Saturday afternoon. On a Budget.
i decided to make a trip this afternoon with a challenge to see how shamelessly cheap i could go without going for a sw. not to suggest there's anything wrong with the sw, just that i usually go for the club girls.
1st step was to go all pesos. conversion rate is 12. 9 today, and a / hk convert at 12/$, so automatically you're ahead.
can't do anything about gas expenditure.
parked at the $5 parking spot behind jack in the box. it was full when i got there, but only a couple cars waiting, and i was only in the line like 15 mins before i got in.
i took the recent suggestion from jackie888 in hong kong reports to pay $3 dollars for the white taxis and it worked. taxi guy started with $4, i countered with $3, and we settled on $2.
got to a, and took a [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] and washed my hands for 5 pesos.
found a chica, and bought a drink for her and myself. 130 pesos + 10 pesos tip. the charge for the two drinks really should have been 124 pesos ($7 fiche + $3. 25 for beer at a = 10. 25 x 12) , but when i calculated it in my mind, i forgot and used the hk $4 rate for beer. otherwise i would have commented.
when i asked her to go upstairs, she told me $60. i checked to see if she was ok with 600 pesos, but she wasn't interested, and countered for 700 (which when converting with 12. 9 pesos is about $55. at this point, i figured i could probably bring her down to 650, but was worried that being too cheap with her might affect the fun to be had upstairs so i agreed.
got to the hotel, and tried to pay 144 pesos for the hotel, but the hotel receptionist told me it was 160 pesos. i questioned him that it should be 144 because $12 / room x 12 peso exchange rate, but he insisted. i didn't have enough dollars, so paid 160 pesos. got jipped on this exchange. guess you can't win them all.
good bang!
dropped the chica off, went to grab some tacos and paid 36 pesos + 4 pesos tip. my taco guy started to put mounds of meat on my tacos after i started tipping him, so i don't feel bad about the tip.
found another white taxi, and haggled to $3 for return to the linea.
here's the breakdown comparison of the savings had i gone down and used dollars and not negotiated.
normal non-budget trip for the same service:
$5 – taxi to a.
$1 – [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] and wash hands
$10. 25 – drink for me and chica (ficha $7, beer in a is $3. 25)
$1 – tip for misero.
$12 – hotel.
$60 – bang!
$3 – tacos.
$1 – tip taco guy.
$5 – taxi back to linea.
total – $98. 25.
budget trip:
$3 – taxi to a.
$5 (pesos) – [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] and wash hands.
$130 (pesos) – drink for me and chica.
$10 (pesos) – tip for misero.
$160 (pesos) – hotel.
$700 (pesos) – bang!
$36 (pesos) – tacos.
$4 (pesos) – tip taco guy.
$3 – taxi back to linea.
sub-total. $6, $1045 (pesos) /12. 9 (conversion) = $81.
total. $87.
that's about a $11 savings. half a sw encounter. could have scraped a couple extra pesos off the hotel, and the drinks. and probably could also negotiate down to 600 or 650 pesos for arriba depending on how cut-throat you want to be. so potentially the savings could have been around $20.
it's a little bit extra work to constantly be converting to pesos in your mind, but i think it will become worth it as it becomes more accustomed.
1st timers trip to Tijuana
Monday July 16.
So I know this report is a month late, but I gained so much info from reading these forums that I thought better late than never.
In the midst of a guy's trip (3 of us, late 20's) to San Diego, headed down to Tijuana for a preplanned 24 adventure.
Woke up around Noon on Mon the 16th and we left our SD hotel and headed to the San Ysidro crossing. Easy highway traffic, followed the GPS. Knowing we'd have to leave our stash in the car we hit the buds pretty hard, with 2 j's and the portable vape fired up on the short drive to the border. Got to the border exit around noon and parked in a lot right across the street from the Jack in the box. Super close to the walking bridge entry. We prepaid for 24 hours ($20 I think) and agreed to pay any overage on the way out. We parked our car, hid the valuables, and grabbed our backpacks for our first adventure to Tijuana!
Got to say being all of our first times to Tijuana we were pretty nervous walking over. I felt like it was no big deal having read these forums, and the walk over was uneventful. Not many people walking over around 1pm on a Monday. Was slightly nervous about carrying 4 or 5 Viagra in my shaving kit but nobody paid any attention to us as we passed through the revolving gates and hopped a cab to the Ticuan for $5.
Got to the Ticuan. This place is NICE! Covered valet, marble lobby, nice bar. Really classy, we were all pleasantly surprised. We each had a Master Suite which we paid $80 apeice for online before leaving home. We were each on a different floor so I wonder if there is only 1 master suite per floor? They were nice rooms. Lots of space, nice size safe, and a BIG-ASS jacuzzi. I mean big! (That sucker took almost a half hour to fill up)
We put our shit in the room and went for a walk down Revolucion. It was DEAD! Now I know its a Monday. And I know from reading that it is not what it once was, but man was it deserted. Took a picture with the zonkie, grabbed some beers, stopped at a shop, and had my $80 Ecig pickpocket by a barker (yeah that happened, realized it after 2 mins and know exactly how he did it with a pat on the shoulder).
Frustrated that I was going to have to buy some smokes to keep my sanity till we made it back to my backup Ecig in the car the next day, I hailed us a cab for a quick hop to zona norte for a daytime stroll. The zona is crazy having never seen it before. Lots of beggars, addicts lining up to get their fix from the dealer right in front of the cops. And girls! I figured it was a fair amount of SW out for around 3pm on a Monday, several dozen to choose from. Quickly settled on a young 19yr old and agreed to meet the buddies in adelitas in 30min since we had just passed it when I came upon this girl. $20 for the girl, $10 more to get naked, $10 more CBJ. Whatever 40 bones and I popped my Tijuana cherry with a young hotty. Met back with the guys, I think one of them grabbed a quick sesh at adelita. We had partied pretty good the night before and wanted to be rested for a serious party night so we headed back to our suites at the ticuan for a quick 2 hour nap before the bangfest.
The Ticuan is a super short cab right from the zona. 5 min tops. We always paid $5 but you could prob get it for less. Rested up, got that jacuzzi soak I mentioned earlier, and met the boys at the hotel bar at 6:30. We fired back a few mojitos and got a cab to a seafood restaurant that the kid tending bar recommended called "Los Arcos". Dinner was awesome. We all love seafood so we pigged out. Oysters rockafeller, crab stuffed shrimp, whole charbroiled seabass for each of us, and lots of beer. Total bill came to $64, well worth it. From dinner another cab to the HK, we were pumped!
Prob got to HK around 8 or 9. Busy but not packed. Grabbed a booth and it was on. Lots of drinks, lots of different girls brought over for a quick chat or grind. Service is super important to all 3 of us and we thought the Maseros were AWESOME! So helpful. We all bought a few chica drinks throughout the night but nothing excessive. Lots of girls happy to chat and sit on our laps and makeout, it was awesome. I will say again that we are 3 white guys, in decent shape, in our late 20's. But we felt like rockstars! Soapy dildo shows, all the ass you could grab, it looked like the Spearmint Rhino in Vegas except tons better. It was hard to judge the number of girls, but I saw at least 50 by 9pm and prob 100 by midnight. They just kept on coming and coming. Reading the forums had me not expecting much for a Monday but it was rocking.
Once we got there it was one girl after another for all of us, we were like kids in a candy store. The Vitamin V we took surely helped, but we each took 3 girls upstairs during our time at Hk (9pm-3am) And no overlap between the 3 of us haha. For all of my girls I paid $60. 2 of them quoted me $60 and the other I talked down from $70. Main wingman paid $60 for all of his girls as well. Buddy 2 negotiated $50 from all 3 girls after buying each of them a drink. I witnessed 2 these negotiations. After comparing notes we had about a 70% BBBJ succes rate without even asking. GFE seemed pretty standard at least for us. After partying our asses off all night in HK we stumbled over to Adelitas around 2 or 3am. There were a few cute girls but for us the scene just couldn't compare to the HK, that place is one of a kind. And frankly after knocking back 3 apiece we didn't have much motivation once we got to adelita. We had one more beer and headed back to the Ticuan.
Woke up the next morn, took a cab to the border at noon. Took 1 hour to walk across, not too bad. Car was safe and attendant booth was empty so we just drove off. Great trip overall.
Overall the trip was great. The Hong Kong is awesome and has to be experienced. True pussy paradise. The Ticuan was great too and is the only way to go. Super classy and just a few minutes from the action. I know a lot of you would disagree, but after experiencing the Zona I would never want to stay in a nightly hotel there. Zona is def a shady place. I always felt safe but I was in a 3 person group. Don't know how I would feel about being a solo down there. Cascadas was fine for banging. Clean, convenient and certainly in the heart of the action. And in the future I might even rent a room there just to do all my banging in without having to worry about a knock. But that would be in addition to my room at the Ticuan for sleepy time. Hope this report will help as these forums were invaluable to us in planning our first trip.