RR: Get a Reservation for First Night in Advance
GYE is NOT a city to wander around, especially at night (I have been all over Colombia and GYE is sketchier than ANY Colombian city!). Quito has a bad reputation for muggings but it FEELS reasonably safe (unlike GYE where you need to CONSTANTLY be on guard). There is a reason all the security guards wear bullet proof vests.
In small towns, $5 hotels are around but in the big cities the bottom end places will be VERY insecure IMHO.
The Best Western in downtown GYE is very girl friendly and, with bargaining, is about $30.
So true, so very true....
[QUOTE=Munch Lunch]The only good thing about GYE is that the local girls do actually know how to screw, as they are "costenas"; that is from the coast rather than the more reserved highlands of Ecuador.[/QUOTE]
I've never been to GYE, so I can't give any information about safety, apartments, etc, but having met and experienced women from GYE and the coast here in Quito, I can honestly say that they are not only better looking than the average Quiteña, but they are much better lays as well. Hell, some of these girls from Quito couldn't screw their way out of a paper bag. And the rest are so Catholic and conservative that they wouldn't give up their pussies to Jesus Christ himself, lol.
Just out of curiosity the vast majority, and best, P4P girls are from the coast here in Quito, so...does that mean the majority of P4P girls in GYE are from Quito? Yikes, there's another reason not to go there.
[QUOTE=Munch Lunch]
Sorry I can't help you with more specific information.
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Same here, don't have any info on GYE at all, although from what the people here in Quito tell me, it's a hellhole, but I always assumed they were biased in their opinions...