Tremblant Lifestyle

Nothing shifts a vacation into fifth gear like a high-intensity hook up with a beautiful stranger. Your stresses and inhibitions are left at home, exotic drinks with tiny umbrellas are flowing, and all too aware of your limited time together, you are both having the time of your lives.

The goal here is to help you transform your international fling fantasy into a reality, and the first step is to put the odds in your favor by choosing the right setting. Following are some of the pros and cons associated with popular holiday pickup locations.

The Beach

Unless you were cast as a Spartan soldier in the film 300, you should forget about trying to pick up at the beach. People generally go to the beach for 4 reasons:

1. To tan their chiseled bodies.
2. To show off their chiseled bodies by throwing various beach objects like Frisbees, footballs, or nerds.
3. To stare at the people with chiseled bodies.
4. To place bets on who can throw the nerd the furthest.

So if you’re the type who doesn’t so much tan as you do catch on fire, and who usually relies on archaic techniques like conversation, charm, and sense of humor to make your first impressions, then you’d be better off waiting for the sun to go down and the beer lights to go up, putting on your best money-shirt and hitting the dance clubs or the hotel bars. Now women might actually listen you what you have to say as opposed to wishing your belly keg looked more like a six-pack.

Cruise Ships

A cruise vacation can either be an incredibly romantic experience, or a horrifying floating prison sentence, depending on your pick-up objectives. Meeting someone on a cruise is never the problem. Packed with casinos, dance clubs,restaurants, and even rock climbing walls, your chances for bumping into someone who shares your love for peanut M&Ms and reruns of Family Guy are extremely high. Once the connection has been made and the sparks have flown, a cruise ship suddenly transforms into the ultimate dating extravaganza with exciting activities and romantic settings from sunrise to sunset. Perfect for someone looking for an action-packed one week relationship.

However….and this is a big however, what happens when you’re more of a Baskin Robbins, likes to explore 31 different flavors type of guy? Well, suppose you manage to score big one night with Miss Right at the beginning of your oceanic adventure. Now suppose the tequila shooters eventually wear off and you find yourself in bed with Miss Pirates of the Caribbean. Suddenly the classic “I’ll-call-you-later”-then-disappear-forever-into-a-cloud-of ninja-smoke maneuver becomes a mission impossible. Unless you consider walking the plank, stealing a life raft, or sprinting off into the jungle as soon as the ship docks as options, there’s nowhere to run, nowhere to hide.

You’re probably thinking “But the boat is huge, she can’t be everywhere at the same time.” True, but women have a GPS tracking system in their brains that starts beeping as soon as you come within three feet of another woman. She will find you. Besides, the whole point of a vacation is to relax, do you really want to spend yours tip-toeing around, looking over your shoulder every second like a deer during hunting season? Of course not.

So what’s the moral of this story? Keep away from tequila shooters.

Hostels

Whether you’re backpacking through Europe or simply saving your vacation cash for more important things like cosmopolitans for the cute blonde at the bar, youth hostels are great locations for meeting single women from all over the planet. Now if you’re extremely lucky, like lottery-winning-caliber lucky, then you might end up sharing a room with a gorgeous Ukrainian dancer named Svetlana. But in reality you should invest in a pair of good ear plugs, you’ll need them to drown out the thunderous snores of Borislav, the eccentric shoemaker from Bulgaria.

Thankfully most hostels have common kitchens and living rooms which serve as excellent breeding grounds for ice-breakers like: “Where are you from?”, “What’s a good bar around here?” and “How about we ditch Borislav and go to that good bar you just mentioned?” Things might become tricky when arriving at the “my place or yours” chapter of the evening, with both of you sharing your rooms with several strangers, and unless you are willing to distribute earplugs to everybody, discretion is next to impossible. In this case you both should combine money you saved from the hostel, and spend the night in an actual hotel.

Unfortunately, Mont Tremblant’s not known as the ideal spot to pick up. Part of the problem is weather, but hey, nothing wrong with a girl in ski gear.