Cartagena Reports

[Elvis 2008]

Just about every girl down there running around with an iPhone Pro Max and that should immediately tell any gringo these girls are taking on the materialistic culture broadcasted on social media from western women and the more places that get access to reliable internet the worse this is going to become; Thailand is slowly getting there as well.

LOL. Well, I had my gal buy a Starlink mini dish. We did not use it in Cartagena but a place North of Bogota. Still, the plan in Colombia is $60 a month for unlimited use which is half of what the USA is and why I had her buy the dish. Also, dish price was $300 in Colombia versus $600 in USA. Peak speeds in Colombia were 120 mb per second. Average was the 20 to 40 range, but the big thing is Starlink unlike the rural internet that was there was always working and reliable. The internet that was there was not working half the time.

In Cartagena, we always had issues with the internet breaking down until they started using wireless 5 g towers for the internet in our building and now our internet is fine.

As far as why Cartagena is getting ready to explode, the first part is if you go to Florida in December, January, or February, and think you are going to get warm, think again. I have frozen my ass off in Florida during those times. You are not safe in Florida until March.

In Cancun-Tulum, you get the mid 80's for highs and what used to be fantastic beaches. Tulum could compete with any beaches in the world with its white sand and crystal clear water. Thing is those beaches are now flooded with smells like ass seaweed. What shocked me is the airlines are now cutting service to Tulum's brand new airport.

On one of my flights to Cartagena, the flight was loaded with a group of fun loving and loud guys. I started talking to one of them and it turns out they were professionals on a bachelor party. They got a big airBNB where they could all hang out and hired a chef to cook for them. I thought about it and Cartagena really is the perfect place to have a bachelor party. You have hookers, casinos, decent restaurants and enough things to do for a week. You are guaranteed warm weather, seaweed free beaches, and do not have to worry about tropical storms or hurricanes. These guys wanted to get out of ice cold Chicago, and I was thinking how many guys in NYC, Philly, Boston, or DC are going to come to the same conclusion and fly to CTG. So the mayor's move to push the hookers underground and prices rising makes sense.

After just being in often cold and cloudy Bogota, it reminded me of how every woman I met and asked there would love to spend a few days in sunny and warm Cartagena. If you want a hot Colombian chick in Cartagena on the cheap, that IMO is the way to go. Hell, you might not even have to pay her if she likes you and you show her a good time. I started coming to Colombia five years ago and have never seen much I ever liked woman wise in Cartagena itself.

[Hobo3]

Am I wrong on this or not, why is Cartagena even talked about being a monger destination at all anymore? It's been spent for at least 5 years now, I can see if it's on a bucket list or something! But as far as hookers gooo, come on! And I've had lots lots of good times there in its prime!

Keep the hookah-smoking, rapper wannabes in the DR and Colombia. I'm in an under-the-radar country at the moment paying $30 TLN with 8's and 9's. Some of us learned our lesson and we're not going to make posts or YouTube videos telling them where the next best spots are so they can come ruin it like they always do. Throwing money in the air, wearing rappers stunna shades, jordans and air forces, making videos about banging overpriced pros. I know some of these dudes and most of them don't even have $10 k in the bank. Imagine spending all your money on hookers when you barely have any savings. These are grown men we're talking about. Just pathetic. A bunch of loud mouth incels.

[Nypher]

I have been saying this for years now. The "make it rain ninjas" fucked the game up at all the main spots in Colombia. Super high hyperinflation! However, to be real, CTG was always a tourist traphigher prices than any other place.

Why guys are so scared to explore new cities, I will never understand. MAN UP!

Perhaps they do not want to end up like this openminded individual in the video below, who from the moment he got out the airport was way too trusting and immediately was getting set up when they put his bags in a random taxi.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ref0dwDTwc

I know its a 30-minute-long video but jump directly to timestamp 3:50 and watch how hes lacking street smarts and not picking up on that they are hiding their face while being on the video and he thought it was best to stay there. Genius decided to go hang out with the locals by that abandon spot next to Mall Plaza. He then decided that since it looked like the Philippines it was safe as the Philippines JAJAJA. Even after his enlightenment at 6:10 I doubt he learned anything.

[Mr Enternational]

However, to be real, CTG was always a tourist traphigher prices than any other place.

Yep. That is why my first time there after going to other Colombian cities I said there was no need to go back. Cartagena is to Colombia what Phuket is to Thailand.

[Mr Enternational]

Am I wrong on this or not, why is Cartagena even talked about being a monger destination at all anymore?

Nostalgia. That and a lot of people are afraid to go to a new place. Take the Sosua thread for instance. A lot of people are finally fessing up that it has gone downhill despite me saying this for the past 13 or so years. But they still keep going there with excuses such as there is a beach, and the food is good, and their cousin's ex-boyfriend has a place there.

I said years ago how it was like battered spouse syndrome. No matter how bad it gets, they will not leave it. Leche papi leche. $100 short time. I am from the school of giving them $25/ day and having to make them go home because they did not want to leave.

It is funny because now many other places they could have explored and gotten to know in that timeframe are also headed downhill. But I do not feel bad for them. Should have checked it out while it was hot, instead of swearing by the one place.

[Dcfan77]

I have been saying this for years now. The "make it rain ninjas" fucked the game up at all the main spots in Colombia. Super high hyperinflation! However, to be real, CTG was always a tourist trap—higher prices than any other place.

Why guys are so scared to explore new cities, I will never understand. MAN UP!

Well yea, you're finally catching up. I've been reporting this since last year when I went to Carnival in Barranquilla.

These guys are trying to put girls on retainer to be their vacation girlfriends and they think the girl is being loyal to them but the girl is already hooked on that "get the bag" social media bullshit and she's getting multiple gringos sending money where she doesn't have to leave her house anymore. What these men did was hyper-inflate everything and the older the chica gets the more she wants. A perfect example is look what happened in Sosua, exactly how those women became entitled and started acting like women from ATL, MIA and NYC is exactly how the girls in Cartagena are acting now. I knew it was time to find another place when I saw the uptick of girls wearing Yankee fitted and all white Airforce Ones, then came the triple nose ring nonsense.

Just about every girl down there running around with an iPhone Pro Max and that should immediately tell any gringo these girls are taking on the materialistic culture broadcasted on social media from western women and the more places that get access to reliable internet the worse this is going to become; Thailand is slowly getting there as well.

[Degenerate24]

Going to CTG in early February. Last time I traveled to CTG was 2 years ago and I know alot has changed. I slit time between at Hotel Oz in Boca Grande and an Airbnb in El Laguito last time. I definetly will not be staying in a hotel this time around. Question for the group: Is it better to stay in Getsemani or El Laguito for a Mongering and site seeing visit. I'm staying 5 days in total.

Getsemani might be closer to the nightlife and action.

[RacShack]

I have talked to so many normal chicks about things concerning money that I no longer think this is the case. For instance, if I ask them how much is their electric bill every month, they will tell me in dollars. I say but it is Colombia, so why are you telling me in dollars? They will say because they think I do not understand pesos. So maybe there are so many tourists in those areas that did not understand pesos, that the hookers figured it was easier to tell them in dollars. I can just see a mf whipping out his calculator when a chick tells him 150 pesos, as I have seen my friends do in every other country when making purchases.

Am I wrong on this or not, why is Cartagena even talked about being a monger destination at all anymore? It's been spent for at least 5 years now, I can see if it's on a bucket list or something! But as far as hookers gooo, come on! And I've had lots lots of good times there in its prime!

[Nypher]

Everywhere there's passport bros are prices have doubled and even tripled. Yesterday one girl in cartagena charged in dollars demanded 300 for an hour and she wouldn't budge! That's double what you't pay in Atlanta or Miami. Why hop on a plane and pay for an overpriced Airbnb in a city where street & beach vendors charge triple the price of everything. On top of that the girl that I did smash last night was complaining about the price and I told her it was good money. She then pulls out here phone and shows me money transfers she's received from passport bros 2 of whom she's never MET! One works as a bus driver and the other in a warehouse. This woman is getting ran through all week and she's still receiving transfers from men she's never met.

Well yea, you're finally catching up. I've been reporting this since last year when I went to Carnival in Barranquilla.

These guys are trying to put girls on retainer to be their vacation girlfriends and they think the girl is being loyal to them but the girl is already hooked on that "get the bag" social media bullshit and she's getting multiple gringos sending money where she doesn't have to leave her house anymore. What these men did was hyper inflate everything and the older the chica gets the more she wants. A perfect example is look what happened in Sosua, exactly how those women became entitled and started acting like women from ATL, MIA and NYC is exactly how the girls in Cartagena are acting now. I knew it was time to find another place when I saw the uptick of girls wearing Yankee fitted and all white Airforce Ones, then came the triple nose ring nonsense.

Just about every girl down there running around with an iPhone Pro Max and that should immediately tell any gringo these girls are taking on the materialistic culture broadcasted on social media from western women and the more places that get access to reliable internet the worse this is going to become; Thailand is slowly getting there as well.

[Nypher]

She is a girl that he found on a site. We made a video together on YouTube. My homie Ryan keeps on trucking.

https://youtu.be/YV3EFhFESoI?si=ZA0FY7DV7mpSQYiy

It looks like they are just walking around centro and the fancy mall in San Diego. At first I though it was 2 guys just hanging out and after watching the video I still think its just 2 guys hanging out.

[DTrain228]

Going to CTG in early February. Last time I traveled to CTG was 2 years ago and I know alot has changed. I slit time between at Hotel Oz in Boca Grande and an Airbnb in El Laguito last time. I definetly will not be staying in a hotel this time around. Question for the group: Is it better to stay in Getsemani or El Laguito for a Mongering and site seeing visit. I'm staying 5 days in total.

[Black Page]

They will say because they think I do not understand pesos. So maybe there are so many tourists in those areas that did not understand pesos, that the hookers figured it was easier to tell them in dollars.

That's not much different from my point. If a girl has a reason to believe she's more experienced than me, it is not a good situation for me. I wish to be in the opposite situation (although getting more and even more hard or impossible to find in CTG).
I stand on my point: Whenever I hear "dollars" from a girl, I run away.

[Mr Enternational]

Quoting USD => she is well used to deal with gringos => she considers and will treat you as a gringo => she expects you pay as a gringo in gringoland.
==>> Whenever I hear "dollars" from a girl, I run away.

I have talked to so many normal chicks about things concerning money that I no longer think this is the case. For instance, if I ask them how much is their electric bill every month, they will tell me in dollars. I say but it is Colombia, so why are you telling me in dollars? They will say because they think I do not understand pesos. So maybe there are so many tourists in those areas that did not understand pesos, that the hookers figured it was easier to tell them in dollars. I can just see a mf whipping out his calculator when a chick tells him 150 pesos, as I have seen my friends do in every other country when making purchases.

[Black Page]

Or just walk away because talking USD and you will always lose. In my experience, that dynamic is much more common in CTG than anywhere else in the country.

Quoting USD => she is well used to deal with gringos => she considers and will treat you as a gringo => she expects you pay as a gringo in gringoland.
==>> Whenever I hear "dollars" from a girl, I run away.

[GringoTigre]

If they ask in USD negotiate lower, if she won't budge then find another that will.

If the quote or even mention dollars, counter with the same in pesos. Say something like "OK 200.000, listo, nos vamos" Maybe they come back "no pesos, dollares" then you say you don't have dollars, 250 pesos or nothing.

Or just walk away because talking USD and you will always lose. In my experience, that dynamic is much more common in CTG than anywhere else in the country. Of course owing to it being a tourist destination. It's incredibly rare to hear anyone give a price in BOG or MDE in USD.