Florianopolis

Yes, Floripa girls are pretty, but it is like going to California. They are rich girls, and daddy's girls, so why should they sleep with a gringo? They have young rich men like Guga, the international tennis star, who lives in Floripa. Also, many rich of Sao Paulo live here (I mean VERY RICH, they ride helicopters to work) so by comparison, most gringos are dirt poor.

In any case, because of this, the local pretty girls do not ***** themselves like the Northeast girls (who I prefer because they are pure GFE). So the hookers get ugly, and few. I would not recommend for whoring. Just for the nice beach, which is filled with well athletic rich beautiful young men and women. It reminded me of Newport Beach in California, a very surfer scene.

Rio Nut,

This is my favorite hunting ground in Brasil. The people here maybe are more better economically than SP or RJ in general. But the very rich people here is still only small percent. I would say most girls will still like to have a few hundred reais more to spend. The girls even many amatures would spend time with you if you know how to approach them and if you are willing to give them some presents including pocket money. I have use the same strategy for Floripa for many years. In the summer it has lots and lots of tourists from other states and a good pick up season. But it may take lots more money to score here especially with amature ladies than SP or RJ. But the quality of the babes and the quality of environment are so good. This city has so many natural elements to help to succeed getting amature babes. In my 10 years of hunting in this city on and off, I have scored so many amatures and only some pros. If you rent a car, rent a nice condo, willing to spend some money, this is place to hunt amatures and innocent school babes. But if your have limited budgets and time better to stay in Rio or Northeast which is much easier to score.

RCA Knight,

I was there also a couple of years back but I was there in May so there wasn't too many tourists there. I was staying at Praia Mole which was not a very got beach for picking up but I went there with a girl from Porto Alegre. There wasn't many tourists but the local girls were very nice looking though mostly white european looking, not the kind of mix that you see in Rio or SP. My impression at the time was that this would be a nice place to retire to. This place, I think is mostly for guys who like to pick up amateurs. There are club with hookers but not much selections and on the one night that I went to a club called Bokarra, there were more guys than girls and most of the girls are just average looking.

I believe there are more than one hundred beaches on that island. Which beaches do you think are the best beach to stay at for picking up holidays chicks?

Thanks

Wango,

This is the best place to hunt amatures. So many places to hunt. But the best time to go is summer when lots of people on the beach and outdoors. November to Carnival is the best. And also necessary to have a car to move around and have to spend some bucks and hopefully rent a nice condo then a perfect hunting site.

Also need some times as well. Not a one or two night place. If you have all the necessary elements and can spend several weeks there I think getting a few nice amatures not a problem.

Best beaches to pick up:

Praia Joaquina, Praia Mole, Barra da Lagoa, Praia Armacao, Praia Ingleses, and Praia Canasvieras. Canasvieras has lots of Argentinos vacationers but lots of Brasilian garotas too. All these beaches are packed with garotas in the summer season. Many girls spend long holiday from inner Santa Catarina and from other states like Parana, Rio Grande do Sul and SP.

My personal favorite beaches are Brava, Santinho, Jurere, Ponta das Canas. These are not as crowded but beatiful beaches with mountains and very nice restaurants and pousadas. Can hunt girls too.

Also Camboriu nearby in the same state is a good hunting place as well in the summer. Lots lots of holiday babes from all over Brazil.

If you go Floripa during the cold season, then have to hunt in the shopping Beira Mar area or Lagoa area or in the night clubs.

Hi,

I will go 5 weeks to Floripa during the Brazilian summer to study Portuguese and combine this with a bit of hobbying. :) Is it better to stay in Lagao de Conceicao or in Floripa? Any recommended places to stay (for 5 weeks)?

Thanks

Lagoa is much nicer but is kind of far from the city, 20-30 min drive. I imagine ur school is in downtown floripa. Also hobbying is mostly in downtown. Threre are some nice-looking apartment buildings in the north side of the city with gorgeous views of the bay.

Lagoa has a bunch of restaurants, bars and clubs, so I would recommend it for a night out rather than for staying there

R

Well, I am confused (humm the wines' kickin in). I just posted on the Fortaleza thread that Raphaela and I are planning to go to Forta but actually I think it wil be Florinapolis. Maybe a bit cooler there right now. Any mongers who want to hook up please PM.

Thanks

Hi All,

I am planning to be in Floripa for about a week in mid January and was wondering if any fellow hobbyists who have been to Floripa can recommend a good apartment / hotel ($40-50US/night) somewhere by the good beach area.

Also, if there is a good travel agent or apartment broker you can recommend as well, that would be great.

Any other hobbyist who is or planning to be in Floripa around mid January, PM me so we can hook up for drinks and hunting. Thanks.

Cali

I'd never even heard of Florianopolis until about two weeks ago.

I met a girl that lives in Dallas that is from Florianopolis...she is 28, 5'0, 105lbs, hot as hell...She has been in the US for 1 1/2 years, speaks perfect english w/ an accent, etc.

She is now my girlfriend and I will be hanging onto this one for awhile. I mainly do my mongering in Costa Rica, and before that I was married to a Colombian. There is no doubt that the Brazilian specie is sexually superior in every way, particularly enthusiasm & willingness.

As w/ most Brazilians, she really brags on her city....but it sounds like a nice one.

Jun,

Nice to hear that you've found such a catch. By the way, I'm going to visit Floripa, as it's also called, in the beginning of March. Does she have any friends or relatives she can recommend?...Just kidding. If any mongerers want to meet up, let me know. I'll probably stay at the Ibis.

Hot To Cool

Spent two nights in Florianopolis this Brazilian summer. Definitely not enough time to hunt for locals, and per the other posts in this section, that is by no means a sure thing. The island is full of European looking beauties, young and definitely well-off. To top it off, the weather was foggy/rainy the entire time, so not much beach action.

While driving to the north of the island I saw a billboard for a place called Soak - decided to checkit out. It is near the town of Canasvieras. You can park on the street or in a small courtyard at the facility. Knock on the door, you will be checked out and let in by the doorman (it's in a semi-residential neighborhood, they try to be discreet).

I was met by a 30 yr old who I initially thought was a hostess, she was overall a 6.5 (face = 6, body = 7). She gave me the tour of the club - the first room is a bar, with some couches to sit on and a platform for occasional strip shows. Beyond that is a large open roofed courtyard with a pool (probably 15 meters long) and some outdoor tables. I never saw anyone actually get in the pool. At the back end of this area is what looks like a snackbar version of a churrasco, saw a few girls and one or two guys catching a bite to eat here. Finally, we went upstairs and toured some of the in-house rooms that line the courtyard (almost motel-like). They have two types, the larger one has a jacuzzi tub (all have showers).

After my tour, my guide (Regina, I think) got me a beer and sat down with me. It took a few minutes, but I realized she was my date (think Centaurus in Rio, the girl that grabs you claims you). I finally got her into the bar area, at that point it was filling up and there was a mix of garotas there. An older crowd than SP or Rio, but there were some 8's, especially those doing the strip shows.

I decided to give my hostess a try (she spoke some english) and it was a fun hour. She gave 100% for the full hour, in the bed and in the shower. Afterward, we sat on one of the couches and I met several of her friends. I also got a few phone numbers. The bar fine was a little larger than I expected ($R170, including 50 for the room), but I was there until 3am or so.

The next day, I met Regina in the afternoon at my hotel. She stayed for 3 hours and continued to be fun. As she was leaving town for the rest of the weekend, she set me up with her friend (also 30ish, but very tall and with a natural D chest) for the evening, outside the club (which takes a healthy cut of the girls' fees).

I met Christina at my hotel and we went out for a quick bite, then adjourned to a love motel. She was about a 7.5, not a hard body but curvy with a great rack. Three plus hours for $R200, it was a great way to spend an evening. A very down to earth and sweet lady.

These garotas were a bit older and a bit less jaded than you would find in SP, but that fit the pace of the island. More of a laid back GFE experience than some other places.

Happy hunting!

I will be in Floripa next week starting April 7th. PM me if any of you mongers are going to be in the area. I will be there for 4 weeks with a side trip to BA to stay at the mansion with Jackson and Capt. Dave.

A coworker and I might be hitting SP around the last week of September and were wondering how Floripa/Santa Catarina would be around this time of year, weather and action-wise. I would hate to show up to a dreary, cold beach or a town without any available hot women.

The other option for a side trip is Rio.

Can anyone please offer some advice?

sun, sea and supermodels

florianópolis is the hottest beach resort in south america right now - a playground for gisele and the gang. so why haven't we heard of it? dominic sutcliffe finds out

saturday november 26, 2005
the guardian

it's friday night at the confraria das artes, one of the hippest nightclubs in brazil, and the crowded patio looks like a fashion shoot set in an antique store. reclining on vintage couches and creaking rocking chairs under moroccan chandeliers, dozens of long-limbed, honey-skinned blondes are sipping caipirinhas and flirting with tanned men in muscle shirts.

supermodels gisele bündchen, mariana weickert and alessandra ambrósio are known to frequent the confraria, as is local tennis star gustavo kuerten. keen to discover who's who, i ask our waiter, rogério, a dashing twentysomething surfer dude, to point out the bar's stars. but rogério is of no use. "i don't know any of them," he shouts over the ambient dance track. "i just took this job to earn some money so i could surf all day. a few years ago no one cared anything about floripa. but now it's gone crazy!"

if a local like rogério is disoriented, imagine how i feel. i thought i knew something about hip brazil - the chic resorts of angra dos reis, búzios and parati, where the likes of mick jagger, naomi campbell and ronaldo hang out. but when a brazilian friend in london told me that the hottest place in the country - and the new punta del este of south america - was an island city in the south called florianópolis, i almost laughed. floria what? it sounded like a greek island. or a brand of toothpaste. if it was so popular, why hadn't we heard of it? turns out millions of south americans have - but they've been keeping it to themselves.

an hour's flight from são paulo, not far from the border with uruguay, floripa, as it's known to locals, is the capital of santa catarina state. it lies on a gorgeous 300 square mile island made up of 17th-century fishing villages, jungle-covered hills, emerald lagoons and more than 40 pristine white sand beaches. flying in from são paulo, it looks like tropical paradise. put a volcano on those hills, and it could be hawaii.

linked to the mainland by a single suspension bridge, for many years floripa was - like the rest of santa catarina - a rural idyll. but in the past five years, the island's popularity has exploded. as crime rates in são paulo and rio soared, wealthy urbanites snapped up homes on its beachfronts and opened restaurants, clubs and bars on its lagoon shores. in 2002, when the current affairs magazine veja declared florianópolis the best and safest place to live in brazil, others flooded in. today, more brazilian and south american tourists head to floripa on their december breaks than anywhere else in the country except for rio, and in summer the regular population of 330,000 swells to more than a million.

they come for the beaches, the surfing, the snorkelling, the seafood and, of course, to party like only south americans know how.

if floripa is a potential punta del este, the centre of the "scene" is lagoa da conceição, a village set around the main lagoon in the heart of the island, beneath the wooded hills. kite surfers skim the glassy water, dodging wooden boats ferrying tourists to seafood restaurants on the far shores, and the sidewalks have the air of a hip southern californian beach town: bustling surf shops, trendy coffee bars and an excellent gourmet "kilo restaurant" called um rosa, where regulars pile up huge portions of fresh fish, mussels, salads and organic meats from a buffet bar for 22 reais (£6) a kilo.

it is the beaches beyond lagoa that are the real attraction, though, and it was time to test them out. those in the north, jurerê and ingleses, are the most commercial: a kind of brazilian costa del sol, with high-rise condo developments and tacky restaurants with menus in spanish to help out all the argentines. far better are the beaches to the east and south, facing open ocean: campeche, joaquina, praia mole and barra da lagoa.

on the advice of my brazilian friend in london we had avoided staying in the city itself and instead based ourselves at pousada natur, a privately run guesthouse in the serene suburb of campeche, and a mere block from the beach. an unspoilt boomerang curve of pure white sand, campeche looks out on a small emerald island that has been declared a national marine park. it has a famous right-break wave that only the legendary surf paradise of jeffrey's bay in south africa can rival. not that i know what a right break means, but every morning hundreds of daredevil kite surfers and boarders paid tribute to it, doing heart-stopping leaps and breakneck speed twists over the towering barrels.

surfing is religion in floripa, and there are several beaches on which to convert. i spent my second afternoon on barra da lagoa, under the expert tutelage of evandro dos santos, a former brazilian champion with his own surf school. he had the looks of a film star and the english of a four-year-old. "watch wavey! look beachy! stand uppy!" he advised, before bursting out laughing every time a bathtub-sized tiddler toppled me. that said, my board was as big as a raft and soon enough even i got the hang of things. by the end i was waving like a superstar at the sunbathers on the beach as i rode the ripples in.

real waves are best left to the pros, though, and luckily my visit coincided with a round of the world surfing championship on praia mole and joaquina, two of the best surf beaches in brazil. among the contestant were local stars fábio gouveia and diego rosa, and six-time world champion (and former baywatch actor) kelly slater. they were impressive enough, but it was hard to concentrate: on the beach, in front of the cafes spinning break beats and selling beers, was a constant parade of barefoot, thong-wearing beauties: such facsimiles of gisele bündchen that for a moment i thought i had spotted her.

ms bündchen comes from the neighbouring state of rio grande do sul, but since she was unleashed on the world santa catarina has been gripped by model mania. as with rio grande do sul, and unlike the rest of brazil, the interior was settled by german and polish farmers in the early 19th century, and over the generations their dna has mixed with portuguese and brazilian blood to produce that distinctive dusky, dark blonde look. there are now five international model agencies in floripa alone.

the hippest hangout of all remains the confraria das artes back in lagoa, opened in 2002 by textile designer rico grunfeld, another são paulo transplant. "when i first came here, there was nothing except kitschy discos," he says. "i knew from visiting paris, london and miami that what this town needed was a lounge!" so, with somewhat bemusing logic, he created a sprawling nightclub with its own clothing boutique and four indoor-outdoor spaces decorated with vintage furniture, clocks, antique cameras and oil paintings - all of which are for sale along with the cocktails.

it seems to have worked: the confraria is frequently rated by são paulo style mags as one of the best clubs in the country and by 9pm the queue outside stretched to the end of the block.

the city of florianópolis dates back to 1752, and the arrival of portuguese from the island of madeira. for centuries it was a famous southern port, fortress and whaling post, but after a recent reclamation of the docks to build a highway, it has lost much of its charm. today it's a maze of modern glass high-rises and faded cement tower blocks facing the mainland. indeed, i was relieved to be staying out in campeche: one could get lost in the city, and apart from a gleaming new sofitel that is being built on the waterfront, the hotels looked seedy or soulless.

and yet remnants of the city's past still exist. the 1898-built public market, just back from the docks, is permanently packed, its stalls teeming with fresh shrimp, mussels, oysters and grouper the size of tractor wheels. don't miss box 32 in the heart of the market, a classy cafe with a dozen tables and bar stools where the post-work crowd come for a lager and portuguese pastries.

a short drive south is another gem: armazém viera, built in 1840, the oldest bar on the island, its wooden floor, creaking balcony and ocean-green walls dating back to the glory days of the port. in keeping with floripa's new image, though, it has updated its drinks menu and features more than 70 premium cachaça cocktails, as well as a dozen mixed with that old sailor's favourite, absinthe.

but there are only so many nights you can spend on the tiles and i saved my final two days to explore the lesser-known parts of the island.

you need a car to get around and after several days of taking very pricey taxis, i contacted marta chiesa of brazil ecojourneys, the first (and so far only) english-speaking tour company to open on the island. a brazilian who had spent several years in london, she had an insider's eye for the hidden gems. we headed north first, to the mainland-facing village of santo antônio do lisboa. a mere 10 minutes from floripa and chichi lagoa, here was another world. stone bungalows lined the waterfront, sun-bleached fishing boats bobbed in the bays and women rode donkeys down cobbled streets past 250-year-old churches. it looked exactly like madeira.

we then drove south, through the least developed part of the island, to the even more beautiful town of ribeirão da ilha. old men played chess and draughts on waterfront benches and seafood restaurants lined the water. the best of them was ostradamus, a sailor-themed oyster bar opened by former hot dog seller jaime josé de barcelos in what used to be the garage of his house. by some way the best seafood restaurant on the island, it was so good that we stayed well past dinner and in the end forwent a final fling at the confraria.

at the time i was quite happy about the early night, but now i'm not so sure. when i arrived back in london, my brazilian friend wanted to know whether i had seen gisele. apparently she was all over the brazilian papers, photographed in florianópolis with new boyfriend and new world surfing champion kelly slater. one of the pictures of her is on praia mole; another looks as if it might be on one of the vintage couches at the confraria.

way to go

getting there

last frontiers (lastfrontiers.com, 01296 653000) offers a nine-day trip to florianópolis including flights, transfers and a tour of the island from £1,295pp b&b. brazil ecojourneys (tel/fax: +48 3232 9270, brazilecojourneys.com).

where to stay

pousada natur campeche, 59 servidão nbigunes, campeche (+ 48 3237 4011, naturcampeche.co.br), double r$130 .

further information

surf lessons, escolinha de surf,

barra da lagoa (+ 48 232 6123, escolinhadesurf.com).

brazil tourism office, braziltourism.org.

country code :00 55

time difference : gmt -2hrs

flight time london-florianópolis: 11.5hrs

£1 = 3.6 brazilian reais.

[url]http://www.fadasdailha.com/[/url] Site with some call girls, quality unknown.

[url]www.deslizes.com.br[/url] Florianopolis based outcall, photos are reported to be accurate. Quality looks great 2 hours 200R, ask

[url]http://vipcompanhy.com.br[/url] may be as low as 60R hour

"Blue house", close to the Catarinense College, good quality 100R hr.

Cintia 9119-9407 She gets lots of good reviews 70R hour

[url]http://www.bokarra.com.br[/url] Boite in F, worth a look

There are boites and houses in Florianopolis, I am mining for them but suspect that Jwadd's recomendation of asking the cab driver probably works well.

The going rates in the houses and solo girls in F is 60-70 hr, don't pay more.

Pluto2