When a good restaurant turn into many fast foods
Once upon the time.... there was a good restaurant in the city, it HELPed many to get great time, you could love it or hate it, but it was almost the only place open after midnight. It was good cause even if you did not want to eat ( DATY ;) ) you could go there, drink and talking and meet with friends, a place where a turist feel quite safe, a large place, so it was a point of meeting with somebody you met during the day, sooner or later almost everybody along the night went there at least to see the scene.
Now it is over and the others main places are totally different.
Balcony is a sort of take away, not much conversation, forget to see terma girls show up there as it was in Help, forget to have fun and to see girls dancing, forget to feel confortable as you stand up in 99% of time, forget or work hard to get a girl overnight too. And be aware that the young children that in fron of Help bothered you only when you got out of taxi, now they will ask you money all the time as they are around you, cause you are outside in fron of avenida atlantica, where everybody can be there....no dress code to be in the street LOL.
Even "better" is like yesterday when it rains all the time, with only 20-30% less people they are yet way too much, hold umbrella or you will pay more attention to find a place where not get wet as pussy than to hunt girls.....
Girls....yes, the feeling yesterday was to swim between sharks, but to swim in a very little pool, ugly sharks hungry of money they earn harder than in Help, so they are much more into "business attitude".....one example ?
Two little thin white skin girls they are all the time together, I banged one in january 2009, in september in Help they just say me hello, yesterday when they noticed me, immediately they came to me with 2 big smiles.....Hi ! How are you ? Long time we did not see you ! ( BS last time 4 months ago ) ! Do you want to have party with 2 girls for 300 reais ? Well, I arrived now, let's see ! They left and hit another one gringo. One minute conversation.
Nobody, obviously pay entrance, so it is a bit cheaper, but on the other side they do not have to stay there all the time, so they move up and down avenida atlantica, thinking wrong keep on moving 100 metrs up and down the streets will help them to find one customer.
Some directly get out of dolce vita and become SW trying to approach the cars, other go for boites and are back in half hour. Ok none asked me to buy drinks, ( the only better thing than Help ), but I got tons of unwanted hug, hand touching, 1 minute conversation, eye contacts....everything but not fun as in Help.
I report what I saw cause it helps you to understand better. 3 men arrived, one noticed one nice girl, the other 2 said bring her, he said I wait, one of the other two said, hey it is only 150 reais why you wait, why how,where,when ? He did not take her !
Yes it is 150 reais only, but me and not only me, are not in mood to take one to hotel, strange as so cheap and men are still thinking if it worth it, why ?
Cause you really get the feeling of very cold sex session....and it was raining....so at least girls should be get wet at least before the session if not during it...
Also I noticed a bit too much totally drunk men there, all seem to speak loud even if music is not loud at all, they are couple of cops, so you feel enough safe, probably now all prado junior with so much turists is even safer than before help closed....
However let's say something....from a POV of carioca 50 years old with family, it was much better all GdP and mongers closed in one place,Help, instead to this "show" outside....so they resolve nothing if they wanted to clean the sex scene in copa !
Oh yeah, Prado Junior....here my reports.
Barbarella at midnight was totally crowded, full of men sit down with bottles of whisky and wine on the table....I thought are they all millionairs, am I the only one I care where I spend money or what else ? But when I saw twice that the waiter bring the bill and in one table the men almost argue between themselfs and in the second one the waiter light on the bill and explain the bill....I realized they are not aware of the prices there....
It is the place with higher % of Help girl, the best ones, that they think of themself too high class to stay at Balcony, few of them arrived by taxi, paid the 60 reais and get into with the hope written in her eyes to get one customer.
There is a show in Barbarella I seem to be the only one I care.
You cannot smoke inside, so all the time I was outside smoking I saw that every 4-5men one left with one girl.....5-600 reais for one girl, I do not think I will go there again, even if the girls are nice.
Erotika wins the award for the coldest place, good place to get sick, 30 reais for 2 drinks and the only decent girl was talking with 2 other girls care nothing about horny men there.
Senso is a totally rip off, 50 reais for ugly shark, sad atmosphere, I drunk one coca cola and I left.
Pussycat is great place, cause you can go into to see girls without have to pay, so you need, at least me yesterday, 20 seconds to go into and out....
Niko's is shitty place, 15 reais for one drink, but ugly girls and if you want to talk with one, it is 40 reais for lady drink. Be aware they are smart, they have 2 girls at the corners trying to take you there inside, they are the best ones of the club, they say 18-20 girls and there were only 6. The worst place with no doubt at all.
I wanted to check cicciolina too, but I thought I wasted too much money in one night for no fun, no sex and the only good thing....2 days and will arrive two good friends of mine, so at least I will have fun, something I still did not have in my first 2 days here.
So, to make long short, Barbarella it worth it to see nice girls, but you have to be lucky to find one that stay for more than 1 hour or you pay too much for too little time, Cicciolina is the best one, or the less worst, but go there quite early and be ready when you see get into a nice girl to start immediately to talk with her, cause they no pay entrance, so if they do not get customer, they leave quite soon. It takes time, but I believe it is the only one boite where it is "easy" to get an GFE overnight.
Obviously during the afternoon I hit termas too, so soon a complete report from all the main terma, but so far, I am abit disappointed too.
Thanks for reading and hey...all is IMHO....