Mombasa

[Expat Kenya]

Possibel to rent taxi in Mombasa. 2000ksh for 12h or 2500ksh for 24h. The benzine price is for the klient.

An old taxi, Yes!

New taxi probably without driver fees and fuel 2500ksh a day.

Hi fellow mongers. I have been reading posts here about Mombasa and have now got interested in going there, planning my trip now sometime in the middle of February to taste som nice "roast beef" (dark and tender on the outside and pink and juicy on the inside).

This is not my first trip to Africa, have been in SA, Mocambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe but it is my virgin trip to Mombasa so I need som tips and input from you all.

1. Arriving at the airport, is there a taxi stand outside or just to grab one? The price is as I understand around 2000 ksh for example going to Mtwapa or Bamburi beach, yes?

2. Hotel or apartment: I would like to stay on the beach between Mombasa and Mtwapa, the price range around 50. 60 euro any suggestions / recommendations for hotel or apartments? Or is it better chance of good lodging and stay in Mtwapa?

3. If staying in Mtwapa how far is it to the beach and the action and how to go there?

4. Is it possible to rent a small motorbike to go around with during daytime instead of taxi?

I thank you in advance for helping me out on my questions and hope that I can post a good report after my trip.

Satyr9 already gave all the right answers.

You can stay cheap in Mtwapa, but a place like Kendas I never understand why people stay there. It is noisy, cheap, not save as some have lost valuables there. Kahama is good value near the beach and swimming pool, the live band may be annoying if you wand to rest.

For Mtwapa hotels http://www.mtwapa.info/apps********s...-hotels-lodges

[Willyboy]

Possibel to rent taxi in Mombasa. 2000ksh for 12h or 2500ksh for 24h. The benzine price is for the klient.

[Member #4148]

Hi fellow mongers. I have been reading posts here about Mombasa and have now got interested in going there, planning my trip now sometime in the middle of February to taste som nice "roast beef" (dark and tender on the outside and pink and juicy on the inside).

This is not my first trip to Africa, have been in SA, Mocambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe but it is my virgin trip to Mombasa so I need som tips and input from you all.

1. Arriving at the airport, is there a taxi stand outside or just to grab one? The price is as I understand around 2000 ksh for example going to Mtwapa or Bamburi beach, yes?

2. Hotel or apartment: I would like to stay on the beach between Mombasa and Mtwapa, the price range around 50. 60 euro any suggestions / recommendations for hotel or apartments? Or is it better chance of good lodging and stay in Mtwapa?

3. If staying in Mtwapa how far is it to the beach and the action and how to go there?

4. Is it possible to rent a small motorbike to go around with during daytime instead of taxi?

I thank you in advance for helping me out on my questions and hope that I can post a good report after my trip.

You say you have read. And yet it seems you have not absorbed.

1. 1500 to Kahama.

2. Kahama is 3950 kenyan shillings per day for a double. Mtwapa lodging can be had for 1/3 the price.

3. The beach is a brisk 20 minute walk from Kenda's Arcade, a brisk 10 minute walk from Kirsten's. Mtwapa is not the place to go to be near the beach. The action, on the other hand, is all around you.

4. Motorbikes available through Uziel (the owner of Uziel Apartments) for 400 Kenyan shillings a day. About five dollars.

[Bengt66]

Hi fellow mongers. I have been reading posts here about Mombasa and have now got interested in going there, planning my trip now sometime in the middle of February to taste som nice "roast beef" (dark and tender on the outside and pink and juicy on the inside).

This is not my first trip to Africa, have been in SA, Mocambique, Botswana and Zimbabwe but it is my virgin trip to Mombasa so I need som tips and input from you all.

1. Arriving at the airport, is there a taxi stand outside or just to grab one? The price is as I understand around 2000 ksh for example going to Mtwapa or Bamburi beach, yes?

2. Hotel or apartment: I would like to stay on the beach between Mombasa and Mtwapa, the price range around 50. 60 euro any suggestions / recommendations for hotel or apartments? Or is it better chance of good lodging and stay in Mtwapa?

3. If staying in Mtwapa how far is it to the beach and the action and how to go there?

4. Is it possible to rent a small motorbike to go around with during daytime instead of taxi?

I thank you in advance for helping me out on my questions and hope that I can post a good report after my trip.

[Jbond]

Well, this post should be doubtingly entertaining.

As I said before, ISG is for fellow comrades in arms offering advice, help and support to those looking for fun and love in the sun or more simply helping 'Mr Sausage find nirvana '. So let's concentrate on those future entertaining reports of distinction.

This ethos could only be nonsense to you. Someone who continues to be disrespectful and as you said, you can't be trusted, when you see other people together or in a relationship, especially if they are a mzungu. Who hides behind his anonymity, too afraid to face anyone. You are not informative but just a rather sad study in extreme unpleasantness, not nice, not nice at all. You started this and I will finish it on behalf of all of those you have wronged.

[Expat Kenya]

Well, this post should be doubtingly entertaining.

So, our friends in Nairobi are coming to the same conclusion, there is a mole in the Kenya forum. Do we know if our ISG operative is still safe and blogging on the local 'Mombasa Pimp and Working Girls forum'? If not we can make a swap. It really does make me misty eyed for the old days. Where there would be a gentle softening up and extraction of information before bundling the individual across 'Checkpoint Charlie' in exchange for our man, followed by refreshments at Cafe Adler. A far more humane process would you believe than the long line of angry mzungu husbands on the prowl in Bamburi / Mtwapa could envisage for the above, if they knew his true identity.

However, if the mole refuses to go quietly could he / she be reminded that ISG is for fellow comrades in arms offering advice, help and support to those looking for fun and love in the sun or more simply helping 'Mr Sausage find Nirvana '. So let's concentrate on those future entertaining reports of distinction.

On a more serious note, I would suggest us fellow hunters are not too specific on your movements until after the event or holiday. For all we know, more dubious parties could be gleaning info for their own ulterior motives.

Aren't we all anonymous on ISG? When its time for a discussion "I ask help from my friends"."he is not fare"."he is someone else"."Expat is impudent"."his English is not good"."he is dangerous"."catch the mole"."you do not belong here". Maybe entertaining for some, but in anyway not informative at all. Moderators can distinguish emails and IP-addresses at one simple look. No need to get misty eyes on your old days, just keep your eyes closed and continue writing nonsense.

[Jbond]

Your posts can be interpreted any way because they don't have an opinion or point of view about what you are writing. I know my world. Sex means as little as a slice of bread here, so sex doesn't have any value to someone who does or does not have a high opinion of himself. To think an average mzungu on holiday is so special, thats is what I think is having a high opinion about yourself, probably being a mzungu?

Here is a wide misunderstanding guys, girls / Kenyans make you FEEL like you are special because you may be a mzungu. If only you knew.

So, our friends in Nairobi are coming to the same conclusion, there is a mole in the Kenya forum. Do we know if our ISG operative is still safe and blogging on the local 'Mombasa Pimp and Working Girls forum'? If not we can make a swap. It really does make me misty eyed for the old days. Where there would be a gentle softening up and extraction of information before bundling the individual across 'Checkpoint Charlie' in exchange for our man, followed by refreshments at Cafe Adler. A far more humane process would you believe than the long line of angry mzungu husbands on the prowl in Bamburi / Mtwapa could envisage for the above, if they knew his true identity.

However, if the mole refuses to go quietly could he / she be reminded that ISG is for fellow comrades in arms offering advice, help and support to those looking for fun and love in the sun or more simply helping 'Mr Sausage find Nirvana '. So let's concentrate on those future entertaining reports of distinction.

On a more serious note, I would suggest us fellow hunters are not too specific on your movements until after the event or holiday. For all we know, more dubious parties could be gleaning info for their own ulterior motives.

[Expat Kenya]

Let's see: 15 days. 13 dates. 14 girls. 100 percent first-date success rate.

I'm tired. Back home. Sad.

Great results you have there!

Again in your own words above, with all the single women on offer you are sneaking around targetting mzungu wives.

Really unpleasant, you should be ashamed of yourself. Just not nice, not nice at all!

If I see a couple together then the girl in the equation is totally off limits.

My response was for the disrespectful remark to me and all the mzungus you have enjoyed stabbing in the back. Your remarks alone to various comments on the forum show contempt and a clear dislike for everyone at ISG.

Which from your latest post has turned into a pure torrent of hatred to anyone you describe as a mzungu.

As I said before and I am surprised you don't agree, this is not the right forum for you.

I am a mzungu too my friend. I don't consider my money or color to me more than a rich or poor African, I think that is the difference. Mzungus are married when they've agreed with the wife's family and paid dowry. If they've done that, I keep my hands off too. If not, marriage or relationship means sh*t and she can and will be approached by other men.

[Member #4148]

Hope you can add some more words about the succession ratio of the blind dates, meaning how many meeting were translated into sex, and how fast and smooth it was.

J

Let's see: 15 days. 13 dates. 14 girls. 100 percent first-date success rate.

I'm tired. Back home. Sad.

[Member #4294]

Send a PM to Willyboy, he's here for a few more days, I'll tell him to check his Pm.

Thanks, will do :P

[Expat Kenya]

Hi, I am in Mombassa. Anyone else up for meeting? Send me a private message.

Send a PM to Willyboy, he's here for a few more days, I'll tell him to check his Pm.

[Member #4178]

A real traveller & adventure's that knows how to enjoy life!

You also proves that afro method is a e very powerful tool.

So lets see, you fucked almost half all the girls and moves among 10 different hotels. I miss that feeling.

Hope you can add some more words about the succession ratio of the blind dates, meaning how many meeting were translated into sex, and how fast and smooth it was.

Next month I will be in nairobi and kampala equipped with afro phone numbers.

Thanks for the detail reports.

J

[Member #4294]

Hi, I am in Mombassa. Anyone else up for meeting? Send me a private message.

[Expat Kenya]

i think the important phrase here is" they don't have a high opinion of themselves"

am i right, expat, to say that some girls do this because they really have no choice but as soon as their circumstances change they can also become 'normal' girls? if you do this because it is an'easy' way to make money, of course then sex will mean nothing. i am very sure that there are ladies out there that would give anything just to have a normal life. you are very right to say that mzungus will be fooled by the pro girls, especially if they don't do their home work and try to find out and keep making sure, by means fair or foul of ongoing fidelity.

latern1, for most of the girls it is very hard to get out of the business, even if they have a mzungu. peer pressure is high between the girls. if a girl is connected through a 'friend', mail or female to a mzungu, that friend wands something to keep quiet about the real life style of the girl. a mail friend she can give small money every now and than, provided by the mzungu, or pays him with sex. a female friend can be paid with money, clothes, even shelter in her apartment. when she is so close, she knows everything and the circle continues.

maybe that's why ladies can be so jealous and don't wand her mzungu to talk to other ladies and men? those friends know too much, they wand a mzungu all for themselves.

another factor, anything can happen. what if a 'friend' tells the mzungu a lie about her life, or the truth which she doesn't wand him to know? it is better to have a financial back up, another mzungu, or a kenyan boyfriend who she pays who will protect her and keep off her other friends.

last, she can get addicted to a lifestyle with lots of money, partying and sex, she finally feels she is in control of others.

not all girls are the same, some are really serious, and it is hard to tell because they're all secretive.

peer pressure by friends, lack of commitment, afraid to bond because of earlier experiences in life (does she have a child? where is the father? why did he leave her?) , greed, addictions and some times an attitude that mzungus are only good for money keeps these girls in business and their tragic life styles.

[Member #4148]

Having satisfied my desire to rough it away from swimming pools and air-conditioning, paved roads and 200-shilling tuskers, I decided to relocate to Mombasa.

My luggage and I sitting side-by-side (double fare = 100 shillings) in a matatu bound for the downtown Posta, premium sound system pounding out gangsta reggae and rap (it is astonishing how many piece-of-shit vans sport state-of-the-art audio in this town) , I wondered how the cosmopolitan scene would differ. As it turns out, it did not particularly.

More Afro girls, one waitress. Simply no shortage. One even brought me a copy of the music video she had just eye-candied in. Exquisite girl. Sexually explosive. Moaned about my "beautiful African cock." Everyone got 1000 plus whatever dinner and drinks they consumed. Only one disappointing experience among 12 separate sexual encounters with separate partners: a threesome with two girls imported from Diani who maintained they were happy and comfortable to interact with each other, but were not. One was a starfish and the two shared my cock orally with reluctance and in most lackluster fashion after much cajoling. 3000 for both (really overpaid but felt badly for the commute behind and ahead of them. I know, I know. Spare me.) They claimed they had never done this before. Insisted that next time they would be more into each other. All bullshit of course to keep me coming back. An example of malayas (and rather poor representatives at that) on Afro.

My first Indian girl, also met through Afro, shunned by family as a single mom and looking to be swept away to some other land. Nerdy and bespectacled librarian type transformed into tiny spinner, multi-orgasmic, inexperienced, ravenous nymphomaniac. Delightful. And bright. In some ways the best experience of the trip for the novelty. Kept begging me to teach her more (other girls, bondage, fucking in the water. The odd variety of her requests a testament to her sincerity and newness, to me).

Stayed at the Sapphire Hotel. 5000 shillings a night, revolving-door double. A / C (sorta worked) , CRAP TV once again, big room, king bed, hot water, pool, superb gym, nice rooftop bar, only two cockroaches sighted. A fifteen minute walk from Casablanca. Off the beaten trail just enough to be quiet. Recommended.

Singh's restaurant. Excellent Indian fare. Indo-Africa. Excellent Indian fare. Ate only at these two places. Better the devils you love than the devils you don't know.

The reality of Mombasa is not quite as bleak, in my view, as WB and F&S would suggest. They are right when they say that many hardcore malayas masquerade as middle-zone, regular girls on Afro. But they are wrong when they say that there are not some regular girls as well ("regular" according to the African definition). I simply cannot believe that the continent's collective ability to pull the wool over my eyes exceeds in every encounter my own not inconsiderable ability to distinguish truth from twaddle.

But, of course, this is just my impression. I cannot prove that all these girls were NOT lying to me about their normal jobs, their normal single-mom status, their desperation, their youth, their loneliness, their hopes, their relative sexual inexperience regarding number of partners. Some of it rang just too true, just as some of it rang false.

Like most things in life, the truth usually comes down somewhere between the extremes.

I will miss this place.

Lordy, I will miss Mombasa.