Cartagena Reports

[John]

Two of us friends visited Cartagena from November 7 thru November 12, 2006, and from November 12th thru 17th at the Medellin Mansion.

Cartagena:

We reached Cartagena at 1:00pm, rented our apartment from Juan Ventura. Juan put us up in Edificio playa mar 802 for the first three days and Playa mar 801 from November 10 thru 12. Due to busy season we had to switch the apartments on November 10, 2006. I recommend 801 cause it has an excellent beach view from balcony and the master bedroom.

In short service provided by Juan Ventura was remarkably good (Two thumbs up).

This trip of mine was sort of no limit money wise. I was in no mood to negotiate as long as i was only doing top class girls. I wanted girl friend experience and in most cases i did get it.

I blew away US$4,000 in 10 days (including my ticket and stay). I dont' even remember how many girls i had in my trip, but i can tell you this that aside from may be 1 or so none of the girls was less than 8.5 in my scale.

Just to give you guys an idea of what i say is 8.5, I am posting a girl from Cartagena which i booked from 1:00 am to 5:00 pm the next day for US$175 (COP 350,000), also i am posting a girl from medellin by the name of Lina from Loutron (she was a knock out and a 9.4 in my scale. I can only give a 10 to Aishwaria Rai (Indian top model/actress).

Recomendations in Cartagena:

Valentina from LDV ( I literally made love to her, just like you would make love to your girl friend for the first time). After my session with her, it was her words "may be i should pay you." I paid her COP 300k for the night.

Pley club in Cartagena is the closest to a Terma setting of Rio de Janeiro. One hour session at the club is 150k and girl for the night including club fees is usually 300k (The price is pretty much set). I recommend that if you
want to have a fun experience in Cartagena, don't miss out on visiting Pley club. They have thailand style shows going on every 20 or 30 mins. If nothing else go check the shows out. Girls are dancing all around you, and at pley club, pretty soon you will have the feeling that you died and went to Heaven.

Cartagena had some good ass night time action, but the action was quite limited to night time. Day time action was some what limited.

[Artful]

Daytime action: really tough. There is action to be had in Laguito, late afternoon/early evening, but IMHO it's really tough. I should say I'm a pretty shy guy, so for the more brazen of you maybe it's easier, but for me it'd hard work. There's the odd girl around, but it sure aint Rio (Balcony, Meia Pataca) during the day. My favoured daytime activity is to get some casa girls, who certainly aren't used to the gringo action, and invite them around during the day. I had a couple of girls around for 300k. They arrived at 1pm, left at 6-ish. Was lovely. And the casa girls generally are much more appreciative than the LDV girls who, by and large, are waaaaay gringo-tired. I'm certain I could have gotten a cheaper price than 300k but I need to feel the price is right for me as well as for them.

As much as I love LDV, btw, it aint the be-all and end-all. There are a number of other excellent options:

Pleyboy: only been there one. It was pretty decent, I can't remember the price, but I think around 200k for one hour or slightly less. Lots of cute girls, I don't know about the TNL options (which is what I'm most interested in), but I'd say ok value for money for the hourly option considering the high quality of girls.

La Triplaterra/Girro Matti/Candela/Other centro options: I gotta say, I love these places. They're bars, but full of hookers. And Me Love Da Hookers. In these places in Centro you can mostly tell the difference between Colombia and Brazil. There are girls, and they're most certainly pros, but you can pretend (in the self-delusional game we all play with ourseleves) that they're not pros. For a drinker like myself, Giro Matti is ace. Open til 6 or 7, crowded, 90% of the girls hookers, but very few of them hustling for buiness. Perfect for those of us wanting several hours of self-delusional fun.

That's it for now.

[Artful]

Tom,

I'm thinking of arriving on the 29th. A good time, you think? I could just go to Rio, but can't decide. Is there any La Ley Seca period in CTG at that time?

I leave CTG for MDE during Christmas. The city is packed, and lodging prices are double or triple.

[Tom 33]

I leave CTG for MDE during Christmas. The city is packed, and lodging prices are double or triple.

[Artful]

hi,,

a couple of excellent reports from junkyard has inspired this longtime lurker to post some contributions on cartagena.

to put my experience in context: i have been to south america (mostly rio, ba, sp, ctg) 7 or 8 times in the last couple of years. i know the score reasonably well. i would place cartegana 2nd in sa in terms of value for money and girl experiences. rio would have to be number one: there are many more options and i dig the br girls. having said that, everytime i go to ctg i've had excellent gfe experiences. they're probably more attainable in ctg than in rio imho.

my modus operandi: i like to get <british style> pissed. therefore, i like the bar scenes. therefore (ii), i like helpeee in rio, newport in ba, neptunes in hong kong and ldv in cartegena. to my mind, ldv is a smaller, well ok much smaller, version of helpee. if you squint, you're slightly pissed and self-delusional, they can both feel like regular clubs where the girls just happen to be particularly friendly.

in term of value for money: ctg beats rio hands down. the chap that posted earlier about rio being equitable was just plain wrong. rio is much more expensive than ctg these days. the price of accommodation is pretty comparable actually, with decent apartments available in both cities for $50 a day, but it's the price of the girls where rio becomes expensive. it's difficult to get helpee girls for less than r200 tln (usually more) which is about gbp60. it's much easier to get a ldv girl for 200k pesos (gbp40) and the experience, so long as you follow the ground rules, tends to be better too. having said that, you could easily argue the lower cost per girl advantage of ctg is offset by the significantly greater number of options in rio (termos, escorts, freelancers, helpee, balcony, meia pataca etc).

overall, i'd recommend a newbie who doesn't speak spanish should go to rio.

now, i have a questions: i've never been to ctg around the xmas period, but i'm thinking of arriving just before new years eve. whats ldv like at that time of year? is la ley seca active around this time (i'll be staying around 2 weeks)? do the girls tend to go home for xmas? any insights much appreciated.

luego

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[Junkyard]

hello everyone,

first, thanks for cachorro for his insights into my questions. i´ve met many people and starting to learn the ropes so to speak. after we left off, i then went to other casas that night. (the casa i mensioned in my last post was casa morino btw). i also visited ldv again and got the blondie from medellin. since i had two other girls that night it took me a little while to finish. but 10 minutes, come on. she started saying stuff like i need to finish. i swear, only 10 minutes! i paid her the 150k and never again.

next night i hired another cab driver for 20k an hour. he was a cool guy that had a cd player in his taxi and played michael jackson the whole time. nothing like driving down a road in cartagena with thriller blasting in the background. at about 8pm our first stop was pleyboy. it was dead. only one girl there that was a 6. we then went to casa lavagante which is right next door. there was a few girls there, and some birthday party for an italian. i got a nice girl named patricia (not her real name as i found out). nice 19 year old girl. i paid 60k for the house and 80k for her. she gave me the best bbbj i´ve ever had so i ended up giving her 100k. since i was looking for a chica to travel with, i got her number and invited her to spend the day with me the following day, then go to the resort cocolisco. i told her i´d call at 12:30 the next day.

the taxi guy and me then went to casa international. again, not many if any guys, and about 7 or 8 girls. we sit at a table and a nearby girl catches my eye. i buy her a beer and we talk for awhile. it is 50k for the house and we negotiate a price. she wanted 80k and i said 60k. she said 80k. i told her she is supposed to say 70k next. she wouldn´t budge and i told the driver that we need to leave after this beer and she gave in. the price doesn´t matter to me too much, i just want these girls to be flexible. so after a few drinks we head up to the room. again, a great bbbj. unfortunately, she has had a child so her body isn´t up to speed. i give her a 7.5. at the end of the session, she must of been in love with me. truth or not, she said i made her orgasm 3 times and i could see the love in her eyes. kind of scary if you ask me. i got her number but i won´t call her up.

the next day i call patricia at 12:30 and she is going to meet me at my apartment at 2. at 3 she finally arrives. we have sex within the first 10 minutes, then go off to get something to eat. we also bought 2 tickets to cocolisco resort at the hilton. a few hours later we come back and go at it again. i thought she was going to stay the whole night, but she ended up leaving because the ¨casa¨ needs her around. dang it, what does it take to get a girl to stay the whole night around here? i paid her the agreed upon 150k for her time.

the next morning she comes over at 7:30 and we´re off to cocoliso. it´s tuesday and cloudy and rainy. during the boat ride over, the last 10 minutes it was pouring and a little chilly. we go snorkling and sit in the sun, blah blah blah. overall, the place wasn´t as good as it seems. a good experience overall, but not sure if i´ll do it again. when i get back home i´ll post some pictures of the resort and my chica. she leaves after we got at it again that night and i´ll probably never talk or see her again.

wednesday. so on my way through bogata, i got the phone number of an american i met at the airport. i would of called him earlier but i lost his number! however, on tuesday i found it while packing for cocolisco. so i call him on wednesday afternoon. turns out it´s his colombian girlfriends phone number. she says he left this morning. she asks is she can come over. i say, sure. an hour later she comes with her two daughters. one is a 9, and another is a gordita 5. we ended up walking to bocagrande and eat dinner. uh oh, they wanted me to pay. bad sign. i paid like a stupid gringo. they end up inviting me back to their house which is, seriously, a 45 minute cab ride into who knows where in cartagena. i´ll have to post those pictures, too. i find out the 22 years old hot daughter has a kid of her own. she goes down to a 8 in my book. we were supposed to go out tonight (thursday) to a club. i figured my chances of sex were low, and she had a kid - she can´t be smoking hot. if i wanted to date a girl with no guarenteed sex, i´d be vacationing in miami! i blew her off and took another option. that wednesday night i ended up going to ldv. it was raining cats and dogs and i got there about 11:30. not many girls or guys there. i found a decent looking girl, probably a 7. we agree on 100k for short term. she was the first girl from ldv that gave me a bbbj. congradulations.

i heard of this cab driver which has university girls that are under his wing so to speak. i took him up on his offer of 200k for a university girl. in 90 minutes he came with a 29 year old girl which was probably a 8. however, i later learned she didn´t have much sexual experience and even didn´t do a bbbj. terrible. i paid her the 200k and figured that was it. later the taxi driver comes to my door and wants his take. this really got me mad. i thought the 200k was all inclusive. i angerly gave him 20k and told him to leave me alone. i´ll tell his friend that introduced me to the service that i apologize, but never again.

today i met another american here and we are going to check out a club called tripletera or something similiar in el centro. apparently it´s similar to ldv. i also heard there is another club called isis (it´s pronounced ysis) that´s similar to ldv in el centro. i only have 2 more days so not sure if i´ll get to visit or not. i´ll let you all know.

junkyard

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[El Austriaco]

For beach cities, Rio de Janerio, Havana, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, and arguably other Mexican and Cuban cities are much, much more beautiful and interesting IMHO and have plenty of P4P.

Rio de Janeiro, yes: better beaches, better beach life, plenty of P4P. Havana? Great colonial city, yes, but beach life? P4P, yes, but a pain in the ass (well, at least it was while I was there in 1998). Acapulco? Not bad, but sky-high P4P, and I hope nobody seriously compares Mexican women to Colombian ones (P4P or not). Puerto Vallarta: don't know, but I wouldn't hold my breath in terms of P4P (I live in Mexico, after all).

Just trying to be fair to Cartagena. IMHO, it's a worthy alternative destination after Rio, maybe if only to get a different taste. Something that I couldn't say about Mexico, P4P-wise.

I think I'm going to stand by the ATM complaint. From Laguito it's about a 20 to 30 mintue walk to an ATM in Boca Grande round trip which in my book is pretty inconvinient (though perhaps maditory walking is good for the health). The only ATM I can find in Laguito is the one near the frozen yogurt place which is down most of the time.

As Tom correctly mentioned, there are TONS of ATMs in Boca Grande, and I have never had a problem with any of them. Come to think of it, there are way more working ATMs in Cartagena than in Rio de Janeiro, even in Copacabana. I have yet to find a working one in Centro Rio, while finding one in downtown Cartagena has never been a problem for me.

EA

[Lima Busy]

Lima Busy,

You are not the first person to say that Lima has hot chicas.

I am curious as to where exactly do you find theses non-pro girls you speak of.

I will be going to Lima next year. Is this the right place or is there another location that is better. Also, how much work goes into finding non-pro action.

I have found that the further you get from the big cities, the easier the girls are to meet in a normal fasion. So I am wondering if this is also true of Peru.

BTW- Are you posting this info already on the Peru board? Also, do your run a B&B as well or know of a good one?


Cheers,


Cubanut

Cubanut,
Do not want to clog up this thread with info on Lima as it is well covered on this site as well as others. No monger B&B's as most guys prefer to stay in a hotel or rent a apartment.With the #3 cuisine in the world today and world renowned restuarants as well as ethnic diversity Lima has a more cosmopolitian feel to it. Most guy's will tell you if your a "city type" the best mongering is always in the capital city of any country. If P4P is your thing than "prices" are always cheaper in the outlying areas. Peru's reputation is not based on the beauty of the population as a whole, but more on the approachability and sweetness of the women. If you want more info just follow the Lima thread and to make up for my post I include a photo of a non-pro friend of mine.

[Tom 33]

I think I'm going to stand by the ATM complaint. From Laguito it's about a 20 to 30 mintue walk to an ATM in Boca Grande round trip which in my book is pretty inconvinient (though perhaps maditory walking is good for the health).

Jeez, some of the best puss-watching and trolling areas are in Boca Grande. If you are too lazy to walk, you can bus there for 900 pesos. Walk the streets, have a coffee, hit an ATM, have lunch or dinner[your comment about the same stuff on the menu is way off]. Hell, you might even get lucky and want to cab to Laguito with your catch of the day(4K pesos).

Inconvenient? Do you have to work long hours while you are here? If you want to stay in Laguito and only eat at restaurants directly between your apartment and LDV, you might be right.

On a more general note, CTG is not for everyone. MDE is a much nicer city, but you need a bit more experience to handle it.

[Gonzo]

I think I'm going to stand by the ATM complaint. From Laguito it's about a 20 to 30 mintue walk to an ATM in Boca Grande round trip which in my book is pretty inconvinient (though perhaps maditory walking is good for the health). The only ATM I can find in Laguito is the one near the frozen yogurt place which is down most of the time.

The Hilton hotel in Laguito has an ATM that I almost always used. Gives out 400K pesos. Walk into the hotel, go down the hall on the right, and it's down the hall a bit.

There are many very knowledgable folks in this forum, including residents who currently live there. Knowing simple things, such as the nearest ATM, would have made your stay in CTG more pleasant. Or a simple 'donde esta el cajero automatico mas cerca?' or 'hay otros cajeros automaticos cercana?' to one of the natives would also work (of course, sometimes they don't know or are passive agressive against gringos - I've experienced this in other countries, but not CO).

I'm grateful for the guys on this and other forums who have gone before me, took many for the the team in various aspects of travel, and have made my trip most enjoyable. Prior preparation via research is essential.

Anyway, the Colombian women are as gorgeous as any women anywhere on any measure, that much is certain.

I haven't been to nearly as many places as you or others in SA, but Colombianas sure have my vote!

[Member #4603]

I have never met Sweetlemon, I am not a friend of Sweetlemon, and no, Senator, I'm no Sweetlemon.

I guess we got that sorted out.

JackDaniels, I don't want to say that it would be a bad place. I could live here. I do want to say that if you have a week or two, you'd really be losing out by choosing Cartagena if you haven't visted other Latin American locations as a tourist or a monger.

If you're looking for something breataking, Cartagena doesn't compare to many cities in Latin America.

For beach cities, Rio de Janerio, Havana, Puerto Vallarta, Acapulco, and arguably other Mexican and Cuban cities are much, much more beautiful and interesting IMHO and have plenty of P4P. I don't know Central America so I couldn't comment. It's definately better than Santo Domingo as a city, but the DR in general (including Boca Chica and the north coast) is a bit more fun it seems to me, though both the DR and Rio can be sketchy and a bit dangerous while Cartagena is quite safe. Buenos Aires is a totally different asthetic but they defenately have beautiful women there as well.

Jon32, thanks for the input. I've gone to a few good restuarants adn they were great. It still seems like they all have the pretty much the same things on the menu, but my sample size is admitedly small.

I think I'm going to stand by the ATM complaint. From Laguito it's about a 20 to 30 mintue walk to an ATM in Boca Grande round trip which in my book is pretty inconvinient (though perhaps maditory walking is good for the health). The only ATM I can find in Laguito is the one near the frozen yogurt place which is down most of the time.

Anyway, the Colombian women are as gorgeous as any women anywhere on any measure, that much is certain.

[Cubanut]

I am a die hard Lima fan and think it the best place in SA for non-pro action. LB

Lima Busy,

You are not the first person to say that Lima has hot chicas.

I am curious as to where exactly do you find theses non-pro girls you speak of.

I will be going to Lima next year. Is this the right place or is there another location that is better. Also, how much work goes into finding non-pro action.

I have found that the further you get from the big cities, the easier the girls are to meet in a normal fasion. So I am wondering if this is also true of Peru.

BTW- Are you posting this info already on the Peru board? Also, do your run a B&B as well or know of a good one?


Cheers,


Cubanut

[Lima Busy]

El Greco

Thank you for your response. I have travelled through Brazil and Argentina and have really enjoyed my time in both these countries in terms of travelling and the nightlife. I agree that these are the primary destinations in South America along with Peru.

I am looking for a change and hence my question.

It seems that the beauty of the women in Columbia is unequalled and that in itself would be worth seeing.

Would appreciate anyone's frank comments.

I am a die hard Lima fan and think it the best place in SA for non-pro action. That bieng said I think as you have been to the top three spots in SA, you owe it to yourself to see and experience CTG even for non-mongering purposes. You will meet Colombiana's from all over, there are good apartment options and a extremely knowledgable and helpful monger by the handle of "Tom33". Have a good trip and let the rest of us know how you would rate things.
LB

[El Greco]

El Greco

Thank you for your response. I have travelled through Brazil and Argentina and have really enjoyed my time in both these countries in terms of travelling and the nightlife. I agree that these are the primary destinations in South America along with Peru.

I am looking for a change and hence my question.

It seems that the beauty of the women in Columbia is unequalled and that in itself would be worth seeing.

Would appreciate anyone's frank comments.

Then go to Medellin, stay at the Aussie's Greg mansion, frequent Parque las Jerras area epecially early thursday to sunday evenings. Fantastic upscale colombianas there. Non pros. Greg and the other guys there will guide you for the pro ones.

The only bad thing no beaches there and the high altitude is kind of tiring.

The city is nice and safe if you follow the rules.

They also run direct flights from Miami.

El Greco

[JackDaniels]

El Greco

Thank you for your response. I have travelled through Brazil and Argentina and have really enjoyed my time in both these countries in terms of travelling and the nightlife. I agree that these are the primary destinations in South America along with Peru.

I am looking for a change and hence my question.

It seems that the beauty of the women in Columbia is unequalled and that in itself would be worth seeing.

Would appreciate anyone's frank comments.