First Time in Panama City
This is my first posting on the international side under this name. I posted here years ago about Paris saunas and swing clubs under a different name and have some reviews on the other side under Wrong Places in the Ft Myers section. I've also spent time in South America playing before I even know this site existed. My point in all of this being that a first post doesn't necessarily mean new to the game or writing about it.
This was my first trip to Panama, which I immediately thought of as 'Latin America Lite' Modern buildings and hotels, good food if you're willing to pay, air-conditioned taxis, a fair penetration of English-speakers and no mental math needed to calculate dollar costs of things. I think it's a great place for guys reading these forums who are thinking about Latin America but who don't want to jump into the LA deep end on their first trip. Yes, it's more expensive than what it used to be and yes, it's more expensive than some other places and it doesn't have any beaches right there. But in exchange, someone with little LA experience and language skills can have a good time with light-complected Colombianas in a safe place that's a relatively short flight from Miami or Houston. Just remember that virtually nothing goes according to plan, even if the plans were made ten minutes before.
I did, however, have two big advantages over most other new visitors. I stayed with a friend who's lived there for years and is fluent in Spanish and he knows a bunch of working girls for introductions and friends and family discounts. He knew at least one in every place we went.
Those places included the usual suspects of Habanos, the Veneto and Ashe dance club. Lots of good looking women in all of these venues but none who caught my eye enough to make me want to spend the money. I'm not one of those cheap bastard mongers who squeezes every dime but the $100-200 it would have cost me isn't a trifle either and I simply saw no one I liked that well. I don't have the fetish for 19 year olds nor do I Holy Grail for the perfect 10 and almost all of the girls in these places look too hard-eyed professional for my taste. Many were very attractive but I need more than pure looks. I had no interest and did not explore any of the massage places.
My friend suggested a trip to Bocatoreņa and it turned our to be an inspired choice of venue for me. Bocatoreņa is a candy shop where everything is still a nickel and I have a twenty dollar bill to spend. There's at least one of whatever you want in a girl. Classic tight Latina bubblebutt? Got them. Thin body but fat butt and things? Got them? Four feet tall? Got them. 6'4' and thin? Got at least one. 19 years old? 45 years old? Got them. A cups, B cups, C cups D cups DD cups and fully pneumatic? Got them all, pay your money and take your pick. We also went to La Mayor and a couple of the little places around the corner but none could touch Boca for pre-purchase interaction with the girls and the sheer number and variety of them.
Boca is $15, not $20, for 15 minutes. The girls get $10 and the house gets $5, two condoms and two Dubble-Bubble pink pieces of soap included. And if you're the schmo who gets a cubicle without all-purpose toilet paper, it's an extra buck for delivery of a new new roll.
If you're shy about your intentions while getting to the place, you can have the taxi take you to 'Habana' club and then walk a block the way you came to where you'll see all the people hanging out. And always negotiate the fare before you get into a taxi wherever and whenever you're going. The Boca neighborhood was full of police doing I'd checks on pedestrians. I didn't have my passport when we got stopped because I don't like carrying it in neighborhoods like that. The amusing thing was that I could tell simply by body language and tone when my friend and the cop shifted into hard nosed negotiation. I was saved both cash and a trip to the station when the boss showed up and let me off for being an ignorant gringo first-time visitor.
I sampled about half a dozen girls over two evenings, looking for the combination of looks and attitude that would want me to spend time in a more refined setting. Which, BTW, would be pretty much any other setting. On Saturday night I met a Colombiana MILF who attracted me on first sight. After the tasting I got her digits and then spent much of Sunday afternoon and evening with her out on the Amador Causeway (nice place to take a girl on a weekend afternoon) and back at my friend's apartment hanging out with him and his GF. It was much better the second round without anyone banging on the door after 15 minutes. And afterward, modern Latinas being modern Latinas and wedded to their Blackberrys, I watched her text all of her friends while trying to figure out what she was telling them about me. Since then we've been keeping up via WhatsApp and I'll definitely see her the next time around. And she has not asked me for money.
A quick note about technology. The vast majority of the girls have Blackberrys and are incessant users of Blackberry chat or whatever RIM calls its proprietary system. If you're really interested in texting girls and know Spanish, go for a cheap Blackberry and a local pay as you go SIM. I used WhatsApp through my friend's WiFi to avoid AT&T's $20 / Mb international data roaming rates. Google Translate works well for me, even with the Spanish vernacular the girls use.
Doubletree, Hilton Garden or Crowne Plaza
Does anyone know if Doubletree, Hilton Garden or Crowne Plaze near Veneto are girl friendly? I got some points that I would like to use in Panama. Any insights would be appreciated. I search around the forum but found nothing. Thanks