Quito

[QUOTE=Jaimito Cartero]Just a heads up to anyone looking for cheap rooms in Quito. Using the Orbitz coupon I mentioned, I got the above mentioned hotel for less than $15 a night, and the Hotel Quito for about $30 a night. (In the case of the Chalet Suisse, I had to add one more occupant to the room to get it over the $40 minimum.)[/QUOTE]I just booked 5 nights at a nice Saigon Hotel including breakfast buffet and all taxes for $87 total. UFB.

For Ecuador, Orbitz is accepting this deal at certain hotels in Cuenca and GYE also.
I'll be in Quito next February. Maybe I'll try another Orbitz booking later this week. Don't know if Orbitz will let me do more than one.

Thanks,

Jaimito!

[QUOTE=Lorenzo]This seems to be a problem throughout much of Latin America, regardless of the currency: no change

L[/QUOTE]Yeah it's ridiculous! As soon as you cross the Rio Grand River in Texas and go south nobody has any change. How do you operate a business with no change? And then it becomes the burden of the customer to create change for the store to accept. Foolish.

[QUOTE=Meat Loaf]Yeah it's ridiculous! As soon as you cross the Rio Grand River in Texas and go south nobody has any change. How do you operate a business with no change? And then it becomes the burden of the customer to create change for the store to accept. Foolish.[/QUOTE]Well, mostly it's just all bullshit that they feed to us gringos.

One time a hotel in Guatemala swore they had no change for me. They even called the owner (supposedly), right in front of me, to ask her to bring my change. She couldn't help with any either (supposedly).

They promised they would mail me a check for the difference a day after I had left their city. Yeah, yeah, sure sure...

Finally, it occurred to me to take my change out in trade. I asked them for a bottle of Heineken from the bar, and then figured that six bottles would just about do the trick.

After ordering an unopened six pack to go and showing them I meant business, the drawer finally opened up and they handed me my cash.

DB

Wherever I go, I stop into McDonalds and order a soda, paying with the largest bill I have.

They never have any problem making change, and I can always get plenty of small bills from them.

McDonalds - my international banker.

DB

P.S. Supermarkets always have change also. Stop in and treat yourself to a pack of cigarettes or a candy bar (or an apple for you health nuts), and pay with $100 or its equivalent.

Yes, you can book as many as you want. I've booked 5 different 5 day stays, in 4 countries. The stays do have to be completed next year. I think the end of March. You must book by the end of September, I think.

[QUOTE=Siam Beach]I just booked 5 nights at a nice Saigon Hotel including breakfast buffet and all taxes for $87 total. UFB.

For Ecuador, Orbitz is accepting this deal at certain hotels in Cuenca and GYE also.
I'll be in Quito next February. Maybe I'll try another Orbitz booking later this week. Don't know if Orbitz will let me do more than one.

Thanks,

Jaimito![/QUOTE]

lol unfortunately here that wont always happen. I had to wait 30 minutes to get change at Mcdonalds for a $10 bill at plaza de los america. they had to go up to the movie theater to get change for me. Supermaxi, i've also run into the same problem. That's the big super market chain here.
Customer service is horrible here, even in the chongos. Businesses here dont value customer service and dont seem to care whether they get your money or not.

[QUOTE=Dodger Bulldog]Wherever I go, I stop into McDonalds and order a soda, paying with the largest bill I have.

They never have any problem making change, and I can always get plenty of small bills from them.

McDonalds - my international banker.

DB

P.S. Supermarkets always have change also. Stop in and treat yourself to a pack of cigarettes or a candy bar (or an apple for you health nuts), and pay with $100 or its equivalent.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=Mraughh]lol unfortunately here that wont always happen. I had to wait 30 minutes to get change at Mcdonalds for a $10 bill at plaza de los america. they had to go up to the movie theater to get change for me. Supermaxi, i've also run into the same problem. That's the big super market chain here.
Customer service is horrible here, even in the chongos. Businesses here dont value customer service and dont seem to care whether they get your money or not.[/QUOTE]

You got this right. Customer service is almost non-existant. Just had a lady from the hostel I'm staying in knock on my door at 8am (checkout is 1pm) to let me know I needed to pay. She looked into the window and started to open the door.

It seems the people here almost expect you to be pushy in order to get anything done.

David B.

Well, I arrived yesterday on Copa via JFK. A bit of a PITA, as they didn´t have some repair worked signed off on, so they wouldn´t let them depart. Two hours sitting on the tarmac.

One nice bonus is that other Skyteam elites seem to be getting some upgrades, or at least NW ones. I got upgraded the day before on both legs. And FC was still only half full.

I´m a big guy, but usually get around fine. I was however winded just by walking up the ramp off the airplane here. I´m at the Hilton til this afternoon, and then off to the first of my 5 day bookings at the Hotel Quito. I´m going to take it a bit easy until feel better. I started taking the low dosage asprin a couple of days before I came, but have no idea if that´s helped or not.

Great info. Tried to book several destinations but the mother fuckers do not accept Greek credit cards and my Citi USA one was canceled because I was not using it for a long time. I have an account with them in NYC and I can not use it with no credit card.

Any idea how to overcome this problem?

Thanks

El Greco


[QUOTE=Jaimito Cartero]Yes, you can book as many as you want. I've booked 5 different 5 day stays, in 4 countries. The stays do have to be completed next year. I think the end of March. You must book by the end of September, I think.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=El Greco]Great info. Tried to book several destinations but the mother fuckers do not accept Greek credit cards and my Citi USA one was canceled because I was not using it for a long time. [/QUOTE]

I´d have a friend or relative book it for you. I´m pretty sure that would work.

you may want to get some hard candies or something with sugar in it. it seems to help if you start getting a headache from the altitude. I've lived here for well over a year and the altitude still bugs me from time to time. Anytime i go to the coast then return to Quito, i get headaches and thats just from going there for a few days at a time. One thing that does help though are iron supplements. I started taking those 2 weeks before I left the states and they really helped alot since it helps build up more red blood cells to carry oxygen.

[QUOTE=Jaimito Cartero]
I´m a big guy, but usually get around fine. I was however winded just by walking up the ramp off the airplane here. I´m at the Hilton til this afternoon, and then off to the first of my 5 day bookings at the Hotel Quito. I´m going to take it a bit easy until feel better. I started taking the low dosage asprin a couple of days before I came, but have no idea if that´s helped or not.[/QUOTE]

as i was checking out of the hilton yesterday, david pmed me, and said he'd drop by. he came with his novia, and we headed over to my new hotel, hotel quito. by the way this is a decent hotel, but a bit noisy. i'm paying about $30 a night after the $200 orbitz coupon. in fact, i think they have another rate of $40 available, which would bring it down to about $15 a night if you use the $200 coupon off 5 nights.

we headed over to papayanet and got some food. i'm a total newb in quito, but it appeared to me that the staff there were trying to double dip on tips. for instance, i got a chicken salad, with a price of $3.60 or so on the menu, plus a water. add in 12% svc and 10% tip, and i think it was $5.35 or so. on the receipt it listed svc: 0%. since i mastered basic math in the second grade, i knew they charged me more than 12% tax. i asked the server and he started to say that service wasn't really included. i gave him the "nice try" speech, and he admitted that, yeah, it was included.

i went by a small pharmacy to get a couple of things. i wasn't sure what brand name of inhaler to try to get, but didn't have any luck there. i caught a taxi to el jardin mall, and got some foodstuffs. they had no pennies for change, so actually printed out a receipt for 2 cents to use in the future.

i guess that's why pennies are so valued here! i told david a joke about pennies in the taxi, but he didn't get it. "my luggage was so heavy with all those pennies i brought down to pay for the chongos". a dumb joke, for sure. :)

I came here for a normal vacation and discovered an entire new world.

Holy shit!

By coincidence, I also discovered this valuable website while I was still in Quito.

Somehow in a conversation with a cab driver, I fell into the high priced "Doll House" the second night I was here. I had absolutely no idea what I was getting into. I was nervous and thought I might be busted and humiliated.

In any event, I arrived at the Doll House on Tuesday night at about 10. Twenty to 25 stunning, mainly Columbian girls sitting on stools at the bar. Only about 4 groups of guys. I was by myself. Nice decor. Good sound system. DJ. Light effects, and fog, and strobes. Dancers. People were polite and professional and it seemed you were in a high class restaurant.

Everything was civilized. The fellow selling me drinks explained that I should tell him who I liked and she would come over to me.

After I made a hasty choice, the fellow, Jose, encouraged me not to chose too quickly, but to take my time. He then made every girl in the place came over to kiss me on the chick, just a little peck, and many mentioned their names. 25 girls came over and kissed me. I had trouble processing that much information. But one stood out. A stunning, perfectly bodied 22 year old came over and told me her name, Molly. Breathy. Foreign. She was hot, hot, so hot with a perfectly natural body: gorgeous legs, gorgeous arms. Perfectly fitting tight dress. Sexy voice. Dark hair. Beautiful face. Innocent seeming. Alluring. Young. Foreign. From Columbia.

We started having drinks. She lay her head on my shoulder like we were betrothed. When it was explained to me by Jose that after I paid the house to take her out for the evening ($50 after 12 and $100 before 12) and that it was between her and me how much I paid her, I asked her how much. She acted like she didn't know what I was talking about. I tried several times to cut a deal and each time she seemed like why talk about money. She acted like it was a non-sequitor.

What she naive? Was she expecting only the house cut? Was it an act? This kind of through me off.

In any event, at this point I didn't care how much. We went back to my motel and fucked for several hours, and talked, and kissed like we were in love and man did I feel like I was in love. I don't have sex with stunning, 22 year old Columbians that often, or ever in my life. Holy shit. She spoke no English and I only a few words of Spanish. At the end, I said the night had been special for me, and she said it had been for her too. I laughed, and she could tell that I was highly doubting that comment. But she protested, quite convincingly, that it really had been, because of the tenderness involved. And the way I had touched her. In any event, was it all an act? Is it possible there was something between us? More than just sex for money? I felt there was but to the hard core people on this forum, they are laughing at me. I am confused but don’t mind being honest here. Was this only the highest of high priced hookers at the top brothel in Quito that was showing the most consummate professionalism? And at what a young age! That is professionalism.

Or, was there a personal aspect?

I went in about a week later, nervous to see her. She seemed jealous and pouty that I did not invite her over earlier. I saw her looking at me out of the corner of her eye as I viewed a buxom dancer. I invited her over and felt like I was being reunitied with my long lost lover. We held hands. Why had I not called her? She asked.

As I now have a hotel roommate in Quito, we had to go to a "motel. " What a fucking motel! Beautiful room, romantic lighting, sound system, condoms by the bed, high on a bluff overlooking Quito far below, drinks handed to you through the door. Nice decor. Armed guard lets you in and you don't get out until you pay.- and for $20!

We kissed for over an hour without even taking our clothes off. And those were the hostest, most fukcing passionate kisses I have ever had. We talked. I gave her some pleasure, which she seemed to enjoy. We smoked some cigarrettes. She sang along to the romatic salsa music with a smile on her face. We spoke about her family, who she said she was helping.

Now, when I was at The Doll House, I also saw some raw energy big bodied dancers whose brains I wanted to fuck out. They were raw, fuckable sex. They could dance (they do a strip tease there while the high class clientelle chose their chica). But with this girl, Molly, I wanted to kiss, then fuck, but the kissing was more fun, although she had the greatest move and fucked me so hard that I just writhed in pleasure. She laughed, and asked me if it was good. Holy shit.

Questions:

Is the show of affection apart from explicit sexuality.- hand holding, head on my shoulder, smiling, laughing, kissing for an hour.- before fucking my brains out, is that real, or an act, or do they kind of meld together in this incredible world I just discovered two weeks ago? Or, is this an act of consummate professionalism from a young pro at the highest price brothel in Quito.- a scorching young Columbian beauty? Brilliant in the ways of pleasing 38 year old gringos? That is true professionalism.

Or does it just depend on the person?

What is the motivation of a girl like this? She seemed anxious to please. Is that from caring for me as a person, or professionalism, or was she enjoying herself? What the fuck? I don't get it. I don't think this sort of thing goes on in the USA Much. Certainly the strippers I have met give an outward impression of interest, but you know it is just an exploitative act. This seemed real. I am not a total geek. I know this is off topic but it is my only experience in this area.

I have decided it is wisest not to let business and emotion mix, as there is no future here, just the fucking awesome present. And variety is the spice of life. Accordingly, I think on my last night out, tomorrow, I will go to Club 515 and Extasis to see what happens and I can report.

Can you do this all over the world amigos?

I am up for more.

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I decided I`d drop by 3 star for my first Quito fun. I got there at 9:30pm, and the place was half full. About 15-20 chicas, about 3 that I´d put in the desirable list, another 5 in the doable, and about 8 in the probably not category, and about 5 in the ¨Would not fuck with anyones dick¨ category.

They are now quoting $8 for a session. I also had one chica quote me $10, but I blew her off. Drinks $2, water $1.50.

I tend to ease into new cities, so often go and check out a place before I reall get down to mongering. There was one hottie (Victoria, I think), that one of the guys was trying to introduce me to. She looked nice enough, small tits, tight little ass. She was also going upstairs every 30-45 minutes.

A couple chicas that I liked weren´t workers there (I guess long pants should have been the tip off), and I guess were just hanging out. I didn´t approach them directly but asked the server about them.

Only pirate taxi´s waiting outside the main door when I left. I decided to walk up the street, and see if I could flag a normal one. Got one for $3 to the Hotel Quito.

I think I´ll try some of the daytime places tomorrow, maybe Masajes Medellin, or see what piques my interest.

[QUOTE=Newbie007]I came here for a normal vacation and discovered an entire new world.[/QUOTE]
Newb, classic story. You get what you pay for and at that price in Ecuador, you bought the deluxe treatment. I hope 5-15 is still as good as it was 8 or 9 years ago. I still fondly remember a similar experience I had there. Good luck.