Guayaquil

[GreatParsnip]

Jeeez! What are you doing with a MAP? Why you insist with this?

Grab a taxi and ask him to take you to Andromeda, at the Terminal (you can look for this on the map). If he does not know the place, specify "CHICAS!" and he will ask colleagues by radio.

After you have been there, you can play with Google Maps and look for its exact address.

You did not see it, because it was closed as all others due to Moralist Mr. President.

The taxista had no idea, he had never heard of it, and spent a long time on the radio to his colleagues and they had no idea. That was when I showed him the map. Yes. It was closed because of the election, and probably invisible. He went straight to Isla, so he knew what he was doing.

Does it not occur to these people that they might get more business if customers could actually find them?

I had ridiculous grief in Cuenca finding the Piramide, because I pronounced it correctly (Piram-I-de) whereas they pronounce it Pir-A-mide. You'd have thought that a fully sentient being could have grasped one from the other especially when I said it was on Ave de la Americas but no. 5 taxistas had no idea and the 6th said he would try but just drove straight past it. I had to point it out to him! Mind you that was closed too. Silly me, going at 9:30 to a club that is advertised to open at 8:00 and expect it to actually be open!

And don't get me started on finding Guajira in Quito. There were no signs, the taxista wasn't sure, and there was a bunch of goons hanging around. No chance I was venturing in there, although I did go back during the day to find it and picked a very tasty girl called Ma-Yo who I returned to 5 times in 3 days.

I am well used to latin america, in the '90s I worked down here a lot, I speak fluent spanish, and I make damned sure I know where I am going before I go there. I am not able to defend myself, so I have to make sure I don't need to!

[Black Page]

We spent half an hour with a map from Andromeda's facebook page trailing up and down sideroads before deciding that the place just doesn't exist. The map is keyed from "Hyundai". But there are 3 Hyundai dealerships in the area which makes the map completely useless. We then went to Isla del Tesoro and it was closed becuse of this election thing. Fortunately mongering is a very small part of what I am doing here, otherwise I'd be right pissed.

Jeeez! What are you doing with a MAP? Why you insist with this?

Grab a taxi and ask him to take you to Andromeda, at the Terminal (you can look for this on the map). If he does not know the place, specify "CHICAS!" and he will ask colleagues by radio.

After you have been there, you can play with Google Maps and look for its exact address.

You did not see it, because it was closed as all others due to Moralist Mr. President.

[GreatParsnip]

We spent half an hour with a map from Andromeda's facebook page trailing up and down sideroads before deciding that the place just doesn't exist. The map is keyed from "Hyundai". But there are 3 Hyundai dealerships in the area which makes the map completely useless. We then went to Isla del Tesoro and it was closed becuse of this election thing. Fortunately mongering is a very small part of what I am doing here, otherwise I'd be right pissed.

[Black Page]

Black Page, Ley Seca, the banning of alcohol just prior to and just after elections is a common law in most South American and Central American countries, it is not exclusive to Ecuador.

Oh, I did not know that. But, still, what's the logic behind that? They forbid alcool for 3 days. They might forbid sexual intercourse too, to concentrate better on the political debate? Or recommend light meals only?

[Manizales911]

This city never ceases to surprise me, negatively.

I have been here 5 days already. I never had time to go to some place at night, because all places close at 12 (I finish work late and I prefer to eat dinner instead bar hopping). This would be enough for a major "thumbs down", but it's not enough: all bars (besides sex clubs) are also desolately empty before the weekend, so it does not make much sense to go for a beer on, say, Monday. .

I waited Friday, today, to see finally clubs closing at 2am. And now? The taxi driver informs me, like it was a normal thing, that because of elections the government has enforced 3 days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, till noon Monday) of "Ley Seca", that is no alcool anywhere and anyway. This implies that all bars and clubs are closed all this weekend. I guess even La 18. This Friday night, to mention a few, La Isla, Junior, El Gato are all closed.

WTF? What is the relationship between elections and alcool? I tried to explain the taxi driver that the only place I ever visited in my life which could be classified worse than GYE is Islamabad, Pakistan, and that in any country of the world nobody would think to forbid alcool for 3 days just because of elections, but he just stared at me, politely yet not understanding.

To make things worse, here it is impossible to get reliable and unanimous answers from the people. Yesterday a taxi driver told me that Salome' is closed, since a few months (claro! ). Today this other taxi driver tells me it's open as usual, Riobamba with Quisquis (claro! ). I will have to go personally to check and know if it's open or closed.

This confusion of the people seems to extend way beyond sex clubs. This week I asked around when the "veda de cangrejos" will end. I went for a ceviche in a Marisqueria, and they told me "Mid March". Another man told me "after mid March". Today I discover, from a taxi driver and from a waiter of Marcelos, that it ends this weekend and that I will have cangrejos beginning with Monday.

Do I believe that? Not yet. Not before having a crab under my teeth.

Black Page, Ley Seca, the banning of alcohol just prior to and just after elections is a common law in most South American and Central American countries, it is not exclusive to Ecuador.

[Black Page]

This city never ceases to surprise me, negatively.

I have been here 5 days already. I never had time to go to some place at night, because all places close at 12 (I finish work late and I prefer to eat dinner instead bar hopping). This would be enough for a major "thumbs down", but it's not enough: all bars (besides sex clubs) are also desolately empty before the weekend, so it does not make much sense to go for a beer on, say, Monday.

I waited Friday, today, to see finally clubs closing at 2am. And now? The taxi driver informs me, like it was a normal thing, that because of elections the government has enforced 3 days (Friday, Saturday, Sunday, till noon Monday) of "Ley Seca", that is no alcool anywhere and anyway. This implies that all bars and clubs are closed all this weekend. I guess even La 18. This Friday night, to mention a few, La Isla, Junior, El Gato are all closed.

WTF? What is the relationship between elections and alcool? I tried to explain the taxi driver that the only place I ever visited in my life which could be classified worse than GYE is Islamabad, Pakistan, and that in any country of the world nobody would think to forbid alcool for 3 days just because of elections, but he just stared at me, politely yet not understanding.

To make things worse, here it is impossible to get reliable and unanimous answers from the people. Yesterday a taxi driver told me that Salome' is closed, since a few months (claro!). Today this other taxi driver tells me it's open as usual, Riobamba with Quisquis (claro!). I will have to go personally to check and know if it's open or closed.

This confusion of the people seems to extend way beyond sex clubs. This week I asked around when the "veda de cangrejos" will end. I went for a ceviche in a Marisqueria, and they told me "Mid March". Another man told me "after mid March". Today I discover, from a taxi driver and from a waiter of Marcelos, that it ends this weekend and that I will have cangrejos beginning with Monday.
Do I believe that? Not yet. Not before having a crab under my teeth.

[GreatParsnip]

Thanks BP.

I prefer a bit more "upscale". For the environment more than the ladies. Anyway, there's no way in hell I'm getting into one of these taxis without a good idea of where I'm going. Even the official yellow cab from the airport tried to rip me off for $20 for what I knew should have been about a $5 trip to my hotel. I had to get the hotel reception to confront him. If I have a reasonable address I can see it on google maps. Without it, forget it. I'll sit tight and move on in a couple of days.

La Isla is the place which I liked less on my stay of one year ago: expensive and too "upscale". Have a look at my reports of one year ago for a first orientation. If you still want to go to La Isla, I do not understand why you really need its address. It's out of usual city maps anyway, which depict only downtown. Grab a taxi (do not dress too fancy and leave home jewellery) and ask to be taken there. When you are there, if you are still curious, look at street signs.

If you like to exercise your ability to be "very defensive", try to go to La 18.

I am in GYE and did not have time yet to have some "fun". I only knew from taxi drivers that Salome' (best known as "Salami" in this forum) is closed, while El Gato, La Isla and Junior's are open. I will go to El Gato.

[Black Page]

La Isla is the place which I liked less on my stay of one year ago: expensive and too "upscale". Have a look at my reports of one year ago for a first orientation. If you still want to go to La Isla, I do not understand why you really need its address. It's out of usual city maps anyway, which depict only downtown. Grab a taxi (do not dress too fancy and leave home jewellery) and ask to be taken there. When you are there, if you are still curious, look at street signs.

If you like to exercise your ability to be "very defensive", try to go to La 18.

I am in GYE and did not have time yet to have some "fun". I only knew from taxi drivers that Salome' (best known as "Salami" in this forum) is closed, while El Gato, La Isla and Junior's are open. I will go to El Gato.

I am in Guayaquil for a few days and would like to visit Isla. However, I am always very defensive when visiting these places. I make sure I know exactly where I am going first, and if I don't like what the taxi driver is doing I'll either turn him around or get out in a hurry leaving $5, it's how I've gone all these years without getting robbed once! Also if it isn't absolutely obvious that I am at the right place, I don't go in.

Anyway, I have found 3 different addresses for this place, which makes me very wary:

Avenida del Periodista, junto al chifa chica

Or.

Cdla. Atarazana, Detras de la Primax Av. Plaza theñin.

Or.

Av. Las Americas (Rafael Chavez Coca)

Can anyone help with which is correct? Or give better directions?

[GreatParsnip]

I am in Guayaquil for a few days and would like to visit Isla. However, I am always very defensive when visiting these places. I make sure I know exactly where I am going first, and if I don't like what the taxi driver is doing I'll either turn him around or get out in a hurry leaving $5, it's how I've gone all these years without getting robbed once! Also if it isn't absolutely obvious that I am at the right place, I don't go in.

Anyway, I have found 3 different addresses for this place, which makes me very wary:

Avenida del Periodista, junto al chifa chica

Or.

Cdla. Atarazana, Detras de la Primax Av. Plaza theñin.

Or.

Av. Las Americas (Rafael Chavez Coca)

Can anyone help with which is correct? Or give better directions?

[DoomBringer321]

There is this club by the "Terminal" the guayaquil equivelant of a Greyhound terminal plento of trucks and close to the airport it was constructed by the same owner of "Gato" however it's upscle hence the $20 entrance fee awesome chicks will try to post videos on youtube and I'll put the link up.

[Black Page]

For anyone who has lived here an extended period of time, new years people travel to other parts of the country so the scene is dead, beginning of January buisness picks up and girls come back to work you just have to play it by ear as far as the club "Amadeus" goes they now changed it to $5 entrance fee you get either a strong drink or 2 beers the girls charge about 40$ I'm sure it's negotiable but I never stay long enough to find out the place has turned into a shithole and therefore is not my prefered choice to monger.

Happy fucking new year to you all.

I will PM you when I go there. I think we can have at least a beer together, but better go explore new lands.

[DoomBringer321]

For anyone who has lived here an extended period of time, new years people travel to other parts of the country so the scene is dead, beginning of January buisness picks up and girls come back to work you just have to play it by ear as far as the club "Amadeus" goes they now changed it to $5 entrance fee you get either a strong drink or 2 beers the girls charge about 40$ I'm sure it's negotiable but I never stay long enough to find out the place has turned into a shithole and therefore is not my prefered choice to monger.

Happy fucking new year to you all.

[Black Page]

The good news next year "Amadeus Boat" is opening again in 9 de Oct. And Los Rios the bad news it's current location is bad for buisness the place had a strong start but now is full of fatties and women 5 or below. I would not recomend anyone go there it's is ugly no good looking women and dangerous a bad combination.

Fat / ugly women AND dangerous AND more expensive than El Gato?
How is it possible? Why one would go there, to spend more and get less?

BTW, what is the current situation? Might you make a short summary before I come back? :-)
Salome? El Gato? Any better place, without flying away to some other city?

[DoomBringer321]

The good news next year "Amadeus Boat" is opening again in 9 de Oct. And Los Rios the bad news it's current location is bad for buisness the place had a strong start but now is full of fatties and women 5 or below. I would not recomend anyone go there it's is ugly no good looking women and dangerous a bad combination.

[Black Page]

My friend danny has relocated his club in another area, all you that monger in Guayaquil probably know it by its buisness name "Amadeus Boat" they had a grand opening Nov 8. I have been hesitant to post info on the club because of its location, it's not exactly Baghdad but is not exactly smallvile either for those of you that know the city as you are well aware the southern part of the city was allways more dangerous than the north or downtown.

The club is located between Quito and machala on capitan najera street in front of a gas station, you have to pay 5$ entrance fee you have the option of two cheap beers or a cocktail hoes in that establishment are between 5-7 they charge about 50 a pop you have to take them outside since there are no rooms in the club the scene is pretty seedy definetely not for newbees I will post pictures of the establishment on my next visit. Of course it's cheper to go to Gato however this club has the advantage that it's located close to everything where as Gato you have to go to the edge of the city, anyway just putting in my 2 cents for all you Guayaquil mongers.

Thanks for the info.

I see a contradiction between the place being more than twice expensive than El Gato (still 20$/pop?) , and the place having no rooms and the scene being "seedy not for newbies".

Might you give some more hints?

I will be back to GYE in 2-3 months and I will have plenty of time to explore (and report.)