Was it a psyop in the end? Cannot imagine the fun of going to a crowded smelly building in the dark, paying unreasonable surcharge for drinks, and getting rejected by girls for the night.Some people actually factor in "nightlife" when deciding where to live in the future.
>>2848258It was fun when I was an idiot in my early 20s, now I hate it.
>go to clubs>figure out which people with tables get no huzz>chat them up and mooch liquor off them>try to "wingman" them(get them to buy me and foids drinks)>drink for free all nightfeels good to be a nefarious unc
>>2848399this. btw your wife went to clubs and has had 10+ one night stands.
>>2848399I'm not Chad but a cute girl kissed me a nightclub a couple years ago so I chase that high every time I go out. She just pulled me onto her face, I don't have the balls to approach women so it hasn't happened since
>>2848258It's fun to explore nightclubs in a new city with random hostel friends
>literally fucking dies
>>2854424just like they ruined the malls, and going to the movies, and going to theme parks, and....
>>2854180you sound like you get no pussy
>>2843227Peak dog shit boomer vacation and complete waste of an actual trip.>show up>know the whole purpose is to lose money >hehe thats the fun part dude just spend your money!>boomer throws a $8000 vacation to taiwan/japan/china/europe into some billionaires hands>fuck that was fun anon why didnt you spend any money?People at my work tell me they are going on a vacation these days and I cant even be bothered to ask where.Its either Mexico, Cuba, Jamaica or Vegas.>What are you gonna do there?>get fucked up and chill by the pool in the sun while you are here where its coldComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Is it actually dying or just slow down of growth.?
>>2854679>Is it actually dying or just slow down of growth.?you forgot to throw in a saar to really land it
I'm at this airbnb that i booked for almost 3 weeks, the host was really nice, but the place is honestly shit. It has this odd lingering smell that i can't stand, and its dirty despite reviews saying it was clean. The room is cold, the shower water is barely warm. The bed has hairs and tiny bugs in it. The area around the hotel is also full of junkies and crazy people. I feel so uncomfortable here. It says i can cancel and get a partial refund, i've only been here for 2 days so I would get like 80% back whcih i would use to book a hotel like Marriot or Hilton for a week and get smashed. Do I just hit the cancel button, leave the keys and bail without saying a word?? is there anything the host can do to come after or charge me extra money. I'm never coming back to this town again (it's fucking awful as well) and will probably never use airbnb again.
>>2854649don't hesitate, get out and report the host to airbnb, take lots of pictures as proof and communicate as the other poster said, you need to stand up for yourself sometimes, shitty hosts are a blight
>>2854649>The bed has hairs and tiny bugs in it.take a bunch of pictures/videos and then get the fuck out.
>>2854649Brother, the moment you see bed bugs, get the fuck out. Crime and junkies are bad but bed bugs are worse. They have some weird effect where you'll wake up months or even years from now, panicking and thinking that they're biting you. They wreck your brain.Cancel and get the refund. There's a good chance those bugs will get inside your luggage, and if that happens, you're fucked for life. They're harder to get rid of than cockroaches. They're resistant to basically any poison and they can hibernate without food for a full fucking year.
This happened to me twice in a year with airbnb, this is why I no longer use the app. Hotels are safer, cheaper, and there's less bullshit drama like this.Also bedbugs are worse than your worst nightmare, strongly consider burning everything you have with you and don't take it home with you, trust me it will be FAR CHEAPER to replace what you're traveling with than to deal with a bedbug infestation at your home.
>>2854668You just move out if that happens. Move, leave all your shit on the curb (wrap it in plastic so the city doesn't ticket you for spreading those things), check into a hotel, get clothes delivered from amazon, keep them in a sealed bag, put your old clothes in a plastic bag, take a shower, put on the new clothes without touching any of your old shit, and take your bagged old stuff to the garbage chute.
Are the best places to travel, locations out of your own country?
You can find interesting locations to visit within your own country, but 99% of the time it's a lot easier to just pick another country. The novelty of exoticism is hard to beat.
>>2854621more exotic, warmer and cheaper, so yes
>>2854621A lot of people visit Canada for our mountains and lakes, I feel as though Canada is big enough it's excellent at most, master of none. There's always a country that does it better than Canada, but if you have 3 weeks to a month, it's a good place to see it all. You can see the majority of it in between Alberta and BC for mountains and lakes, and SK for lakes and forests.Or just go to BC and experience a very good version of it all.
>>2854621It does have the benefit of no immigration hassles. A lot less jetlag if any. If you decided you really liked the place moving there is a tenable idea. Staying domestic is very underrated on /trv/.
What are your predictions about the state of travel in the coming years? Do you see a decline or rise of normies continuing trends of mass tourism? From personal observations it seems like alot of zoomies who have disposable income are jetsetting, while there is a noticable decline in boomer places like Vegas. People were doomposting about indians and chinese taking over the gaps but there are definitely less of them in numbers in places I frequent, barring uberjeets and low service workers. I feel like even last year I noticed way more of my normie social feeds flooded with travel posts (le going to japan omg quirky midlife crisis, reels about china, girls going to thailand for yoga etc), now I rarely see or hear from any of my circles about trips they have been on or are planning. It seemed that there was a peak after Coof blue balls but now it has reached below the baseline, based off the overall vibes I see and observe. Iirc thailand numbers were also down this year. Hell I even see less doomposts here about sexpest spots being overrun with weekend warrior asians and young chads.
>>2848570You and every single other zoomer is doing that, apparently. It's the ultimate NPC destination.
>>2852408>ultimate NPC destinationWhich makes it ultra-comfy if you just want to go around doing your own thing, no interaction with other people apart from goods & services transactions. Other people might as well be a bunch of automatons; they do their thing and you do yours.>>2852335>culturally toxicYeah, like a bunch of alcoholic whoremongering boomers were somehow wholesome and beneficial visitors compared to Chinese tourcattle.>>2852364My first month overseas for this travel season is looking to wrap up at $1180 USD. This includes the cost of tourist visa and 13500 km of flying to the other side of the world, and represents the fruits of 59 hours of labor. That's barely over seven workdays of menial seasonal labor. But yeah, go ahead and tell me how travel has gotten more expensive than it used to be in terms of a laborer's wages. What a crock of shit. So many tards here like to spout off as if they were worldly wise Real Travelers, but I've been active here long enough to see the truth. You are regurgitating some propaganda you've read on this board or heard from some yappity YouTube faggot. It's not your lived experience, and you have no way to verify its truthfulness. But you repost it anyway.
>>2852335This is what happens when you never leave the basement and get all your information about the outside world from /pol/.
>>2852336>Western tourists not even being able to get visas for other Western counties.Wut?
>>2847145>make 98% more money than anyone else in my country>anywhere I go I can completely avoid shell shocked jet lagged fuck tard tourists>still choose to enjoy the tourist experience in most countries I visitYou're a tourist, you're not some super /trv/eler. You're literally part of the problem so quit being a faggot and get with it. Be the least offensive American piece of shit you can be and keep pretending to be Canadian and enjoy.
First time travelling to Vietnam, planning on going for about little more than 2 weeks, between mid/late February to early March. (I believe it might be chaos during Tet) I've started looking online at places, I've been considering to stay in the southern area, I heard its war during the specified period. Someone recommended Phu Quoc for the tropical beaches/island vibe, but I keep seeing reviews online saying the beaches are full of trash and rats. Should I go to Con Dao instead? I heard its quieter overall. I'm not a young buck any more, I don't care about going to nightclubs, but I don't want it to be a ghost town at night time. For example, last year I went to the Philippines, Coron was quieter overall compared to El Nido, but after 9pm it was dead, at least El Nido had something going on in the evenings. Any additional advice is welcome
What is this state like? Whats the culture like? Please tell me some fun things to do in Delaware, for someone without a car.
This just made it occur to me that I have never met someone from, or ever heard anything about Delaware. Truly a mystery state
Southern Delaware (Rehoboth Beach to Fenwick Island) has beaches. Central Delaware has Dover, the state capital. North Delaware has Wilmington which is just a suburb of Philadelphia. LSD (Lower Slower Delaware) is more country and conservative vs. the north but Rehoboth Beach is full of LGBT. Other than that Delaware is just an amalgamation of Pennsylvania and Maryland without the mountains.
>>2854552Wait a couple years and you'll get the Joe Biden presidential library. Until then, Nemours Estate is pretty top tier neat if you're into gilded age mansions, and Wilmington is a nice peaceful town. Other than that, there is genuinely no reason to ever visit Delaware unless you already happen to be in the area for some other reason. Actually if you live in PA, NJ, MD area, a lot of people like to go shopping in Delaware due to no sales tax, so it has that going for it as well.
>>2854559I was thinking of taking a big trip to north carolina to philadelphia and stopping at delaware along the way
>>2854558This sums it up.But the state is the opposite of others in that its not a great place to visit but I wouldn't mind living there.
Adam The Woo has gone on adventures for you and he didn't even ask your mom if you wanted to see his zany journies you would go to Adam The Woo.comAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWSSSSHHHHHHHHHHHHIIIIIIIITTTTT SSSOOONN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1974-2025
>>2854141he had an onlyfans girlfriend who was a regular in his videos
>>2854154Did she really have an OF or do you mean she just looked/acted the type?
>>2854158no she had an onlyfans... her onlyfans was posted many times online and trolls talked about her in his comments and on other sites. I think she dropped the OF after she was getting alot of shit cause adam had her in his videos so people were hatin on her as well. she used the name daphne del ray or some shit I dont remember i never went to OF to bother to care
>>2854158ok it was daphne del rey was her OF name
>>2854163this reeks of patheticness, in so many ways.
I don't see a lot of threads about south America, Africa on /trv/.Brazil dominates the continent, is it geographically isolated or can you go through Brazil in transit back and forth? Does anyone transit Guyana through the Brazil land border? How far can you actually get up the Amazon and is that a viable route?When it's the tourist season, which places to normie Americans ruin?How's the place doing currency wise, is Venezuela back on the itinerary?
>>2854604Then you are better off going to BA as much as I don't like admitting.Brazil doesn't have much of an underground art/music scene but you'll find plenty of artfags in BA
>>2854604>Brazil doesn't have much of an underground art/music scene but you'll find plenty of artfags in BAOh shit does it not? Thought Sao Paulo was pretty big for that sort of thing
>>2854607Also howcomes you're not into BA?
>>2854613Because I've been there and I hated it.The people are rude, everything is expensive and obnoxiously bourgeois
>>2854618Fair enough, anywhere else you'd recommend instead?
>You requested to book Anon's listing>Your trip is not confirmed yet. Anon has 24 hours to respond to your request.
>>2854257I have Instant Booking on so this rarely happens
>>2854309its hard to find rural listings with thatand the crazier hosts tend to not have instant booking and act like airbnb is their personal penal system to impose a huge laundry list of inane neurotic rules about minor details of their basement or garage apartment
A GERMAN BITCH WHO STAYED AT MY PLACE JUSG 2 DAYS AGO LEFT ME A 4 STAR REVIEW REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
Want to do a solo tripJust turned 25, I’m balding and single and lowkey don’t have a whole lot exciting going on. I am a military officer and have saved up to take about a week of leave starting the last week of march. I’ve decided to do a solo trip ala Russillo.I’m not going abroad to try and hook up with a girl in a bar (but not totally opposed if it happens and there’s a genuine emotional connection), mainly just looking for an interesting experience but also to go somewhere more obscure than the average tourist.I live on the East Coast of the US. My first choice was gonna be somewhere in Mexico since I speak pretty good gringo Spanish but after recent events I don’t think that’d be approved by my chain of command, along with anywhere else in Latin America with the exception of maybe Argentina. I deployed to Asia and the Middle East and loved it there, but don’t really feel like flying that far. Caribbean I’m going to say is a no-go because it’s going to be spring break. So I guess that leaves me with going to either Europe or somewhere in Africa. I’d like to go to Spain but like, it’s just going to be completely mobbed with Americans then and I want to do something a little more adventurous. I listened to the entire Iceland podcast and thought it sounded neat, but what if I get there and get bored??I have a ton of credit card points so the flight anywhere would be free, and I’m only out for a week so the budget is kinda irrelevant. I’m not looking to stay in a five star resort, just looking for a private hotel room with clean sheets lol.Any of you guys have advice?
>>2854364Go to turkey and get your hair transplant done now while you still have a good foundation to work with. You cannot be career officer and also be bald. You know that.
>>2854430Instead of Costa Rica, wouldn't it be better to see Puerto Rico?>geographically close>US colony>many speak english>everyone speaks spanish>tropical island>rainforest, dancing, bars
>>2854364Argentina and Patagonia.
>>2854466> You cannot be career officer and also be bald.> You know that.What?
Morocco is my favorite place for choose-your-own-adventure solo travel, hiking or dirtbiking or whatever. Not to say the cities aren't touristy as shit, they are.
Moved here a couple months ago, and it'd been hard meeting any expats that are like me. They all seem really performative and uptight. I feel like a normal dude out of place and moved here so I could live a nice life on the cheap in a beautiful country around nice safe people. Figured I'd come to 4chan, my old stomping grounds seeing if anybody similar wanted to meet up.https://discord.gg/3HAh6Em2w
No offense but I don’t come to Bangkok to hang out with a bunch of stinky farangs.
>>2853766>coomers hate Vietnamwtf are you talking about? it's everywhere in nam, just not as open, theres that whole road of blowjob parlours and japantown but otherwise you have to actually look for it
I'll be in Bangkok in April before Songkran. Will you be around?
Never been to Bangkok so I can't offer any actionable advice, but I was thinking about it for ages and my Youtube feed is full of people vlogging about their lives in Bangkok, hyping it up as this affordable place where you can reinvent yourself and make lifelong friends with likeminded peopleBut I've noticed that all these vloggers are the same, not bad people or anything but just really normie and consumerism oriented (focus on condo tours and new mall openings). From afar it looks like the lines between the commercial and the cultural are often blurred in Bangkok too (creative spaces in malls, a lot of art is just kitschy slop). I got put off it because it felt very normie and I figured I'd get lonely out there, I could be wrong though
>>2854585>muh normiesi've got news for you anon, if you're really that bothered about what other people think or do, to the extent that it stops you living your own life and experiencing things yourself and forming your own opinions.... the biggest "normie" is you
>Your plans for the coming year>Your dreams for the coming year
>plansA month in Thailand mid year, a month in Vietnam end of year.>dreamsMeet a Vietnamese sugar mommy and get a green card marriage.
>>2854379I'm going to Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, Serbia, Kosovo, and Macedonia. Really hope I kiss some girls in the hostels
>>2854379I am going to Japan for a few months starting in May. Gonna bum around in hostels and live off of strong zero and onigiri. I'm just hoping my Japanese has improved enough since going last time.
>>2854379>traveling to a few new countries>traveling to Antarctica
I'm going to Brazil, and I have a long layover in Panama City. From my research, Panama looks a hell of a lot more interesting than where i am going (Goiania).
How much effort do you put into learning language for travel?In particular:1) how much time do you spend learning it and how long before your trip do you start learning2) have you found the effort you put into it to be worthwhile (especially nowadays with translate apps bing pretty good)3) what is your main intention with learning the language 4) if the language is difficult for Westerners (i.e. an Asian language like Thai) do you put less effort into it and just stick to the very basics5) when your trip is over do you continue practicing the language
>>2853580>$110/month rentProbably not great.
>>2853817For languages I'm just trying to cram before a trip, I pirate the Michel Thomas course, which teaches all the grammar you need to know pretty painlessly. Then I start with Pimsleur level 2 or 3 which is a good way to build vocab. Flashcards can be useful but understand the difference between having an active vocabulary vs a passive one (words you have memorized, but are inaccessible during conversation). Ask chatgpt to quiz you on how to say stuff.My approach to become really proficient over time is basically all of the above, plus a fuckton of comprehensible input vids/podcasts, plus paying online teachers to chat with me.>>2853713I have a lot of respect for people who are good at this. You are right to stress the importance of extra-verbal communication. But if you can do this AND learn a language, why wouldn't you?
Depends on how many people learn the language as a second language. So Chinese, a billion people speak it, but they're all Chinese people and mostly in China. It's of no value when speaking to someone who is not Chinese. Spanish, not many people in Spain, but a lot of south America speaks Spanish, it's not an uncommon second language in Europe and America, it has value when speaking to Portuguese speakers, some value to English, French, Italian speakers. AND, nationals of any other county, they might have learned Spanish to speak to any of the aforementioned.You're far more likely to find a African who speaks Spanish, then an African who speaks mandarin. They might have learned Spanish in Europe, but that means they can talk to you as a Spanish esl.And that's why English rules the world, so many people learned it already as a second language that esl English is the most widely spoken language almost everywhere on earth, and those who refuse to learn, typically there's a political reason and they suffer badly for it. So you see it's not really about how many primary speakers the language has, it's about how many secondary. Tertiary speakers. I've been up mountains and yelled at people in English, they didn't understand. OK, regional languages. French, Spanish Russian. One of them yelled back in Spanish. They weren't Spanish, they were from south America and spoke Portuguese. Fuk. So someone who speaks Portuguese, broken Spanish, can communicate with someone, not English, who is fluent in English as a second language, so can understand at least some Spanish. That's right at the thin end, but it illustrates the value of bridging language barriers. Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2853580I learn:Hello, goodbye, please, thank you, excuse me, sorry & toilet.Sorry is useful for when I break cultural norms without realizing like a retard.
>>2854412As someone who speaks zero Spanish, I actually relied on Chinese a LOT in Central America, because every general store and asian restaurant are chinese-owned.
>decide to go carry on+backpack only after years of checking a bag>suddenly realize I can't bring booze from cheap places to expensive places(fuck you norway)>have to spend extra time constantly rolling and rubber banding my shit into my suitcase>the quality shampoo I use post workout and sticks of deodorant can't be brough on (fuck you asia 'deodorant')>instead of having about 30% of space left over for trinkets and souvenirs I basically have none>half the time on Air Asia they have to check my bag because they ran out of room>nothing to separate bag from the ground so it's always picking up whatever is on the floor/bench/etc>8 more months of this>At least I saved 15 minutes at the airport waiting for my bag! But seriously what the fuck, do people who do this shit only stick to one climate year-round or something? That's the only way I can see you having enough space to pack easily and meet size limitations for carry-on/personal items. I don't feel like I overpack either, just 8 day's worth of clothing+ some khacki's+jeans and a coat for colder climates. Am I doing something wrong or are all these /one bag/ or carry on only fags simply just not spending much time traveling.
>>2848705I travel 8-9 months at a time>laptop + USBc screen + HDMI(nice to hook up to TV's)>tablet for backup device if laptop shits itself>2 cellphones primary w/ banking and work data and phone number/secondary for out and about shit>2 usb c chargers>external battery(20kmah) w/ 65w output>3 pairs of pants>4 pairs of shorts>5 t shirts>3 long sleeves>5 pairs of boxers>2 pairs of workout clothes w/ spare shoes>electric razor/trimmer>ice tray and sporkComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>2848461>one carry one>one checked>backpack inside checked for shopping and hikesHonestly this is perfect for me, plenty of room to bring shit back and I can get two bags to and from the hotel easy enough.
>>2848944>checkednow, checkem.
>>2848692>Now you're stuck taking a hired car to go even 2 km because your shit's too heavy to carryNo I just leave my stuff at the airbnb/hotel. If I want to take a 1-2 night trip somewhere I just take my backpack and leave the rest of the stuff at my main base.The clothes that are dirty for 3 weeks are only the clothes that were worn at the beginning. The average is like 1.5 weeks
>>2848461What about using a sling pack with some compacted small items? Shampoo, cond I just buy it at the area, not worth the hassle. Deodorant I use a cream one that I jam pack into 1 to 3x 50ml bottles (they count 100ml max per bottle, but you can still pass with 10x 90ml ones no problem. Go figure.)Having those thermal suits help out on cloths reduction. I wear my sweater or tie it around my waist. You can be crafty and put 2 inside each other to look like one and tie them around your waist.I've always wondered about those backpacks that have a suction function to compress it all, but you'd need a small portable one to make it work. If you're going to a cold place then you can layer during the flight. Hot places it's thinner clothes.
