[QUOTE=Mardonius; 1404437]Took a trip there in November for the first time going to Colombia my hotel was in the more affluent area of EL Poblado where I stayed with an online chica. I gave myself 2 days alone to go have fun and go to Central Medellin where the fun was and just to get a feel for the city. I asked the person at the hotel about getting me a taxi to go there and this guy goes into that it is very dangerous to go there and I asked even in broad daylight and he said yes and by the time he was done if I had not done my own research in the Medellin section of ISG he would have scared me thinking it was an active war zone where they are throwing grenades at you. I went anyway had a good time even at night with no problems and I went plainly dressed no smart phones, jewelry to central city and by the second day I had found out how to use the metro train to go there again with no problems. I was told the same thing about the Medellin metro that I was told about the Santo Domingo metro that is very very dangerous.
My point is that I think while the warnings are real and should be taken serious I also think that like in the DR this hotel employee was instructed to overstated it so much that a hotel visitor will be so scared of going out that he stays there and spends money there.[/QUOTE]Yeah, that's funny. We went to casas in El Centro every day of my trip except Sunday. We even ate at a chicken place where they give you plastic gloves to eat with instead of handing you napkins.
You do want to walk with a sense of purpose, which can be kind of hard because these casas are not easy to find (they do not have signs screaming "enter here"). The sex scene in Medellin is very hidden.
But you've got me beat: Didn't have the balls to hang around El Centro at night. Although we did go to La Manzana.
