When traveling abroad, would you go to a club alone?

Question

I usually travel overseas at least once or twice a month. Usually its somewhere in Europe. I typically go alone and stay in Hostels. Normally I can meet some friends in my hostel and go places with them, but when I don't, sometimes I go to bars and clubs alone.

Do you think this is OK?

Would you ever do it?

Any tips for meeting people there?

I've had some luck in Dublin and Prague meeting people in clubs, but would like some tips if you have any.

I figure that I'm 4000+ miles from home, even if I look like an idiot, no one will ever see me again.

Your opinions?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

For the record, I'm not really a club dude unless I'm in London and I'm staying out late - I'll got his some places in Camdentown.  If your traveling alone - I have to recommend pubs or bars.  Pubs all over the UK are great - actually found them more friendly then some Irish towns - In Ireland, Galway is the one place you can go to a bar and meet people, I found Dublin not to be so friendly.

Amsterdam is another place you can got alone and have a good time.  I've met many American ex-pats in the coffee houses and bars in the redlight district.  You would be surprised (smoking pot in a bar with a CFO of a major US Company - in fact happened to me).  You will meet a lot of business people in Amsterdam to - I've gone out a few times and someone's Corporate Card picked up the bill.  That's something you don't find in a club.

My personality is totally geared for the pub/bar.  Down in Sydney, the bars are great too - much better then the clubs.  Then again - if your in your element - clubs could be your thing.  I've spent hours at bars around the world drinking with locals who hook you up with "good things" to do, not the tourist c**p.  I mean wouldn't you want to know where you get grab the best fish and chip or fight it out with a German tourist getting on a tour bus or waiting on line at a McDonalds.

Rule NUMBER 1 when traveling in Europe.  Stay away from the German tourists.  They are like rats who carry the plague - they are a real pain in the ***.  In Germany, it's different - my sister (a very attractive 35 year old single girl) had a blast traveling by herself in Germany.  She went during Octoberfest and the German locals were totally protective of her - the guys made sure she got home and made sure that Eastern European blockhead left her alone (even the German girls were helping her - for the record, there were different groups of guys who watched out for her, and she said that there girlfriends were with them).  That kind of made feel good because that's something I always do when I meet people from other countries (I lived in NYC and now Miami) - I figure I would feel bad if I read the next day that 2 tourists were killed while walking off the subway in the South Bronx.

Funny story my Aussie friends told me.  When they visited NYC, they got lost and ended up in the Bronx.  A couple of black guys in the park came over to them and as they started to give them a hard time - picked up on there accents.  Once they realized they were Aussie's and lost - the native NY'ers totally changed there attitudes.  Turns out the black guys (were talking about the Bronx - so I'm not trying to racists) asked them if they were lost, told them they shouldn't be here and literally walked them to the subway - into the subway station and phyisically put them on the 4 train going back to Manhattan.  I'm telling - New York City is by far the friendliest city in the world - and it's not even close.

Answer 2

i always travel alone and have no trouble going out alone or meeting people.  its easier being a woman.  guys will always come up and talk to me and its easier for them to approach someone who is alone.

Answer 3

in this day and age, nope would not go alone, I travel a lot overseas too.  Need a wingman just in case