San Jose General Reports

[Professor 1]

I agree the city outside of the pedestrian mall is pretty ugly. The park is passable and the museum up the hill is nice, but most of the area has no esthetic at all. Even the university grounds (of UCR) didn't seem very well landscaped.

I must disagree. I found San Jose to be no worse than any major USA City, including those where I lived. I did spend a day at UCR, and the place looked nice and clean, like any urban USA University.

San Jose is no Indonesia, but I found it better than some USA Cities.

[George90]

First and foremost are the droves of thugs, bums, hustlers and lunatics hanging out in the area. They are not your typical annoying touts or low-key panhandlers one finds all over Latin America, and I’ve been everywhere in Latin America. No, it seems to be populated with the dodgier sort of riff raff one finds on skid row in a major US city. It’s advisable if you’re alone or not in a good sized group to take a taxi even for a few blocks. There seems to be no police presence in the area whatever and one gets the feeling that if you get into it with one of these guys, you’ll have a small army to contend with. There seemed to be at least half a dozen street rats loitering on every single corner and in front of every business making them totally unavoidable. I don’t like feeling that I’m not free to walk around and explore at night and here you definitely can’t. Or better put, definitely shouldn’t. Not that there is much to see in San Jose anyhow.

I haven't been to San Jose for 3 or 4 years. What you describe, SL, is very different from what I saw when I made 4 or 5 trips there.

I agree the city outside of the pedestrian mall is pretty ugly. The park is passable and the museum up the hill is nice, but most of the area has no esthetic at all. Even the university grounds (of UCR) didn't seem very well landscaped.

I walked around from one club to another; from Casablancas to Del Rey to Pantera Rosa at night and didn't have any difficulties. I didn't any roving gangs of anybody. I did see some homeless people collecting garbage. I did see drunken guys staggering about. I did see bouncers checking out the street in front of the club or restaurant they were working in.

I did see an occasional police car at night, but not often. I saw patrol officers much more often during the day time in the pedestrian mall area. The ATM area of a bank I use has a guard posted there 24/7. I didn't feel any real danger walking around at night though I don't recommend it to anyone who drinks a lot. I heard that 1 or 2 years ago that crime (muggings, pickpockets) in the Gringo Gulch area started rising.

[Member #2964]

Jet set and sweet leamon.

I had a DR girl total la noache for 15K last night.

I have just retuned from a drink at the DR and had a triple belly offer of 25K.

I knew her 2 years ago and she has added 2 bellies. I said no and offered 15K where= as she said her friend a Nica with fine natural titas and single belly would go for 15K.

All the girls WANT cien. but I am too cheap and spoiled to pay. Heading down to 6th street and out too Pasao Colon tommorw.

I enjoy the troll through the MPs. each day, week, month brings new choices.

Out to La Grillion tonight to see if Tracy from Palufos is indeed working a new venue.

What ever you do Have fun.

[Professor 1]

The standard quote is $100 USD for an "hour" (meaning they’ll do their level best to get you off in 10 minutes and then split), payment often expected in advance. Of course special arrangements can be made and there are outliers in every group, but the general terms and conditions seem to be no kissing, no BBBJ, no back door, routine indifference. The homely second stringers, though, seem a bit more amenable.

The quoted US$100 is the gringo rate, not the rate that people like me, and CRT members, pay. When I hear cien, I simply start laughing, and pat the girl on the back like I got the joke. You have to bargain as though you were in the market. I do not pay sticker price for a car, so I am certainly not going to pay sticker for P4P.

I had a great GFE that involved more than vanilla sex. It included BBBJ, for example. It helps to be able to ask for it in Spanish. My limited experience tells me that if you treat the transaction like it's a mechanical action, then the girl will follow.

[Professor 1]

The standard quote is $100 USD for an "hour" (meaning they’ll do their level best to get you off in 10 minutes and then split), payment often expected in advance. Of course special arrangements can be made and there are outliers in every group, but the general terms and conditions seem to be no kissing, no BBBJ, no back door, routine indifference. The homely second stringers, though, seem a bit more amenable.

The quoted US$100 is the gringo rate, not the rate that people like me, and CRT members, pay. When I hear cien, I simply start laughing, and pat the girl on the back like I got the joke. You have to bargain as though you were in the market. I do not pay sticker price for a car, so I am certainly not going to pay sticker for P4P.

I had a great GFE that involved more than vanilla sex. It included BBBJ, for example. It helps to be able to ask for it in Spanish. My limited experience tells me that if you treat the transaction like it's a mechanical action, then the girl will follow.

[Professor 1]

I did not sample the wares of HDR girls, because I was a cheapskate. However, I think most of the girls would easily take 80.

Some HDR girls will take less than US$80, particularly if you communication with them in Spanish. I told one "nice girl," who started with the US$100 scheme, that I am NOT a tourist, and do not pay cien. She quickly retort, "Of course, of course, and you're a nice guy."

I told her that I was not looking for ANYTHING, but just wanted a beer. I added that I would consider US$50, since she was a nice girl. She asked for US$60, and got it.

[DR Monger II]

SweetLemon, you are right about San Jose as a city. However, I didn't see thugs or street rats at every corner. I guess San Jose feels like NYC in the 1970s. I did see police, but they weren't going after TVs at night or walking the beat that much. I saw one of them stop a Dominos pizza delivery guy While some pros are mechanical at some massage places you can offer a 20 dollar tip and most likely get bbbj or 2 shots at sex. However, kissing is very rare. I found some places like Bar IDem to be too mechanical. It's kind of sad because they charge the highest rates out of all the incall places in San Jose. I did not sample the wares of HDR girls, because I was a cheapskate. However, I think most of the girls would easily take 80. Most massage parlors charge from 20-45 for an hour. For about 60 dollars, you can almost get GFE.

[Mr Jetsetter]

SweetLemon,

If the Saturday night you referred to in your fine report is this last one, September 1st, you definitely had the misfortune of hitting the DR on an unusual night. Tons and tons of mongers were in town for the CRT anniversary bash, and U.S. holiday weekends such as this one do attract an unusual number of gentlemen. I'm not a big fan of the Del Rey scene, but, believe me, most of the time the ladies greatly outnumber the men. Also, don't be so quick to categorize the male patrons as "low scale." I have met some very friendly, interesting guys there over my past five trips, a number of them very, very successful businessmen back in the States simply having a casual time partying the day or night away, enjoying a brief respite from the pressures back home.

I have to agree with you about the seedy nature of the area immediately around the Del Rey, but San Jose does have some nicer areas to hang out in, and offers some great day trips that allow you to see the countryside, such as the Pacuare River rafting trip. Perhaps if you would have spent some time at the Sportsmen's Lodge and Zona Blue and New Fantasy or a number of other venues on a weekend other than this last one (assuming this is the time period you are referring to), you might have received a more favorable impression. I'm not in any way saying San Jose is comperable to Rio or Buenos Aires or other places you've been to, but a good time CAN be had.

I also totally agree with your comment about the lack of a proper police presence. I simply don't understand it, considering the number of visitors the city has. Unfortunately, it might take a high-profie, well-publicised violent attack or two for the powers-that-be to wake up to this absurd oversight.

[Member #4603]

I was hanging out in San Jose so I wanted to leave my impression for those who have never been here. I’m a very experienced traveler and know most of the counties in Latin America, but I’m not an old hand when it comes to Costa Rica so this is my first impression, nothing more.

After arrival I made a beeline for the Del Rey/Blue Marlin after having read so much about it. It’s quite a place and I’ve never experienced anything like it anywhere in Latin America. The place itself is a decent sized bar/restaurant/casino, pretty upscale for a Latin American mongering spot and make no mistake, the Del Rey is a mongering spot through and through. Save the staff, every woman, and there are probably 100 or more circulating in and out, is a pro.

The Del Rey complex has the feel of an American sports bar set in Las Vegas. Good food, attentive staff, gambling. A decent ambience if you don’t want to get too far off the beaten track I suppose, but sort of weird at the same time. Though fairly upscale, it caters to a pretty low scale crowd of Americans predominantly. I’d say on this Saturday there were easily more guys there than girls, perhaps 2 or 3 to 1. If you see a girl you like, snap her up quickly or you’ll likely see her leaving with someone else the next time you turn around. I’ve never seen so many Americans congregated in one spot in Latin America since, say, spring break in Cancun. Although the Del Rey caters to a much older crowd and you definitely get the feeling that some of the old guys have practically taken up permanent residence there which was both inspiring and sort of sad at the same time. English is widely spoken by the staff so Spanish isn’t a necessity at all in this place.

The women are gorgeous, ranging from tall, slim model looking types to ladies with luscious latina-style ghetto booties and all shapes and sizes in between – also all colors from blonde to black with many Colombians and Dominicans. (Colombians tend to be the curvy, long-haired ones with big fake tits, the Dominicans are the black ones). Along with Rio’s Help disco and Adelitas in Tijuana, the Del Rey is surely one of the premier places to find large numbers of hot women for sale together in a single spot in the entire Western hemisphere.

Another plus is that the weather is great. No sweating under heat indexes of 100 here. San Jose has California weather.

All of this is the good part, so now for the bad part.

Despite all its good points, I’d say there are some very big negatives about the scene that will likely make me bypass the Del Rey and San Jose in the future.

First and foremost are the droves of thugs, bums, hustlers and lunatics hanging out in the area. They are not your typical annoying touts or low-key panhandlers one finds all over Latin America, and I’ve been everywhere in Latin America. No, it seems to be populated with the dodgier sort of riff raff one finds on skid row in a major US city. It’s advisable if you’re alone or not in a good sized group to take a taxi even for a few blocks. There seems to be no police presence in the area whatever and one gets the feeling that if you get into it with one of these guys, you’ll have a small army to contend with. There seemed to be at least half a dozen street rats loitering on every single corner and in front of every business making them totally unavoidable. I don’t like feeling that I’m not free to walk around and explore at night and here you definitely can’t. Or better put, definitely shouldn’t. Not that there is much to see in San Jose anyhow.

Which brings me to another drawback. San Jose is ugly and depressing. Think of a rainy day in Cleveland and you get the picture. Actually, the downtown streets most remind me of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district with bums, drug addicts, insane people, aggressive panhandlers, general filth and a notable current of negative energy all well represented. I didn’t talk to a single person whether tourist, monger, or hooker that had something nice to say about San Jose as a city.

Perhaps as big a negative is that the women by and large seem mechanical and far too business-like. It’s definitely all about the money here. Not that money isn’t important in other places, but money issues elsewhere usually seem more like background noise or even a party favor where here it is very much front and center. The standard quote is $100 USD for an "hour" (meaning they’ll do their level best to get you off in 10 minutes and then split), payment often expected in advance. Of course special arrangements can be made and there are outliers in every group, but the general terms and conditions seem to be no kissing, no BBBJ, no back door, routine indifference. The homely second stringers, though, seem a bit more amenable. Still, Rio de Janeiro this is not. I talked to about half a dozen stunners that I fully intended to take back to my room with me when I approached them only to end up being turned off by their frigid, boring conversation and preoccupation with payment.

I did manage to sample a couple that weren’t totally jaded, but they seemed too practiced all the same and were anxious to get right back on the game. No toda la noche at the Del Rey. Here the best looking women can probably turn 4 or 5 tricks in a single night which isn’t too sexy if you’re guy number 5.

If you’re coming to Latin America from the US or Canada for the first time, I can see that this mongering hot spot will seem like heaven as there certainly is nothing like it up there, but truth be told I found it something of a disappointment when compared to other experiences I’ve had around Latin America. I can get over any one or perhaps two of the drawbacks I mentioned, but not all of these drawbacks together. Even though there is less to choose from as far as women go in most other places, if having an all around good time is at the top of your list rather than just adding a few hot conquests to your trophy case, you’re likely to have more fun elsewhere. There is nothing that you can find at the Del Rey that you can’t find in any number of much better locations.

I was planning to spend more time here, but moved on to other parts in short order despite the bevy of sexy, available women. San Jose is just that bad.

One note: The Hotel Presidente is very civilized and pleasant. Well stocked mini-bar, very clean, well decorated and everything works from the air conditioning to the Internet. I give the Presidente a thumbs up. I brought an absolutely gorgeous, tall, curvaceous and not entirely sterile Colombiana here and as far as I can tell there was no fee charged for the pleasure. She let herself out after our session. No problems.

EDITOR'S NOTE: I certainly hope that the author or somebody else will post a link to this report in the Reports of Distinction thread. Please Click Here for more information.

[Fantasy]

anyone just back with a sim card to sell? i know they are extremely hard to come by without a receipt for a phone purchase there. CR is my first stop in a central american tour, and the only sim i am missing.

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP..............

Fantasy................................................................................

[Noguera]

Nope

Brown hair down to her shoulders.
Skinny, great body, small breasts.
No braces.

[Netex1]

Is she blonde and does she have braces.

[Noguera]

Last month I was at the SL and picked-up this totally cute little, tiny spinner named Ivania. She was average in looks but if you like tiny spinners she was great with the body. Up in the room she was absolutely rockin! I mean she did the deed like there was no tomorrow. She even said that she broke up with her old boyfriend because she wanted sex 3-4 times a day and he did not. Great story, even if it isn’t true! She was absolutely incredible in bed.

I am frequently at the SL but had never seen her before … or since. Do any of you guys know of Ivania? I even think Bill may know her?

Please PM me if any of you have run into Ivania, or better yet … if any of you have photos of her.

TGAM-nog

[Almotu]

Almotu,. . . . Pamela is the lovely blond lady who I enjoyed multiple threesomes with, and is quite possibly the most photographed Costa Rican provider in history.

Andrea is HOT! I wish I can see Pamela's eyes. Thanks for sharing the photos, though.

[Member #2666]

Almotu,

With the CRT discount, ladies at Zona Blue cost about $42 per hour, so a session with two of them will run about $84. .

For the more budget minded you can get a 2 for 1 on Tuesdays at Pension Zafiro in Paseo Colon for 15,000 col for the pair for an hour

100 meters north and 25 meters east from KFC..in front of Super Bingo

222-0369