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Today 03:39 #66665
Posts: 1089Originally Posted by JackTaggart [View Original Post]
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Today 01:37 #66664
Posts: 213Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
It is completely normal in most restaurants for them to ask "can I add service" which is 10%. Or some will automatically add it. Either way you can refuse it or ask to have it removed. Places that are Arepa stands, executive lunch places, or "order at the counter" places don't ask for it. Or put another way. Its pretty obvious about the places that will ask for it or automatically add it. Vs the places that don't. I spend most of my time in non gringo areas with Colombians half the time.
But in my experience. That type of tipping is completely normal and I feel like you should say yes unless something has gone horribly horribly wrong. Cartegena to me is scam city the way they treat tourists, so I don't like to use it as a data point.
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Today 01:29 #66663
Posts: 1230Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
I said gracias and handed her a 5 mil bill and she got mad at me. She put her hand up and refused to take it and she was like "they pay me here" I kinda got the impression that she thought that I thought that she was poor and was offering her the 5 mil to make up for what she should be getting paid.
Since then I have stayed there mainly times over the years and Doņa Gloria always greets me with a hug every time I see her but I never ever have offered her a tip since that first time and I don't offer tips anywhere else I go either because of that experience. And when people ask for tips I frown on it like they are over-entitled and I treat them the same way as girls asking for free money I'm like "soy pobre".
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Today 00:20 #66662
Posts: 11Thanks
Originally Posted by FunLuvr [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 23:42 #66661
Posts: 8Short trip this weekend
Hey guys, doing a short trip down to Medellin this weekend. Let me know if anyone wants to grab a beer!
Does anyone have any good recommendations for casas or parlors? Would like to get an erotic massage where the girl takes her time!
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Yesterday 23:13 #66660
Posts: 191Originally Posted by DJHeywood [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 22:18 #66659
Posts: 15926Originally Posted by Wkahddl2 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 21:47 #66658
Posts: 1043Originally Posted by Wkahddl2 [View Original Post]
Colombia doesn't have a tipping culture. Many of the places in Poblado will add a service charge (tip) to your bill. I would have ignored the guy who asked for a tip.
I think it's a good gesture to leave a tip for the hotel maid. 4 mil a day should be sufficient, unless you asked for special service, like more towels.
There are plenty of convenience stores. There's one just outside the park on Calle 10. They won't be 7/11's, rather they'll mostly be mom and pop stores. The best place to buy condoms is at a pharmacy.
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Yesterday 21:12 #66657
Posts: 4Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 19:19 #66656
Posts: 15926Originally Posted by AdamWl [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 17:11 #66655
Posts: 1782Originally Posted by Knowledge [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 17:01 #66654
Posts: 1782Originally Posted by Wkahddl2 [View Original Post]
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Yesterday 16:17 #66653
Posts: 91Originally Posted by Vitrea [View Original Post]
It's all for show IMO, I have never even seen any foreigner step foot back there anyway, so initially I thought the message might be personally for me or smth LOL. Besides, it's like couple rooms only and it closes early.
There aren't that many underage centro WGs during the daytime in my experience. But yes, there are other hotels known for not checking cedulas and I do occasionally run into some 17 yo or of age Vennie without papers and then later do see them using hotels. One 17 yo recently was trying to convince me to still go with her to the room, showing me whatsapp photos of many gringos that she went with without issues trying to assure me it's all safe etc. (no I didn't).
Apparently most underage work centro late night, from what two WGs told me while we were watching the police action the other day, but I wouldn't expect any foreigners at 2 am in there, I assume it's mostly locals, so I don't expect the police to loose any sleep over that.
Also, if they have caught any gringo during last week action it would be all announced as a great success on the news so I assume they didn't.
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Yesterday 15:44 #66652
Posts: 15926Originally Posted by Vitrea [View Original Post]
Unfortunately it is probably the guys always saying they like them 18 that will go younger if presented the opportunity. And downtown is a place where opportunity presents itself.
I reported years ago walking by a bar where I saw obvious underage girls. I stopped to ask how old one of them were and she said 15. Yeah the Minnie Mouse clothing and the yarn bracelets kind of give it away. I was taunted by an older women if I was scared and I said damn right and walked away. It is fucking funny how the news and politicians are playing "the foreigner made them do it" card when the people that frequent the place know the youngsters are already there waiting for whoever will pay them.
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Yesterday 14:08 #66651
Posts: 4027Predictably, the government maintains crime statistics and Colombians in the majority in this and every other category. It's no different in any other country; locals predominate unless the violations are immigration related. Local conservative media and politicians have been working overtime the past couple of months to position foreigners as the the heart of the abuse of minors problem. Rupert Murdoch publications in the UK, Australia, and the US have been similarly positioning immigrants and foreigners in those countries. It's cynical and dishonest politics. If you compare the way cases involving foreigners are covered to the way cases involving Colombians (again, they make up the vast majority) it' very striking. Colombian suspects are not identified, sometimes not even after a conviction. The faces of Colombian suspects are obscured. Foreigners are doxxed from day 1. The Livingston guy's passport photo page with none of the details obscured is still making the rounds in local media. The guy who had the drugs, guns, and chica party in Guatape had his face plastered all over the media in photos with every other person's face obscured. The cases with foreigners always appear on front pages of newspapers and as the lead story of news broadcasts. To be fair, the Colombian cases don't generate as much attention precisely because they are so frequent that they are mundane. I am in no way defending these guys. I'm only pointing out the unequal media treatment. Foreigners are a convenient scapegoat in Colombia. The age of consent is 14 here. So when you do see cases involving Colombians the victims are really very young. The guy who got caught with two street urchins in a motel in La Estrella highlighted a common scenario in which the young girls work the late night streets and are taken to motels on the outskirts of the city. He got caught because he got into a loud argument with the girls. That case disappeared from the media.
Originally Posted by JustTK [View Original Post]