San Jose - 2004 Reports

[Jaimito Cartero]

LD - There are a number of B & B and Cabinas in the Manuel Antonio and Quepos area. How nice do you want them?

[Jaimito Cartero]

If you shelled out $380 in joiner fees, that's a bit ridiculous. That's what the whole hotel should have cost, really. To think that you had to shell out another $3 a pop just to get towels is pretty sad. That's about $500 total. You could have gotten another 8 or 9 chicas with that.

I don't think the Presidente is that far away. And it would give you some nice cuddle time on the way over. That is, unless you're shooting for the Guiness World Record or something.

I don't remember if you said you checked out Idem or Zona Blue, but there, you'd spend $45-50 per pop, and get all the towels you wanted. (Or if you're really cheap, you could go to Molino Rojo, bang every girl in the place in one night for $450! (30-35 girls).

[L Dog]

2 times I had a 3 way so it wasn't 38 seperate sessions. Now that's what I call better living through modern science.

Man the f'ing towel situation was a constant f'ing battle. OK, they supply the room with 3 large towels and 2 small towels and no wash rags. So the chica usually takes a shower beforehand and puts one of the towels on the floor to step on getting in and out, uses a small towel as a washrag, then gets out and dries off on another big towel. We fuck. Then she showers again and uses another seperate big towel to dry off again. That leaves yours truly with one f'ing hand towel. And there ain't nuthin' funny about a big man trying to dry off after his shower with a f'ing overgrown washrag. At least not funny to me. Man, I worked over the maid staff with my constant request almost as much as I worked over the chicas in the BM with my constant request. But, I always tipped $3 to insure expedient service. With the maid that is.

I sure liked the proximity of the ladies to my room being that they were only a short elevator ride away. So I don't know if i'd like to stay anywhere else in SJ. I mean I wouldn't want to keep walking over from the Pres 5 times a day, and from what I can gather no other hotel has the selection of the BM.

I think that it'd be alot cheaper to take one chica to the coast for a short weekend than keep paying the $10 house fee per girl and the $60 average session fee per girl.

It was hard trying to go fishing being a party of one. I put my name in with the travel agents at the BM. So if anybody had an incomplete party I could join them for the day to help offset their cost. I even stopped at a couple of the places on the way to the coast to inquire with no luck. (Blue fin fishing charters etc.) I'm sure the other day trips are more accomodating to the single traveler.

One thing that I did neglect to mention earlier. The oral was never exeptionally great from any of the ladies. It seemed that they just wanted to get that part out of the way and get to the meat and potatoes of the matter so to speak. I fancy myself as an oral connisuer (sp?) and would have just settled for BJ's most of the time but none of them could get me off in that way. I kept waiting for the next one to blow me away, no pun intended. But it just never happened that way. Is it something cultural? I mean as soon as I got back home I picked up three SW's who performed much better BJ's than any of the girls in CR. The SW's were cracked out though and not nearly as nice looking or nice to talk to than the Chicas though. And the average age is alot higher of the cracked out SW. But enough of that i'm getting off topic.

I know this is the SJ board but does anybody have any recommendations for lodging in Quepos or nearby? Like a B&B type place owned by American expats.

Ciao,

L Dog

[Jaimito Cartero]

Well I guess I just took the "Shithole" comment a bit too seriously. I don't consider it a term of endearment, and would only call a place a shithole if I would never return.

38 times in 8 days. Almost 5 times a day? I would think your dick would be getting numb. Maybe that's what happened on day 4 or 5!

There are no huge American-like casinos in CR that I've ever seen. I occassionally have gone to the place across the street from the Del Rey, and the one inside the Balmoral (Closed now, I think), the Presidente (10 years ago), and the Irazu. The one at the Irazu is probably the nicest, but not too large. I would never take a bunch of money to gamble, as most of the games are considerably worse than Vegas odds.

[Macgoo]

L Dog,


Knowing the content of your earlier report would offend some; was quick to say, I thought it was unbiased. No need to say it again, I agree with all you said!

Ez

[Jun Fan]

L Dog,

Thanks for the posts, I like the way you write

I'm heading down there this Wed. My plan is to spend the first night in San Jose, and then head for the pacific coast for two nights, and then come back to SJ for the last night. My inclination is NOT to recruit a girl to go with me, but rather take my chances with what's available in Jaco. But I'm still undecided. I can see the pros and cons either way.

The thing I'm looking forward to the most is not having much structure to this trip. I'm just gonna kind of hang loose, and see what cums my way in terms of the women. If I can find a real hottie that I click with, I might consider taking her to the coast with me.

If anyone has any comments I'd love to hear them.

JunFan

[L Dog]

Gentlemen,

Thanks for all the helpful advice and pointy barbs to make my next trip to CR even better than the first. There are just a few points i'd like to reiterate if I may.

1. I said I had a great trip and would surely do it again.
2. I said that the coastline was the most beautiful place that i've ever had the good fortune to see with my own two eyes.
3. I said the ratio, quaility, quanity and market of the women was great.
4. I said the everyday people I ran into were more than patient and kind in all my experiences with them.

That concludes the list of positive things about my trip.

Now the negatives certainly don't outweigh the positives or I would'nt be planning my next trip. I'd like a chance to clarify some of my negative comments though.

1. I said that SJ was a shithole. I'm sorry to offend if some members think i'm being too harsh in my description. And I agree that the Mexican border towns are indeed worse than SJ. Hell I supposedly live in white bread middle america but there are neighborhoods in my city that no man would want to walk alone in at night or day. But this thread isn't about Mexico or Detroit or Florida or any other shitty place. And when I said the town was a shithole I didn't know I was supposed to gauge how much of a shithole it was, and not worse than this town but better than that place...etc.
The point is that there isn't anything to do in SJ but monger. The country is a great place to vacation but what can you do in SJ but fuck? And please don't give me any shit about the museums or cultural arts scene or great restaurants or any of that nonsense.

I stayed in SJ for 8 days and screwed 38 women. And after a while I got bored with it. I never thought i'd be bored with sharing time with beautiful women but the saturation point was reached by day 4 or 5.

Now if you just want to fly somewhere and check into a hotel and screw till your dick falls off and watch TV and shoot the shit with the barflies then this is your place. That just doesn't amount to a vacation destination for me. And you can't see the rainforest or go fishing in SJ. You can't explore the city on foot at night.

The casinos were dingy little non friendly places as well. And before you bash me I realize that I didn't fly there for the casinos, I could drive to a casino in an hour. So that part was rather unimportant.

And in closing a few responses to other members. I have driven over 50k miles a year for the last seven years for my job in the mortgage industry, which is more miles that some will ever drive in their life. And had no accidents and consider myself a master driver and again I wouldn't even consider driving in CR. The other factor is they only have small cars and i'm 6'5" and 300 lbs and that wouldn't be very pleasurable having my fat ass crammed behind the wheel of a 89' Hyundai for three hours or more.

As far as already having dates set up...why would I want to do that? If I wanted to fuck the same women more than once i'd have a wife or gf. I thought the whole excitement about mongering is new, young pussy. I want to do a new one everytime if i've got to pay for it.

Again, no offense meant to my brothers at all but some of you seem to defend this city like you are the mayor or something and don't like any negative comments made at all on this forum. I'm just trying to call em like I sees em.

Ciao,

L Dog

[Keg]

Amen Mule69 & Shamas,

I did a lot of walking about during the day and into the late afternoon in San Jose, and nobody bothered me.

As you summarized, in the evening I did exactly what I would do in any other large city (Chicago, New Orleans, Atlanta, DC, NYC, Amsterdam, Paris, Prague, Budapest, etc). Common sense in an unkown city should prevail, there is no expectation of "perfection" in the U.S., so why should a traveler have that expectation in a 3rd world city?

I had a friend who walked back to the Holiday Inn from the DelRey after dark. While nobody bothered him he did admit that he wouldn't do it again. Taxi's are available and inexpensive, and he acknowledged that "exposure to risk" is the issue, so he learned his lesson without anything bad happening.

Just my two cents.

In the lighter side, I've talked to some of the expats living there, and they wondered why anyone would even want to leave the DelRey property. Now that's funny.

Keg

[Mule69]

I also agree with Shamas..San Jose is not that dangerous and seedy as some would have you believe.You are in a crowded busy Latin American city with all the problems that come with it.Remember this is not Las Vegas.Eveyone who has spent any time there will tell you when the sun goes down it does change your options for moving about but that can be said in any downtown district anywhere. I have visited there 8 times in the past 2 years and have had no problems.Last time I stayed at the Presidente and walked the block and a half to the Del Rey late with only the kid beggars to contend with.But you can bet your ass I am aware and looking.It's been said over and over if you feel uncomfortable just take a cab.There are no guarentees in life...Mule

[Jaimito Cartero]

I think people saying that SJ is squalid haven't been around the world enough to compare. I've walked alone many times in San Jose at night, and never had a problem. As Shamas says, you shouldn't be drunk or stupid when you do it.

Most Mexican border towns (Juarez, TJ, etc) are much dirtier and dangerous than San Jose. I've strolled by putrid Klangs in Bangkok and, smelled things that I don't even want to know what they were in Juarez. The place that was scariest to me was Detroit, in the mid 80's. I was driving through, and spent the night there. Not the fashionable district, that's for sure.

Big Red - I'd check out Zona Blue if I were you. No DFK and no BBBJ just isn't acceptable. Idem is also a good choice.

[Shamas]

Not trying to start a squabble IMHO SJO isn't a dump nor that dangerous for all things considered. I've been to a lot worse, been to better. At night I've walked many of the streets alone and haven't had any problems. One thing I'm sober, large and pay attention. So far so lucky I guess. I think being sober helps a lot.

Now I don't tempt fate, when I visited in early December I took a cab from the KL around the park to the Holiday Inn late at night.

There are many stateside cities that are much worse than SJO, even my hometown has many areas that I will not walk at night.

Nuff said on this.

Like William Wallker I aslo see some steady girls, having them in call to the hotel is quite nice. Knowing them, being comfortable with them, knowing what to expect (which is everything I can stand and then a few other twists) makes my visits oh so nice.

Since I do most of my in calls during the early evening I have the nights open to spent time with the other board members and visit the BM, KL and a few other places. My next visit I'm going to have a few overnights to see if I can live through it.

I do like SJO

Shamas O'Dognasty

[BigRedwyo]

Day 1:

Flew into Costa Rica Friday morning. Staying at the Delray. Went straight over to the New Fantasy had a tica named Alaska. Looks a 8 no dfk or bbbj. Went back to the DR for lunch and will head over to Blue and try it.

[Jaimito Cartero]

It's interesting that the "dermatologist" they were looking for from NY was found in Samara. I stayed at the hotel he was staying in last December. I think he must have stayed there because they had no phones in the room and no TV.

They did have a cool tarantula looking spider crawling around the restaurant. That's always bound to get some reactions. I have some naked spider pics I could put up.

[Migrant One]

i've driven the few times i went to cr. fly into sj for a few days then drive to playa hermosa (by liberia ~ 4 hrs) then from there to arenal and back to sj.

roads to arenal are terrible but others are good. outside sj things are pretty well marked, but in sj little to no street signs. you need a map and a good sense of direction if you are going anywhere.

first trip i used thrifty and after a day of diving at playa hermosa i found someone had hit the back bumper and smashed the light, slight scrapes on the bumper also. oh-oh here go the horrer stories i heard about, i'll have to buy the friggin car, etc.

when i took it to thrifty sj they said the woman that settles these is not in, come back tomorrow. i explained i was flying out early so couldn't. they said don't worry, leave a number in the states and we have your credit card number (yeah.... don't worry).

well, no choice and about a week later i got a call at my home, she said the damage was already repaired and they were going to charge my card. i was going to protest that i should have some say in the repairs, etc but instead gulped and asked....how much?

$27.15, wow! i was as happy as the first time i talked a blue marlin girl down (well almost).

can only say good things about them.

if you are only going to be in sj, don't get a car it's too confusing in my book, but if you can, see the country it's beautiful.

migrant

[Real-Thrill]

i actually recommend renting a car and driving. i have rented 4 times down there, and have had no problems. use your platinum credit card to rent and includes car rental insurance for you so you can decline the local jacked up price for insurance they try to charge.

i've used hertz and dollar. both were fine, and i just go with the better price/deal that i can get.

driving is a trip down there. just go with the flow, when in rome, you get the idea. a couple of things i learned...

1) the police always move around with their lights on so you can see them ahead.
2) when running a radar trap, they have to be in the open where you can see them, they can't hide.
3) passing slow moving trucks on a double solid line is ok as long as it is safe.

my last trip down i had a policeman in the car with me, and he had no issues or complaints with my driving. in fact, he told me when checkpoints were coming up so i could slow down and not get hassled. when you see orange cones in the road ahead, drop to the speed limit as they are checkpoints. the cops stop buses and trucks and almost always ignore passenger trucks and cars.

i've driven all the way to the nica border in guanacaste, to jaco, manuel antonio, to the volcanoes, no problems. just look a tthe rental car map and navigate from large town to large town.

for example, in going to the beach, find the larger towns along the path, then you will need to follow the signs to those towns, when you reach a town on your list, look for the sign to the mext large town on your route. and when in doubt, you can always pull over at a soda and ask directions and have a drink.

p.s. i also drove in nicaragua on a different trip, now that was an experience.

later,
real