Caracas

Hi guys,
Anybody can recommend me the best and safe place to change dollars en Caracas. PM please

[QUOTE=Hoof Hunter]
1. Have local hotels (not high-end types like Gran Melia) adjusted their rates to these black market rates? Or can one pay in bolivares?[/QUOTE]
You can pay anywhere in US$ or Bolivares but never pay with US$ a hotel or any other business, they will just give you the official rate. you can get twice as much Bolivares from anyone in the street. Safest is to do this with employees from your hotel for example.
[QUOTE=Hoof Hunter]
2. Do places like Angelus and their chicas quote in dollars, or in bolivares? I know how to negotiate. Just want to know what to expect walking in. I always speak in local currency only. Apparently, sexycaracas has already switched prices in bolivares to ridiculous numbers.[/QUOTE]
Same as 1
[QUOTE=Hoof Hunter]
3. What's the deal with the bridge from the airport? Has it been fixed yet? What's the current approx. time to/from airport outside of rush hour traffic periods?[/QUOTE]
Bridge has been fixed for monthes already. Still it will take you an hour between airport and center.

[QUOTE=FoxesHunter]If you are a good good judge os Soth America, can you tell me which is the cheapest country for fucking pros and no pros?
I thank you![/QUOTE]


I would have to say that currently it is Asuncion in Paraguay. USD$10 girls all the time.

Read some reports on ISG on it, it is great for short time sex.

Enjoy

[QUOTE=Brandon88]Greeting guys,

I'll be making my first visit to Caracas next month, so I began my research here in advance. I don't speak Spanish, and based on what I've read so far, it doesn't look promising for my stay.[/QUOTE]


I do speak Spanish but I have travelled on my own to countries where I don't speak the local language. How I have solved the problem is to befriend a hotel employee and pay him to be my guide, make my phone calls and find me girls. Being an employee of the hotel where I am staying is much safer than asking a total stranger you meet in a bar to do this for you at a price.

It always works well and they act as a bit of a body guard as well because they have local knowledge of where to go and where to not go, you will be quite safe.

The other trick with them is not to pay them until you return safely to your room each night. That way they have an incentive to get you home safe and an incentive to not let anything happen to you or they will loose their job at the hotel.

Enjoy.

[QUOTE=Blastoff]I would have to say that currently it is Asuncion in Paraguay. USD$10 girls all the time.

Read some reports on ISG on it, it is great for short time sex.

Enjoy[/QUOTE]

I second that PY is the cheapest....closely followed by Bolivia.
The most expensive i would say is Brasil and Chile/Uruguay.

cheers

Johan

Hola,
if you know both, could tell me what is cheapest between Peru and Venezuela for fucking? I'd like know ablot pro and no pro scene, their prices for short and long time ... and where is easier to fuck regular girls.
I am a good looking 50 old and speak fluent spanish,
thanks for your pleasant info.

[QUOTE=Routard]My entrance in South America was in Caracas. [/QUOTE]I'll be in Caracas in April, and will use your excellent info.

S

anyone know of any good hotels in Caracas?

[QUOTE=Master Yoda]anyone know of any good hotels in Caracas?[/QUOTE]

If you want a good hotel, check on [url]www.hotels.com[/url] for the four stars such as Gran Melia, Hilton, Marriott or Western, pricing about 200-300$ a night.

[QUOTE=Routard]If you want a good hotel, check on [url]www.hotels.com[/url] for the four stars such as Gran Melia, Hilton, Marriott or Western, pricing about 200-300$ a night.[/QUOTE]Thanks. I know you have been there Routard. Which hotels did you use?

Since I will visit Venezuela soon, I was wondering if you can answer some questions for me:

1. Is it better to have cash Dollars or cash Euros for exchange?

What is the black market exchange rate for Euros?

2. How safe is the airport bus from CCS to the city? Can you recommend it?

Any help/ answer highly appreciated!

Cheers

i really wouldn't waste my time in ccs. i am surprised that master yoda still has not been. i took the hit for everybody this time. i went back in october but i didn't post a report. i went to meet a hairstylist who i met online. i figured it's south america, how bad could this place be? the answer: very bad!

i landed and only had us$20 on me. i changed it at a booth and got about 40,000 bolivars. boy, i thought, just like colombia, dr, ecuador, peru, this 40,000 is going to take me a long way. wrong! since my flight arrived at 8pm, the little airport-city shuttle bus had already stopped. so when old girl arrived we had to take a taxi to her house. we went to the near end of the airport and she asked a driver how much it would be. he said $75. damn, i thought, she must live a hell of a long way. i gave her the money that i had exchanged. here baby, i only have 40,000 bolivars on me. she said that it was okay and she would pay the rest. so we went to the other end to find a cheaper taxi. she told me not to speak. $50, he said. she said it was a bargain and we hopped in and went to her house. (she actually lives in the barrio, but same same.) i set my stopwatch as always. 18m30s of highway driving and we arrive at the bottom of the barrio just off the exit. the rest of the night was just formality, stretching the ten minute walk up the hill out by stopping to meet cousins and aunts and having a beer with the family and finally getting to the house for a home-cooked meal followed by intense fucking.

she lives in her own house (shack) with her son. i would say the whole place is 20ftx10ft (yeah i live in the states and we are still on the assbackwards system). that includes kitchen/couch(10x10) separated by a doorway curtain that leads to the bedroom (5x10), which is separated by a wall to the bathroom/closet(5x10). her and her 15 year-old son share bunkbeds. but he does have sense enough to go to his friend's or cousin's houses at times to give us privacy.

the next day all three of us headed to the beach. we took one bus (the little ones that are independently owned) to downtown and another to the beach. the whole day she paid for everything because i had not been to an atm. two hours passed before we arrived at the beach, which is just 10 minutes on the other side of the airport. this must have been one of the worst beaches i have seen in my life. no sand, just dark brown dirt. and the dirtiest water. i ended up biting the bullet and getting in the water anyway.

we headed back to the house to take showers and go to dinner. but thinking of going up and down that hill, i said baby why not eat now, then go home to take showers and rest before going out. good idea she said. so when we got off the bus close to the barrio we walked to a restaurant. and a basic restaurant it was. we had 1 whole rotisserie chicken, boiled potatoes (nothing fancy, not even butter... just peeled, cut in half and boiled), her son had a personal-sized pizza, we had three glasses of juice and one bottle of water. $50 (fifty fucking dollars/87,000 fucking bolivars). i could have sworn the bill was wrong, but after looking at the menu again i went ahead and put it on my card.

so we leave there and go to the atm. baby, how much money will we be needing to go out tonight? well the taxi will be about $50 and we will spend about $75 at the club. $125 for a night out in a third-world socialist country? you have to be fucking kidding me. uh baby. i don't think we are going out tonight. there is no way i am going to spend more to go out here than i would in my own damn country. so we went back to the house to take showers, talk, watch music dvds and fuck.

when i left the next morning there was at least a 20 minute walk to catch the shuttle van (good thing i travel light). the shuttle was $6/person to the airport. i think it runs from 6am to 7pm, as for the location where you pick it up and it drops you...god only knows.

summary: this place is not recommended.
1) i know there are some blackmarket people where you can get us$ exchanged for twice the interbank exchange but everything will still be fairly expensive.
2) the women were not all that. you probably would not give them a second look. i think my girl was the best i had seen.
3) my friends tell me that other cities in venezuela are much cheaper than caracas.
4) i can not speak on p4p or hotels, but judging from the price of everything else...jesus!
5) y'all are grown men. make your own decision. maybe your experience will be different than mine, but why risk it. go to colombia or dr instead.

p.s. if anyone knows how the favelas in rio look just picture one big city full of them. that is caracas.

[QUOTE=Mr Enternational] $50 (fifty fucking dollars/87,000 fucking bolivars)..[/QUOTE]
I've read on another board that on black market dollar was at 6300 bolivares, and Euro around 9200.

Venezuela seems damn cheap currently.

Try Valencia its somewhat cheaper, just 4 days ago I got 6150 bolivares per dollar, I was with a friend a native of Caracas and this was in Caracas.

If you go try Sexyvalencia.com, I was satisfied with Tahis,and later Carol.

Google "dolar permuta" or "euro permuta" to find out the free market rate that you can get from individual traders. The permuta rates are essentially a futures rate so there will be a slight variation. Also the farther away the trader is from Caracas, the better the rate you are likely to get. Today the futures rate is 5,100 Bolivars to the dollar.