Caracas

I have not visited the wondrous Venezuela in many years. Just wondering. What is the unofficial (black market) exchange rate to the US dollar? As far as current inflation goes. What is the price of a beer in a bar? This is my personal fool proof price of living inquiry.

Thank you Gentleman.

[QUOTE=Ttriumph48; 1409543]I have not visited the wondrous Venezuela in many years. Just wondering. What is the unofficial (black market) exchange rate to the US dollar? As far as current inflation goes. What is the price of a beer in a bar? This is my personal fool proof price of living inquiry.

Thank you Gentleman.[/QUOTE]For exchange rate check here:

[url]http://www.internationalsexguide.info/forum/showthread.php?606-General-Info&p=1409293&viewfull=1#post1409293[/url]

Price for beer (hotel bar) is about 40. 50 Bolivares.

Saludos,

I would appreciate some recommendations for accomodations in Caracas.

If anyone has personal knowledge, a short description, price and accepted means of payment would be very good.

Is there a disadvantage to pay with credit cards, ie, extra tax, or fees, other that what the credit card companies charge?

Thanks,

Yanqui69

There is a big disadvantage to paying with a credit card at this time because of the discrepancy between the official and the black market exhange rate. If you pay with a credit card you'll get the official rate which is less than half the black market rate.

[QUOTE=Yanqui69; 1411129]Saludos,

I would appreciate some recommendations for accomodations in Caracas.

If anyone has personal knowledge, a short description, price and accepted means of payment would be very good.

Is there a disadvantage to pay with credit cards, ie, extra tax, or fees, other that what the credit card companies charge?

Thanks,

Yanqui69[/QUOTE]

Three of us used are cards, just a little. All three of our cards were used by someone else.

In my case $5000. The bought car parts, hamburgers, food from stores and got money for gambling at the casinos.

I had used my card only 6 times in two weeks. Mostly paying for the hotels, one airport shop and one beach shop.

[QUOTE=Reinaldo;1413231]There is a big disadvantage to paying with a credit card at this time because of the discrepancy between the official and the black market exhange rate. If you pay with a credit card you'll get the official rate which is less than half the black market rate.[/QUOTE]

I am headed to Caracus in a couple weeks. Thanks for the report. Anyone have any recent reports?

[QUOTE=DD Phil; 1272410]Was down in Caracas for a week during the second week of April. Going through Customs was easy and took about 5 minutes. The flight was.

Delayed by 2 hours, so I arrived at 11pm. Not good, but I had pre-arranged for a taxi ahead of time, so wasn't too worried.

I read about the "official" exchange rate and the black market rates and so wasn't going to change any of my money at the banks.

Or use ATM's. I was forced to bring cash with me and only paid for the hotel with credit card. The driver of the taxi I had arranged.

Spoke decent english and turns out could exchange $200 USD for me a rate of 8 bolivars per dollar. Turns out that lots of people down.

There want to hold US dollars and will change with you. From the bell boys at the hotels, to taxi drivers, etc. The rates are anywhere.

From 7. 5 to 8. 5.

If you don't use these black market rates, then everything in Caracas is super expensive. A big mac meal is $15 at the offical rate.

I was here for business so didn't have lots of time for mongering. I went to a few places. Went to Angelus strip club on a Tuesday evening.

THis is in the campo commerical center. Got there around 9pm and it was dead. I was one of maybe 2-3 guys there and about 10 girls.

The place didn't start to happen until about 11pm. Half the girls were fairly good looking. 7's and above. The other half were okay with some.

Being like 4's or 5's. A beer is around 60 bolivars and is a light beer. Everyone seems to be drinking whiskey and buying bottles, which are.

Around 1200 bolivars. A single whiskey drink is 100 bolivars. The girls weren't too pushy but do come by and ask you to buy them.

Drinks. Which are around 80 bolivars. You do get to flirt with them, put you arms around them, etc. The show starts at 11pm and lasts.

About 1. 5 hours. Meaning there's several girls dancing on the various stages for the next 1. 5 hours. The place itself is quite large with an.

Upper level. But its somewhat dated. The chairs, couches, carpets are showing their wear and tear. Lots of staff all over of the place.

There's no lap dances but you can take the girls into the rooms there. I didn't see the rooms, but the girls told me its a basic room nothing.

Special. It costs about 900 bolivars for the room and then another 800-1000 for the girl for an hour. So about 2K bolivars for a girl.

Which I thought was fairly expensive. I tried getting the phone numbers of some girls but they wouldn't give them out. YOu can take the girls out,

And it costs 1K to the house and then you negotiate with the girl. Anywhere from 1K-3K depending on how long, etc. I had a few beers here, enjoyed.

The show and left.

A few of the taxi driers tried setting me up, they knew girls and wanted anywhere from 1-2K. Which again I thought was too high. They didn't.

Have pictures of them, so I wasn't really interested. I was expecting prices to be about 500 bolivars.

On another occassion I went to the Trio strip club. This club is 2 years old and is right across from the Renaissance hotel. There is.

No sign outside and its on the ground floor of a commerical building. Its a fairly good club. Nice ambiace, all new furniture, very hot.

Girls. Most of the girls are like 7's and above. Didn't really see a bad looking girl. They have beers for 50 bolivars and whiskey drinks for.

80-100. Again the fashion is to buy a bottle of whiskey. Which is 1300. There are half bottles as well. But being a single guy, and not wanting.

To get drunk, I wasnt into the bottle thing. Show starts at 11pm and lasts until about 1am. This club is much more expensive. Rooms are upstairs.

And the girls are asking 3-4K for an hour. Yes that 3000 to 4000 for an hour! And you still have to pay another 1K for the room. This is.

Ridiculous pricing. It works out to more than $500-600 USD an hour at the black market rate! But I did see several guys go upstairs with the.

Girls. There's also a VIP section. The girls were interested in getting your number and hotel your staying at. They wanted to come to you hotel.

The next day. Asked for anywhere from 2-4K. I guess you save the house fee.

On another night I had a taxi driver take me around to a few places. Went to a Hotel Doral which was supposed to be decent and better pricing,

But the night I went it had rained and there was like 2-3 girls in there and they weren't that good looking. So I didn't stay. Went to 2-3.

Other strip clubs similiar to Angelus in pricing. Can't remember their names.

I knew about the sexycaracas site, but am not really into that, because you have no idea how accurate the pics on the site are, etc. But in this.

Case, it might have been better to use it.

I went to some regular clubs as well. Thursday night seem to be a girls night at many clubs. No cover, cheap drinks for them. I went to.

One where it was 100 bolivars to get in and included 4 drinks. Lots of girls there in their 20's but I found it hard to approach them.

The major hotels didn't have much of anything going on in their lobby bars. I tried Marriot, Embassy, Renaissance, Altamira Suites.

Overall didn't have a great time in Caracas for mongering. The whole hassle with the currency exchange, paranoid of using my credit.

Card or ATM card anywhere in the country, the taxi scams, and how expensive things are.

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Don't get why men are paying 600 $ for a girl.

Buying drinks is also very low self estimate, and the girls sense it and will ditch you.

Best is approach 100 girls in the daylight anywhere in the city, just casual girls and collect numbers.

I know its a mongering board, but if Putas in Venezuela are that expensive I wouldn't get one at all.

Tell us about your trip.

[QUOTE=JayHighFive;1414672]I am headed to Caracus in a couple weeks. Thanks for the report. Anyone have any recent reports?[/QUOTE]

Where is a safe place to exchange dollars and get the unofficial rates quoted here [url]http://lechugaverde.co.ve/[/url]?

I see reports about cab drivers changing money but does anyone know of a reliable place in Caracas to change without dealing with cabbies?

ok mongers. this may be known information and i apologize if it is. my two columbian coworkers took me out to trio last saturday night. they said saturday is a slow night as the locals spend it with their significant others. we got there at 23:30 or so and it was empty. girls just rolling in. my "guide" says the best deal is to buy a bottle of liquor. wouldn't do it with less than three working on it unless you are a serious drinkers. we got a bottle of chivas and paid i think about 3000 bs. sounds expensive but consider at around $100 divided by three not so bad. paid much more for single mixed drinks in a strip bar. plus you don't get hassled and it was the real deal and we got hammered. at least i did. not done that in years. so the dancers finally started and make no mistake they were hot, but so are about 1 out of 10 just walking down the street. my biggest pet peeve was that there was a long break between dancers until about 2 am. the girls just kept getting hotter and the shows hotter as well ranging from a couple who kept on their g-strings to the one who flashed her coochie in your face for 100 b tip. then one of the less hotter chicks but with a smoking bod came out with a champagne bottle. she danced over it for a bit and i thought is was a tease, but when she slipped on the condom, all bets were off. she squatted down and inserted it several times. then came out the dildo and she went around the stage letting guys (yes i was one) give her a few strokes with it. late in the eve, or should i say early in the am, my guide, who has been there several times was chatting it up with one of the hottest girls i have ever seen. then off upstairs they went. he was gone almost an hour. so this is the story he tells. normally, it's 3000 bs for for a bottle and the vip room, but on sat and i think he said mon. buying the bottle downstairs gets you the vip room too. then you negotiate with the girl. his was 3000 bs but with the vip room covered and how hot she was not a bad deal in my humble opinion. i don't know if the lesser hotties are cheaper. so he was in for a third of the chivas approx. $30 a third of a bottle of damn good scotch and what he said was pure gfe. now he is columbian, fluent in spanish and a smooth talker so not sure ymmv. ps-you have to get the street rate for bs (we are getting 30 bs to the dollar from another coworker). credit cards charge the legal rate of 6.3 bs/$ from what i hear. i really don't have any advise on how to get the street rate and i wouldn't trust a taxi driver but maybe the hotel will hook a monger up. i may splurge as i finish up next friday. btw, he also says monday is the best night to go. so party on dudes. get back to me if i can help. and also btw, although my nickname is carnicero, i'm as gringo as the come.

carni out.

thank you for a truly great report i am planing to visit caracas soon and i would like to give this place a go. champanie bottle in her pussy impressive i would like to see that in real life.

club trio is not on the caracas list could you post the address, opening times and if there is a entry fee.

best.

wreck.

[quote=carnicero999; 1453539]ok mongers. this may be known information and i apologize if it is. my two columbian coworkers took me out to trio last saturday night. they said saturday is a slow night as the locals spend it with their significant others. we got there at 23:30 or so and it was empty. girls just rolling in. my "guide" says the best deal is to buy a bottle of liquor. wouldn't do it with less than three working on it unless you are a serious drinkers. we got a bottle of chivas and paid i think about 3000 bs. sounds expensive but consider at around $100 divided by three not so bad. paid much more for single mixed drinks in a strip bar. plus you don't get hassled and it was the real deal and we got hammered. at least i did. not done that in years. so the dancers finally started and make no mistake they were hot, but so are about 1 out of 10 just walking down the street. my biggest pet peeve was that there was a long break between dancers until about 2 am. the girls just kept getting hotter and the shows hotter as well ranging from a couple who kept on their g-strings to the one who flashed her coochie in your face for 100 b tip. then one of the less hotter chicks but with a smoking bod came out with a champagne bottle. she danced over it for a bit and i thought is was a tease, but when she slipped on the condom, all bets were off. she squatted down and inserted it several times. then came out the dildo and she went around the stage letting guys (yes i was one) give her a few strokes with it. late in the eve, or should i say early in the am, my guide, who has been there several times was chatting it up with one of the hottest girls i have ever seen. then off upstairs they went. he was gone almost an hour. so this is the story he tells. normally, it's 3000 bs for for a bottle and the vip room, but on sat and i think he said mon. buying the bottle downstairs gets you the vip room too. then you negotiate with the girl. his was 3000 bs but with the vip room covered and how hot she was not a bad deal in my humble opinion. i don't know if the lesser hotties are cheaper. so he was in for a third of the chivas approx. $30 a third of a bottle of damn good scotch and what he said was pure gfe. now he is columbian, fluent in spanish and a smooth talker so not sure ymmv. ps-you have to get the street rate for bs (we are getting 30 bs to the dollar from another coworker). credit cards charge the legal rate of 6. 3 bs/$ from what i hear. i really don't have any advise on how to get the street rate and i wouldn't trust a taxi driver but maybe the hotel will hook a monger up. i may splurge as i finish up next friday. btw, he also says monday is the best night to go. so party on dudes. get back to me if i can help. and also btw, although my nickname is carnicero, i'm as gringo as the come.

carni out.[/quote]

[QUOTE=WreckDiver; 1458172]Thank you for a truly great report I am planing to visit Caracas soon and I would like to give this place a go. Champanie bottle in her pussy impressive I would like to see that in real life.

Club Trio is not on the Caracas List could you post the address, opening times and if there is a entry fee.

Best.

Wreck.[/QUOTE]Thanks for the complement. This is the kind of info I think I would like.

I actually don't know the address. It is a block or so away from the Renesance (I never can spell that) I did not see any signage. Just a non-descript door in an non-descript office. I'm sure any cab driver would take you there.

Don't know the hours. We went at 11 and they were just opening. We stayed till they were closing and it was probably 4am.

There was not entry fee but I think there is a drink minimum.

That's about all I can add.

I guess I need to update the list.

[I][b]San Marino / Chacao[/b][/I]

1. Trio Strip Club, Av Eugenio Mendoza, across from the Renaissance Hotel. __ Dancers. Prices: Beer Bs50, drinks Bs80-100, Chicas 3000-4000k hour. Hours: Strip Show 11pm to 1am___.

[QUOTE=WreckDiver; 1458172]Thank you for a truly great report I am planing to visit Caracas soon and I would like to give this place a go. Champanie bottle in her pussy impressive I would like to see that in real life.

Club Trio is not on the Caracas List could you post the address, opening times and if there is a entry fee.

Best.

Wreck.[/QUOTE]

Yes, I would like to know where also. I'll be in Caracas next week.

[QUOTE=Vitrea; 1439770]Where is a safe place to exchange dollars and get the unofficial rates quoted here.

[url]http://lechugaverde.co.ve/[/url]

?

I see reports about cab drivers changing money but does anyone know of a reliable place in Caracas to change without dealing with cabbies?[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=RobV46;1458923]Yes, I would like to know where also. I'll be in Caracas next week.[/QUOTE]Have you completed your trip? Please post your experiences. There is so little information on this thread so all contributions are appreciated.