San Jose General Reports

[Johnny Sax]

I have been to CR about 8 times, even lived there for a while in the 90's.
Last time I was there was about 2 years ago, and it was my first time visiting the massage parlors, Zona Blue and New Fantasy I think it was called. Loved New Fantasy at the time, they had some super cute and nice girls there. But it closed shortly after that.... and then it was reported here that it re-opened again...

So is New Fantasy open again now? And if so how is it? Is Zona Blue still the more upscale place with best looking girls of the two? How much is Zona Blue these days for an hour?

How is Idem? Still good? Like I say, it's been 2 years since I've been there, and am looking for recent feedback...

Where's the best place to get 2 girls at once for under $100?

Any good cheap little places that aren't too dirty or dangerous?

Okay, enough questions... you get the picture... And you WILL get the picture, when I return from my trip, I will post some in the Photos area! So what's the latest scoop on San Jose mongering?

Oh, I remember a little place called Club Monaco that was like $20 for a room upstairs and I had one fine little Nica there. Is this club still around and decent? How about the little Zona Roja places, 747 etc..?

[MJG Dogs]

After returning from San Jose, I have had some time to reflect on my trip. I must say that I was not overly impressed with the overall monger experience. I have traveled to Rio and the Dominican Republic on several occasions, and the San Jose experience was not on the same level.

I did research the scene before the trip, but I was shocked at the lack of the GEF with the ticas. I was able to get most of the ticas in the Del Rey to except $50 for the hours, but the sex was just going through the motions. The girls seemed to be very cold and not hustling to make their money, unlike the girls from Rio and the Dominican Republic.

As an African American in my 30's clean cut and in great shape, I seemed to feel that the ticas prefered white men. Hey, I may be wronge, but that was what I felt at the time. I also visited several MP's, and the service was so so at best. I did have a great experience at the Sportsmen Lodge. The service was the best that I have experience in my travels.

I don't think that I was visit Costa Rica again anytime soon.

Braves- Most women do not care about white , or black, yellow or brown

They care about Green.........and like Ben Franklin...........

[Coquí]

I agree that SJ is not the shangri la of mongering. There are many other locations with cheaper and better looking girls but I agree 100% with Chase Star. Believe me, I do not mind " degrading myself " spending time with the girls of SJ. With the proximity to the US, the easy & cheap flight schedules, and the prices and availability of mongering activities is the place for me. I have visited Colombia, Venzuela, Dominican Republic, Mexico among others. Have not been able to make it to Brazil or Argentina but for now my playground of choice is SJ.

Happy huntings......

[Prolijo]

Cartagena is safe because of strict law enforcement to protect the tourism industry there, but you can't really venture beyond Cartagena's city limits to enjoy the Colombian countryside like you can from SJ.

But all of this just misses my point. Which was "what's your point?" So SJ doesn't take any medals in "urban planning", whatever that is supposed to mean. So Avenida Central is not the most "elegant" thoroughfare in Latin America. So there are a lot of touts and hustlers and diesel fumes. Last time I looked there was plenty of those things so in any other developing country capital (in many cases more so) and there is even a fair share of it in your beloved cities as well. And even IF SJ has more than its own share on those measures, who around here goes to CR to admire the architecture in SJ. The fact is that, beyond basic mongering, I find there is far more to do as an easy day trip from SJ (and still make it back for mongering in the evening) than there is in any of the other cities you've mentioned. And, IMHO, that is is a perfectly valid counterargument to those of you who seem to be hung up on the city limits of SJ or even the walls of th HDR/BM. Besides, a "glass-half-empty" perspective, sarcasm and ridicule aimed at other members here ("pasty paunchy bellies") does not add favorably to the discussion.

Put your comments in context of the discussion that lead up to it.

Is San Jose overrated? I was there for a week and I didn't see one single good looking girl in Blue Marlin. I wouldn't rate any of them higher than 7. Girls at New Fantasy, Eros, Zona Blue were unfuckable for my taste but I found one fine cuttie at Idem and it was an hour of non-stop GFE session for $43. Most of BM girls agreed to $60 but I couldn't degrade myself to fuck these OK looking girls. San Jose is the most boring city I've ever visited.... there are absolutely nothing to do and see in San Jose. Avoid San Jose!"

Clearly that poster, back from his first short visit to CR (and probably anywhere outside the US form the sound of it) had not bothered to get very far outside the Gulch and yet he somehow thinks that makes him qualified to write-off CR altogether. He went on to say "You need to get out of San Jose to do fun stuff. There's absolutely nothing to do in San Jose" So what's so hard about getting out of the city for the day? Do they have anything like what they have outside of SJ near his city in the US? I doubt it.

As for his evaluation of the chicas, I'll be the first to agree that there are an increasingly large number of dogs plying the BM, but "not ONE SINGLE girl higher than a 7"?!? And calling the major MP girls almost universally "unfuckable" and that he wouldn't "degrade himself" to fuck one of them? What does that comment say about his view of all the rest of us who don't see it as "degrading"? That was incredibly insulting. I'd have to think that either this guy is so stuck-up he never gets laid or is really gay. More likely, what he considers higher standards is really just different tastes (e.g. some guys actually prefer gordos while others like skinny chested waifs). Besides, where else could a guy find an hour of non-stop GFE with a fine cutie north of SJ for $43?

Frankly, I think this guy's real problem is that he was too lazy or ignorant to do his own homework. Any casual review of the photo section here would have given him a clear idea ahead of time of the general level of talent in CR. And yet he was surprised by what he found? Besides, from what I've seen of the pictures in the other sections, SJ has no monopoly on girls that I'd consider dogs. If he had done his homework he'd already have known that the BM is not the place to look for non-hardened chicas and if you do you have to seriously pre-screen. He failed to do that and when he figured out too late he picked a clunker, what does he do? Give her $30 and send her on her way without her having to do a thing. I'd be very surprised if this guy has mongered internationally before much if at all and is the last one to lecture on "how to compare and rate girls"

The next character didn't do much better.

My impression of the del ray was also very bad..... Also I am not interested in search around san jose and go to places off the beaten path meant for the locals. Perhaps better women can be found there.... I have been to multiple third worlds, but San Jose seemed to be the most barbaric society out of them all. ....Was only there 2 nights and sick of it by the end. Would not repeat.

I'm not going to argue with his impression of the Del Rey, but isn't this the same guy who posted this just 6 weeks earlier:

Guys, I have to go against conventional wisdom here. I highly recommend just staying in the Del Ray.

Again, its all about taking responsibility and doing your homework. In this case, this guy knew what the conventional wisdom was and chose to ignore it. Not only that but after staying in the HDR and "highly recommend[ing] just staying in the Del Ray[sic]" he suddenly turns around after 1 negative post 6 weeks later and says the place is "very bad"? Which was it? I'm sorry but he sounds a little schizo on this subject. At least he apparently has more international mongering experience to base his opinion on but his evaluation is based on a incredibly brief one time two day visit to SJ during which if he didn't spend nearly all of his limited time in the HDR he didn't venture off the the most well trodden path where one is most likely to run into the most hardened chicas.

And finally, to complete my critique of his ridiculous post, calling SJ the most barbaric society of multiple 3rd worlds would be blatantly absurd if he just looked around some of those other places he's been. TJ is far worse than SJ on the crime and security front. Colombia is a country fractured by civil war, narco-traffickers, kidnappings and one of the highest murder rates in the western hemisphere. And Rio is renowned for its pickpockets and the crime that goes on in the ramshackle favelas just a few blocks behind the gleaming beachfront buildings.

I'm not trying to trash Rio or any of those other places. In fact, I really like Rio and would go there every weekend if not for the long and expensive flight. However, just as I don't write Rio off because it doesn't stack up on certain measures, others shouldn't write SJ off just because its not perfect in every way.

[Braves41]

After returning from San Jose, I have had some time to reflect on my trip. I must say that I was not overly impressed with the overall monger experience. I have traveled to Rio and the Dominican Republic on several occasions, and the San Jose experience was not on the same level.

I did research the scene before the trip, but I was shocked at the lack of the GEF with the ticas. I was able to get most of the ticas in the Del Rey to except $50 for the hours, but the sex was just going through the motions. The girls seemed to be very cold and not hustling to make their money, unlike the girls from Rio and the Dominican Republic.

As an African American in my 30's clean cut and in great shape, I seemed to feel that the ticas prefered white men. Hey, I may be wronge, but that was what I felt at the time. I also visited several MP's, and the service was so so at best. I did have a great experience at the Sportsmen Lodge. The service was the best that I have experience in my travels.

I don't think that I was visit Costa Rica again anytime soon.

[MJG Dogs]

Maybe we should send the mayors of NY, LA, Chicago and Miami, to study Coartagena's and Rio's outstanding record on violent crime and pickpocketing. Every place has its pluses and minuses and no place is perfect. SJ is a bit of a pit but compared to nearly every other Central American capital it is positively civilized and as others have already pointed out. Most of the million plus tourists that go to CR each year don't go for attractions in SJ (except perhaps for perverts like us) but they do go for the multitude of attractions in the nearby countryside much of which can be visited in day trips from SJ (that is assuming you can venture outside of the artificially self-imposed confines of the HDR/BM or the marginally less limited Gringo Gulch).

I never said Costa Rica was a shithole, only san Jose, I actually like Quepos, Puerto Viejo and tamarindo, jaco is so-so.

Cartagena has very little violent crime, especially against tourists. I would rather have the Colombian military patrolling the streets than the cops in san jose. I feel a lot safer in cartagena at night than in San Jose, Also Cartagena is much cleaner.

Also I am willing to bet that all the american cities mentioned above, with maybe the exception of Chicago, have higher homicide rates than CTG

Have to agree with you on Rio, though, things are getting bad in Rio.

[Prolijo]

Maybe we should send the mayors of NY, LA, Chicago and Miami, to study Cartagena's and Rio's outstanding record on violent crime and pickpocketing. Every place has its pluses and minuses and no place is perfect. SJ is a bit of a pit but compared to nearly every other Central American capital it is positively civilized and as others have already pointed out. Most of the million plus tourists that go to CR each year don't go for attractions in SJ (except perhaps for perverts like us) but they do go for the multitude of attractions in the nearby countryside much of which can be visited in day trips from SJ (that is assuming you can venture outside of the artificially self-imposed confines of the HDR/BM or the marginally less limited Gringo Gulch).

[MJG Dogs]

"Maybe we should send the mayors of NY, LA, Chicago and Miami, to study San Jose's outstanding infrastructure and urban planning."

You must be stoned.

dapanz1

dapanz

It is parody........

We both know San Jose is a shithole........

[Dapanz 1]

"Maybe we should send the mayors of NY, LA, Chicago and Miami, to study San Jose's outstanding infrastructure and urban planning."

You must be stoned.

dapanz1

[Dapanz 1]

"You truly visiting the finest area with the finest and most honest women in the western hemisphere and with the cleanist and most modern city in all of the americas. Oh I forgot how beautiful Avenida Central is, especially when comparing it to Cartagena and Rio. Maybe we should send the mayors of NY,LA, Chicago and Miami, to study san jose's outstanding infrastructure and urban planning."

You must be stoned.

dapanz1

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