Met the same fate last weekend Schnappi141
Inspite of reading all the warnings in this forum and wikitravel, I still met the same fate as you during the last weekend:
1. Took a taxi from Maslak (sheraton) to Aksaray and gave the address of city hotel. Taxi driver stopped in some street in aksaray and pointed to a hotel 100mts away as the city hotel. I got off the taxi and walked towards the hotel to find that its some other hotel (SCAM 1).
2. Walked around the streets for 20 minutes in search of city hotel. Got fed up and asked a taxi to take me to city hotel. He asks for 10 USD. Inspite of me being aware that the hotel is nearby, I agreed for 10USD out of desperation (SCAM 2) and he took me to the hotel called city and said that this is the hotel you are looking for. He drove from the pickup point to the hotel for just 2 minutes. I got off in search of balance disco and found out that I am in wrong street again. (SCAM3). I was actually dropped near the star city hotel.
3. Started to walk again and saw a youngster. Stopped him and enquired about the balance disco. Good soul, he showed me the way. Finally reached balance disco after 1. 30 hours of searching to find out that the place is closed.
4. Was approached by two guys. They said that the place is closed and there is a new place near by which is good and they can drop me off there. Alarm bells in my head went off. They said just 10TL for the taxi, they will drop me in the club and leave. I thought I can go and I need not to take these two with me into the club. I was dropped in a club called Rio night club, as agreed I paid them only 10 TL.
5. 50 TL entrance that includes a drink and some snacks. Manager tried to make metsit in a table with one full JD bottle already open. Alarm went off in my head again. I avoided the table and chose one myself. Beer and snack were served. Lot of beautiful ladies were waiting to be picked up. Saw a girl from turkmenistan, such a beauty, tall and little chubby. Since she did not know english, the manager made the deal. I asked the price for full night and manager after checking with the girl, said 350 USD. I thought it was good deal. As a tradition, the girl drink a whisky as well.
6. I asked for the bill. There you go. 1000 TL. I said WTF, and I was shocked to see a full bottle JD opened in my table. I didn't know when the bottle arrived to my table. I said see, I can't pay 1000TL. The manager says, you can't leave with out paying. I was surrounded by few more guys and ended up paying 750 TL. (BIG SCAM 4).
7. Inspite of all these things, I still decided to take the girl to the hotel. When I came out with the girl, I saw those two guys getting their taxi key from the manager. So its a well organised scam and many people co. Operate. Since I did not see any taxi in the street, I asked these guys to drop me off in the hotel. Reached the hotel and they say 100TL is the taxi fare. Normal fare is actually 35 to 40 TL. Since I don't want to create a rukus infront of the hotel as I already have the girl with me paid of the 100 TL (SCAM 5).
8. I was very upset. But the girl changed my mood. She was good and we did have good sex. Two pops and she was horny and wet like hell. Suddenly she says, time is over and I have to leave in sign language. I said to her in english that, I have paid for the full night service. She starts to get ready. I didn't know what to do and I just let the girl go off (SCAM6). Before she left, she took two mini bottles of chivas regal and a red bull from the mini bar.
So over all I lost around 2000 TL. I realised how big is the mistake, I have committed.
This weekend again I tried my luck, but I want to stop with escorts. Found this website [url]http://www.haremmassage.com/[/url] Advertising tantric massage. 1 hour 200 Euro. I asked for a mature lady. For god sake, these people speak good english. They said they will send the lady in 1 hour. The lady arrived and she was a turkish MILF in her prime. So sexy lips, tall and sexy eyes. Paid 500 TL. 450TL for the servie and 50 TL for the taxi. The body to body massage was awesome and she started sucking my cock and GFE. I asked her can we have sex and I can pay more. She said she don't want money and she did not bring the condom. Sheraton provides condom packets in the room and it become handy. Had a very good sex and deep GFE with her. And she stayed a little longer than 1 hour. Forgot to say, she speaks good english. She also allowed me to cum on her boobs. Got her number and so I can bypass her handler now.
I have been to most parts of the world. But my experience in turkey is (un) forgettable. People in aksaray and taxim square know only one thing. To cheat. In every oppurtunity, people are ready to steal money from you.
WARNING : SO FOR THE FIRST TIMERS IN ISTANBUL, PLEASE FORGET ABOUT MONGERING IN AKSARAY.
Its safe if you are going with locals otherwise you will be in deep trouble. Escorts are the safe bet.
Regards,
Arider
[QUOTE=Schnappi141; 1266558]Just came back from downtown Istanbul and experience what I almost expected.
Up front: Went downtown as I was searching for something cheaper than 700 or even 1, 000 EUR for a night as advertised on many escort pages.
Took a taxi from my hotel nearby the airport and paid 30 TL. The Taxi driver didn't know where "The City Hotel" (near the Balance disco) is and dropped me at a wrong "City Hotel", even after I passed him the address.
However, I took another taxi...[/QUOTE]