Guys,
I just joined this site so want to contribute if I can. I think this is the right place for trip reports so here you go!
Travel:
Caught the 6 am Copa flight direct non-stop from New Orleans to Panama City Sat 12.26. Lot of people at the airport at 4:30 am the day after Christmas!! Awesome airline, what I remember most of them to be before all of the 'fees' added on. In flight meal that morning & on the 6:30 pm flight back Wed 12.30. They also had a lounge in the New Orleans airport with coffee, bottled water, fruits, yogurt, etc. Very nice. There was no such lounge in PTY coming back. Had a driver set up by Robin, owner of the Air BNB apt I rented, waiting for me so that was a welcome sight. 30 min into town & I was at the apt settled in by 11:30 am Door to door – 8 ˝ hours. Not bad! It's just the 1:45 am Wake up & 2 hour drive to and. O. Killed me. Flight was $560 whereas United wanted $1100+ LFT-IAH-PTY. F-United!
Money exchange:
One thing that apparently everyone else forgot to mention or just thought was common knowledge is. There is no money exchange! The USD rules, everyone takes them & gives them in change. The only Panamanian money I saw was a 50,25 & 5 cent piece. US pennies were on the ground everywhere I went. The quarters & nickel were the same size & thickness as their US counterparts. The USD was worth. Well. 1 USD!!
Apartment:
The AirBNB apt I rented was directly behind the Marriott, literally a 3 min walk once on the ground floor of the 8 floor apt. I could see the Marriott pool from the breezeway of the 8th floor. The Veneto was about 12 min walk from the Apt. The apartment is pushing the definition of efficiency but had cold air & hot water & a place to make coffee & cook some eggs & toast in the am, which is all I ever need as I don't spend to much time in the apt / room any where I go. Robin is a Canadian that lives in one of the rooms, there were 5 or 6 rooms in the Apt. I almost never saw him, absolutely no issue whatsoever bringing girls back, locked downstairs with a "Guard" if you could call him that, but at least there was someone there 24/7 on the ground floor parking area where the elevator was. $50/ night.
Food:
As usual, I had coffee, eggs & toast in the apt. Every am There is a restaurant across street from the Casino, which adjoins the Marriott (the Casino adjoins the Marriott, not the restaurant) but is not part of the Mariott, named Beiruit. On one side of the restaurant is a little Scharwma (sp?) carving station. I went in there one day & got the chicken & beef "Mixto" Scharwma for $5. 99 & OMG was it good. I know, I know. Travel to Panama & eat Lebanonese food but it was so good I went back 2 more times! Unbelievable. One great thing about this place was that each time I went in, I brought my own beer & was never once told anything by anyone! This is one of those hookah pipe places where you rent the hookah pipe & buy whatever it is they burn to smoke. Another café, across the street from that, Café Caribe or Café Azul, I forget the name, had an average at best Cuban sandwich. One day I went to the Seafood Market which I highly recommend, & had a mixed Ceviche Cup which was kinda scary looking but quite good. At one of the outdoor stands at the Seafood Market, I had a whole fried red snapper, probably 14" long that was quite good.
Touring: I bought a wrist band for the Red Double Decker tour bus & went to the Canal & the Seafood Market. This is a good deal, if you don't mind sitting around waiting for an hour so so for the next bus to show up. [URL]Citytourspanama.com[/URL] You can meet the bus at the Multicentro where the HardRock Hotel is, not the Multiplaza where a busdriver told me to get out, & pay for your 24-48-72 hour pass, whichever you like. A lady shows up about 8:45 in the morning selling the wristbands & has a CC scanner with her. Prices are $29,$39 & $50. If I do It again I'll just get the 24 HR pass because, taxis in town are $2 at the most so it's really not worth waiting around an hour if you miss the bus that just showed up. There are 2 buses that make a continuous loop around the city, up to the Canal, to the man made peninsula Armador, which looks like a high $ marina, the Seafood Market & a couple of other locations around the city. One day I missed the bus after being at the canal for 3-4 hours waiting for & watching a ship pass, so I got a $1 shuttle bus back to the Allbrook Mall Bus Terminal, which seems to be the main bus terminal & is one end of the Metro underground subway system, then got on the Metro for 35 cents & was back at the Iglesia Del Carmen (I think) metro Station & 6 min away from my apt! So for $1. 35 I made it back to from the Canal in about 45 min.
I highly recommend getting a Metro pass ($2 for the card then load the card with $3-4). The Train is air conditioned & cheap, 35 cents, and fast!! Also Taxis are ridiculously low compared to CR as the most I ever paid was $2. 50 & that was only because I didn't have change & had to give him a $5. I also got a bus pass, used the bus 2 X, didn't like it because of getting stuck in traffic & I did not know the routes & no a / see! The bus rides are a whopping 25 cents per ride. The bus Pass, Rapi pass & the Metro Pass Sistema Integrado cards are interchangeable, you can use either on either the bus or the Metro. Metro gets a two thumbs up as do the Taxis!
One neat thing about the Seafood Market was that apparently, all the fishermen come in on a high or dropping tide the when the tide is completely out, their boats are stranded on the flats next to the little cove where the Market & restaurants are. So they just hang out & eat & drink beers till the tide comes back in. Some were even walking around their boats painting / maintaining them during low tide.
NightLife / Chicas:
Sat pm Victoria from Cali From Wanuncios add. Cute little small tits but nice enough body. Extremely shy, had her own private apt off of Via Argentina. Very pretty but so shy!! Good session $80.
Sun. Am Vanessa from Cali. This is the one I met at the Veneto Sat early afternoon. Black Colombian, skinny spinner body with awesome breast implants. Pretty good attitude in the bar but simply wanted more & more money, taxi more, etc, etc. I told her $80 or forget it & she agreed. Never called her back.
Sun pm Teresa from Cuba. Nice looking flat chested skinny spinner. $80 Extremely weak provider. Unenthusiastic performance. Told me she was working her way to the US via PAN-CR-NIC-MEX & her Coyote was charging her $5000 for the trip which was quite cheap from other tales I've heard of, not that I'm an expert. I jokingly told her that she could marry me & pay me only $4000 & I'the bring her back to the US! She didn't think that was funny!
Monday pm Diana From BP Un fucking believable! Best session I have ever had. She did a full body massage that included the feet that felt awesome!! I started hitting it pretty hard from behind & buried the condom in her snatch. When I pulled out she saw no condom & I guess just said WTF, & commenced with the BBBJ which was incredible. At one point she grabbed my hand & put it on the back of her head & pushed her head down on to my cock as if telling me, I want you to do this. She was deep throating me & gagging so it was a sloppy wet BBBJ. She was just so into it which made me get into it. When she arrived & got into my apartment, I told her I was going to take a quick shower so she saw that I was freshly showered & this might have helped her get into it. Lots of kisses & nibbling on my ears, nipples, nut sack, etc. I tried to re-session with her but she didn't answer for 2 days & by the time she responded, I was on my way to the airport. She lives with her child (& probably baby daddy) so I suspect that has something to do with it! Here is her contact info from Panama BP. If I can steer one person here to her & he gets ˝ the session I had, it'll be worth it to them!
[URL]http://panama.backpage.com/BodyRubs/masaje-tantrico-sensorial/2863088[/URL]
Tue afternoon & Wed am Alison from Chiriqui. Little 19 yo spinner that just had a kid so breast milk was dripping. Tight body, awesome attitude, met her at Habanos when I was smoking a cigar Mon pm, got her # & she came over Tue early afternoon & early Wed am $100/$80.
WED pm Erika Milano from Venezuela From Wanuncios add. Went to her private apt in Barrio Eugenio I believe it was called, 3 stops down from Iglesia del Carmen. $80 fairly good session, good attitude, good provider. This session was about an hour before leaving for my flight so I was worn out & ready to go but wanted to snap one more off!
Awesome trip, as usual!
El Mechanico.
