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08-02-22 17:51 #15253
Posts: 110JW Marriott through Priceline
Hotel rates really have skyrocketed in SP recently but I wanted to share a great find. The JW Marriott originally opened as the Four Seasons right before the pandemic but closed and re-opened three months ago as the JW Marriott. It's a gorgeous hotel and it is conveniently connected to a small shopping mall with everything you could need and a small food court with lots of options.
Rates through the Marriott web site were really expensive ($300+ with corporate discount). I found it for $137/ night through Priceline. The hotel is girl friendly but requires registration with minimal hassle. A couple nights they offered my lady friend a glass of sparkling wine. A warning though, they have amazing blackout curtains so your Scandallo girls might sleep all day! Seriously! I had a few that loved the bed so much and how dark the room was that they slept past 2 pm even while I was working from my desk. Housekeeping is fantastic and changed my sheets every day with fresh linens and lots of towels. Room service was also very good.
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08-02-22 17:15 #15252
Posts: 2944I appreciate your politeness for not quoting my post. Try google this and see what comes up and check the date on it. "Do NOT use the ATM right after immigration (and before customs) at GRU airport". There is another link in that post to another post. Just sharing info.
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08-02-22 16:49 #15251
Posts: 99Do not use an ATM outside of security at GRU. You can almost guarantee that your card will be skimmed. Use the ATMs that are inside security. Much smaller chance of getting skimmed.
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08-02-22 13:43 #15250
Posts: 2944GRU Bradesco at T2 above the check-in area
Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]
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08-02-22 13:40 #15249
Posts: 2944Originally Posted by Tochka [View Original Post]
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08-02-22 13:36 #15248
Posts: 2944Apple Pay accepted
Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]
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08-02-22 13:18 #15247
Posts: 647Originally Posted by Tochka [View Original Post]
With a population of 220 M there are all sorts of shapes and sizes.
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08-02-22 13:04 #15246
Posts: 136Originally Posted by Jet69 [View Original Post]
I have a similar observation after walking around in SP, taking the Metro, buying stuff in Malls, and going to Ibirapuera Park with my Scandallo Garota and her son, going out to the clubs with guys from the barbershop, visiting neighborhood bars to sing with cover bands, the everyday SP women I saw were ok. My head wasn't on a swivel checking out everyday women compared to DR where they seem to be everywhere, malls, shops, and on the Metro.
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08-02-22 12:50 #15245
Posts: 6426Oh
Originally Posted by Lalabo [View Original Post]
Yes, Brazilian people are using credit cards and debit cards everywhere and always have in modern times. I'm not questioning that. But number one, that doesn't mean it's as safe to use a credit card in Brazil as say in more developed and prosperous countries. And number two, like everybody else they were using cash first LOL, and that hasn't stopped (yet). It will stop in the United States before it will in Brazil, and we aren't there yet (I acknowledge some particular circumstances in some African countries led to pay by mobile device being more prevalent than by either cash or credit card). So people look. You plan to spend in the form that you want to when in Brazil (credit card or cash). Me? In Brazil I'm sticking mostly with cash for the aforementioned reasons, with occasional credit card use at establishments I have a warranted high degree of trust in (that would exclude food court merchants).
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08-02-22 01:17 #15244
Posts: 245Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]
So yes a lot of Paulistanos (and Brasilians as a whole in certain locations, service / tourist industries, and education levels) do speak english outside of work enviroments if they "choose to. " and have a interest in you.
With all that being said it's best for Anyone, If they can and have the time and will to Learn and Understand Portuguese. Your experiences in Brasil will be greatly enhanced.
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08-01-22 23:15 #15243
Posts: 2944Originally Posted by DanielMatt [View Original Post]
Originally Posted by N [View Original Post]
BBBJ and DFK are common without asking in Sao Paulo clinicas and clubs, but it is the opposite in Medellin casas and clubs. That is what this post is about.
Originally Posted by Combo [View Original Post]
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08-01-22 22:56 #15242
Posts: 2262Best is to be able to work remotely as a digital nomad, and to be retired from one career, or semi-retired.
For example, being a retired Lieutenant Commander, Swiss Navy, but running some do re mi for myself and for Union Bank of Switzerland private clients (who have left, haha) would be ideal. You know, we Swiss Navy only care about pirate bounty and prize ships.
Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]
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08-01-22 22:52 #15241
Posts: 2944Originally Posted by TheCane [View Original Post]
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08-01-22 22:40 #15240
Posts: 2944Originally Posted by TheCane [View Original Post]
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08-01-22 20:32 #15239
Posts: 2262Agreed.
It's frustrating how few cab drivers make change for even 50.
Originally Posted by Nounce [View Original Post]