Ribeirao Preto - New Fantasy
I've been in Ribeirao Preto all week, but I was too busy with work to do any mongering. Today I finally had a chance to try a club called New Fantasy ([url]http://www.newfantasy.com.br/[/url]) that was mentioned in other reports about Ribeirao Preto.
In a nutshell, the place is a ripoff. I suggest avoiding it. My total bill was R$540 for one session, and that was paying in cash. I think they said the credit card surchage was 10% if you decided to go that route. The girl was R$250, which I guess is on the high end but still within reason for a club setting these days in Brazil. But R$35 Caipiroskas and R$15 for a condom definitely aren't reasonable. The session I had was not bad, but it was simply average. On the taxi ride back it hit me that I've had sessions just as good as the one I just had in the Guaicurus area of Belo Horizonte for the same R$15 I had just paid for a single condom at New Fantasy.
The club is in a very isolated (and actually reasidential) area of Ribeirao Preto. It was a R$40 taxi ride each way to and from my centrally located hotel.
I'm spending the weekend in Ribeirao Preto, so hopefully I'll be able to try out some of the more reasonably priced options in town before going back home.