Cartagena Reports

[QUOTE=Cerebro;1694770]Blackpage,

I know you are a long timer in CTG but you are misinforming people with the comment that there are no chica friendly places. There are chica friendly hotel in CTG and all over Colombia. They are just more difficult to find in CTG than other places. I booked a night at Pueblito Playa in CTG Bocagrande through [URL]booking.com[/URL] at avenida San Martin no 4-115. [URL]http://hotelpueblitoplaya.com/tarifas.php?idioma=en[/URL] 85000 pesos ($32 us) a night for a single room, girl friendly and just a few blocks from Playa Hollywood. It is probably the cheapest place in that area and it is clean and has comfortable beds, safe area. There is a chica fee 45000 pesos ($17 dollars). I stayed there 1 night last December. I did not bring a chica while I was there but I asked, and the attendant told me that there was no problem with bringing a girl and that I needed to do was to pay for the additional person or chica fee. See also the list list bellow from W69 listing post:
Short Time Hotels / Motels.
[/QUOTE]Thanks for reminding me that there are chica friendly hotels in Colombia! LOL.
Yes, there are, but I repeat: there is a sharp distinction between regular hotels and short-time hotels where to bring girls. In regular hotels, either they do not allow, either they try to discourage the guests by imposing high additional fees. See the various comments I collected in the Annex to my earlier email. I did not write them, but I liearned from that what I verified personally..

By the way, you excerpted the list of short-time hotels from the Cartagena List, but you don't know that I am the one who was the first ever (old regs, correct me if I am wrong) to mention La Jaiba in this thread!
Believe it or not, it was 9 years ago, in 2006. I felt like a kid free to roam in a toy store....
I was a newbie, and my first post from CTG (linked in the RoD by Jackson) shows all my novice enthusiasm. See this:
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?2016-Links-to-Reports-of-Distinction&p=539272&viewfull=1#post539272[/URL].
yet providing some useful info, like those motels in Crespo.
By the way, at that time la Calle de la Media Luna was infamous, dangerous, and the SGs working there were the worst in town.
I think I tried La Jaiva on my second visit to CTG. Long time ago, sigh...!

[QUOTE=BlackPage;1694886]Believe it or not, it was 9 years ago, in 2006. I felt like a kid free to roam in a toy store....
I was a newbie, and my first post from CTG (linked in the RoD by Jackson) shows all my novice enthusiasm. See this:
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?2016-Links-to-Reports-of-Distinction&p=539272&viewfull=1#post539272[/URL].
yet providing some useful info, like those motels in Crespo.
By the way, at that time la Calle de la Media Luna was infamous, dangerous, and the SGs working there were the worst in town.
I think I tried La Jaiva on my second visit to CTG. Long time ago, sigh...![/QUOTE]Black page,

Thanks for sharing. Very Interesting. I read your 2006 post when you were a newbie and noticed the excitement. I don't even have a year as a monger under my belt. Hope to get many years as you. This coming August it will be my first year anniversary. August 2014 is when I did my first mongering trip in the DR (Boca Chica, Cabarette and Sosua) and also my first ISG post (Cabarette). It will be interesting to look back a few years from now to reflect on the experiences, the good and the bad, the chicas, the changes, the ISG members, the places visited, etc, as you are doing now. Hope to have same longevity as you or more. The only negative experience for me has been the scams from Carta or from that low life Aunsa. But still the positive experiences have been greater, and most of the chicas I have encountered or selected have been great. I am enjoying this lifestyle greatly.

Thanks,

Cerebro

[QUOTE=Cerebro;1695125]Black page,
Thanks for sharing. Very Interesting. I read your 2006 post when you were a newbie and noticed the excitement. I don't even have a year as a monger under my belt. Hope to get many years as you. This coming August it will be my first year anniversary. August 2014 is when I did my first mongering trip in the DR (Boca Chica, Cabarette and Sosua) and also my first ISG post (Cabarette). It will be interesting to look back a few years from now to reflect on the experiences, the good and the bad, the chicas, the changes, the ISG members, the places visited, etc, as you are doing now. Hope to have same longevity as you or more. The only negative experience for me has been the scams from Carta or from that low life Aunsa. But still the positive experiences have been greater, and most of the chicas I have encountered or selected have been great. I am enjoying this lifestyle greatly.
Thanks,
Cerebro[/QUOTE]Reading back my 2006 post I noticed this:
[I]1) ldv is nothing special. i suggest to avoid it! full of seasoned pros and mid-aged gringos. you may find a pearl here, but it is rare. if a girl is stunning, then she's used to wealthy gringos and then she will ask a lot of money. much better options all around.[/I]
WOW. 9 years and nothing changed about LDV.

The big change is about security. It was dangerous to walk alone at night in El Centro, because plagued by young ladrones from barrios, but now it's 100% safe.

The other big change is that I could not write anymore "I look 35". This is so sad.

[QUOTE=Cerebro;1695125]Black page,

Thanks for sharing. Very Interesting. I read your 2006 post when you were a newbie and noticed the excitement. I don't even have a year as a monger under my belt. Hope to get many years as you. This coming August it will be my first year anniversary. August 2014 is when I did my first mongering trip in the DR (Boca Chica, Cabarette and Sosua) and also my first ISG post (Cabarette). It will be interesting to look back a few years from now to reflect on the experiences, the good and the bad, the chicas, the changes, the ISG members, the places visited, etc, as you are doing now. Hope to have same longevity as you or more. The only negative experience for me has been the scams from Carta or from that low life Aunsa. But still the positive experiences have been greater, and most of the chicas I have encountered or selected have been great. I am enjoying this lifestyle greatly.

Thanks,

Cerebro[/QUOTE]Yes one day you will look back at your reports with pleasure. Yesterday I spent half a day looking at all my old trip reports. Man it was great seeing those events come back to life.

[QUOTE=JohnGault;1694877]In regard to renting a hotel or apartment I think what is the most important consideration would be how long are you in town. A weekend stay is more a hotel stay. Anytime you are in country for a longer stay than an apartment has so many advantages that it is almost a no brainer. I think of the many times I tried to bring more than one girl to the hotel, and was rebuffed by the front desk. Also the overall comfort of having

Your own lair cannot be beat. Another factor is it is less expensive to be in an apartment for longer stays.

All that said many times either by a tip to the person working in the hotel or other ways to operate I have at times defeated the hotel police. Of course my nature is such, and at times I was defeated in my attempts.[/QUOTE]Yes, the Santa Clara has gotten very strict over the last few years. My experience with them was around 2002-2009. Of course blame that on gringos trying to bring in street walkers. I was bringing in non pros, are the type of women that I hang with in Colombia.

[QUOTE=JohnGault;1695363]Yes one day you will look back at your reports with pleasure. Yesterday I spent half a day looking at all my old trip reports. Man it was great seeing those events come back to life.[/QUOTE]And this is the real reason why we post our reports. Right??

Writing our adventures, for letting others to enjoy, but especially us years after.

If you have time to waste, have a look at my long reports from Batam, Indonesia. All series duly linked from the RoD (so it's easy to find them). Sometimes I read my stories of just 2-3-4 years back, funny adventures and odd encounters, and it's like I live that again.

[QUOTE=NordicTom;1693509]Thanks, yes, I've seen about the short term hotels, but I like the TLN experience, and like the comfort of being in my own place, so would much prefer a chica friendly hotel (don't min paying a reasonable fee)[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=BlackPage;1694481]Again, RTFF!!

No such hotels in CTG, maybe not even in Colombia.
Rent an apartment. Dozens of reports here already discussed the issue in detail.[/QUOTE]I've taken prostitutes to hotels in Bogota, Medellin, Cartagena and Barranquilla. The only significant problem I had was in Barranquilla, taking a woman from Lusitania back to my room. I didn't know she was going to be dressed like a street walker, and we walked in at 4:00 AM on a weeknight. I got a stern lecture from the night cashier and had to pay $30 or $40. Other than that the only other episode I can remember was at Las Americas in Cartagena, and just involved a short argument with a security guard. I think I've been lucky because,

1. I go with women who look like they could plausibly be girlfriends.

2. I'm in a large hotel with traffic.

3. I walk in like I own the place. If the woman looks a little marginal I tip generously. I don't come back in the wee hours of the morning (Barranquilla excepted).

4. I can't recall ever haven taken more than two women back to a hotel during the same stay.

5. In Bogota and Medellin, staff would probably have me pegged as a business traveler or someone visiting local friends instead of a sex tourist.

6. I look for creative ways to get to the room. Maybe go first to the bar or restaurant, then head for the room. This has even worked for me in Cuba, although getting the woman OUT of the hotel proved problematic and required giving the security guy $20.

[QUOTE=Tiny12;1697534]I've taken prostitutes to hotels in Bogota, Medellin, Cartagena and Barranquilla. The only significant problem I had was in Barranquilla, taking a woman from Lusitania back to my room. I didn't know she was going to be dressed like a street walker, and we walked in at 4:00 AM on a weeknight. I got a stern lecture from the night cashier and had to pay $30 or $40. Other than that the only other episode I can remember was at Las Americas in Cartagena, and just involved a short argument with a security guard. I think I've been lucky because,

1. I go with women who look like they could plausibly be girlfriends.

2. I'm in a large hotel with traffic.

3. I walk in like I own the place. If the woman looks a little marginal I tip generously. I don't come back in the wee hours of the morning (Barranquilla excepted).

4. I can't recall ever haven taken more than two women back to a hotel during the same stay.

5. In Bogota and Medellin, staff would probably have me pegged as a business traveler or someone visiting local friends instead of a sex tourist.

6. I look for creative ways to get to the room. Maybe go first to the bar or restaurant, then head for the room. This has even worked for me in Cuba, although getting the woman OUT of the hotel proved problematic and required giving the security guy $20.[/QUOTE]There is a great short term "Love Motel" called EL Cangrejo close to Centro.

In my experience most of the hotels that I have been to in Colombia have not charged extra for a short time guest. I have only been charged the extra guest tariff if the person has stayed overnight. The only exception has been Hotel Tequendama in Bogota. Once they wanted me to pay $40 to let my friend come up to the room where there was no problem with other friends before. We camped out on the lobby sofas as a show of protest.

That's a precise reason why Casanova wrote his long memoire.

[QUOTE=BlackPage;1696250] Sometimes I read my stories of just 2-3-4 years back, funny adventures and odd encounters, and it's like I live that again.[/QUOTE]

I always make photo diary with comments and records of girls, bar, food, etc. Its fun to read it later.

[QUOTE=JohnGault;1695363]Yes one day you will look back at your reports with pleasure. Yesterday I spent half a day looking at all my old trip reports. Man it was great seeing those events come back to life.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=MrEnternational;1699359]In my experience most of the hotels that I have been to in Colombia have not charged extra for a short time guest. I have only been charged the extra guest tariff if the person has stayed overnight. The only exception has been Hotel Tequendama in Bogota. Once they wanted me to pay $40 to let my friend come up to the room where there was no problem with other friends before. We camped out on the lobby sofas as a show of protest.[/QUOTE]I didn't have any problem with the Tequendama when bringing back dates, except for intense stares from some of the staff. I liked the hotel. The guys with the machine guns near the front door are a nice touch.

I am now planning my first trip to Cartagena. I didn't realize that many hotels are not guest-friendly. I would like to stay at a high-end hotel, perhaps the Sofitel. Does anyone know of high-end hotels that are guest friendly? I would appreciate any suggestions.

I was surprised to hear about this problem in Cartagena. I thought most hotels would be guest-friendly. In Vietnam, high-end hotels are difficult for guests, but you can work around it. On the other hand, almost all the high-end hotels in Bangkok are guest-friendly.

I just finished reading more of the forum after posting my high-end hotel question. I've decided it's not a good idea to take a girl back to your room in a high-end hotel. Can anyone recommend a good-quality apartment I could rent for a week? I would like something close in. I'm reluctant to book on-line, since there's no way of knowing the quality until you see it. I would appreciate a suggestion from someone who has actually stayed in a nice apartment.

Thank you,

Canyon.

[QUOTE=Canyon;1700735]I just finished reading more of the forum after posting my high-end hotel question. I've decided it's not a good idea to take a girl back to your room in a high-end hotel. Can anyone recommend a good-quality apartment I could rent for a week? I would like something close in. I'm reluctant to book on-line, since there's no way of knowing the quality until you see it. I would appreciate a suggestion from someone who has actually stayed in a nice apartment.

Thank you,

Canyon.[/QUOTE][URL]http://www.venpro.net/fotosapartamentos/index.htm[/URL] Connect with this guy. He's the best.