Every year I do a solo Christmas trip. Last year I went to Trinidad and Tobago, which turned out not to be the best place for Game. This year I wanted to go somewhere that was actually viable.
I keep hearing about Playa del Carmen, and amazingly it was a $300 round trip flight from NYC, so now I’m here.
Got in Tuesday night, did one approach on the way from the bus station to my AirBnB, and went to sleep.
Woke up and worked all day in between doing some errands to get my apartment situated. Finally at 6 PM I headed out to approach. There’s a long pedestrian walkway, 5th Ave, that spans almost 50 blocks that seemed like the spot.
After one lap back and forth, I was concerned. 5th was packed with people, more than the busiest NYC streets. But they were all in groups, couples, and families. Typical Christmas experience. Lots of flak, very little signal. More than an hour of strolling and I had only done a few sets.
Finally, around 7:30 PM, more solo girls started to show and I started rolling off the sets at a pace of about 10 per hour.
I approached a hot Mexican worker who had been there for 8 years and was clearly burned out from guys approaching her. I managed to persist even though she waved me off through her headphones, and got her to stop. After some conversation, she walked off again: “I only go out with guys who I find attractive or who take me somewhere cool.” “And I don’t meet the first qualifier…” I joked. “Sorry, honey, you don’t. I just stopped because I found you amusing.”
That fired me up. Enough of these fucking cuck girls. I will find a way to win here.
Soon after some unfortunate-looking daygamer tried to approach me after he saw me do a set. I blew him out with “I’m a promoter.” I feel like I recognize the guy from a UMP Facebook group or something.
After eighteen sets in a row with nothing, I finally got my first number: a Canadian therapist solo tourist. I could already tell she was going to be connection/spiritual/therapy-cuck, but I had no other plans so we arranged to meet later. I texted her later but she took a while to respond, then said she had found a bar and was having a beer and dancing. Fuck that shit. Funnily enough, she claimed she didn’t really drink in-set. Guess that changed fast!
Need to weed out the lonely solo travelers that are just looking for validation on their travels.
Next set was a girl in loud pink booty shorts that was being flagged by a street performer to take a photo with him. I let this happen then approached her afterwards. Notably, he actually came back and tried to enter the set and I savagely bodyblocked his AMOG attempt, giving him basically no frame. I guess he was looking for a tip for the photo. The girl was around 30 and was there with a big group of friends who were all sleeping. She apparently wanted dick because 90 seconds in she tried to pull me to get a drink. I declined and took her number instead because she was throwing up some crazy tells.
Later I approached a Brazilian girl who didn’t speak English. Through my terrible Portuguese I ascertained she was a solo traveler. She ogled my abs on my Instagram photos and tried to instadate me, too, but I declined. She was like 35 and I wasn’t really feeling running an entire date in Portuguese given my level of fatigue.
I’m not here to sleep with just anyone that offers. I don’t need the sex, I just want the practice. There are plenty of horny 30+ year olds that would love to have me, but I’m not going to lower my standards just yet.
After accidentally approaching a couple escorts, I got a French girl’s number and tentatively set up a date for tomorrow. I give it 15%. I’m proud of this one, I was actually able to game pretty well in French, though my French personality is perhaps a bit too animated and invested. I need to sit back and be more aloof; get her to invest more.
I ended the day with 33 approaches and 4 contacts (only two of those I took gladly).
Playa del Carmen is supposed to be one of the easier game destinations, but it hasn’t proven that to me so far. It looks fairly difficult, especially around Christmas.
Actually, it reminds me of Miami on steroids. 5th Ave is like if Lincoln Road was elongated. And just like Miami, basically your only shot is solo tourists. Argentinian Seasonal Workers (ASWs) won’t fuck outside of their circles, locals are too jaded from being hit on all the time, girls in families and groups won’t easily leave their group.
A few adjustments I’m considering:
- Doing a full front stop instead of a walk-with in order to differentiate myself from the street hawkers and touts
- Stretching the truth and saying I just moved here when I talk to locals
- Trying out gutter game as a way to convert straggler girls travelling in groups. This means I would have to stay out until 1:30-2 AM. I absolutely refuse to do nightgame, the clubs are Mexican loud, which means 110db+.
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