Traveling to Rio in April
Hello everyone! I have just finished reading the last 50 pages of comments / reports and I just want to thank all the people who have posted their reports and guides. I am a newbie to this whole mongering world. I've only been to Rio for 2 days before and that was when I visited someone in Sao Paulo. Didn't even know what a terma was. Completely unacceptable. Anyways, I will be travelling with two friends who are not mongers but I plan to introduce them to that side of Rio. I've seen some posts asking about flights and housing options so I'll contribute what I did so that maybe other newbies can get an idea of how to plan their Rio trip.
Not endorsing any of these places, just posting what I did. I went on kayak. Com and looked up flights from the USA to Brazil. Found one on US Airways for USD$956 (FYI it is now $763 and those punks won't refund me the difference). For housing, I used airbnb. Com which has a lot of filters so that you can narrow down exactly the type of place you are looking for. There are reviews so you can verify that a place isn't infected with cockroaches or rundown (read about that here. Not cool). Be careful though, this one apartment in Ipanema had a rule saying no sex tourism. Found a good three bedroom apartment with modern updates for about $1500 for 7 nights. Splitting that with my 3 friends for 7 nights comes to about $72 a night with flexible check in and check out. I bought a travel book which has alot of good stuff on touristy things (Rio for Partiers) but it has ZERO stuff on picking up chicas. Absolutely unacceptable. So I read Bubba's report with Sperto's report included and started reading this thread back from October 2012 when Sperroid wrote his reports.
I'll be in Rio from April 3 to April 10 and hopefully can post some useful reports. I won't be mongering every single day but hopefully can hit 3 or more spots during my stay. I have also found some websites for escorts that I haven't seen mentioned here before:
[url]http://www.moranguinhosrj.com.br/[/url]
[url]http://www.acompanhantesrj.com/[/url]
[url]http://www.saladadefrutasrj.com/[/url]
If anyone can vouch for the legitimacy / prices of these sites, it'd be another avenue I (and others.) could explore as far as mongering.