West: In the East they are looked upon as dangerous and subversive unless you are at the top of the food chain.

West ? ?The squeaky wheel gets the grease.?
East ? ?The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.?

Fagbagsters and ladyboys are probably necessary releases of steam from the intense Asian pressure cooker that demands everyone know their proper fucking place.

Looking forward to more podcasts and amending the travel list: Singapore

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/single-dude-radio-episode-1-singapore/

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I Stockholm finns ju Grand

P� Hotell Grand i Stockholm �r den romantiska faktorn h�g. Med hotellets vackra l�ge, mittemot Kungliga Slottet vid Stockholms str�m, den eleganta inredningen och uts�kta maten, passar Grand Hotell alla som vet att uppskatta livets goda, i stort som i sm�tt.

H�r �r alla rum romantiska, s�v�l de vanliga dubbelrummen som de olika sorters sviterna. Detta romantiska hotell passar verkligen kosmopolitiska par som vill njuta av stad, mat och varandra.

Vill man sl� p� stort kan man f�rst�s ocks� boka deras 330 kvadrat stora svit best�ende av tv� sovrum, vardagsrum med matsal, bibliotek, egen biograf med plats f�r 12 personer och en relaxavdelning med egen bastu. Naturligtvis med en fantastisk utsikt �ver huvudstaden och en air av forna dagars lyx och romantik.

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2010/12/i-stockholm-finns-ju-grand.html

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Designhotell i G�teborg

I G�teborg ligger ett s� kallat designhotell. H�r �r inredningen kanske inte s� romantisk, utan snarare sober, modern, luftig och fr�sch. Milj�n �r hursomhelst lyxig och mysig vilket g�r att f�ruts�ttningarna f�r att vara romantiska mot varandra �kar.

Hotellet heter Avalon och �r ett romantiskt hotell i G�teborg. H�r bor man verkligen mitt i stan, precis vid Kungsportsplatsen med n�rhet till allt. Man har bara n�gra meter till shopping, restauranger, saluhall och biograf.

Avalon �r byggt och inrett enligt Feng Shui, vilket ju ocks� borde borga f�r en avslappnande och romantisk vistelse p� det h�r hotellet.

H�r kan man ocks� nyttja poolen h�gst upp p� taket!

Source: http://www.romantiskt-hotell.se/2011/02/designhotell-i-goteborg.html

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The night I almost died in Singapore

It was a normal enough night for Charlie and I in Singapore at first. We were at a salsa club on Clarke Quay (a bar district in downtown Singapore). Charlie had bought a bottle of Absolut for the low low price of $171 SGD to celebrate his completion of some business in town and our planned escape from Singapore to Manila the next day. We were getting trashed and dancing salsa with Art Pfister, Charlie?s hot cool little Chinese-American yoga teacher, her Colombian cougar friend and a couple lesbians with potentially bisexual aspirations who were buying everyone $22 Patron shots every 15 minutes. I had planned to meet a New Zealand cougar there but she couldn?t make it I later learned due to a taxi accident on her way there. That cougar missing our date started a chain reaction of events that nearly culminated in my death on the sidewalk in Clark Quay that night.

When the cougar failed to show I started mass texting all my new buddies that I had met over the previous week. It didn?t take long until one of my new good buddies, Panino showed up. Panino is a super cool kid who is extremely well connected. We met on the beach the previous weekend along with our friend Clayton Wellington III, whose origins remain mysterious but judging from the $200,000 automobile and pound of gold jewelry he wears that he probably is a not unimportant figure. Charlie was very happy after having his own door opener friends helping him get into clubs and parties so many times to be able to say to the doorman, ?He?s with me.?, and get someone else into a club in Singapore for a chnage, not knowing that that this super nice kid was one of the most connected people in the city and well known by everyone there. Panino wanted to go to a club called Zirca, so we left Charlie with his yoga teacher and tequila lesbians and headed over.

Zirca in Singapore is definitely a pretty happening club but that night it was absolutely jam packed with douchey daddy?s boys and the little gold diggers in training they inevitably have in tow. Hot [gold digging] girls, expensive drinks, douchey daddy?s boys ? that?s Zirca in a sentence.

Panino is one connected dude but he isn?t like the typical douchebag in Zirca. It didn?t take long before we tired of the prick waiving dick fight of daddy?s boys trying to figure out who has more of their parents gold cards and who has a higher limit by buying stupid flamboyantly gay looking drinks. Panino suggested that we head on over to a Thai club in the area called Hollywood. That was fine by me ? I?d had my fill of $13 thimble-sized beers and $25 flaming shots.

Hollywood was chock full of some of the hottest Thai girls I?d ever seen and lots of mafia types. The hottest Thai girls are not in Thailand, they?re in other richer places like Singapore. At Hollywood, Panino advised me not to talk to anybody. I tried to explain to him that one of my specialties is making friends with dangerous people but since he told me earlier that night at Zirca ?Nobody can touch you here if you are friends with Clayton and I.?, I figured maybe he knows what he?s talking about. We were just enjoying the Thai band full of hot Thai girls and a reasonable [for Singapore] $35 jug of beer. I was telling Panino stories about my travels and how I usually spend my time in ?dangerous? countries with ?dangerous people? and that the only time I ever got into any real trouble was in the United States with some shit headed steroid infused bouncers with pea balls and raisin brains. Long story short they choked me unconscious and threw me down a flight of stairs, three of them weighing together about six times my body weight ? fair fight huh?

Anyway as soon as I finished this story, ironically, a fight broke out in the Thai bar. If you want to know how Thais fight check out our article on Thailand. Now Hollywood is a big club and the fight was not that close to us but all of these little Thai fagsters were throwing bottles, glasses and anything else they could find all over the place. I kind of wanted to watch but Panino was very disturbed and said we should get the fuck out now. No sooner than he said that began a virtual stampede. I started out the door and at the same time Panino bent down to rescue a girl that was being trampled. Then it happened? I got clocked in the back of the head with a bottle. We kept on moving, it didn?t hurt very much I thought I was fine. Panino told me I was bleeding, I still thought it was just a nick and we could go on partying. Panino started talking doctors and shortly thereafter ambulances but I thought I could shake this off. By the time I got down to the street I could tell there was a serious stream of blood flowing from the back of my head. Now I was starting to worry but I still thought I could probably patch myself up.

To add to my problems I was absolutely hammered. In case you don?t know, excess alcohol equals thinner blood equals wounds that just don?t stop flowing. Also, even relatively minor head wounds bleed profusely even when you?re not drunk. By the time we reached the cab stand I began to panic. My shirt was soaked in blood running down from my head as thoroughly as if it had been dunked in a bucket of blood and there was a puddle on the ground growing larger by the second. I needed triage and an ambulance stat. God damnit another Hollywood lie! You can?t just shake off a bottle to the head like Bruce Willis!

While I was on the street no bystanders moved to help me at all except Panino and his off duty cop friend. I took off my shirt and gave it to Panino and he tried to stop the bleeding by applying pressure. It really didn?t help and I was really starting to imagine the possibility my going to meet the Great Flying Pasta with Meatballs in the Sky.

Thank God for Panino?s connections. Little did I know but there were about 30 other walking pieces of collateral damage from the same fagster bar brawl that we just left who later arrive at the same hospital as I did, after me. Luckily Panino and his cop friend were able to arrange me an ambulance and get me to the hospital before anybody else. By the time that ambulance showed up though I would estimate I had lost 1.5 to 2 liters of blood, considering the average adult only has 5 to 6 liters that?s really a lot. I was probably right on the cusp of going into shock. I was scared that I might need major surgery or I might even die. As Charlie will later write most, people in Singapore are absolutely retarded. I felt like the entire time I had to give the ambulance crew instructions on how to care for me. ?Hey guys I?ve lost a lot of blood, how about a saline drip?? ?Hey guys I?m drunk so I?m going to be bleeding more than normal.? ?Hey guys how about checking my blood pressure?? ?Yea ok how is it?? ?Normal great.? Who was the fucking paramedic in this fucking ambulance, me or the guy wearing the uniform?

Upon arrival I was seen and attended to immediately by four semi-competent people but there were certainly some mistakes made, I think. I don?t really feel that they did anything to properly assess how much blood I had lost. I guess luckily for me it didn?t reach the threshold for shock but it had to be close. Whatever the case it turned out all I needed was some stitches but man was that a bitch because they couldn?t give me any good pain killers due to my drunkenness. I still felt that sometimes I had to be suggesting to them exactly what kind of care I needed, but they were nice enough and got me patched up relatively quickly. At the end however they made some really stupid recommendations not the least of which was tetanus shot. Maybe some people don?t know this but tetanus actually comes from dirt and is usually contracted via a deep puncture wound from a dirty object. It would be highly unlikely to contract tetanus from a slash created by a flying glass bottle that was recently sterilized by vodka or some other high alcohol content liquid. The last thing my body needed after this harrowing experience is the additional immune system stress of a fucking tetanus shot. I would expect a doctor to know this.

There was another particularly stupid hospital event before I left, instead of monitoring my heart with some serious professional equipment they were using one of those little finger thimble thingies like you find in the drug store or on your home treadmill. Those things are not always particularly accurate and via some mechanism that I don?t quite understand they often double the actual heart rate. I know this, I would expect the nurse attending to me to know this. Right as I was saying that I wanted to check out the nurse said no way your heart rate is 240. This scared the shit out of me before I realized what was really going on, I thought I was going to go into cardiac arrest in the next 30 seconds or something. However, even drunk Boris, down ~ 2 liters of blood is apparently smarter than Singaporean nurses. My first instinct was to check my own pulse using the wall clock, it was only 110 ? 120. I explained this to the nurse but he insisted on fiddling with the stupid drug store pulse machine which again reported 240-250. Two questions for this guy: 1.) If he really believed the 200+ reading was accurate why the fuck wasn?t he on the PA screaming code blue CODE BLUE?! 2.) If he knew or suspected it might be bullshit why was he not verifying it faster using the tried and true manual method plus clock?!? Seriously guys what the fuck? This isn?t Zimbabwe, this is a first world country, or so it seems to portray itself on the global stage. Don?t be fooled, they may have first world money but they have third world dumbassery.

Knowing that I probably should spend the night in the hospital but feeling like actually I dodged a bullet and would be OK I insisted on checking out. I was worried about the cost of this medical care but also about incompetence. How long could I stay in this hospital before somebody accidentally gave me Grandma Mung?s estrogen pills or removed one of my limbs due to a chart mix up. You may think it was stupid but I wanted to take my chances and get the fuck out of Singapore stat! The thing about Boris and especially Drunk Boris is that the second and third world countries treat him like a king and the first world is always trying to kill him for standing around minding his own business not bothering anybody. Maybe it?s just coincidence or bad luck or some combination thereof but I certainly don?t mind hanging out with hotter nicer women for a small fraction of the price of expensive western cities. For me it was an easy decision and the right calculated risk to take.

As I write this now I?m sitting on $140 SGD (~$116 USD) flight to greener pastures in the Phillippines. For the record $116 USD is enough in Singapore to get you a hot dog, a club entry and maybe a couple thimbles of beer just so you can talk to some obnoxious gold digging bitches. The only saving grace of Singapore is really the cool well connected dudes you can meet. I have only known Panino and Clayton for 7 days but already I feel like they are real friends. Panino probably saved my life. You may think it sounds ridiculous that I could have bled to death of a minor head wound that only required some stitches but think again. Minor as it was nobody could stop the bleeding by applying pressure, I needed a hospital or at least MacGyver with a Swiss Army Knife but he was nowhere to be found that night. If you haven?t been Singapore you have no fucking idea how slow the local people move ? it?s the speed of cold molasses all day every day. It also seems to me that the heat and the humidity there must slowly roast everyone?s brains like Ron Popeil?s rotisserie chicken cooker. I also believe that if I didn?t have the presence of mind to instruct the ambulance staff and to a lesser degree the hospital staff on how to treat me and in what order I could have lost enough blood to go into shock or pass out or both and would have had much more serious problems. Thank God for Panino, I think I owe him my life or damn near close to it. If you?re reading this, dude, thanks again. $22 beers on me next time.

And to you faggots who are too much of pussies to throw a punch and need to throw bottles and ruin innocent bystanders? nights and almost get me and a bunch of cute little Thai and Chinese girls killed, I send the biggest fuck you in the world. You guys are faggots and I hope you kill each other all off. To all of you assholes on the street who didn?t try to help me at all too. I wouldn?t piss in your mouths if your teeth were on fire, you selfish assholes.

Charlie took this picture the next day, many stitches later (internal and external). Notice how part of my scalp just got peeled away by the sideways blow from a broken bottle. Panino said he could see skull...

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Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-night-i-almost-died-in-singapore/

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Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore

Great idea to start running podcasts. Your observations on South East Asian Retardation Syndrome (Seatardation?) is hilarious and spot on, but I think it?s cause is not so much the heat and humidity but rather a ?not in the handbook? mentality. Creative thought and individuality are admirable qualities in the West: In the East they are looked upon as dangerous and subversive unless you are at the top of the food chain.

West ? ?The squeaky wheel gets the grease.?
East ? ?The nail that sticks up gets hammered down.?

Fagbagsters and ladyboys are probably necessary releases of steam from the intense Asian pressure cooker that demands everyone know their proper fucking place.

Looking forward to more podcasts and amending the travel list: Singapore

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/single-dude-radio-episode-1-singapore/

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The Single Dude?s guide to Singapore, Part Two ? The Pros

In my previous article on Singapore, I detailed the numerous drawbacks for the single dude to Singapore. Seem from that perspective, Singapore sounds terrible- high prices, gold diggers, fagbagsters, DAFFs, and retardation do not make a good single dude travel destination. But, in case you find yourself in Singapore for some reason beyond your control, don?t lose heart. You can make it work here if your skills are good and your bankroll is decent.

First of all, understand that a visit to Singapore is, in our opinion, only an acceptable idea if you?re being paid to be there. There are so many better, cheaper places to go on vacation in the region that blow Singapore out of the water, like Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, to name a few. So these pros only apply if you?re being paid to be in Singapore, and paid well at that.

Singapore is a great place to meet very nice, cool, well connected door openers. There is a lot of money in the town and some of these guys are just unbelievably stinking rich. We find that there?s a lot of cool and friendly locals with with lots of family money and connections that are very nice cool dudes. Being cool, nice and friendly and helping those guys meet a girl or two is a great way to find yourself in VIP sections of the hot clubs, private planes, yachts, islands, and so on. This is one of Boris? superpowers; where he goes he finds the money people who always seem to really take a shine to him. As I write this we?re sitting in our apartment in Manila with a live in maid that our new friends here lent to us for the next couple weeks. These guys have (as far as we know an incomplete list), a city mansion, a country mansion, a beach house, and an island. Believe us, it?s a good idea to be a cool dude and make friends with everyone you meet, you never know where it will lead you. I?ll make Boris write an article on this concept later.

Singapore also is filled with what we like to call business/banking douchebags (BBDs). We don?t like these dudes very much. They are typically lame and unfriendly Western dudes with identical striped long sleeved shirts (often with shaved heads in Singapore) who spend their days buying credit-default swaps with your grandma?s life savings, sausaging up all the clubs and buying hookers and coke. Basically they are the equivalent of the Eastern European mafia douchebags within a slightly more legal framework. Fuck those guys. The right door openers are usually not the white guys ? the right guys to make friends with in Asia are the other guys, be it Asian, Indian, or Middle Eastern.

Singapore is also remarkable for its general attitude on prostitution. Never before have I been somewhere where it is as socially acceptable to openly discuss getting a hooker. If your colleagues ask you what you did last night, it?s totally ok to say you went to one of the local hooker bars and took a girl home. No shame required. Single dude Travel generally does not condone prostitution and if you have something going for you other than being a rich BBD you shouldn?t need it.

Singapore does have more going for it than money, however. The party in Singapore is all night long and 7 days a week. Other places might be cooler and have better parties, but if you want to get down on a Sunday-Tuesday night you can do it here. There?s also a lot of hot chicks here from all over the world. Singapore is basically just one big shopping mall, so try the mall to meet chicks, and don?t forget the girls working in the shops who are just waiting to be rescued from their retail prison. Another very good option is the stewardesses. Changi airport is an incredibly busy airport with a lot of long haul flights coming and going, which means lots of overnight or even multi-day layovers, so keep your eyes out for the hordes of hot stewardesses coming in from Dubai.

Another good lead in Singapore are the cougars. With money comes trophy wives and high end prostitution. Put those together and you have a lot of hot rich divorced cougars, and a lot of hot lonely married ones. The prostitution epidemic also makes it tough for regular smart professional girls with self respect to find regular non-BBD cool nice single dudes with some class. Enter the single dude traveler. Remember with cougars, be classy, discreet, and respectful. If it?s an affair, conduct it in private.

Singapore is known as the San Francisco of Asia. That means good food and gay guys. Even the straight guys are pretty faggoty ? see Singapore Part One for our definition of the Asian Fagbagster. That means two things ? gay wingmen everywhere and girls that are just dying to meet a real man. I find there?s nothing wrong with growing a little 5 o?clock shadow and going out a little rough around the edges. I?ve even had Asian girls rub their faces on my stubble on purpose with extreme pleasure; the Asian guys generally can?t grow stubble at all.

Singapore is an international city and one of my favorite thing about the place is there?s people from all around the world here. It?s super fun to go out and meet all these people with different perspectives and experiences and talk about their lives. As Mark Twain said,

?Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one?s lifetime.

Word, bro. This is true of travelers in today?s Singapore. For example, I usually dislike French people for being lame, humorless, uptight, arrogant little prigs, but Singapore has a bunch of super cool, fun, nice French people that I got to be quite good friends with. Generally speaking, I think Americans and French people are cooler the farther away from their home countries they live.

The best thing about Singapore is its location. It?s in a super central location for exploring Southeast Asia. The airport is super close (less that 20 minutes by cab) and there?s cheap flight on discount airlines like Tiger Airways (retarded Singaporean airline), Air Asia (Malaysian), Jetstar (Australia) and many others. You can go to all of Southeast Asia for usually $100 USD each way, India is 4+ hours away, and Australia is 7. Anytime you have a weekend free you?ll save money and have a better time if you hop on a cheap flight to Thailand, Bali, or some other beach paradise and party there super cheap.

Here are some Singapore hotspots:

1. Clarke Quay (pronounced ?key? for us Yanks)- the king of Singapore nightlife, CQ has all sorts of bars and clubs fitting all descriptions of nightlife (except cheap, of course). Of special interest is Wednesday, which is Ladies? Night most places. The typical itinerary is Shot Bar for ?cheap? ($6 SGD shots), then Le Noir for $18 SGD beers, then the hot club Attica after that. Make sure you make friends with some door openers or Attica will be hard to get into as a civilian unless you get there early. Look out for flying bottles!

2. Think that Clarke Quay is too cheap? Then try Marina Bay Sands, the new casino/shopping mall megaopolis that looks like three skyscrapers with a big boat shipwrecked across the top of the three. Want to buy your gold digger girlfriend a $5000 Hermes bracelet? This is your best bet. I went to the club there called ?Ku de Ta?, (pronounced like the French coup d?etat) on a Wednesday and the view of the marina and most of Singapore was fabulous. But, my beer was $22 SGD, and it was crowded. There was a nice roped off section with tables though, and so I approached the dude manning the rope. Our conversation:

What?s up, dude?

Hello, sir, how are you this evening?

Great! Great view? So tell me how you get a table? Do you need to buy a bottle?

Yes, sir, we have a per table minimum that you must purchase.

How much is that minimum?

25.

25? 25 what?

25 hundred dollars.

Damn! And they don?t even bother to include the ?thousand? in the price. That $2500 SGD ($2100 USD) would pay your rent in a luxury condo in Manila for 4-7 months! In Singapore it gets you a table at the club on a Wednesday night with some gold diggers and maybe a couple bottles of Grey Goose with mixers. What kind of a retarded waste of money is that?

3. The Singapore Zoo is fantastic. There?s actually 3 zoos, the regular daytime zoo, the Night Safari, and the bird park. The Night Safari is particularly good for a date. What?s better than walking around in the dark stoned with a cute girl on your arm looking at all the weird dog-cat-deer hybrids, exotic sleeping birds, bats, and snakes? A little pricey, but recommended.

4. Sentosa ? The island at the southern tip of Singapore is the place to go on the weekends. The Tanjong Beach Club is the beach party place when the weather is good and a great place to meet people. Make sure to BYOB if you don?t feel like paying $48 SGD for a bucket of 4 beers all day.

5. Other clubs ? There?s lots of good boom boom clubs filled with super hot chicks all over town. My particular recommendations include Helipad on the top of the Swisshotel, Zouk (one of the top 10 clubs in the world by some ratings) and Steriolab in the Pan Pacific Hotel. This is a very incomplete list of clubs and the hot clubs are always changing, so just ask around, and have some door openers bring you along. Bring your checkbook.

6. Hooker bars ? This is a Singapore tradition ? bars filled with hookers and BBDs, tourists, trust fund kids, and regular civilians. Buying a hooker is neither necessary nor recommended. Brix in the basement of the Hyatt Hotel is a favorite with lots of shit-your-pants hot hookers and a fun scene with a great band.

The unquestioned king of the hooker bar scene is Orchard Towers. Called the ?Four Floors of Whores? by locals, it?s a shopping mall by day and a hooker bar complex by night, all night, every night, with numerous different hooker bars of every different flavors, from Thai disco to country to the ladyboy hooker bar. Be careful! Nothing good happens in Singapore after 3 AM and nothing good happens in Thai bars outside of Thailand. Don?t tell me I didn?t warn you.

Related posts:

1. The Single Dude?s Guide to Singapore, Part One ? The Cons
2. The Single Dude?s Guide to Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
3. The night I almost died in Singapore
4. Single Dude Radio Episode 1: Singapore
5. The Single Dude?s Guide to Thailand

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-singapore-part-two-the-pros/

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The Single Dude?s Guide to Singapore, Part One ? The Cons

Singapore, a tiny nation-state at the southern tip of Malaysia, is really on the rise these days. A haven for big banking and other big money businesses it is quickly, along with Hong Kong, turning into the economic powerhouse of Southeast Asia. Shit is happening there, skyscrapers are going up all over the place and people are immigrating from all over the region (and the world) to get in on the party.

With that in mind, I went to Singapore for an extended period this summer and I have a lot to say about it. There?s great party there and an enormous number of hot chicks, but despite those advantages Singapore is absolutely not a recommended single dude travel destination.

The first reason is the cost. Singapore is a super expensive place. The first night I was there I went to the bar and ordered a pint of local brew on draft, Tiger Beer. My cost? $18 SGD ($15 USD). That was at a somewhat fancy place and prices at super high end places can be as high as $25 SGD ($21 USD). Add this to the club entrance fees which can often be $30 SGD and up and you can easily spend a couple hundred bucks going out on a weekend night and not even get drunk.

I personally prefer cheaper places where you don?t have to call your broker to sell your investments in order to go out and party, places where you can go out freely without worrying that you?re going to spend your whole paycheck on mediocre Southeast Asian beer. To party well and survive financially in Singapore you have be smart about it. My Singapore nightlife survival strategy includes several tricks to take the edge off the high drink prices:

1. Duty Free ? Every time you come into Singapore from abroad (except from Malaysia, nothing is allowed) you must bring booze from Duty Free. This will save you lots of money over the store price and enormous amounts over the bar price. Unfortunately the duty-free allowance is only 1 bottle of booze (1 liter), 1 bottle of wine (750 ml), 3 bottles of beer (330 ml each), and no cigarettes. If you bring a second bottle of anything you must pay a tax of $70 SGD ($55 USD) or risk a big fine if you?re caught. They will also fine you a shitload if you are seen with even one pack of foreign cigarettes without the import sticker (even if it?s only a partial pack and you opened it before you arrived), so just quit smoking already or get ready to pay $12 a pack for your cancer sticks.

2. Predrinking ? Never go out sober. Have a little predrinking party at your place with your duty free booze or at least cheap beer from 7-11 before you go out and make sure you are pretty drunk when you arrive at the club.

3. Networking ? Singapore is full of cool rich trust fund kids and other door openers, if you?re a cool single dude one might take you under his wing, get you into clubs and start letting you drink his bottle service. Be cool, let him offer a drink first, don?t ask for it. Buying a cheap happy hour drink for one of those guys can often pay off in spades.

4. Flasking ? Singapore is a super safe place, Boris? experience notwithstanding, so they won?t pat you down when you get to the club. That?s good, because I always bring a flask or water bottle filled with vodka or some other high proof spirit with me to the club and then add that to ice or my rare $15 purchased drink.

5. Happy Hours ? Singapore has some pretty good deals (by Singapore standards) for happy hour, like buy one get one drinks, cheap jugs of beer, etc. When possible do your drinking there and then have a chick over for the real party at your place in lieu of going out.

6. Chinatown, Food courts, and Hawker Stalls ? For food, this is the way to go. Why pay a shitload for bad service at a real restaurant when you can get cheap delicious food at the mall food court or hawker stall and pick up chicks while you?re there? That?s what the non-millionaire locals do for food in Singapore and it?s a much better option.

Everything is expensive in Singapore, especially housing. Since it?s such a small country, apartments and hotels are quite expensive. Taxis are OK, although it seems like there?s a surcharge pretty much for everything ? rush hour surcharge, night surcharge, city center surcharge, airport, etc. You?re better off taking the MRT (Metro) and buses which are everywhere and cheap. Get a $7 SGD ($5.50 USD) rechargeable card for $12 SGD ($10 SGD) and refill as necessary with the pocketfuls of change you will accumulate everywhere.

The second major problem with Singapore are the local chicks. I have been around much of the world and so far the Singaporean girls are the worst gold diggers I?ve ever met. They say there that all the Singaporean chicks are looking for the ?5 Cs? in a man- cash, credit cards (which are apparently hard to get there), fancy car, condo, and career. Missing one of the aforementioned Cs is grounds for immediate disqualification by these gold diggers. The normal way that I like to meet chicks ? ?Hi! (smile)? does not seem to work on a Singaporean chick like it works on a Dutch chick ? she?ll often give you a weird forced-half smile and then just turn her back to you. Bitch! The only technique that we?ve found that seems to work is to find a mixed group of Singaporeans and talk to the guys in the group while ignoring the chicks until the chicks start to take an interest in you. Then you can meet the girls. Overall I say it?s not worth the trouble. If she doesn?t like you right away she probably won?t really work that great as a partner anyway.

But don?t lose heart, there?s plenty of other chicks in town. Just like Kuala Lumpur, as a center of business there are chicks from all over the region in town trying to make it, and if they haven?t been infected with the goldiggerism like the Latina girls in Miami are after a couple months you have a good chance to make it work with the foreign chicks.

Another problem with Singapore is that it?s a sausagefest. All the upscale clubs are just filled with douchey Western business-banker types on expense accounts wearing long sleeve striped shirts, if you are making progress with a chick at a club and you leave her alone for a couple minutes, be ready to find her just absolutely surrounded by DAFF English guys when you get back. This is another good reason to focus on meeting girls during the day in Singapore.

The Singaporean guys, oh my. Nice dudes, but there are so many fagbagsters there. For those unfamiliar, here?s the Single dude Travel definition:

Fagbagster ? A relatively new species currently very common in Asia, the fagbagster combines the douchebag quality of self-primping with the pussyness of hipsters, all sewed up in a handy effeminate Asian package. Complete with man-purse, eyliner, frosted tips and Zoolander face pout, the fagbagster is populous and growing in number, especially in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China and God knows where else in Asia. Foreign correspondents, please report back about the other Asian countries.

Or buddy Art Pfister, who has lived there for years detailed for us one of the most common techniques of the Singaporean fagbagster when he picks up a girl. He walks up to a Singaporean girl and shyly asks for her phone number. Then, after she gives it to him, because he?s Singaporean and nonthreatening, he walks away to a different part of the bar and flirts with her via text messages. What a faggot move! But apparently it works, because we see a lot of hot chicks with fagbagsters around town.

One last problem with Singapore is the retardation of the locals. Maybe it?s the heat, but the Singaporean brains just don?t work in the same way that yours and mine work. Expect very bad, slow service, and a complete lack of ability by the locals to make decisions independently or to engage in abstract thought. Blank stares and incomprehensible ?Singlish? are the norm and you must be prepared to wait forever for your change at bars. Singaporean society has a very top-down command structure so the rank-and-file people are not asked to think for themselves. Even the simplest request that is not by-the-book will be met with stupefaction and a ?can not lah? by the locals. Need something at a restaurant or bar? Just get it for yourself and you?ll save 15 minutes. Have a different idea that will be mutually beneficial? Just keep it to yourself unless you?re talking the president of the company.

So that?s a lot of badmouthing of Singapore for one article. I could go on for another 1500 words on the topic, but I think those are the major points. My next article will be on the pros of the place, of which there are several, and where to go if you do find yourself there. Not all hope is lost for the single dude in Singapore, but it?s definitely a high-difficulty location for experts only.

Boris adds:

Unless someone is paying you to be there, there is absolutely no reason to go!

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5. The night I almost died in Singapore

Source: http://www.singledudetravel.com/2011/08/the-single-dudes-guide-to-singapore-part-one-the-cons/

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