100 note to be obsolete within 72 hours.
[QUOTE=XHooker;1972231]The cost of printing a US $100 note is about 10 cents and the Venezuelan BS should be similar figure that out when the smallest note Bs2 is. Worth about 1/25th of a cent.[/QUOTE]Venezuelan 100 bill to be obsolete within 72 hours from Sunday December 11 2016. Bring out your suitcases!
Great Reporting and Pictures Kaitek
Good Job Haitek on your reporting and pictures. Seems like you had a great time.
From the pictures, it seems like you are young and handsome! Did you older men than you there and did they have any issues with picking up the women and having a fun time?
From your recollection, The Chinese and Korean you saw there, did they seem like locals or visitors? Were the prices inflated where the Chinese and Koreans were? In SEA especially Philippines, As they flaunt money, prices sky rocket for women, still cheaper for them in their countries. I will be starting my 6 country travels soon to Latin Americas and SEA but not Valenzuela in this trip but will happen soon.
About Buffalo Grill bar in Puerto La Cruz
[QUOTE=LifeIsABeach;2039209]From the pictures, it seems like you are young and handsome! Did you older men than you there and did they have any issues with picking up the women and having a fun time? [/QUOTE]Thank you, but I'm not so young, i'm on my 50 years jajajaja...
Anyway, money is the game! I saw old ugly chinese guys with young and sexy chicas. Your age is not important, it is your behavior which is important. Smiling, dancing, drinking (because those girls drink a lot rhum and beer) and the chicas will love you (and off course your money). The boring Chineses paid good money but the chicas go with them only for short time, then hang all the night in the bar with the Filipino and Indonesian guys who are more fun.
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From your recollection, The Chinese and Korean you saw there, did they seem like locals or visitors? Were the prices inflated where the Chinese and Koreans were? In SEA especially Philippines, As they flaunt money, prices sky rocket for women, still cheaper for them in their countries.[/QUOTE]They are all locals, living and working in Puerto La Cruz. Even they give to the chicas more money than what the Venezuelians paid, it still cheap: 50000/40000 bolivars for short time is only 10/12 dollars! Even for Indonesian and Filipino guys, it's still cheap. In Jakarta's brothels or Angeles City gogo-bars, price for short time is at least 20 dollars.
Official Devaluation of Currency
Venezuela devalued it's currency to 1 USD: 2000 Bolivars from 700 Bolivars. The black market rate went to 1 USD: 6000 Bolivars.
Getting Safer in Venezuela? Venezuela mobs kick, burn thieves in lynching epidemic
"Caracas (AFP) - Swearing in fury, the crowd strips the man naked and stomps on his head as he sprawls on the ground.
"You want things that come easy? Then take this, you bastard."
In Venezuela, this is what robbers get when they are caught by passers-by.
AFP journalists filmed a lynching close-up in a busy street in the capital Caracas.
A witness says he stopped the man who had tried to rob a woman at gunpoint in a bakery. Then the mob took over.
"You're lucky we didn't burn you," a voice yells, as police lug the man, limp but still breathing, into the back of their car.
The crowd yells in satisfaction- but not at the man's arrest. They think they are the ones who have done justice here.
"Their aim is to kill the person before the police arrive," says Marco Ponce, coordinator of the Venezuelan Social Conflict Observatory (OVCS)."
[URL]https://www.yahoo.com/news/venezuela-mobs-kick-burn-thieves-lynching-epidemic-094329281.html[/URL]
If the locals are going on a lynching spree of muggers and robbers, it might be safe to go there soon! As a traveler once said of England 300 years ago, "Thank God I am returning to a civilized country" when he saw the bodies of thieves hanging from ropes outside an English port from his ship. Won't take many lynchings to make Venezuela safe for tourists from muggers.
Barcelona, Puerto La Cruz and Cumana
I have just spent four weeks in Venezuela, visiting Barcelona, Puerto La Cruz and Cumana. If any of you go to this area, do not hesitate to ask me for information.
Regarding P4 P, I do not have more information compared to what I posted before on this forum. I did not have time to meet prepago chicas for P4 P.
This time, I dated a non-pro and I stayed mostly all the time with her, including living in her family house in Barcelona.
USD (older $100 bills) and smaller denominations
I am in Panama now, just getting ready to fly to Margarita day after tomorrow and having a bit of a hard time getting $100 bills here. The bank machines just dispense $20's. I managed to change a few inside the bank, even though they didn't want to help me because I am not a customer. I just realized that a few of the bills they gave me, are the older (2006) bills without the security strip, and one has a small nick in it. I am wondering whether this is likely going to be a problem and whether I should factor this in when calculating my available cash on hand. I am planning on withdrawing a bit more money from the ATM at the airport before I leave, and am wondering if I should really be trying to change these bills into $100's as well, or whether I might be almost as well of with $20's. One of the ATM's gave me all the $20's in perfect condition, and another (that I changed for $100's) gave a lot of dirty and fairly heavily used bills. Last time I was in Caracas, $50's and $100's where much preferred, but I could get pretty much the same rate for $20's just people weren't as eager to trade for them.