This makes perfect sense to me. Lalo appears to be on its last leg. The major difference in my mind (and with a mere one week of experience) between the northern clubs and Santa Fe is safety. The girls are pretty much just as hot in both places, although I did get a general vibe that the northern girls are, on average, a notch higher on the social scale and a notch or two more intelligent. Case in point, my girl from La Piscine del Norte was very intelligent in conversation and obviously educated. I doubt she would risk her own safety going to Santa Fe when she can lounge in a classier joint uptown with classier customers. The price premium isn't huge if you are planning an hour rather than a quickie, but the pushy waitstaff and tax "scam" is going to scare off customers like me. If Santa Fe were "safe", I would skip the northern clubs altogether, and tolerate the less refined but equally attractive girls of Santa Fe. If I owned a Santa Fe club like Troya, I would just start a limo / taxi service direct from your hotel to my club with door to door bodyguard service, eliminating the safety factor.
[QUOTE=Routard;2325528]Thanks for the update on these clubs. Regarding what happened to your bill, they all do the same. I complained in Lido and they showed me that in very small at the bottom is written that you have to add 19% VAT. These clubs just don't get it with their army of pushy waiters. Prices of the girls became unsane in the last years while in the rest of the city talent was growing with the Venezuelan influx. As a result, a club as Lalo that used to have the greatest line-up of the city is now desperately empty. If they don't react, they will close or become a ripp off joint for the ocasional visitor. Trouble is that even the ocasional visitor knows where to get better options thanks to internet. So i gess most of these places will die in the next coming years.[/QUOTE]
