[QUOTE=Brotherrabitt]......ISG at its' best, one thing the spiked drink did not erase from my memory is why I stopped posting here some three years ago, those reasons all came back.
In any case, it's not satire, I am not making light of other people's problems Gergiev, it happened and if the clever guys reading this detect some sort of patern, so much the better. My "ring leader" Victoria even gave me the name of these type of girls, they feminise the trade name of the drug, something like vitalonascka's or whatever, I do not speak russian, but you catch my drift. Apparently not so uncommon as some might think, and during dinner with my business friends yesterday evening, they confirmed the RP rep. But of course, it's a free world, believe what you want, make comments as much as you want, doubt my personal credibility as much as you want, all that is not my problem and please be my guest.
Went to Avalon yesterday evening, left my drink on the bar, went dancing and lo and behold, nothing happened, I still remember everything (or maybe I invented that as well, who knows), good talent also, called Victoria who sent me one of her friends, did not like her very much, so gave her 500 grivna taxi money and went to bed.
And yes, the women here are very very beautiful, a feast to the eyes, falling in love is easy, or do I mean falling in lust, ok, maybe you are right, and it is lust and not love, but allow a guy his dreams ok ?
I will be back here in 4-5 weeks, will spend another week here, I am sure I will enjoy my trip than as much I did enjoy this one, and who knows, maybe I will post some more of my experiences here, or maybe I will wait another three years.
Bye for now
ps; google "drugs used to spike drinks", you can read the effects these drugs can have, you can be completely lucid whilst spiked, give them all the information they want and still not remember a thing the next day. Also my friend Victoria gave me names of better places to go to and find nice (semi) pro's, so it is not about bad-mouthing the competition at all, that would be a little silly in a town like Kiev with its' large number of women involved in this business. She operates a "stable" for one of the german multinationals here, she is a very good personal friend of one of my friends here, and she wants me and the other business partners of my friend to be safe, so let's not try to kill the message through doubting the credibility of the messenger. I might write about my experience lightly, but I am seriously worried about what happened, I have been travelling for 25 years in emerging markets/third world countries, been put in jail for "visa" problems, been shot at, etc. I have my share of experiences and "war" stories most of us have when involved in lots of travel. This was a new experience and basically the first time somebody put something in my body without asking first :). And yes I am worried when I hear from others that it happens more often there, and I really do not care if the management thinks it is good for business, I have made some very bad decisions myself in my business, and open any newspaper etc etc. Why didn't they take my euro's ? I do not know, but why would I try to understand the logic of some one who spikes the drink of another person, run the risk that he keels over from a heart attack, or sails into a permanent coma for a couple of thousand grivna, euro's or dollars ? I am writing/sharing what happened to me and what I hear about this place. The world is not black and white, others I know have had a great time at RP, but that is not the point. This shit is not supposed to happen in an upscale foreigner oriented "pro" bar, point, full stop, no argument, not.[/QUOTE]I am in no doubt your comments re RP were accurate because as someone who has been going to the River Palace on a regular basis since late 2000
I know that this can happen occasionally. However I also got to know some of the ex-pat managers there and they had absolute zero tolerance to something like this. The girl would always be identified by going through the video footage and was then subsequently barred. The foreign managers at RP also had a very strong policy of zero tolerance against pimps either male or female. One thing that was mentioned was that there are some guys who when they get a snub from one of the girls will then complain next day that the girl robbed them.
But things have changed now at RP, since the closure of the Casino most of the ex-pats have left, in particular the ones who controlled the Nightclub. It is possible that the place will go downhill now, but on the other hand maybe not. The golden rule wherever you are drinking and in whatever country is never let any one get near your drink, I apply this rule just as much in London which is my home city as I would in Bangkok.
