Panama City

[BigIrish1970]

Hey guys,

My trip got bumped back to June. I promise to report back ASAP when I get back to the states. Looks like I'll be trying Habanos. Sensitive question that I have not found an answer to in this forum. There is plenty on negotiating with the ladies here, but is the subject of "Visiting the Greek Isles" off the table. I'm usually in the states with ladies that advertise this service, but I don't want to offend and put off any potential dates.

I figure it can't hurt to ask, but wanted to get the opinion of some more seasoned travelers.

Again, thanks.

[PussyRiot]

One thing I absolutely hate about Panama City is you have to go through double screening. When connecting through PTY to the MDE, we have to be rescreened at the gate. When I left from PTY this past trip, I went through initial screening, went to the gate and was screened again. Absolutely ridiculous. Maybe somebody can tell me why.

PTY- Ate at Caf Beruit close to Habanos & it did not disappoint. The Mixto Shawarma was awesome as usual. I even got one to go for the plane ride back home and it was awesome. Five star recommendation for the little Shawarma station on the side closest to Caf Habanos.

Monday night took a cab to the seafood market. Ate a whole fraud Corvina I think is what they called it. And it was awesome for $12. Again I highly recommend a visit to the seafood market and a whole fried fish for lunch or dinner. Well worth it!

I doubt I will ever be back to BDT and it will be a while before I go back to the PTY.

El Mechanico.

Thanks for the report and food part is spot on. Believe they double screening at the airport due to drug issues that country is having.

[Lee]

EL Mechanico



If you're flying out of MSY take a look at Copa airlines. They have 4 weekly flights nonstop to PTY. It's a 3 hour 45 minute flight Runs between $400 and $600.

United Airlines gate agent told me the second screening is due to lax security in the departure area.

Copa airlines is a partner with United Airlines you can purchase the ticket with united miles.

Excellent report thank you.

[El Mechanico]

I posted this here and in the Other Areas section. As usual, it is long winded, but I wanted to give as much intel as possible. Feel free to guff as needed or contact me if you need more precise detail.

Transportation: Took a United flight from MSY to IAH to PTY. Those red eye flight to kill me but I actually got a good nights sleep the night before. No issues with the flights going or coming. Effing UA! It was cheaper for me to drive to New Orleans take the redeye to IAH and then fly to PTY than it was to take the Direct nonstop flight from IAH to PTY. Cheaper flight, 2 hrs less driving, I will never understand UA's logic. Once I got to PTY, I had a friend waiting for me at the airport to drive me to the Allbrook mall airport for $30. Got there in plenty of time, took the one hour commuter from PAN to Bocas del Toro airport on the island. Everything went very smooth, except you cannot check in on line with Air Panama. You have to check in an hour before the flight at the airport. At least that's what I was told on the phone when I called the day before I left the US. One thing I absolutely hate about Panama City is you have to go through double screening. When connecting through PTY to the MDE, we have to be rescreened at the gate. When I left from PTY this past trip, I went through initial screening, went to the gate and was screened again. Absolutely ridiculous. Maybe somebody can tell me why. I don't understand if you're coming in from another flight, you should be in a sterile corridor but they don't see it that way. Anyway, I brought my CO2 canister PFD with me and the agent at initial screening made me take the cartridge out and it deployed filling up the PFD. I was effing pissed off. If these clowns have not seen it, it doesn't get through. I have brought it on domestic flights as well as thru PTY before to Columbia and never had an issue. It simply amazes me that these guys do not know the rules they are trying to enforce. There must be a rule if you haven't seen it before then it didn't get through. And I know what you all are thinking. It is on TSA's website that you can bring one Cartridge in the PFD and a spare cartridge.

Lodging:

Stayed at Bocas Paradise Hotel in BDT. Right smack dab in the middle of town, water taxi depot's on either side of the hotel. Adequate enough hotel for about $70 per night. It had everything I needed, hot water, cold air conditioner, no problem with a Favorita coming to visit on the Friday night. I heard some bad reviews about the noise from the disco to doors down to the left of the entrance of the hotel. So I requested and was given a room on the opposite side of that. The only time I heard the noise from the disco was when I got up to use the bathroom in the middle of the night. So I had no trouble sleeping. Breakfast was included and it was adequate as well, nothing fancy. Coffee available starting about 6:15 AM. Less than five minutes, $2 taxi ride away from the airport. When I went back to PTY, I stayed in an Airbnb owned by Irving, which was less than a 5 min walk to Caf Habanos. Very nice apartment in the Bancario district, hot water, cold air, a full kitchen, W&the. He even has refrigerator stocked with beer and bottled water for you at a price of course. I did not indulge in this but thought it was a nice touch. Chica friendly, night and day. I highly recommend it, I think $90 a day. 24 hour security who did not seem too friendly but barely lifted their head when I brought girls back.

Currency: They use US dollars in coins so there is no exchange rate to worry about. They also have the equivalent of our 50 Cent piece, quarter, dime, nickel and penny.

Fishing: if you're going to PAN just for the fishing, my recommendation is got to go to the Pacific side. All I caught day 1 was king mackerel which laid in the bottom of the boat and wasted while we were fishing. I landed nine the first day which was fun as at least I was catching. We stopped on some island to clean the macro on the way back in to BDT, and the meat on most of them had turned to mush as there was no ice chest on the boat. The boat was a water taxi converted into a trolling fishing boat. The first thing I asked the captain when I got on day 1 was "are you planning on catching fish today?" he said "yes why?" I asked where is the ice chest & he responded no we don't need one. Well I guess you don't if you don't want to eat the fish to catch. Anyway on day 2 the other captain had a small ice chest which was adequate for the one red snapper I caught while trolling, and a king fish, which I had the Cptn clean and I took those two fish to a restaurant and had them cook them for me and the Favorita that night. Very very good. On day 2 we landed 3 king mackerel, one Spanish mackerel the king fish and the red snapper. Not a lot of action but steady. I went through an outfit called Gambit Tours to line up the captains. Be careful of these guys. They are shysters probably just like everybody else down there. They told me that I was paying for a full day fishing and they told the captain on the first day that I just paid for a 1/2 day of fishing. When the captain on day 1 told me he was ready to go back at noon I asked him why, and he told me they told him it was only a half a day. I told him well we have a problem now because they told me a full day. Anyway I convinced him to fish for another couple hours and I was fine after that as all we were catching was king mackerel.

Food:

BDT- the first night in BDT I ate a hamburger restaurant next to the hotel called Brothers. Very good hamburger, very good service, highly recommended. Saturday night brought the fish to a little Artsy restaurant on the western end of the main street called BocArt. They prepared the fish for us, fried pargo Rojo and grilled the king fish. The charges $10 per fish, not really a bargain but whatever. It was good enough, a nice touch bringing your own fish to the market.

PTY- Ate at Caf Beruit close to Habanos & it did not disappoint. The Mixto Shawarma was awesome as usual. I even got one to go for the plane ride back home and it was awesome. Five star recommendation for the little Shawarma station on the side closest to Caf Habanos.

Monday night took a cab to the seafood market. Ate a whole fraud Corvina I think is what they called it. And it was awesome for $12. Again I highly recommend a visit to the seafood market and a whole fried fish for lunch or dinner. Well worth it!

Chicas:

BDT. I met a little Creole local Thursday afternoon on the street, got her phone number and she came over Fri afternoon for a pretty good $50 massage and HJ finish Friday after fishing. I drink so many beers it was hard to finish. My Favorita showed up Saturday afternoon after I was done fishing and stayed till Sunday about noon so $150 for TLN and three pops. Best to BYO in BDT because the P4 P is extremely weak or non-existent.

PTY. I mostly played the point and click game and had a couple of good sessions and a couple of bad sessions. As usual some of these girls use 5 yo photos for their Panescorts profile. Sunday and Monday night Caf Habano's started producing about nine to 9:30 PM. There were as many 8, 9's and 10's as you could handle, lots of spinners. Most of the girls were absolutely beautiful, very pretty in the face. Some pork chops but like I said, a lot of spinners. Pulled one Sunday night brought her back to the condo for $100. Good session, Not great but good. Monday daytime had three sessions with the point and click girls so I was spent. I went to Habanos but did not pull a girl. I just went window shopping. I think next trip I will just stick with her Habanos but I love the daytime game so we will see.

Take-home message is if you were going to BDT for fishing or Chicas, go somewhere else! BDT is full of "muchileros", what I consider hippie trash who are shirking their responsibilities in life. They don't have jobs, most have a Rasta hair, half of them don't have shoes, they can't tell you when they took their last shower, most of them beg, but they all have money for weed and drinks and stay up till 4 or 5 in the morning partying. I doubt I will ever be back to BDT and it will be a while before I go back to the PTY.

El Mechanico.

[GasparLeMarc12]

Anyone know if the nightclub with chicas, Ashe has opened up again or in a new location? I loved this place to go party and have fun and then take a chica home. Thanks.

[Trifecta68]

Panama City has very attractive women at reasonable prices. Excellent hotels at reasonable prices. Interesting restaurants, bars and casinos. But it ain't got no beaches. It is mud flats. Half of the day water half of the day it's mud flats for about 100-300 yards.

Grab a Chica and enjoy the beautiful island of Taboga! This magical place is the closest beach area to the City of Panama. No need to drive 2 hours on the highway to find a beach. Isla Taboga is just a 30 minute luxury Catamaran sail from Trump Tower (now JW Marriott). Round trip is cheap like $30. Beautiful beach, restaurant and bar on location and best of all very few people there to keep your privacy. I suggest bring a date or go alone, recharge your batteries and return to crush it at Habanos. Taboga Rocks!! Thank me later.

[Lee]

So it sounds like both Colombia & Panama are just for nightlight and a boring day time adventure; would the Dominica Republic suit me better considering I'm looking for strictly Latinas?

Have you ever considered Costa Rica. The Pacific Coast has good sandy beaches, Colombian imports, girl friendly hotels and good coffee.

Lee.

[RudeBwoy100]

Panama City has very attractive women at reasonable prices. Excellent hotels at reasonable prices. Interesting restaurants, bars and casinos. But it ain't got no beaches. It is mud flats. Half of the day water half of the day it's mud flats for about 100-300 yards.

So it sounds like both Colombia & Panama are just for nightlight and a boring day time adventure; would the Dominica Republic suit me better considering I'm looking for strictly Latinas?

[Lee]

Hey guys,

I've been browsing this site for awhile and my vaca is coming up in the next few weeks, I'm really excited but also still unsure of where to go and what to do. A lot of people online seem to prefer Colombia & they claim the rates are cheaper but they seem similar to Panama to me.

I'm looking to book a hotel that's not too far from the beach but also close enough to the action. In an ideal world I'd like to lay on the beach in the daytime and party with the chicas in the night time for 4-5 days & my budget is like $800-1 k USA is this possible & if so give me some suggestions please.

Panama City has very attractive women at reasonable prices. Excellent hotels at reasonable prices. Interesting restaurants, bars and casinos. But it ain't got no beaches. It is mud flats. Half of the day water half of the day it's mud flats for about 100-300 yards.

[RudeBwoy100]

Hey guys,

I've been browsing this site for awhile and my vaca is coming up in the next few weeks, I'm really excited but also still unsure of where to go and what to do. A lot of people online seem to prefer Colombia & they claim the rates are cheaper but they seem similar to Panama to me.

I'm looking to book a hotel that's not too far from the beach but also close enough to the action. In an ideal world I'd like to lay on the beach in the daytime and party with the chicas in the night time for 4-5 days & my budget is like $800-1 k USA is this possible & if so give me some suggestions please.

[El Mechanico]

I don't know if any of you guys are into the point and click of Pa. Wanuncios dot com But I have had very good success at it. This is just a quick thing to post to let why'all know of a scam. This hot looking Chica responded that she does not take cash I had to wire the money to her. You know what that means! Be careful guys never sent money before the meet.

https://panama2.wanuncios.com/sexy-c...5-1623580.html

Full report on Bocas Del Toro (useless) and Pty coming up at the end of the week.

El Mechanico.

[Treading Water]

This is my second trip to Panama City. Last time I stayed at Veneto and was sad TI see it closed. This time I stayed at the Marriott due to the closeness to Habanos.

Habanos really isn't my scene. The chicas are too aggressive and I just don't like the game that much. Yo no hablo mucho espanol so I'm not really one to enjoy a long evening getting to know a chica and then making it into a long high quality evening experience. I found a very nice Colombian (actually she found me) named Monica, bought her one drink, then quickly negotiated a trip across the street. The Marriott was no trouble, they photocopied her passport and charged me $50. I forgot to bring my toiletries which included condoms and she had none with her. She offered to wait in the room while I went to La Farmacia but I wasn't into that. She was nice but I ended up overpaying for a massage, BBBJ, and a hand finish. My fault really, I should have been prepared.

Today I went to La Bocatorena. I have to say this was more my style. The visit started a little sketchy. I walked in to find everyone standing around a body in the middle of the hard tile floor, bleeding badly from the head. He looked like he'the been shot through the eye but I eventually found out he was drunk, fell off his stool, and smashed his head on the hard tile floor. I hope he's OK, he sure didn't look OK. The cops were there and they soon took him away in an ambulance. I found a very cute and skinny and sort of Asian looking chica whose name I have already forgotten. We quickly negotiated a very full service for $20. Oral, three positions, tit sucking, finished pounding her doggie. She was great. The whole trip hotel to hotel was under an hour.

At this point in my life I can't really drink and monger or I will never nut. I liked Boca partly because I can do the deed stone sober, have a great time, and then go eat and drink. Much more to my liking.

[JBooSeven]

I just noticed on Expedia it says "Only registered guests are allowed in the guestrooms. ".

Does anybody have any recent experience here?

I'm booked there in May but might change if this is enforced.

H1.

I'm in Panama now and was charged $40 last night for a guest fee even though I booked double occupancy. However if you have (1) consistent, same person as your guest on your stay, then the $40 is waived after they take the usual copy of the passport. It's a bummer if you want to have a variety of girls as your guest.

It's a fairly recent change in their policy and was not in place when I was last in Panama December 2018.

[Mitch1965]

Mongers,

Just returned from a Panama trip and stayed at the Bristol (see previous posts). Considering the Executive Hotel across the street for my next trip. Any experiences, comments or concerns? Thanks in advance.

[Lee]

No mention of chica fees at all during any point in the three night stay. Each girl that came showed her ID at the front desk for security purposes and that was that. The hotel employees did not blink an eye at anybody bringing girls around and there were several obvious mongers also staying at the hotel.

Take into consideration he has a rewards status with the hotel chain and that was probably why he was not charged to bring a guest in.

I stay at the Hyatt have had similar experiences which I contribute to my status as a frequent visitor with that chain.