Medellin Reports

[JC9999]

Does anyone here know the current guest policy for Hotel Haven?

I was recently there for 3 weeks. No issue or fee for having a chica visit. I did not, however, ever have more than one at a time. So if you are planning on multiples at the same time, there could be a cost I'm unaware of.

[Zeos1]

It may be possible that there was some backlash from the business establishments around the park regarding the prostitutes. Parque Lleras is the established "tourist" venue or Zona Rosa for Medellin as called out on the street signs leading up to it on Calle 10.

The prostitutes of LLeras are an attraction of the park for foreign visitors that want to see what some Colombian prostitutes look like. LOL if they only knew, and if they weren't allowed, it would lose some of its it's allure, hence my theory that there may of been some backlash from the establishments around the park, not that they should be banned, but allowed.

I can remember while attending classes at EAFIT that Parque LLeras always came up with discussions of the prostitutes working there. Yet they never mentioned any of the other monger destinations such as Centro.

Maybe I'm all wet on this.

Zona Rosa is for dining, entertainment, nightlife. For the city. Tourism has developed that is focused there, but it is not primarily that. Try walking around Friday or Saturday night. Pre-pandemic anyway. Probably 50 thousand locals over the course of the evening, and the obvious tourists cannot be even noticed. Nor can the prostitutes, unless that is what you are looking for. There have been times in the past few years when there were virtually no prostitutes on the streets there. They were chased out as due to some desire to clean up the area from local / city politics. There are some very strong moves in Medellin to crack down on sex tourism, and many hotels in the area are signed up in a campaign to rid the country basically of sex tourism. So if anything it is viewed as unsavory, and may be tolerated, but at any time there may be a campaign to chase them out of the area. In any case I don't think prostitution is viewed as a desirable thing by local businesses, any more than street beggars are viewed as good for the area.

[KobeDurden]

This should slow down the sex tourists from visits to Medellin. LOL (I hope).

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ys-2021-10-21/

Not much. You still have to take one covid test on arrival and are not allowed to leave your hotel until you are negative. It should only take a day, but If you end up positive you are locked down into a mandatory 2 week hospital stay even with no symptoms.

This is what keeps me and others away.

It is an improvement though from the 3 covid tests in a two week quarantine. However, I won't risk a two week hospital quarantine for testing positive.

[Tomasb]

Bangkok and other Thai cities considered in the red zone may be opening for tourism on November 1, however, entertainment venues have still not been given permission to open. They are lowering the curfew hours, allowing restaurants to serve alcohol, reducing or eliminating the quarantine provisions for those fully vaccinated etc. I think it's possible they may start allowing bars and clubs to open on December 1 in time for high season as they Covid numbers are decreasing in Bangkok though areas of the north are still having problems, such as Chiang Mai.

This should slow down the sex tourists from visits to Medellin. LOL (I hope).

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ys-2021-10-21/

[VasyaPetya]

Medellin over the past six months has been over-run with foreigners because Asia has been shut down, and the outfall as you mention is there are groups of what I call "gringo hunters", the seasoned ones you mentioned charging higher prices and giving shitty service because they can get away with it with the foreigners, but the locals won't tolerate it, albeit there are still plenty of good servicing chicas available to be found in Centro.

The good news though, and hopefully is a success, is that Thailand is opening up next month, and if successful, and not a bust like Phuket, will be welcome news. And hopefully the Phillipines will open up next year sometime as well.

Very wishful thinking perhaps on my part as COVID has been so unpredictable, but if and when Asia opens back up, hopefully this will result in less foreigners coming to Medellin, and a subsequent adjustment of attitudes and pricing that has occurred within the last six months in Medellin.

Prime time in Medellin was earlier this year before the onslaught of newbie mongers paying too much and polluting lots of the Chicas working Centro.

Good logic behind your theory, definitely makes a lot of sense. Is it easy to pull "normal" girls from places like malls, shopping centers, gyms, bars / clubs that may be semi pros or someone you can just throw a few bucks after a good night out together?

[JjBee62]

Agreed. Sex tourists bragging, explaining about their exploits. Stupid and yet often accurate (crappy) videos are bad. I still do not comprehend the word "hobby" used here on the forum.

Hobby sounds better than "I pay young women to fuck me."

I don't think most of the guys making videos are accomplished sex tourists. There was Cuba Dave years ago, but I think he learned his lesson in Costa Rica. The guys making videos now think they're going to start getting millions of views so they can live off of the revenue.

[JjBee62]

There are only like 2 bars with hookers. Gustos and there is another that people mention sometimes. Many people have the opinion that hookers in this area are way overpriced and I can see it being this way because it is the area that most of the foreign tourists stay. So tourist prices it is. In almost every other place in Medellin you can get chicks much cheaper. Nothing at all like Nana. Parque Lleras is a rectangular park with streets surrounding the perimeter. On the other sides of the streets are bars, restaurants, stores, Starbucks. It is just full of normal people and sometimes you can find the odd hooker trolling for foreigners.

On any given night you can find hookers in any of the Lleras clubs. I've been approached in several, even had a couple of girls try to get me and another monger to come into a place we were just walking past. I've also been approached by hookers in Club Fahrenheit.

However, the only 2 clubs where you'll always find hookers are Gusto and Lleras Park.

[Smoothy]

There is one area in Bangkok called Nana Entertainment Plaza. It's comprised of three floors of bars and go / go's with girls in all for the taking. They call it the worlds largest adult playground on their sign. Nearby is the infamous Soi Cowboy, a one block stretch of wall to wall clubs. There is no place in world quite like it.

I consider Pattaya's walking street to be even wilder.

[DonCarlos1234]

When I answered the posters question, I was referring to Poblado and / or Parque Lleras area so should have been more specific. Like others noted, there are more basic set ups in MDE but these pale in comparision to Bangkok go go's etc especially regarding the pure quality of the girls. Some of these places are very nice too. They are also open at night but not during the day. In the daylight hours, one can go to a massage place or dial up an escort.

There is one area in Bangkok called Nana Entertainment Plaza. It's comprised of three floors of bars and go / go's with girls in all for the taking. They call it the worlds largest adult playground on their sign. Nearby is the infamous Soi Cowboy, a one block stretch of wall to wall clubs. There is no place in world quite like it.

It should be noted that all of these clubs are closed now due to COViD and there is talk about opening sometime in December.

This should slow down the sex tourists from visits to Medellin. LOL (I hope).

https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...ys-2021-10-21/

[DonCarlos1234]

I have a very uneasy feeling about those youtube videos. Nothing good can come out of them. It is bad for the hobby.

Agreed. Sex tourists bragging, explaining about their exploits. Stupid and yet often accurate (crappy) videos are bad. I still do not comprehend the word "hobby" used here on the forum.

[Tomasb]

When I answered the posters question, I was referring to Poblado and / or Parque Lleras area so should have been more specific. Like others noted, there are more basic set ups in MDE but these pale in comparision to Bangkok go go's etc especially regarding the pure quality of the girls. Some of these places are very nice too. They are also open at night but not during the day. In the daylight hours, one can go to a massage place or dial up an escort.

There is one area in Bangkok called Nana Entertainment Plaza. It's comprised of three floors of bars and go / go's with girls in all for the taking. They call it the worlds largest adult playground on their sign. Nearby is the infamous Soi Cowboy, a one block stretch of wall to wall clubs. There is no place in world quite like it.

It should be noted that all of these clubs are closed now due to COViD and there is talk about opening sometime in December.

[Nounce]

... Is this area of Medellin sort of like a Colombian version of that..

You should be checking out Santa Fe, Bogata but they are not the same.

[Maelstrom]

Does anyone here know the current guest policy for Hotel Haven?

[JustTK]

And, no, there are no dance or go- go clubs where girls dance around half nude on tabletops or stages like in Bangkok. These are places where you go in and pay a barfine and take them back to your hotel. This type of scenario does not exist in MDE.

All the clubs in Centro are exactly like that. However, they are pretty basic compared to SE Asia. They provide mostly for locals, so the prices are local and the facilities are local too.

[JustTK]

If anyone is familiar with the scene in Thailand with bar girls (aka working girls), are their a lot if working girls in the bars at Parque Lleras? I mean ones that hang around and just want a guy to buy him a couple drinks while they have fun with you before heading to a hotel?
If anyone has been around places like the Nana area of Bangkok, you'll know what I mean. Is this area of Medellin sort of like a Colombian version of that?.

Cra 53 with CL 52 in Centro has some "girlie bars" , but they are very basic. Busy but basic. They are day time bars. Also close to there are quite a few clubs like the go-go bars in Thailand. Again, basic, but they also have rooms on site, as well as take out if you prefer. In fact, all cities in Colombia have this set up (clubs with working girls).

Nothing in Poblado like that. Medellin is just a South American city. It has prostitution bcos all cities in South America have prostitution. It is not a tourist destination built on sex tourism like Pattaya or other places to a lesser extent. For this reason, among others, I prefer the coast and Sta Marta to MDE, bcos they are more tourist orientated, and sex tourism is more convenient for tourists.