knifefish,
if you can dance forró it will certainly help you to pick up a girl in a forró club. i´m crazy about forró music, but the day i learn to dance forró will be the day when the cows play football.
in a forró club you have a big advantage being a gringo - you are different. many of the girls at the forró clubs have never seen a gringo and find themselves flattered when a gringo comes up to them. for them it will be an adventure.
age doesn't matter that much for these girls. it´s so common that older men have young girlfriends.
i guess what matters is that you show the girls that you're a happy guy enjoying yourself. if you can´t speak with them, just smile and buy them beers. smiles and kisses is international.
yep, i know the street up the side of the bus station in centro. that's where the bar holanda is located. it sure is scrapping the barrel. thats why i wrote "very hard to find a doable girl, but good fun watching the scene." i think it´s fun going to these bottom-low places. drink beer and watch the funny characters.
at praca militar, bar do pina, i've met regular girls, students, several times who just wanted to have fun without money involved. it's a a nice mixture of pro's and non-pro's (at least on weekends).
knifefish, about remulos, of course you can't grab the girls when they walk in the middle of the catwalk. you stretch out your claws when they go down on all four or when they lie down spreading the legs. personally i prefer grabbing them when they sit in my lap. i leave the catwalk-grabbing and table-dances to the brazilian guys.
the prices, r$ 40-60 for the girl and r$ 12 for the room, are the prices from january. going to remulos every night for two weeks i had the opportunity to take one girl upstairs every night. there were never any girl that didn't agree to the price (ok, sometimes bargaining), including 2 sessions for a maximum time of 90 minutes. a few even spend the night at the hotel for free.
these are the prices that the brazilians pay. if you show them that you're not a first-timer you will pay the same. my friend didn't speak more than a few words of portuguese and also payed these prices. some girls might try asking for r$ 80, but will quickly settle for the lower price.
a few of the girls will be busy with clients almost all evening, but the majority will be standing waiting most of the evening. most brazilian guys at remulos just go there for watching or buying tabledances. a few of them goes to the vip-room (r$ 15-20, 2 songs). looking at the number of brazilian guys at remulos very few of them go upstairs with the girls.
about the pm's. there will always be brazilian cops trying to harass a gringo. this can happen anywhere in brazil. your friend must have been very unlucky. anyway there are no **** girls working at remulos, or at least without a id showing the age 18+. remulos won´t take the risk closing down or paying even more bribes because of girls lacking proper id.
about your id; the first thing i always do arriving in brazil is going to a cartório taking a copy of my passport (the side with photo and the side with entrance-stamp). the cartório will put their stamp and sign it to prove it's authentic. then i have the copy plastified (?). this copy is valid as a real passport. this copy i always carry with me, even though i almost never had to showe it.
knifefish, if you wouldn't rate any girl at remulos above a 6, then we have different scales.
"so porto velho, how do you rate the girls there? is it worth a trip?" i think if you can't find a girl above a 6 at remulos then don't bother going to porto velho.