Thank you for supplementing my post with pertinent info
[QUOTE=Cm6363;2645608]Good info. There are also minivans that go from the airport to just outside the San Diego Mall where taxis are always waiting.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I had tunnel vision for The Nutti. I think for airport transportation, between the bus, the min-vans, and the taxis, that about covers it, not sure, though. Hey, I travel light with one medium sized back, I would ride on the back of a moto out to the airport if need be, jajajaja.
Avoid taking taxis at P Lleras with girls
There are a few taxis parked in front of Gusto. Potentially they may collude with the girls, take you to a dark area, beat up and rob you clean.
I took Camila to the hotel near Santa Fe mall after midnight. She immediately went to those taxi guys, kidding around with them like they know each other well. The driver looked scraggy, dirty, unshaven, blood-shot eyes like he was high. He was driving fast and erratically down narrow, dark streets, very close to getting broadsided at an intersection. He showed me a plastic bag with 4 joints and kept pushing me to buy, said the girls wanted it. I refused to buy.
He was just driving straight down Ave Poblado to my hotel but got lost a couple times. When we arrived and I paid him, he looked confused, disoriented, must be high on drugs.
Camila had a stinky pussy and reneged on her offer, also trying to steal from my luggage, so I paid her quickly and took her down to the street. While I was securing the front door, she walked down the dark, long side street. Within a few seconds, I walked out to check on her but she already vanished. There was no way she could have walked 1/3 mile to the end of that street within that time frame. So the taxi driver was waiting for her and she got in it. Looked like they had planned to drug and rob me with those joints and make quick escape in the taxi. They probably have done it to other guys before.
To avoid getting set up and robbed, avoid the taxis working with girls near Lleras. Book UBER rides to be safe. UBER cars are usually nice, new, clean, drivers honest, careful, respectful. The older, English-speaking UBER driver who drove me from La Isla was cool and nice. He drove me to please Botero then bar Lunera after midnight and waited for me each time to check them out without surcharges. He just wanted me to see other options in Medellin.
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Thank you for you comments on my the accuracy about the airport buses
[QUOTE=Knowledge;2645754]Most of this is accurate.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I had tunnel vision for The Nutti. The purpose of the article was to explain how to get to from the airport to the registration desk of The Nutibara Hotel in El Centro by bus.
Everything I wrote was from direct personal experience, including getting on the wrong bus one time at the airport, getting off at a mall in Rio Negro, after which the bus driver told me he was returning to the airport, and then I took a taxi back to MDE. You wrote 'most' which is vague, technically anything above 51% or above is 'most'. I was thinking more like 98.45745 percent, jeje, but I will defer to your "Knowledge" because anyone with a screen name like yours, must be correct 100% of the time, right? Unless you chose your screen name as a joke, in which case I agree with you that it's funny, I've never been sure.
I abhor misinformation, consider myself a truth-seeker, and I always welcome fact-checking.
Random gratuitous fotos from Panama City today. My friend is a Panamanian tugboat captain on the canal and he gave me a nice little tour today. I will be back in our beloved Medellin on Monday with a confirmed 90 fresh days on my tourist stamp in my passport (commonly and technically erroneously referred to as a 'visa') with the potential to add 90 more days, for a total of 180 potential days in MDE in 2022, including arrival and departure days.
I found an awesome niche for mongering here in Panama City that appears to be one way the locals roll here considering I was the only gringo I saw for hours. We are spoiled by the pricing in Medellin, and everything is more expensive here in Panama City, but I ended up paying a fraction of what the mongerers are forking over at Habanas and the casinos. Maybe it all equals out in the end, you can decide that for yourself after my next post.
Thank you ISG and PacificLots from the Panama thread! Life is good, and I am having fun. The rooms are huge at the Hotel Coral Suites, chica friendly and no guest fees! More to come, after I wash, rinse, and repeat tomorrow.