I spent 4 weeks in Minsk last summer, here is my salt to Gopnik's soup.
I am in early 40es, have healthy lifestyle (never married, do sports, do no smoke etc.) and as a result look younger. Russian by origin so I do know Russian language and mentality but I lived most of my life in western Europe and visited FSU only for 3 days since I left from Soviet State. Last year I decided to go to Minsk because I wanted to go back at last, needed to find developer(s) for my project and meet girls.
Dating, flirt and "mini romances" are first priority for me, I find that to be much more exciting then quick f*ck. My target age is also 25+ years.
My friends told me that Minsk would probably be best place for me to go, so off I went.
Where to stay
I rented my 1-room Studio in center of the city near old presidential palace via AirBnB, it was very nice and quiet despite central location. On the first morning I woke up to fresh air and noises of seagulls that where flying above the house! Amazing!
Nothing was wrong with the place and if you go for <2 weeks I would advise to look at AirBnB but if you stay for longer then brush up your Russian skills and find yourself a place using one of the local Minsk real estate sites such as
http://www.kvartirant.by/, if you value quiet environment try to keep away from large streets.
Also, best look for places which are rented out by private people and not agencies. In search the checkbox would be names something like that: "собственник / частное лицо".
Price wise you'd paying around 50$ / day for a apartment via AirBnB and ~500$ / Month for a nice apartment with several rooms if you rent directly.
Safety
The place is VERY, VERY safe, remembering my youth in Soviet Union I was a bit weary of gopniks, drunks etc. but I saw almost none. I walked around day and deep night without issues. I did avoid parks and dark areas between buildings at night since locals told me there is a (very low) chance of finding trouble there.
Communication
You can buy SIM cards (MTS), I remember loading it with 40$ worth of rubles and it lasted me entire trip for LTE data and (mostly local) calls.
Money and cost of living
Debit cards (EC / Maestro) are generally accepted by ATMs. You can also pay by them in almost all restaurants. I think same applies to credit cards although I generally do not use them. Please be aware that some supermarkets are very picky about name on card, I have my company name on mine and ended up being interviewed by store security twice. So if this is the case for you then better use cash in large supermarkets.
Food is quite cheap, I would go to local market and come out with ~10kg of excellent quality fruit, vegetables and so on while spending maybe 20$ for all of that.
For restaurants there are places from low level but reasonable Lido (5-10$ / meal) to top notch places such as Bistro Deluxe, Cafe de Paris or Belvedere that will set you back ~150$ for a full dinner for two (wine included).
Drink prices range anywhere from 3$ for a glass of imported wine to 12$ for excellent cocktail in Grand Cafe (The barmen there are amazing at their craft!)
Where I come from all of that is a bargain, I was able to completely forget about money and just do whatever I wanted to.
Moving around
By feet! I am serious, the city is not all that big, you can reach anything in center within 40 min walk and city is very pedestrian friendly. I also walked all the way to Borovaya airfield and other outskirt areas. Uber works nicely as well. Subway is a possibility as well but I hardly used it.
General impressions
Coming in Minsk was very pleasant, airport is modern and clean, staff, including border guards very friendly and polite. The city is incredibly clean, no cigarette butts on sidewalks, buildings are in good shape, lots of green spaces and parks.
People are very friendly, if you smile at them you will often receive smile back, especially from young people.
You do not really feel that people live under dictatorship, many speak openly about their problems. One thing I was surprised to hear is that many who spoke out did not like the "brotherly hug" of Russia and where quite pro western oriented. Excellent.
Other things to do
Go to Borovaya air field and get 15 min combat dogfight flight with a YAK-52 there (~110$). It is quite amazing, pilot pulled out 7.5g on me, I never believed this is possible in a prop aircraft. Pilot also lets you fly and not just "do soft turns", they ask you to do quick aileron rolls etc.
Girls visual
Beauty is in the eyes of beholder, one guys 6 is others 8, I prefer 170+cm tall girls with proportional build, slim frame, cute faces, open smiles and nice skin. True physical beauty is also much easier to spot during daytime when girls are not covered in war paint and wrapped in "f*ck me now" clothes.
Generally I was pleasantly surprised, there are many tall girls, general population is not overweight. Nice blonde to brunette ratio, whatever you like you will find it there.
I saw only 2 daylight 8+ there, one was in the park walking her dog and another on the bus stop near Lido / ZUM. Was able to approach girl in the park and had less success with a bus stop girl.
Attitude
I got a feeling girls in Minsk are quite careful with foreigners, they do suspect you to be a sex tourist as soon as you tell them you came from the west. Some even told me "do not expect local girls to hop in bed with you". I found easy way to fix this: tell them full frontal that I came to the city to find a developer and a wife. This usually made them laugh and broke ice.
Minsk is not a good place for ONS. But it should be fairly easy to build up a small relationship there if you treat them with respect.
All girls like complements but unlike in western society Belarusian girls visibly enjoy them, so make sure you tell them how incredible and awesome they are.
Place is not yet poisoned by influx of capital, luxury stores etc. so there are not so many gold digging bit*es that would try to 'game' you for anything from expensive drinks to goods and further. They do dig cars though and many local men spend all they have to buy a BMW X5 because they think it increases their chances.
During the evening girls tend to cluster, so you should feel confident with breaking into all-girl circles, making them all laugh and quickly indicate clearly which one you are after. If you do your job right other girls will eventually leave you tet-a-tet with your madam.
Competition
There is little to none competition, Turks and Arabs seem to go P4P way and cluster around Crowne Palace hotel.
I saw few foreign people, many are just tourists that came as families, some English dudes in Grand Cafe but all of them seemed to take Tinder route and did not go on active hunt.
Local men are, as girls explained to me "spoiled", they are mostly quite passive and would rarely go on offensive, I only saw few and those where pretty much drunk dudes playing macho routine (did not get them far).
Pipelining
I prepared by building up a pipeline on Mamba and Tinder, out of 10 mamba leads only 2 came to be interesting and tinder resulted in 1 truly interesting match.
But all in all I would not say it was worth it. Mamba also has bad reputation there, I can see why, Minsk Mamba has very sleazy feel to it.
I would only advise to pipeline if you do not know Russian (not many speak English there) or feel insecure for direct approach.
Day game
Walk around the city, go to the Zamak mall, Komarovsky market, GUM / ZUM and do direct approaches, works quite well, almost all girls will talk to you. I had good success in restaurants, single girls are bad bid (they usually wait for someone), 2+ are nice target and unless they are eating or in some serious conversation try to walk up to them smiling and ask if you can join. Some girls told me that such direct approaches in restaurants are uncommon and that alone intrigued them.
Parks are nice place too, walk all the way from Nemiga street to Palace of Independence along the river, hang around great patriotic war museum, go to the beach called 'Komsomolskoye Ozero' that is a nice place to spot girls in bikinis.
I also visited open air festivals: "FSP" that takes place in dreamland aqua park and was a-ok, quite a few pretty girls there. "Rock for beavers" (Yes, this IS the name) on Borovaya field was nice too but I did not feel very well that day and did nothing.
Night game
Area behind 'palace of republic', I believe it is called lower town is full with bars, performance artists etc. I found it to be quite overloaded though, too many people, too much noise. Did not have much success there.
Bar called "Wine cupboard" located at vulica Revaliucyjnaja 30, very nice on weekends, woman to man ratio is about 3:1 and girls do polish themselves to go there! There is also a lot of action on the street just in front of the bar which is great.
Bar "quieter then the mouse", groups of girls often migrate between "Wine cupboard" and this place
Another nice place is around Bully (Хулиган) club, it is alternative place but there are some very cute girls there too. Unfortunately club itself is horribly loud but there is a lot of action on the street.
Night clubs are not my thing, I only once visited Next club: a dump in my eyes. It is located on top of Crowne Palace hotel that is well known to be a p4p concentration. If you into that kind of thing: Hotel bar is your place, masses of girls in slutty clothes there. All for sale.
Conclusion
As Gopnik says: Minks is tough if you are after ONS but it is very nice, safe, clean and welcoming place that features many beautiful and woman open for flirting and romance.
I would visit it again but plan to hit Kiev this summer first.
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