Medellin Reports

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2433963]Most of the action isn't in Poblado. With the metro it really doesn't matter where you stay.

You could possibly find an apartment for as low as 400 k. It will not be in a good neighborhood. It will not have any furniture. It will not have any hot water. You will probably have to pay for the 6 months in advance. I wouldn't recommend it.

Your best bet, if you want the cheapest place to stay is to look into a dorm room in a hostel. There are plenty of hostels in Poblado and Laureles.

The bad news, no home game. The good news, I'm finding rates of $100 per month.[/QUOTE]Because of the Coronavirus, I'm flying out of here tomorrow while I can still get out "easily" back to California, and am not looking forward to it.

I have an apartment in Medellin, I could stock it up with supplies and not leave the premises for six months and am established here. So for a guy with no ties in Medellin who is thinking of staying in Medellin which is the topic being discussed, I wouldn't recommend that he even think of coming down here.

I posted earlier on my situation a few weeks ago and got some great feedback with most saying I should stay, but given the context of what has evolved with the Coronvirus, and what could occur here, mongering could almost come to a halt, with the closing of clubs, casa's, bars, and frightened Fay Boo Chicas refusing to see foreigners.

However I see an exception to this in El Centro, since the border with Venezuela has been shut down, I envision there will still be lots of desperate Venezuelans working and perhaps Colombians as well. It if you think it's a buyers market now, it's going to be better with desperate Chicas looking for clients, and given that the USD to COP exchange rate is at over 4,000 Pesos. However this in no way is a reason to stay, at least for me.

I suspect Colombia will shut down visitors from the USA shortly, Guatemala has, and once visitors from the USA are not allowed in, there may not be many flights out of the Country, let alone to any other Country.

I know Americans living here with no ties to the USA, meaning no homes, no businesses, no close family members, or children in the USA, who are staying in Medellin.

For mongers here now, I suggest you leave ASAP, and I know a lot of you may belittle me over this, but if you look at what's happening now in the USA, it could get very ugly here and quickly, but I hope not.

During the last two days I have been in El Centro, I have been in Parque Lleras, business as usual, more and more pretty darlings in El Centro, and I am leaving due to the ties I have in the USA which makes me sad. God only knows when and if this slice of "paradise" will exist in the near future.

I'm staying in parque Lleras and I noticed some of the casas are like 20-30 minutes away. Can I still find a girl in that area across from gustos during the day or are the casas my best bet for day game preferable something close.

[QUOTE=JjBee62;2433963]Most of the action isn't in Poblado. With the metro it really doesn't matter where you stay.

You could possibly find an apartment for as low as 400 k. It will not be in a good neighborhood. It will not have any furniture. It will not have any hot water. You will probably have to pay for the 6 months in advance. I wouldn't recommend it.

Your best bet, if you want the cheapest place to stay is to look into a dorm room in a hostel. There are plenty of hostels in Poblado and Laureles.

The bad news, no home game. The good news, I'm finding rates of $100 per month.[/QUOTE]I want a apartment with hot water and furniture. How much would I pay for a normal studio with all creature comforts. Also if not Poblado where would you stay that's a good value. No way I'm bringing girls to a hostel. I didn't say it had to be 100 a month. Can I get something nice for 300 dollars. Also what does no home game mean.

I thought these Airbnb weren't good because they don't allow girls. BTW, you guys misunderstood. I'm not looking for bare bones place where the girls run out of there when they see it (hostels, no furniture, no hot water). How much should I expect to pay in the centro area for a apartment, with what you would expect at home? If you're not saving that much based on those requirements, what's the best 25.00 a night hotel in Centro that is girl friendly.

I appreciate the answer that I don't have to stay near Poblado. I thought that was a necessity. I've been to Medellin before but I stayed at the mansion which spoiled me I guess. If I get a hotel in centro will I be living like a king. Will the girls want to stay longer because it's a hotel.

[QUOTE=TjBrazil;2433805]I Need real help guys. The apartment section doesn't get any play so I'm posting here. I Lost my job in California due to coronavirus. I want to move to Medellin and get a apartment for 4 to 6 months since this will probably be the only break I get until this virus thing blows over which will be a while. How Far away from Poblado do I have to live to get a cheap apartment but still be near all the action. I always hear you can get a apartment for 200 but I don't know where or how they look if it's true. Can people in the know help me on this one. What do you guys recommend for someone that's going down there for a extended stay and is on a budget.[/QUOTE]I'd definitely hop on the Medellin Guru website and their Facebook page. They have a ton of information regarding places to stay and price comparisons. VISA requirements, Metro info, gun laws, etc. The folks over there are well versed in this kind of stuff.

[QUOTE=AdventureSeekr;2433682]Thanks Kenny, I recognize they are long and I get a lot of PMs thanking me for the detail. I know not everyone is literate, so I apologize to those folks who are slow readers LOL...[/QUOTE]I don't think people mind the long details and I personally enjoy the stories. I think what folks don't like is when there is a super long "report" that has no mention of anything helpful. It's just basically someone discussing what they did all day. No mention of places to visit or things to do. No mention or where not to go or prices of the chicas / contact info. I am at the point now where I can head out there and figure things out for myself. I have made some friends out there that can also help when I have a question so to me it does not matter. I do think the going back and forth on the same topic should be in the general info thread. Some guys get it and its much appreciated!

[QUOTE=SJobs;2432875]Never bothered to check, both Netflix and YouTube works fine when I tethered.[/QUOTE]I also get good speeds tethering, but I think videos will kill my data plan pretty quickly. I am buying the largest data plan I found: 2 Gb /15 days on Claro. Does Claro have a plan with more data?

[QUOTE=AdventureSeekr;2434006]Just left yesterday. Everything seemed relatively normal, no panic there at all. Coffee shop was full and bustling. In PR, stores have been shopped bare as a comparison. Chicas are definitely aware of it and pretty freaked out about getting it. The few I talk to regularly were telling me to wear gloves and a mask when traveling home. I've heard business is down from both chicas and uber drivers. I think its just at the point where panic will start to arrive there within a week or two.[/QUOTE]Why do you assume that panic will arrive here in a week or two? Seems like you're being deliberately alarmist. There are only 23 cases in Colombia and 0 deaths today, from a population of 49 million! New holidaymakers aren't going to bother coming at the moment, and they've introduced stricter entry controls on peoples health, so why are you assuming there will be panic here ?

Unless you had to go back to Puerto Rico for your job or for other commitments, I really don't understand why you didn't stay here? Personally I prefer to wait out the virus here in lovely Colombia with all it's benefits, than rush back to where I live, where I have a much higher chance of catching the virus, where all restaurants and bars have been closed for 3 weeks from today, and where the media and everyone else seems to be panicking! Here where I am nobody seems very interested and hardly anybody is wearing a face mask. So stop the Corona virus panic hype please!

[QUOTE=Coupe66;2434087]Why do you assume that panic will arrive here in a week or two? Seems like you're being deliberately alarmist. There are only 23 cases in Colombia and 0 deaths today, from a population of 49 million! New holidaymakers aren't going to bother coming at the moment, and they've introduced stricter entry controls on peoples health, so why are you assuming there will be panic here ?

Unless you had to go back to Puerto Rico for your job or for other commitments, I really don't understand why you didn't stay here? Personally I prefer to wait out the virus here in lovely Colombia with all it's benefits, than rush back to where I live, where I have a much higher chance of catching the virus, where all restaurants and bars have been closed for 3 weeks from today, and where the media and everyone else seems to be panicking! Here where I am nobody seems very interested and hardly anybody is wearing a face mask. So stop the Corona virus panic hype please![/QUOTE]Wish I would have read this post earlier. Today I canceled my trip to Colombia. After hearing the US was targeting Cuba I got afraid. I don't mind being in the country but it would kill me to be targeted and quarantine for 14 days on a five day recon mission. I have a slightly noticeable chest congestion.

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[QUOTE=Coupe66;2434087]Why do you assume that panic will arrive here in a week or two? Seems like you're being deliberately alarmist. There are only 23 cases in Colombia and 0 deaths today, from a population of 49 million! New holidaymakers aren't going to bother coming at the moment, and they've introduced stricter entry controls on peoples health, so why are you assuming there will be panic here ?

Unless you had to go back to Puerto Rico for your job or for other commitments, I really don't understand why you didn't stay here? Personally I prefer to wait out the virus here in lovely Colombia with all it's benefits, than rush back to where I live, where I have a much higher chance of catching the virus, where all restaurants and bars have been closed for 3 weeks from today, and where the media and everyone else seems to be panicking! Here where I am nobody seems very interested and hardly anybody is wearing a face mask. So stop the Corona virus panic hype please![/QUOTE]Dude,

No offense, but you really don't understand the seriousness of what's going on. Stay home! Everybody! The sooner everyone just stays home and stays away from each other for a few weeks the sooner we get back to what will be a new normal. Educate yourselves! Stay home and away from each other! Do not fly! Do not travel!

Google: center for infectious disease and research policy.

No panic, no drama. Just stay home. Stay away from each other for a few weeks --its the only responsible way to mitigate this.

There was none in Italy a month or so ago. There are now 21,150. There are 22 confirmed cases in Colombia now. But less than 1% of the population has been tested--that number is far larger and most don't know they have it and are spreading it.

Hundreds of thousands, if not millions of humans will be dead in 1 year from coronavirus covid-19 unless everyone just stays home for a few weeks. You have been warned!

[URL]https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/[/URL]

Talking to a few of my chica friends in Medellin. A few are concerned about Corona virus, but more are bitching about the lack of "work" available because of it. If you are there, you have tremendous bargaining power at this point.

On another note (and I'm not posting this in the hotel thread, since few seem to read it). Be careful when renting an apartment. Obviously you want it to be girl friendly. However, when looking at some alternatives for my 3 week trip this summer, I looked at Blux (where I have stayed before) and Factory Lofts. The Blux units managed by Caracol indicate that you cannot have more people in the apartment than the max that is stated. For most of the one bedroom and studios, that's 2 people (you and one girl). For those of you who like trios. Or at least like to have more than one girl over to use the pool, etc. That will not be possible. For Factory Lofts, they allow 3 visitors PER STAY and no more than 1 at a time. I am staying 3 weeks, so 3 visitors is not going to cut it. Decided just to stay at my regular AirBnb for the entire time. As I can do what I want, as long as I don't make a lot of noise after 10.

[QUOTE=Coupe66;2434087]Why do you assume that panic will arrive here in a week or two? Seems like you're being deliberately alarmist. There are only 23 cases in Colombia and 0 deaths today, from a population of 49 million! New holidaymakers aren't going to bother coming at the moment, and they've introduced stricter entry controls on peoples health, so why are you assuming there will be panic here ?

Unless you had to go back to Puerto Rico for your job or for other commitments, I really don't understand why you didn't stay here? Personally I prefer to wait out the virus here in lovely Colombia with all it's benefits, than rush back to where I live, where I have a much higher chance of catching the virus, where all restaurants and bars have been closed for 3 weeks from today, and where the media and everyone else seems to be panicking! Here where I am nobody seems very interested and hardly anybody is wearing a face mask. So stop the Corona virus panic hype please![/QUOTE]You answered your own question LOL Its simple math really. Italy had single digit cases 20 days ago. Now they are at 18,000 and the hospitals are over capacity. They've implemented "wartime protocols" and aren't accepting patients over 60, period. They have more ICU beds per 1 mm in population that the US or Colombia and are already overwhelmed, after starting lockdowns pretty quickly.

As you said, nobody in Colombia is doing anything. How do you think that is going to play out? You're argument or perspective is very limited in scope and short sighted. To tell me there are only 23 cases today is a red-herring and completely useless information. I only care about what it will look like in 15 and 30 days, and if you look at every other country that had cases earlier than South America, well then I don't even need to extrapolate, I already know the answer.

I'm not interested in panic. It seems the people who don't understand geometric growth are the ones concerned about panic. I am concerned with preparing for economic fallout, supply shortages of food and medicines, and the maxing out of the healthcare system. These are unavoidable symptoms of too many people getting sick all at the same time. It is already happening in other parts of the world. This isn't just my opinion, its already here.

I have a friend who is trapped in the Philippines. Just today they blocked all flights from leaving or arriving. The military is blocking all roads. You can't even travel by car to the nearest town. Go online and look at how many countries went into 100% lockdown today. At least 10. I have friends stranded in Europe because airlines are cancelling flights and the few that exist are full immediately.

I already answered this a week ago but I came back to PR because my house here is way nicer than my Airbnb in Colombia. I have health insurance here, I have animals to take care of. My pet sitter was not willing to continue coming for another 30-60 days nor will she be able to when lockdown happens in PR. They are already closing certain areas of the island. I have plenty of supplies, both medicine and food here. I have entertainment, video game systems, a full library of books. Isolating myself here is easy, it would be very uncomfortable to be do so in Colombia in comparison.

Honestly, your perspective is illogical. You think you have a greater chance of catching the virus in a place where everything is closed and there is less social interaction (your home) than in Colombia where no one is wearing a mask, there is a very large international population and you are engaging regularly with chicas who are engaging frequently with other foreigners? That makes no sense.

[QUOTE=MongerLoids;2434043]I'm staying in parque Lleras and I noticed some of the casas are like 20-30 minutes away. Can I still find a girl in that area across from gustos during the day or are the casas my best bet for day game preferable something close.[/QUOTE]Lleras is not anything during the day, all though I have walked through there during the day and seen some chicas that look like they might be looking for some action, there certainly is not a selection during the day. It is mostly dead, with a few people hanging out, socializing, reading etc just like any other public park. I posted these photos below because I did spot these two chicas there during day, the one was checking me out in a bad way, but seeing as how I am closer to being john goodman than say john legend, I was instinctively suspicious because one was laser focused on me like a predator to its prey, not like the usually glancing and smiling and playing coy prepagos I usually encounter. The vibe I got from them at the time was it was possible that if I had messed with these two, that if I had, say, hit these two up for a threeway, A) they might not have been of age. OR B) I might have woken / not up from with the after affects of scopolamine fogging up my brain. Of course I could be wrong, maybe they both had cedulas and I could have had a great time with them etc but at that moment they were just setting off my spider senses and I chose to evade them. I did not acknowledge their existence, I could see the one laser focused on me but I kept them in my peripheral. In fact the only reason I took this photo was to use the zoom to get a closer look at them without actually looking right at her., these here are zoomed in snips of the original and the quality of the photos is horrible because of being compressed so to upload here,

I think your instincts are good. I would not want to bre alone with the two of them.

[QUOTE=MojoBandit;2434120]Lleras is not anything during the day, all though I have walked through there during the day and seen some chicas that look like they might be looking for some action, there certainly is not a selection during the day. It is mostly dead, with a few people hanging out, socializing, reading etc just like any other public park. I posted these photos below because I did spot these two chicas there during day, the one was checking me out in a bad way, but seeing as how I am closer to being john goodman than say john legend, I was instinctively suspicious because one was laser focused on me like a predator to its prey, not like the usually glancing and smiling and playing coy prepagos I usually encounter. The vibe I got from them at the time was it was possible that if I had messed with these two, that if I had, say, hit these two up for a threeway, A) they might not have been of age. OR B) I might have woken / not up from with the after affects of scopolamine fogging up my brain. Of course I could be wrong, maybe they both had cedulas and I could have had a great time with them etc but at that moment they were just setting off my spider senses and I chose to evade them. I did not acknowledge their existence, I could see the one laser focused on me but I kept them in my peripheral. In fact the only reason I took this photo was to use the zoom to get a closer look at them without actually looking right at her., these here are zoomed in snips of the original and the quality of the photos is horrible because of being compressed so to upload here,[/QUOTE]

What is the situation in China and the rest of Asia at this time?

[QUOTE=AdventureSeekr;2434117]You answered your own question LOL Its simple math really. Italy had single digit cases 20 days ago. Now they are at 18,000 and the hospitals are over capacity. They've implemented "wartime protocols" and aren't accepting patients over 60, period. They have more ICU beds per 1 mm in population that the US or Colombia and are already overwhelmed, after starting lockdowns pretty quickly.

As you said, nobody in Colombia is doing anything. How do you think that is going to play out? You're argument or perspective is very limited in scope and short sighted. To tell me there are only 23 cases today is a red-herring and completely useless information. I only care about what it will look like in 15 and 30 days, and if you look at every other country that had cases earlier than South America, well then I don't even need to extrapolate, I already know the answer.

I'm not interested in panic. It seems the people who don't understand geometric growth are the ones concerned about panic. I am concerned with preparing for economic fallout, supply shortages of food and medicines, and the maxing out of the healthcare system. These are unavoidable symptoms of too many people getting sick all at the same time. It is already happening in other parts of the world. This isn't just my opinion, its already here.

I have a friend who is trapped in the Philippines. Just today they blocked all flights from leaving or arriving. The military is blocking all roads. You can't even travel by car to the nearest town. Go online and look at how many countries went into 100% lockdown today. At least 10. I have friends stranded in Europe because airlines are cancelling flights and the few that exist are full immediately.[/QUOTE]