Jakarta

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2276102]I decided to take a grab car tonight because I was going to a place I didn't know the exact location or best route. The car that accepted to take me gave me a call and told me he was actually a blue bird taxi monitoring the grab car line and asked me if that was ok that he drove a taxi. I told him sure it was as long as he knew the location. He said he had a GPS so it was no problem. I asked him why he was working the grab car line and his reply was interesting. He said there are certain times when the grab car price is way higher than the actual taxi fare will be. He claimed Sunday night was a good example because not many grab car drivers work that night. The taxi picked me up and he started his meter. When we arrived at the destination, the meter was less than half the price of the grab car service. But I paid him the grab car price with lesson learned. Never use Grab Car again. LOL![/QUOTE]Blue bird works together with Gojek / car. So, actually that driver hijacked that drive.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2276355]
If anyone knows of a nice room that is reasonably priced that is similar to the old super private room at LA with big bed, a TV with porn and nice stereo in the room and room for the girls to dance, please let me know. Shoot me a PM if you don't want to post it publicly. I'd really appreciate it.[/QUOTE]I haven't been there in ages, but hotel Travel used to have VIP rooms. Large psychedelic rooms with TV. Not sure about the stereo.

[QUOTE=Menteng;2276499]I haven't been there in ages, but hotel Travel used to have VIP rooms. Large psychedelic rooms with TV. Not sure about the stereo.[/QUOTE]Thanks man. I'll check it out. I just have to quickly go upstairs because the locals singing karoake extremely poorly there in the main room is best avoided. LOL.

I think banana boi mentioned something about a vip room at classic as well. Rooms at malioboro are too expensive.

This blah blah ad nauseum about CJ's, Classic and all these places is driving me crazy. How about you guys grow some testicles and take a trip to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta. Start at Tanjung Priok bus terminal and take yourselves or find an ojek that will take you to PLTU. Its about 2 km from the bus terminal heading West on Jl RE Martadinata. You turn left just after you go past Kali Japat through a hole knocked in the concrete wall and park. Walk across a little rise and over the railway tracks to enter PLTU through another hole in a fence as pictured here.

The girls will all be sitting out around a courtyard along with a duck or two. Pick your lady who should cost you 150 000 and enjoy yourself onsite in the alleys. No showers, no need to buy the girl a drink and you will never complain about a [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] smelling room again. Kicks off after dark. Romance to the sound of dangdut, trains and the toll road above and keep the savings.

Parking will cost you 5 K.

Enjoy.

Don't forget to post a FR.

OS.

[QUOTE=OffshoreSwell;2276536]This blah blah ad nauseum about CJ's, Classic and all these places is driving me crazy. How about you guys grow some testicles and take a trip to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta. Start at Tanjung Priok bus terminal and take yourselves or find an ojek that will take you to PLTU. Its about 2 km from the bus terminal heading West on Jl RE Martadinata. You turn left just after you go past Kali Japat through a hole knocked in the concrete wall and park. Walk across a little rise and over the railway tracks to enter PLTU through another hole in a fence as pictured here.[/QUOTE]I went to Tanjung Priok. I had a beer at Santana and took a quick look at some other places. The beer was enjoyable, staff were polite, and they had a band playing. I didn't feel compelled to return though because it's far from the rest of the nightlife.

Also, made a trip to Rawa Malang (before heading to Tanjung Priok). I didn't stay late and had to pay 100 k to get an ojek out of there (Grab drivers were scared to come). Wasn't anything there that made me want to return, but an interesting experience no less.

There's probably more to Tanjung Priok (I noticed another bar area maybe a couple miles before hitting the area where Santana is). One day I'll explore further, but it's a long way from everything and couldn't be bothered in the end.

[QUOTE=Marky1;2276543]I went to Tanjung Priok. I had a beer at Santana and took a quick look at some other places. The beer was enjoyable, staff were polite, and they had a band playing. I didn't feel compelled to return though because it's far from the rest of the nightlife.

Also, made a trip to Rawa Malang (before heading to Tanjung Priok). I didn't stay late and had to pay 100 k to get an ojek out of there (Grab drivers were scared to come). Wasn't anything there that made me want to return, but an interesting experience no less.

There's probably more to Tanjung Priok (I noticed another bar area maybe a couple miles before hitting the area where Santana is). One day I'll explore further, but it's a long way from everything and couldn't be bothered in the end.[/QUOTE]Next time I am in town I m down to go with you to do some exploring if you want a wingman and want to split the cost on the evac out of there.

[QUOTE=OffshoreSwell;2276536]This blah blah ad nauseum about CJ's, Classic and all these places is driving me crazy. How about you guys grow some testicles and take a trip to Tanjung Priok in North Jakarta. Start at Tanjung Priok bus terminal and take yourselves or find an ojek that will take you to PLTU. Its about 2 km from the bus terminal heading West on Jl RE Martadinata. You turn left just after you go past Kali Japat through a hole knocked in the concrete wall and park. Walk across a little rise and over the railway tracks to enter PLTU through another hole in a fence as pictured here.

The girls will all be sitting out around a courtyard along with a duck or two. Pick your lady who should cost you 150 000 and enjoy yourself onsite in the alleys. No showers, no need to buy the girl a drink and you will never complain about a (CodeWord140) smelling room again. Kicks off after dark. Romance to the sound of dangdut, trains and the toll road above and keep the savings.

Enjoy. Don't forget to post a FR.

OS.[/QUOTE]Looks very inviting, OS. Ya got any pictures of the girls?

I was at CJ last Saturday night hoping to pick up a FL so that I can bring her to another club. I started out at around 9:30 pm. I know that it was way too early to do anything yet since the majority of the girls won't be there at least until after 11 pm. But I have nothing better to do at that moment. As much as I had praised the quality of the lineup from my previous night, I was disappointed of the line up that night. It was more of a miss. I did not see anyone that I like nor someone that I feel that I can bring to another club to have a good time. I did have a seat at a corner in front of the bar, and was able to observe the girls that come in and out, and do people watching at the same time.

A girl was trying very hard to gin up interest with a Japanese who sat next to me. She spoke relatively fluent Japanese. However, this guy was not showing much interest but will occasionally nod his head and listened politely but not talked much. She would continue this routine for the next 30 minutes or so, but it was not going anywhere. It was such a torture to see her do it over and over again hoping to get him to pick her, and I have to give an A+ for trying. The girl finally left knowing that it was futile.

It was approaching midnight, yet I could not see any FL that interest me and I was thinking this could be a very disappointing night instead. Then I noticed a girl whom I might have seen in passing from the previous night at CJ. She has a slightly different complexion compared to other local girls, and I found out later that she indeed has some Arab DNA in her. I was standing there trying to signal her to come to me. She ignored me at first and I thought WTF. Her feedback to me later was that she thought I was a shy guy whom she assumed was interested in her friend standing next to her.

I was finally able to signal her over and we chatted a bit. I asked her that I would like her to accompany me to other club and settled for a price after an intervention from a buddy of mine who was able to join me later that night. After that, we left for Coloseum, just the two of us, as my buddy had to leave. I have been to Colosseum several times over the past few years, and I enjoy the EDM music, the dancing and grinding each time with the right companion. It is also the alcohol that facilitated all that too. Anyway, here is the kicker, this girl actually knows the girl from whom I had threesome with from the previous night. How about this for coincidence. When I texted this girl on her whereabouts, she texted me back and said "Kamu hebat joget ya" which translates to you dance very well. She even sent me pictures of the dance stage and dance area. Not sure if it was a picture of me in there but from the angle of the picture, she was probably in the VIP room above the dance floor.

By the way, my new girl told me that some white guy were trying to hit on her while I was away to the restroom and I laughed when it was actually the same bunch of white dudes who had engaged me in a choreographed dance moves which I happily played along on the dance floor. I had a great time with her that night, if not the best I had so far, very friendly, very GFE, great body and great attitude through and through. She reminded me of another Uzbek girl from my Bangkok trip last year with whom I had spend the whole four days of my trip then with her. I wished I had known this girl earlier.

[QUOTE=UncleVolodya;2276653]Next time I am in town I m down to go with you to do some exploring if you want a wingman and want to split the cost on the evac out of there.[/QUOTE]I'm only in Jakarta a couple times per year. I'll one day explore Tanjung Priok again. I think it was only 40 k for a chilled large beer at Santana, no-one seemed threatening.

If he likes to pay 2 million for 5 star hotel girls, then I am sure I am just envious of his lifestyle, and I should have indeed not called it "crap". I'm serious, just saying this is not for me.

Their prices are 3-4 times the Penjay girls, though, and theiir numbers are limited on even busy nights.

[QUOTE=Porker;2276278]If the only thing one experiences in Jakarta is 5-star hotel bars and a long since dead Blok M, you have seen literally 1% of the place's potential..[/QUOTE]I quote myself. It was quite eloquent.

But also the caveat of needing language skills.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2276355]Come on. Crap? I'll give you that Blok M is now crap. But, in my opinion, that's not even close to accurate when including BATS and CJs. I've lived in Jakarta around 20 years and am fairly certain that I know more places to go in Jakarta than most people in this world. Of any place in town you may have visited that was even decent, I have likely been there more times than you have, but I still love CJs and BATS. To call CJs and BATS "crap" is ridiculous. They are my two favorite places in the entire city to enjoy a night out with good music, a fun atmosphere, a semi GFE experience with a girl dancing talking and joking around, then take a girl home. Are they more expensive than a 1 hour session up north in one of the cheapest brothels? Yep. But it's a completely different experience. I rarely visit the cheaper places up north anymore simply because I don't enjoy the experience as much.

Even though it's rare I go up north anymore, I will say that I did visit up north and went to kota indah just the other day for the first time in quite a while..[/QUOTE]Smoothy must have tried rooms at 1001 which have a TV with porn, big bed, sofa, , nice shower area and enough space to dance with girls under stereo.

Suddenly girls under stereo reminded me of Duran Duran " Girls on Film".

[QUOTE=Porker;2276918]I quote myself. It was quite eloquent.

But also the caveat of needing language skills.[/QUOTE]Actually, the reverse also applies. Go to a locals only mall or plaza with that new-into-town, deer-in-the-headlights look and you will be mobbed. No language skills required.

[QUOTE=Porker;2276912]Smoothy knows more about Jakarta than anybdy [/QUOTE]Not really. There are plenty of guys on here who know a ton about Jakarta, and they know some places I do not. Guys like Menteng, Hilo77, Offshore Swell, UsPete, etc. I just post more often so it gives a false appearance of having more knowledge.

Everyone has different preferences.

[QUOTE=Smoothy;2276963]Everyone has different preferences.[/QUOTE]Amen to that.

I can certainly see the attraction of 5 star bars and 3 jt dancers but I've often seen an absolute goddess jump in an Angkot on her way to buy a pound of carrots at the local market.

Sometines getting away from the well trodden expat haunts can be highly rewarding. 😁.