RE: Scam in St Petersburg! Beware!
[QUOTE=MarioVeneto;2182842]Dear fellow mongers I would like to share with you my bad experience in St Petersburg.
(This seems to be a Spb scam because in Moscow it never happened to me).
I was browsing on local Tinder when I matched with a gorgeous 29 year old girl. I am 50.[/QUOTE]It's a shame you didn't read this forum before you visited SPB. If you had, you would have seen another monger post his Tinder experience in this forum back in mid-November, 2017. He even posted his sob story over on TripAdvisor.
In SPB, there's no reason to use Tinder, or Backpage, or Craigslist, or any other site where the potential to be scammed is high. For mongering in SPB, especially if you're a first-timer, remember only one word: salon, salon, salon.
RE: 1 week during world cup.
[QUOTE=Liyzag1;2191348]Hi friends,
Am in your beautiful city from 2nd July to 8th July. Help a brother out regarding mongering.
TIA.[/QUOTE]All of the information you need to successfully monger in SPB is already written in this forum, so please read it before you ask additional questions. Also, the majority of your posts on ISG are questions and asking for help or contact information. If you successfully monger in SPB, please write a trip report and let us know what you encountered.
English Speaking Police number in St Petersburg
[QUOTE=Cucumber;2189193]Well said Philosophus! So true. But the kind of Russian language skills required for the kind of interaction you are talking about is not something you pick up in a a couple of months. More like a couple of years.[/QUOTE]Yes it was a harsh lesson for me. Anyway strangely I never heard of this kind of scam before. My experience with Eastern Europe is limited to Ukraine, Russia and Poland only.
For the info the English speaking Police number in St Petersburg is +7 (812) 164 9787.
I always buy a local sim card for a couple of euros (300/500 RUB) as use it for 4 G internet and local calls for a week.
I will keep studying this forum to get some good salon names and locations.