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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 07:14:40 No.1045835 View Reply Report Delete

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I am looking to go to one of the Baltic capitals over the Christmas period just for a few days before i head off on my second SEA trip in January, so which city would you recommend the most?
Criteria - Architecture, Price, Good food, Bars and general nice ambiance.

So, Tallinn, Riga or Vilnius?

I will maybe be going alone or maybe with a girl.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 07:18:44 No.1045836 Report Delete

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I can't say I know the Baltic countries but I would say Riga is the most beautiful city.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 08:12:50 No.1045844 Report Delete

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>>1045836
Probably this. Vilnius is not bad either though. Tallinn felt more modern out of the three.

I enjoyed Riga most of them but that's maybe because they had the best hostel.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:48:37 No.1045929 Report Delete

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>>1045835
Hmm. I went to them in a row in winter and I enjoyed Tallinn most. For some reason Riga didn't do much to me (was enjoyable though), but I am sure I need to go back sometime in summer. Spend few hours in Vilnius and it looked great in the layer of snow.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 14:58:42 No.1045936 Report Delete

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>>1045835
Tallinn local here. Hit me if you've got any specific questions.

Don't know enough about Riga or Vilnius to give you any comparisons unfortunately.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:12:00 No.1045945 Report Delete

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>>1045844
Naughty Squirrel?

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 15:19:18 No.1045952 Report Delete

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>>1045835
Tallinn old town is beautiful and the night life good (or was 5 years ago) but you might get bored pretty quickly there.

I would say Riga has the most to do and the old town is also nice + there is some cool old soviet buildings.The night life is good too.

I wouldn't bother with Vilnius. It's pretty boring in all aspects.

If you are hoping to get laid I would say Tallinn is your best choice. The girls are very used to foreigners and very willing to ride them and also the best looking of the three in my opinion.

As for food, there are some good cheap ones in central Tallinn, not sure about the others but the whole region isn't too expensive (although is more so now due to the euro).

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 16:16:29 No.1045965 Report Delete

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>>1045835
Vilnius is the cheapest of the three. I don't think it's boring. The architecture in the old town is different to Riga's - more diverse and more of it, in my opinion. Tallinn is okay, but it's a lot more expensive because of the tourists from Finland.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 19:52:19 No.1046023 Report Delete

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>>1045945
Yeah.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:01:32 No.1046025 Report Delete

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>>1045835
Vilnius has the biggest and most beautiful Old Town out of three.

Riga is the night town for sure if you're the party guy.

Vilnius has lot's of churches and pubs, also it's the greenest and most compact out of the three, probably also the cheapest (not so much though), it's definitely worth a visit.

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Anonymous Wed 28 Oct 2015 20:08:13 No.1046026 Report Delete

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10th for /balt/

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 07:06:16 No.1046135 Report Delete

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>>1045945
>>1046023
Haha, me too. Great hostel.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 08:46:47 No.1046158 Report Delete

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What's more useful, Russian or English?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 10:17:12 No.1046178 Report Delete

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>>1046158
English is useful enough. Quite a lot of people speak English. Russian would work as well I guess, because a lot of older people speak it.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:31:15 No.1046326 Report Delete

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>>1046178
I'd rank Tallinn slightly behind the other two. Riga is so different in character to the other two, it's a throbbing metropolis in comparison, and has a great cultural life, great art deco architecture as well as real and reconstructed medieval stuff. Vilnius has loads of character and eccentricities, and beautiful.
I spoke Russian in Vilnius (where, actually/ there are not that many Russians ) and Riga, but preferred English in Tallinn (Estonians speak Russian with a really odd accent, anyway).

For Christmas I might be inclined to favour Vilnius.

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:35:35 No.1046327 Report Delete

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are the 3 capital cities dangerous in comparison to cities in Canada?

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Anonymous Thu 29 Oct 2015 20:43:44 No.1046328 Report Delete

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>>1046327
The city centres should be fine, in all three. Maybe be careful in some high-rise suburbs, but why would you even be in such places?
Lithuania has an extraordinarily high suicide rate, but, that apart, these are not violent cultures or countries.

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