Kiev to Shekwan and a note to Maverick1
I am not sure what planet you have been on for the last five years but that was just about the last time Kiev wages may have been $150 per month. Right now average wages are $600-$750, much more in some specialities.
As for a laborer, he may be getting much more. There really is a labor shortage in some areas and construction and "home renovation" workers are in extremely high demand. These guys really rake it in.
I do not even think that even in the provinces people make $150 anymore. That really is about the right "normal" amount for a pension.
As for cheap services, the best in a brothel is about $80 for the hour. You can get less sometimes, but that would be $60 and no less.
There is another option but that is both dangerous and only for locals. Where the Ring Road and Prospekt Podedy meet, and at a few underground passgaeways on the lft bank (a moveable feast due to police action) you do have the drugged-out, disease-infected h@@kers.
I have passed by and seen this sore on the landscape, never stopping. It is not worth the risk, these are for those so desperate that there is no pleasure in sex, just release of needs.
If you cannnot afford $80, which locals pay as well, then do not even think about coming here.
And as for Maverick, you have not shared one bit of information with us in all your posts and you supposedly live here? You beg for information and for photos? You have to be nominated for the "Biggest Loser" category in the Kiev Monger Contest will be held later this year at River Palace.
Stand back, I am a professional.
Fox, PP used to have some of the finest lobby working girls and some fugly girl working the strip club. Perhaps things have reversed themselves.
The girls asking for $300 at RP are not amateurs . Occasionally you bump into one at RP but that is a rare occurrence. I am sure your $300 for 2-3 hours is more like $300 for an hour. The are 3-4 cliques working RP and I'm sure word has already spread about you if like you said upon arriving you head for the nearest girl you consider attractive. The girls probably already consider you a mark and I doubt you will be getting much freebie action. If you want to meet at RP tonight for a battle of the Expat Ho Masters let me know. The contest will be quality, quantity and price. Want to bet I can pull two girls for the price of your one girl for at least twice the time? A little gunfight at the Ho K corral? This is how real men settle their differences in Kiev! Not flaming each other on ISG. I am so bad the girls at Nightflight in Moscow get wet when they hear my name based on the stories the visting Ukrainian girls have told them. Are you sure you want to take this on? :)
As far as RP girls being cleaner then street girls, you are just fooling yourself. Statistically speaking the percentages are extremely close. High risk sex with prostitutes is high risk regardless. The street girls are just more likely to have the hard core needle sharing diseases (HIV-Hep). While the RP girls are more likely to have the gentler social diseases (HSV-HPV). Not to sound grim or anything but that is reality. Our hobby isn't exactly building model ships.
Fox are you another casual first timer to Kiev who stays at PP and goes to RP and is going to tell me how it really is?