RE: Club above Balcony. When it first started it was ok, a lot of run off from Help. I have been there twice in the last 2 months and it sucked --- badly!
Anyone been there like last week?
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RE: Club above Balcony. When it first started it was ok, a lot of run off from Help. I have been there twice in the last 2 months and it sucked --- badly!
Anyone been there like last week?
[QUOTE=Jd Garbanzo]Fortaleza has a nice troika of places where most of the action takes place - Forro Mambo, Cafe del Mar, Club Europa (with 11pm-1am pregame at Zipi Bar) - that, to me, was even better for "feel" than Help. So much so that I'm working Fortaleza back into my itinerary for a trip in Nov/Dec.[/quote]I have been to fortaleza several times and it is no Rio in terms of quality of women. Its like a different world. No asses and little to no english skills. I speak portuguese well, but the average monger will have some trouble anywhere north of Salvador. Yes it's worth a visit, but not the answer to help woes in my opinion.
[QUOTE=Bubba Boy]RE: Club above Balcony. When it first started it was ok, a lot of run off from Help. I have been there twice in the last 2 months and it sucked --- badly!
Anyone been there like last week?[/QUOTE]
I am sure it was outstanding right after Help closed. I was in DV 3 weeks ago and it sucks, balcony sucks, in fact, the whole Copa scene sucks!
[QUOTE=Bootytapper]Boa Noche my fellow mongers!
I was reading O Dia today and came across a very interesting article. Google today added the "street view" feature to some major Brasilian cities.[/QUOTE]"Yesterday marked the launch of Google Street View in Brazil, and it doesn’t look like everything went as well as the company probably would have liked. Not only did the Google Street View vehicle capture a couple of dead bodies on the side of one road, but it’s actually the second image to show such a scene in Brazil. While this isn’t the first time a dead body has shown up in a Google Street View sweep, that previous time had a happy ending, where the body turned out to be a girl that was simply playing a prank. That doesn’t seem to be the case this time around..."
Full Story: [url]http://www.slashgear.com/google-street-view-captures-dead-body-on-brazilian-street-01105609/#entrycontent[/url]
[QUOTE=Jd Garbanzo]Fortaleza has a nice troika of places where most of the action takes place - Forro Mambo, Cafe del Mar, Club Europa (with 11pm-1am pregame at Zipi Bar) - that, to me, was even better for "feel" than Help. So much so that I'm working Fortaleza back into my itinerary for a trip in Nov/Dec.
Jd: (and to others who will be there)
I will be in Fortaleza Nov 20 - Nov 26. PM if interested in getting together for a drink.
[QUOTE=Bravo]I am sure it was outstanding right after Help closed. I was in DV 3 weeks ago and it sucks, balcony sucks, in fact, the whole Copa scene sucks![/QUOTE]Its more to Rio than just copa
[QUOTE=Allforrio]Its more to Rio than just copa[/QUOTE]
And your point is?
I was responding to a question about Balcony and Copa, not sure what your response was in reference to.
Ex-Méridien/Iberostar is being renovated for quite a long time. Why on earth would Iberostar be planning to open a club gathered to gringos and putas?
Help is gone (no loss at all) and won't have any real substitute.
[QUOTE=Sperto]Ex-Méridien/Iberostar is being renovated for quite a long time. Why on earth would Iberostar be planning to open a club gathered to gringos and putas?
Help is gone (no loss at all) and won't have any real substitute.[/QUOTE]
Sperto the latest rumor was that Iberostar was no longer involved with this project and the new rumor was as follows but I don't think it holds much water either, seems like a long shot but I hope I'm wrong:
[QUOTE=Poucolouco]Here is my pure conjecture on the future venue for former Help customers.
Note: See previous photo progress at post #3610 in this thread.
For you nostalgia buffs, Help will soon be just a hole in the ground. These pics are from 03/24/10. The odds on the possibility of a reemergence at the Meridian are improving. In May 2009, the Meridian was purchased from the former owner, PREVI, the employee pension fund of the Bank of Brasil by the Windsor Hotel group. The Windsor group is controlled by Sr. José Oreiro Campos, an ex-pat Spaniard who is a former owner of two bingo parlors and has a controlling interest in several hotels in Rio. He also is an owner of ten Rio restaurants and, had a controlling interest in the former discotheque Help. The group bought the Meridien for R$ 170 million, paying installments for 60 months. The group made a down payment of R$ 25 millions, for the purchase on 27 May, 2009. A progress payment of R$ 10 millions is due on 27 of March of 2010. From 27 January, 2011 Windsor will pay 25 installments of R$ 2.7 millions, and other 15 of R$ 4.5 millions, corrected by the IGPM (market price index) plus 8% annual interest. The initial cash flow is consistent with the sale of Help.
Under an agreement dating back to the 1970s when the Meridian was constructed to a height which exceeded building limits for Copacabana there was an agreement with the Prefeitura of Rio de Janeiro that it would operate solely as a hotel. There were numerous proposals for mixed use of the building as offices, condominiums and hotel but the use restriction seemed to prohibit alternative businesses from operating in the facility. It is possible that Sr. Oreiro was successful in negotiating relief from this restriction in exchange for the timely demise of Help in 2009. In the huge edifice of the ex-Meridian building there is plenty of room for a new discotheque to open under the mantle of the Windsor Hotel group. Even without relief from the building use restriction, the hotel may operate a ballroom and convention space.
Help may not reemerge under its original name but Sr. Oreiro knows what sells and how to package his products.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Bubba Boy]RE: Club above Balcony. When it first started it was ok, a lot of run off from Help. I have been there twice in the last 2 months and it sucked --- badly!
Anyone been there like last week?[/QUOTE]Yeah I was there. Probably 30-50 GDPs, but 50-60% were old and tired. 20 % were doable, and 3-4 real cuties. Personally I am not here for "doable" but go for the cuties, so while I did found company nor was there a great selection if out for the jaw-droppers.
[QUOTE=Sperto]Ex-Méridien/Iberostar is being renovated for quite a long time. Why on earth would Iberostar be planning to open a club gathered to gringos and putas?
[/QUOTE]Ummm. To fill the ginormous void left by Help. Apparently gringos and putas go well together so there's a huge market for it. Robing up at Termas is too contrived IMHO, I like the roll playing that goes on in the clubs (and my apartment). Bring on the next Help I say.
[QUOTE=Sangue Bon]Sperto the latest rumor was that Iberostar was no longer involved with this project and the new rumor was as follows but I don't think it holds much water either, seems like a long shot but I hope I'm wrong:[/QUOTE]I heard the same thing (minus the details Poucolouco provided) from a reliable source about the Spaniard buying Le Méridien and turning it into a super club/hotel with multiple clubs on different floors. I think all of this was planned before Rio won the bid to host the Olympics though, because Le Méridien is directly across from the future Beach Volleyball tournament, and Garotas de programa don't suit well with family crowds.
Check out [url]http://www.RiOlympico.com[/url] for a presentation of the upcoming Olympics and you'll see the impact it's going to have on Copacabana, and especially where Le Méridien is.
It's too bad sex isn't considered a sport.
[QUOTE=Fatkatrio]I have been to fortaleza several times and it is no Rio in terms of quality of women. Its like a different world. No asses and little to no english skills. I speak portuguese well, but the average monger will have some trouble anywhere north of Salvador. Yes it's worth a visit, but not the answer to help woes in my opinion.[/QUOTE]I agree that Rio women are much higher quality, in general, but the price is also 2-3x. I also don't speak Portuguese at all, but got by on Spanish (spoken slowly) and body language. I'll be in Rio for a few days ahead of getting back to Fortaleza, and I'm looking forward to hitting it with some amazing hotties.
Hi I was at Luomo four months ago and found out that my best barmen (Barry) was fired because of food now luomo has a new barman called carlos he is a sh#t barman he can not make any drinks and does not now how to serve people, then we have peter that is f##$cking prick he was rude to me he telled me that I am a jerk.
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[QUOTE=Fatkatrio]I have been to fortaleza several times and it is no Rio in terms of quality of women. Its like a different world. No asses and little to no english skills. I speak portuguese well, but the average monger will have some trouble anywhere north of Salvador. Yes it's worth a visit, but not the answer to help woes in my opinion.[/QUOTE]
It's true less English is spoken up north than in Rio. But let's face it, the programa girls in Rio don't speak much English either. Also, the girls in Fortaleza are not as bad looking as posters are making them out to be. I never hear any of the loads of tourists in Fortaleza complaining about the looks of the girls in Fort. I was in Cafe del Mar, in Iracema, my last nite in Fort in 2008, and the quality of the babes was amazing. There were some lookers in the other Iracema clubs too, but nothing like what I saw that nite at Cafe del Mar.
And Cafe del Mar babes that night had lots of variety: light ones, dark ones, blonds, brunettes, short, tall, etc.