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11-24-20 17:41 #9918
Posts: 1792Originally Posted by MojoBandit [View Original Post]Originally Posted by MojoBandit [View Original Post]
And very coincidentally the black brothers who are talking while on the boat at the start of this video I think are the SAME black brothers that I mentioned in my earlier post. Go figure.
Again this all being said there is life and yes girls and fun can be had but it will be a different experience just because of much less people and hence much less of a party atmosphere.
This being said I have my favorite chica here in Medellin who is begging me to take her to Cartagena as she has never been and she has a birthday coming up in mid December and so am considering it.
So is life.
Much love and respect to all.
The Tall Man.
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11-24-20 07:59 #9917
Posts: 1257Youtuber who I think is a tout in Medellin
From the looks of this video the chicas in Plaza de LOS Coches by the clock tower are now ready to fight over a client. Desperate times indeed.
I have watched a few of this guy's videos and he seems to be a tout / guide who is using youtube for targeting guys interested in the mongering scene in Cartagena. Smart move on his part probably but I do not think I would recommend a tout / guide like this over doing your own research. These guys all have an angle and a person really limits themself if they choose a "guide" and you'll never know what you missed or how much extra you spent.
In this video which by all appearances seems very recent he walks up to La Dolce Vita and Space (2:25) Then he shows two chicas about to throw down in the Plaza de LOS Coches (2:42), at 3:47 they are walking around in Castillogrande and you get a quick view across the Bay of Cartagena (Bahia de Cartagenas) straight across the water is Manga and to the left is Bocagrande. And then later in the video he is on Playa Hollywood (5:34) , You can see the roped off areas they have set up for social distancing. In part of the shot you can see part of the Hotel Caribe. Place of infamy for being the place where a US Secret Service agent ended his career over arguing with a prepago over the price. Let that be a lesson to anyone who goes down to Cartagena on official business. When you negotiate stress on the world "pesos" - make her quote you the price and hear her say "pesos" LOL.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSbsHjlNMB4&t=325s
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11-24-20 04:03 #9916
Posts: 1257Very Sad
Originally Posted by TheTallMan [View Original Post]
5 % is a sad figure to hear. I remember reading when Colombia was talking about opening up that the most pressure to do so was coming out of Cartagena. Not that all Colombians do not consider Cartagena to be their crown jewel anyway so I could see how even Colombians who lived in different areas could root for Cartagena to do well. So it is really sad to hear that it is not bouncing back with any strength. We can only guess that even though its open a lot of people still do not judge this to be a good time to travel. Sounds like a guy can seriously do some bargain shopping in clock tower right now. I certainly wish I could travel right now but I just can't.
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11-23-20 15:38 #9915
Posts: 1792Originally Posted by MojoBandit [View Original Post]
Know that I have been to Cartagena about 4 times in the past 4 or 5 years and in the prior covid days easily found girls in the clubs and at the clock tower to spend a few hours with but this trip was different.
First of all many restaurants and shops have shuttered for good and the amount of street activity and tourist is probably 5%, YES 5% of pre-covid days but this being said I could have easily pulled the trigger with a dozen cuties at the clock tower or hanging / walking around the streets looking for fun and a few pesos.
I saw a group of black brothers who looked like they were having a great night but other than that the chicas were all searching for fun and clients. A bit sad that there is so much economic problems.
On an aside. I switched my Tinder account over to Cartagena as the location and within 2 hours I received at least 70 likes and I must say that some were very beautiful and natural and if I had more time could have easily explored these chicas.
Would I return to Cartagena? Probably not anytime soon and the only reason is that I have literally hundreds of chicas here in my back yard of Medellin that I can call and party with anytime day or night. I am not boasting rather just saying it like it is, never in my life have I had to choose one which of the 4 or 5 non-pro cuties, age range from 18 to 22 yo, would I take for a day trip to Guatape yesterday. I settled in on an incredibly sweet 19 yo Venezuelan cutie and we had a great time, she is still asleep in my bed, hehehehe.
The Tall Man.
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11-23-20 01:09 #9914
Posts: 122Well I'm looking to explore more of Cartagena. Yes I can walk easily but I want to know what I'm walking by. I enjoy knowing some history, hidden spots etc. A local walking tour should be able to easily and cheaply accomplish this.
Yes I heard there are plenty of girls, but very few customers. From what I understood from this girl is the clubs close.
By 12. Most try to do tables only and even make reservations. Seems tinder and clock tower may be best this trip. But whatever, looking forward to it!
Yes I have heard that about apartments. I asked Juan several times and he even said his guy in the ground asked and double checked, just have a 30 k fee per guest after 10!
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11-22-20 13:12 #9913
Posts: 1257Originally Posted by Rzrfl69 [View Original Post]
I think that from Tall Man's post we can at least deduce that there is plenty of action around the Clock Tower as usual. The wild card question is what's going on in Dolce Vida and Space, etc.
I read in your earlier posts that you rented from Jaun in the past. I recently emailed him and he said that the buildings currently have various restrictions due to Coronavirus, some are more strict than usual and others not. I suggest that you email him for details if you plan to stay in one of his apartments.
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11-22-20 04:19 #9912
Posts: 122Travel December 10-13
I know this isn't 100% where to post.
This. But I want to make sure it's seen by this crowd. I will be in Ctg December 10-13. I've heard almost everything is open. But I've heard very few tourists of our type. This is from a girl I've known 2 years now. She's sent me videos of bars empty.
On a side note. This will be my 9th trip I believe. I'm.
Interested in a walking tour. Seeing Getsemani.
Etc. I know from laguito to bocagrande to centro like the back.
Of my hand. But that's it. Any suggestions appreciated.
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11-21-20 13:43 #9911
Posts: 1792Cartagena trip report Friday the 13th.
Finally a real boots on the ground report.
The Tall Man spent a few days in CART and strolled all around the clock tower and clubs (those that were opened) on Friday the 13th of November.
In the clock tower plaza at about between 9 pm until midnight saw probably 40 chicas out and another 40 give or take walking around the streets of the clubs.
Some were very good looking and made instant eye contact even though I was with a young tall slender paisa who traveled with me from Medellin. My paisa girl has a true stripper body and a face, when she makes it up right, can look like a porno star with her natural expressions and damn her twerking body just the way she walks.
So for a moment I considered inviting one of the clock tower cuties to join us but just wasn't in the cards.
The following day, Saturday November 14th it rained all day hence the street flooding and just as the photo shows of the clock tower plaza was knee deep.
The Tall Man.
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11-21-20 05:07 #9910
Posts: 559Originally Posted by JjBee62 [View Original Post]
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11-21-20 04:11 #9909
Posts: 1257Originally Posted by Remy316 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by GameTime [View Original Post]Originally Posted by Nyezhov [View Original Post]
The areas generally considered safe are these barrios / neighborhoods: inside the walled city, some times called to Old City, are two neighborhoods Centro and San Diego, Centro makes up the southwest area of the walled city and is where the "clock tower", Dolce Vida, and Space are. The other neighborhood inside the walled city in the northeast part is San Diego. Just to the south of San Diego outside the wall is a very small area called Matuna, which is shaped like a triangle and only like a building/block wide at its southwest end and two or three blocks wide on the northeast side. Going farther south on the other side of Matuna is a neighborhood called Getsemani which when I started going to Cartagena over a decade ago was so sketchy I would not venture there at night, but just last year Forbes magazine called Getsemani one of the ten coolest neighborhoods in the world. I included an image of the Old City
South of the Old City connected to the land by an isthmus leading to what on the map looks like a peninsula with another peninsula sticking off of it are actually three neighborhoods that make up the extreme southwest of Cartagena , The largest is Bocagrande and it has the most beachfront and a number of high rise buildings housing hotels and airbnbs to rent and that look out over the ocean. To the far southwest of this peninsula with a peninsula sticking off it wrapped around a the southwest side of a little lake is the small area called El Laguito which is home to more than a couple of chica-friendly buildings and so a few mongers end up staying in this little area. There are also out of town prostitutes who stay in buildings in Laguito and it happens in spurts but sometimes there are streetwalkers there. My very first night ever in Cartagena and I had met a girl on line and she had came over to the apartment ,I had to pop out to get condoms and as soon as I exited I walked out of my apartment and this chica walks up to me who is gorgeous, she looked like a young Vanessa Williams (Miss America 1984 for yu young guys) and wanted to offer me "nude Massage". I am pretty sure there was a pack of venezuelan chicas working Laguito last year but I never hit on them because I was shacking up with a little hottie most of that trip. The peninsula sticking off the peninsula is neighborhood called Castillo Grande which is essentially more high rise residential buildings and not an area I personally would look for a chica-friendly apartment.
Other areas that are safe. There is a neighborhood accessible by a bridge across the lagoon at the southeast corner of Getsemani the bridge crosses the Laguna de San Lazaro called Manga which is quiet and residential and just like Castillogrande, not a place I would think to look for a chica friendly apartment. Northeast of the Old City the road/highway runs along the ocean heading to the airport and this strip of land is bounded by intercoastal water to southeast and the ocean to northwest and this area has been coming along over the last few years, nicer hotels along the beach area, on up further along that highway that skirts the ocean and when getting closer to the airport the city has even put a park overtop the highway that has a cycling an skating areas and so residents do not have to deal with traffic getting across the street to the beach. I suspect that this area has a nice future for family vacationers but again its not the place I would go looking for chica friendly apartments.
For a general rule of thumb but not necessarily a strict rule, places that are at the western end of the city and have some body of water between them and the mainland, whether it be a strip if intercoastal water or a bay or a lagoon, these are the safer areas. Of course there are exceptions to this, just across the bridge to the northeast leaving Getsemani to reach the mainland is the Castillo de San Felipe de Barajas. A huge concrete fort that is a popular tourist attraction and the area immediately surrounding this is safe. There are probably plenty of strada 2,3,4 areas that are fine throughout Cartagena but I can only attest to what I know. FOr people who grew on ghettos areas none of it might be a problem, again it is a matter of what you are comfortable with. I have on occasions gotten in a taxi and ridden to the malls Caribe Plaza Centro Comercial and Centro Comercial Portal de San Felipe, could not find any shoes to fit me because down there I may as well be Shaquille O'Neal. I included an image that circles the touristy areas in red.
In fact in one of those historic moments where you remember where you were when something happened, I had jumped into a taxi at Caribe Plaza and the taxi driver recognized that I was from the USA and he is like real excited and he is going on in Spanish, but at the time my spanish was even more limited than it is now and he was excited and talking fast. I eventually I understood him to be say "Obama killed Osama" you can see why I was confused. In spanish it is "Obama mat a Osama"and said really fast it is ObamaMatoahOsama. Then the same level of excitement from the security guard when I reached the apartment building "ObamaMatoahOsama" he said. It felt good to know that the son of birch Osama was dead but it also felt good that these Colombians felt enough camaraderie with us 'estadounidenses' (Americans from USA) that they were more excited than I was.
So Bocagrande, the Old City, and El Laguito are the main places to search for a chica friendly apartments. El Laguito is farthest from the action in the old city and closest to the beach action on Playa Hollywood and its only fifteen minute average taxi to the Old City. There are strip clubs all over the city but use your own judgement about how you feel about visiting the that particular area.
One last thing, if you see something on the Cartagena Map or in the Cartagena List that looks interesting but not sure if it is still a viable thing, try using the "Search Thread" function in "Cartagena Reports". Just below the banner ads and below where you see the posts numbers and page number before any of the post above where it says "This blog is moderated by Admin' and toward the right side it says Thread Tools and Thread Search. Click on the little arrow to the right of where it says Thread Search and a search box opens. Here you can enter things like the name of a strip club and see how long ago anyone visited.
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11-20-20 17:49 #9908
Posts: 5462Originally Posted by Nyezhov [View Original Post]
"Hi! Tell me everything I need to know to have a great time in Thailand."
Every active board gets some post like that from time to time. Where do you start? You know nothing about me. You don't know what I consider to be a great time. Maybe a BJ bar in the morning and a Soapie in the early evening is just right for me. Maybe I'm a Soi Cowboy kind of guy. Maybe I should be looking at Phuket. We have had guys in the Medellin thread ask if the beach is within walking distance.
I've helped a lot of people in the Colombia forum (and pissed some off) and for me the best response to a generic post from a new member is "Read the Forum." I don't often use RTFF because I prefer to be polite when I'm not actively pissing someone off.
Give me something to work with. Do you understand that most people won't speak English? Do you understand that you can't pay for everything with Dollars? Have you ever mongered before? Have you ever traveled internationally before?
I will bend over backwards and give the shirt off my back to help some guy out (sorry about the sweat), but you've got to be willing to do something on your own. Otherwise, everything I've done is worthless.
Cartagena might not be for you. Someone can give you all the information they think you need to know, but it turns out you wanted a place with a climate like Medellin.
RTFF does one more thing. Every forum has a few guys who don't always give the best advice. Unless you read the forum you don't know the good guys from the bad guys. The first guy I met in Medellin probably should have been told RTFF. Instead a couple of guys told him he needed to stay in El Centro. I suggested he should spend a few days at the Mansion, get a feel for the place then decide whether or not El Centro was right for him.
If I remember right he lost several days worth of the room in El Centro, which he'd prepaid, because he only spent one night there. First thing in the morning he was lucky enough to get a room at the Mansion and he spent the rest of his trip there, loving every minute.
RTFF. It helps you decide if you're going to the right city or the right country.
RTFF. It helps identify who can best help you.
RTFF. It fills in the small gaps in your knowledge.
RTFF. It shows you're taking responsibility for the success of your trip.
RTFF. It shows you respect the efforts of everyone who has contributed.
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11-20-20 15:41 #9907
Posts: 1257Originally Posted by Remy316 [View Original Post]Originally Posted by GameTime [View Original Post]Originally Posted by Nyezhov [View Original Post]
In one sense GameTime is correct, Clock Tower Square (Plaza de Los Coches) After around 10pm, the clubs are Dolce Vida, Space and make sure before you book an airbnb that you are allowed to have visitors is all You Need To Know, but its not All There Is To Know.
That being said its also obvious that so many people do not pay attention to the whole forum. They miss out. If you back out of the Cartagena thread and look through the lists of threads in the Colombia section you will see things like "Reports of Distinction" "Cartagena Hotels and Rental Apartments" and "Cartagena Lists". "Cartagena Lists" is extremely helpful if you read the right posts, If you examine the whole Colombia forum there are some absolute heroes on this board. "Cartagena Lists" is where you will find one such hero's post who's moniker is WorldTravel69 not only did WorldTravel69 put together a list but also a custom made Google Map to show people exactly how to get to places and such ( You'll need to go back to 04-11-17 post 491). The amount of info in there is staggering and no way anyone can just pop back to you with short answers and cover everything. So when guys tell you to read the forum they are saying "its all here and read the whole forum, not just this thread or a few posts. There is a lot alot of info but you need to explore. Then you also need to get a membership because some info needs to be shared through private messages.
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11-20-20 03:31 #9906
Posts: 1307Originally Posted by GameTime [View Original Post]
My research, including the proverbial RThisFF, leads me to tell you that the above info is correct.
Living wise depends on your budget and your desires. If you are a beach bum, the Boacgrande seems to be the place to be. I think my intital trip will be for two months, so Ill get a discount somewhere. I'm looking at Bocangrande and the Old City for places. I wouldn't bother reserving a place anywhere in the world right now, things will change as the vaccinations start. I'm sort of in limbo right now too so its just a waiting game until after the holidays.
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11-20-20 00:52 #9905
Posts: 1257Rtff
Originally Posted by Remy316 [View Original Post]
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11-20-20 00:50 #9904
Posts: 45Originally Posted by Remy316 [View Original Post]