high crime rate compared to scandinavia lots of drunks and junkies in the streets

>>2899325
Okay, I was just in Bosnia, Kosovo, and Macedonia so I think I can handle it.
Also everywhere has a high crime rate compared to Scandinavia

>>2899316
I am going to Vilnius in a month - did Tallinn and Riga 2 years ago and loved them. Tallinn is a bit more pricey and touristy, but is really incredible. Feels so medieval. I'd do a second day there desu and shave a night off Riga. Riga btw was 10/10, but isnt massive so 4 days would be fine. I did 3 and felt that I saw most of what I wanted to see. Value wise Riga and Vilnius seem to be the best. Just stay near the old towns and public transport will not even be needed - these cities are tiny.
In Tallinn there is this cool medieval restaurant tourist trap - still worth it. The best art museum in town is a 30-40 min walk from old town but is in a gorgeous park area and is in an old palace. Very much worth the time to go. This is why I said youll want two days, as the 1 will just be you rushing around old town.
Riga, definitely visit the library and hit a museum or two. The house of the Black heads was pretty cool, but so is their main Art museum. Idk what this guy is talking about safety, it feels safer than many parts of Sweden and Oslo as there are zero browns. The relatively high homicide rate (still low) is literally just from drunk russians who kill each other when they drink. Just avoid drunken russians and youre fine.

>>2899385
Thank you anon
I planned so much time in Riga for a few reasons. 2 of my days there will be spent elsewhere in Latvia, it seems like it has the best daytrip options of the 3 capitals. I really want to see some castles and cute towns, especially Cesis Castle and Kuldiga.
Also, I'll probably be hungover on a couple of those days, and I'll need to get up early to do the day trips, so I need more time to ensure there are a couple nights of taking it easy while still having some crazy nights.
Vilnius is bigger than Tallinn so I budgeted two days there, but I'd be more willing to shave a day off there. But I need to do more research before making the decision.
Also, I can go back to Tallinn one day easier than the other two since I'm likely going to do a Sweden + Finland trip in the future.
I'd have like 8 hours of daylight in Tallinn to explore it if I arrive at 11:30 am.
Anyway, that's all my autistic justification for the itinerary in it's current state, but I'm still open to more feedback.
Do you remember the name of the medieval restaurant and art museums?

>>2899439
I spent a month touring the Baltics in march and April, Tallinn was my favorite, Tartu was chill. Estonia has very unique architectural and color style just check out how they blend old wooden and new metal apartment building s. Check out the Estonian children's literature center in Tallinn , free, for ten minutes for a sense of their folklore and the town hall pharmacy also free.

I also really liked Kaunas, a college town just fabulous to see so many young white people . And Klaipeda was nice too. So easy to get around by train everywhere there's just one track, one of the last parts of Europe without ethnic littering but they already have plans for importing 1 million subhumans to kill off the locals so visit now

I'm from Latvia. There's not a lot of things to see in Riga. All the highlights can be seen in a day.
Sigulda is nice, Kuldīga is ever better.
Ventspils is even prettier than Rīga.

>>2899316
You should switch that schedule up. 5 days in Vilnius, 2 in tallinn, and 1 in Riga.

The "nightlife" in Riga is basically go to a bar and get charged for phantom drinks and held by the bouncers until you pay for stuff you didn't order. Vilnius is a much less scammy place with super friendly locals. Tallinn is nice too but people mainly speak Russian as a second language rather than English so it's more difficult to make friends

Make sure to enjoy the blonde housekeepers, the blonde girls serving hotel breakfast and the all blonde McDonald's staff. Last of it's kind

Isn't this just poor Russians who wish they were Europeans and not mongoloids?

>>2899485
>Make sure to enjoy the blonde housekeepers, the blonde girls serving hotel breakfast and the all blonde McDonald's staff. Last of it's kind
I saw that in Queensland Australia. Coming from America I was shocked.

>>2899385
You mean you visited Tallinn and Riga. You didn't 'do' them. People need to stop using such a word incorrectly. Its frustrating and demeaning to the people of these countries, as it implies to 'do' their major cities means to see a couple mainstream tourist destinations when in reality you would have to talk to every single individual and go inside every single building, know every bird and bee that passes through the land. To have 'done' a place.

>>2899772
You're being incredibly pedantic. It's just a way of saying he visited them.

>>2899316
People always sleep on Estonia, but I find it to be the prettiest of the three. One more day in Tallinn would do it justice if you ask me, but that's just my opinion. In any case, if you've made your mind up, you'll still have a good time, Riga and Vilnius are fun cities too. If the weather's nice you can do a day trip from Vilnius to Trakai, an old castle in the middle of a lake. You can (or you could a few years ago at least) rent a pedal boat and pedal your way around the castle and onto the small islands around it. Most fun with mates of course.

>>2899952
If I speak basic Russian and Polish am I good in all 3 if people don’t communicate in English? I don’t know if I can learn phrases for every single language

>>2899973
Learn English and you can travel anywhere

>>2899973
I found that English was not a problem at all for vast majority of the people, especially younger. All of the previous USSR satellite states now teach their kids English in school not Russian, and all know English is a vehicle to some very lucrative non EE gigs

>>2900120
Baltics were more English friendly than Poland IME.
>>2899459
In summer I didn't notice any particular youthfulness in Kaunas. But they do have some lovely walkable streets. Lithuania is peak comfy, but you see quite a few young guys who are clearly unhappy lonely incels wandering around aimlessly in public. Girls in Poland are prettier. The hostels up that way were more like shared apartments with some dorm rooms and some private rooms. People didn't seem very sociable with strangers. Uber jeets are a common sight in all those Baltic cities. The modern parts of the cities feel American, everything glass fronted and overpriced as fuck.

>>2900157
>People didn't seem very sociable with strangers

Got the same vibe, had lots of people staring at me with looks of disapproval like I was a circus freak and had some guy walk up to me in a library in Finland and say in English "you are extremely rude" and immediately walk away, perhaps because I set my bag down on the seat next to me.

>>2900197
Staring? Nah. I'm a basic unstylish white guy with a neutral expression; hardly anybody in LT looked at me for more than half a second - and that was only because I was looking at every person I passed by like I always do. Yeah if you're exotic in appearance you might get more attention, why not use it to your advantage? But it sounds more like your mannerisms made people feel unsafe. I did see a few mentally ill people in LT, including one woman in Kaunas who had dragged a broken suitcase around for so long that the entire corner was ground away and clothes were dragging on the pavement.

>>2900197
>had some guy walk up to me in a library in Finland and say in English "you are extremely rude" and immediately walk away
probably just a schizo. he sounds based though

>>2900197
>had some guy walk up to me in a library in Finland and say in English "you are extremely rude" and immediately walk away
Kek

>>2899316
Just realized how much Lithuania looks like a compressed Africa lmao

>>2899439
Visit motor museum in Riga, especially, if cars are your thing. Old town is all good and dandy, but if good beer for better value and seeing any locals in the place is your thing, look at creative, artsy spaces outside of old town. There are plenty of those around.

>>2899316
I really don't get why you'd want to come here. we're just a bunch of generic post soviet shitholes.

>>2900896
yeah & our flag has tribal colors & our favorite sport is basketball.

In not a sex tourist way, what are the chances of hooking up with someone, how's the nightlife, or is it similar to russia where they all have princess syndrome?

>>2902189
Incel vibes

>>2902189
we're richer than russians. everyone's cold. being white or having height doesn't matter because we have them. basically, you'll have to simp & show you have money.

>>2902189
>what are the chances of hooking up with someone
If you have to ask

>>2902163
I've never been to a post soviet country before. You're retarded if you think you're generic, no other post soviet countries have old towns built by German teutonic knights.

>>2902209
all of it is new build because the wars wrecked us. it was literally THE hotspot for reich vs soviet shit. all that replaced it are commie blocks.

>>2902257
>all of it is new build
That's complete bullshit, 2/3rds of Vilnius old town survived WW2, 60% of Riga old town, and the entirety of Tallinn old town.
Why are you saying things that are untrue?

>>2902320
I'll be in Vilnius shortly, and already been to Riga and Tallinn. I think this anon is either retarded, or trying to gatekeep his cities so that annoying tourists dont destroy it like many other and price him out.

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>>2899316
As someone who has loved in both estonia and latvia and visited lithuania multiple times I can tell you that latvia is the worst, lithuania is the second best and estonia is the best

Riga is easily the worst capital, I was living in a small village in latvia and sometimes went to check it out