I almost always have the women come to my place (although I have gone to theirs...) I don't do the whole "let's go on a date first" it's always "your place or mine" for dinner (cooked by one of us) and drinks... That solves the problem on how to get people back to your place (if it goes back - they leave or I do. If it goes good - we continue into the morning and/or fvck.) You should try it sometime... Dinner and drinks at one of your places is easy! (much easier if you're having them come to your place though. When i was living with family a few years ago - I had a rather large hotel bill.)
The best thing I can say is: Don't expect it! Expectations are let-downs waiting to happen.
Just go with the flow of the night...
Something should present itself in the conversation. Don't look for it, it'll find you.
If not: You can tell a story about how you don't normally do dates like these. You feel that getting to know people 1-on-1 is better than out surrounded by tons of people. That all your best dates have been at one of the others house.
You can also use the above to gauge her interest: A girl who's not that into you - will say something like "im not that kind of girl." A girl who is into you - will say "why didn't we do that instead?" ("well there's still time left in the night" with a grin.... would be a good response).
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Next time just try to get the date to the girls house from the start. Learn to navigate the objections from them. For the most part - it's only token resistance and you'll learn that over time.
Flakey_Woman_Suck said:
Just bring a good movie or something and some beer/wine, and tell her that you can't go back to your place because of *insert reason* and ask her if you guys can watch it at her place.
Good luck.
That's actually not a bad idea. But i wouldn't bring one. I'd buy one or rent one and at the VERY beginning of the date mention "I just bought/rented [movie] if this date goes well - we can go back to your place after."
If sex gets brought up during conversations with her, jokingly say "soooo... about this movie we're watching tonight" with a big grin...

etc....
Or if she says something weird... joke about how you're def not going back to her place... she might be a serial killer... etc...