My buddy and I arrived in Jakarta a day ago and decided to head to Malioboro last night. This is our first time here, so the reports I have been reading here have been very helpful. We arrived at about 7 pm and was told that the club didn't open until 8 pm, but we could go to the lounge until then. We were also told the card to enter was 150 K, so we each got one and sat down. A mamasan and a man came up to us as soon as we entered and shook our hands. We ordered a beer and the mamasan pulled out a card with prices. It has 5 levels of prices from Silver to Import. The starting price was 1 Million for the low-end girls. There were a lot of nice-looking girls, but we felt the prices were too high.
We drank until 8 pm and walked over to the club. There was a lot more girls here and not enough men, so the ratio was good. As noted in other reports, as soon as they saw us come in, about 5 girls swarmed us for drinks. We started to talk about prices and it was 3. 8 M for full service which was crazy. They pushed us for lady drinks and we did one round, but would not do anymore after that. We could not get them to budge on that price, so we eventually left.
Ramadan doesn't really seem to have slowed anything down from what I can see. The only issue for us is the prices. How does one negotiate to get them to reasonable prices? Thanks for any advice you can give.
