This is what I mean by a train wreck in Bogota
When P & P was announced they said only one person in a restaurant. Now yesterday they reversed course.
"Cada medida sanitaria que hemos tomado en Bogotá busca un equilibrio entre el cuidado de la salud why de la economía.
Escuchando a pequeños empresarios why tras un acuerdo con ellos en control de aforos why horarios, hemos levantado medida de #PicoYCedula para restaurantes why hoteles. ".
Lot's of resistance from the banking and business community in Bogota to any more shutdowns or quarantine. However, with ICU's filling up I don't trust Lopez for a minute from going rouge and flipping Bogota upside down again. My usual MO is to go to Bogota every 6 weeks or so or my novia to come to the states so I was scheduled to go back to Bogota January 14th but we decided better she comes here. Too much aggravation dealing with P&P one day this, next day that. While I don't see the PCR ever returning again I do see a full lock down in Bogota and possible Airport shutdown. I'm not down for weeks on end being stuck in a Bogota hotel, especially the way the administration is constantly moving the goal post.
Make Bogota Great Again: December 2020 Trip Report
I went to Bogota for my third trip to that city a few weeks after my trip to Medellin in November. I wanted to take further advantage of the pre-Christmas rush and squeeze in another trip while Colombia was still suspending the PCR test requirement and before Biden imprisons us in the Matrix. My interest in Bogota – specifically, the Santa Fe red light district – stemmed from what I saw of the renaissance of the Centro street scene in Medellin, which was richer than usual due to post-lockdown circumstances. I hoped that this would be an opportune time to take advantage of such circumstances in Santa Fe.
The Centro street scene in Medellin had evidently taken off due to slow business or closures at the usual indoor venues, health concerns about those indoor venues that were open, and general post-lockdown economic hardship. I had thought, as I planned my Medellin trip, that Internet pipelining would be the most fruitful form of mongering during a pandemic that had pushed so many other forms of labor and leisure into virtual settings. It did not occur to me until I saw the rebirth of the Centro street scene in Medellin that "outdoor mongering" would be another lifeline for this business, in much the same way that "outdoor dining" has been a lifeline for many struggling restaurants. Colombia's other main "outdoor mongering" venues are Bogota's Santa Fe district (in part) and Cartagena's Clock Tower. Cartagena is not my cup of tea, so Santa Fe was the obvious choice for my next trip.
I flew from Miami on a reasonably priced American Airlines ticket that I bought only two days in advance, just in case the Colombian government reinstated the PCR test requirement. I stayed again at Hotel Ibis Bogota Museo, which is cheap, convenient to Santa Fe, and participates in Accor's loyalty program. According to English-language paperwork that I signed upon check-in (which I did not see on previous trips), the hotel is still chica-friendly, but only allows one chica at a time. I had read that some hotels had changed their chica-friendly policies due to the pandemic, but this one evidently has not.
The general contours of Santa Fe's landscape remained much the same as before, except for the disappointing closure of Atunes during my visit. That daytime / happy hour club was one of my preferred spots in Santa Fe and yielded many of my best sessions during my previous two trips. Paisas also closed for a few nights earlier in the week, possibly due to low volume. It was noticeably slower than I remembered from previous trips, even when it was open later in the week. Paisas appears to have lost some of its market share to the more consistently busy Fiebre and Troya, or to the street scene. As before, I found that the quality of the nighttime talent and service was best at Fiebre.
The biggest and most significant shift seems to have been in both the numbers and the quality of the girls working the street, relative to the clubs. There has always been significant overlap between the street girls and the club girls, in contrast to the sharper distinctions between street girls and club girls in Tijuana. As they always have, many Santa Fe girls go back and forth between the street and the clubs as they see fit. It seemed to me that post-lockdown circumstances have shifted some of the talent pool, including some of the hotter girls and the better performers, away from the clubs and toward the street. I asked some of the girls about this observation, and some of them said that: a) working the clubs had become less profitable because guys had less money to spend and thus went more frequently for the cheaper option of buying pussy off the street; and b) they and some guys were concerned about the health risks of the clubs' often crowded indoor environments. This shift marked an interesting parallel to Tijuana, where the closure of clubs by the authorities forced many club girls to work the street for a fraction of what they earned at the clubs, as I saw when I went there earlier this year.
Some mongers have suggested that post-lockdown circumstances would create a "buyer's market," believing that economic hardship would flood the market with girls, make them more amenable to lower prices, or motivate them to provide better service. As in Medellin, I found this observation to be true in many cases, but wrong in other cases. Economic desperation is not always a good or reliable motivation to provide quality service. It merely motivates the desperate to obtain money, but not necessarily to give good value in exchange for that money. In an environment like Santa Fe, where payment up front is the norm and repeat business is less of a factor than it is in the Facebook scene of Medellin, I found that the benefits of this hardship factor were weaker than they were in Medellin.
Accordingly, this trip definitely had more extreme highs and lows. Santa Fe has always been a hit-or-miss, "diamonds in the rough" type of market, but this variability was even more pronounced on this trip. The solid performers really knocked it out of the park in a way that I had not experienced since my first trip, and perhaps even more so. Curiously, many of the solid performers were costenas from places like Santa Marta or Baranquilla. The solid performances from costenas were so consistent that it could not have been a fluke; I am convinced that there must be some cultural, physical, or other reason for it. This part of Colombia has little reputation for mongering outside Cartagena, where most of the girls come from Medellin, other parts of the country, or Venezuela. I have wanted to go to Santa Marta for a long time for non-mongering reasons, but now I am curious what the local women are like, and if my experiences with costenas on this trip give me any reasonable idea of what to expect there.
By the same token, many performances were poor and half-assed, such that I might have protested if the sums of money involved had not been so small. The recurring theme with poor performers was that many of them were Venezuelans, which illustrates my point that desperation is not a reliable source of good service. I have long suspected that the Venezuelan impact on the pussy market in Colombia has been overrated, and now I am convinced. I do not doubt that cheap competition from Venezuelans helps to keep Colombians in check, but I do not see any other qualitative advantage that the Venezuelans offer, beyond increasing numbers and lowering prices. My Spanish has improved to the point that I can now recognize the Venezuelan accent, and to be honest I often find it irritating and hard to understand.
There did appear to be some truth to the notion that girls would be more willing to provide services that they would not have provided under normal circumstances. Santa Fe is a predominantly CBJ scene, but there are enough girls willing to do BBBJ (for a surcharge, of course) that one can still do well if CBJ is a showstopper, as it is for me. At first my success in negotiating BBBJ was higher than it had been in the past, but that improvement deteriorated over the course of my week-long trip. One possible explanation for this deterioration, according to one girl, was that the girls saw me there so often that they viewed me as too high of a risk for BBBJ because "I get around" (cue the 2 PAC song).
I have now spent enough time in Santa Fe to see patterns in the geographic distribution of the street girls and figure out what works best for me. I have usually gotten my best results with girls on the side of the street across from the rear entrance of La Piscina, which I have come to call "Silicone Alley. " The girls here are often more stacked, thicker, taller, and somewhat older, with stronger erotic skills and a better sense of customer service. To the south there is a higher concentration of young skinny girls whose cedulas you should check before you partake, as well as some black girls from Cali. The skinny young girls are generally not my cup of tea, and to the extent that I did sample this segment of the talent pool, I was often disappointed. Black girls from Cali rarely disappoint, however. To the west, along the street with the rear entrances to Troya and Paisas, the talent and the service is mixed.
I have included some photos of girls that I took. As in the past, the vast majority of Santa Fe girls are not photo-friendly. Not only do they typically refuse requests for photos, they will often become hostile or ask for more money in return. I consider myself lucky to have gotten this many, as few as they are.
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Photos for Make Bogota Great Again: December 2020 Trip Report
Here are the photos from my December 2020 trip.
Dec 21 Last night in Bogota
Had an awesome night even though it was still Monday and slower. I had 2 different two hour sessions with 2 of my favorite fiebre girls to help them get a little more cash before Christmas. One of the girls I'm crushing hard on trying to convince her to come to Cancun with me for Christmas. I've been all over Colombia but this girl fiebre is the perfect combination of sexy and cute after all my trips to Colombia and worldwide 70 countries and counting. Ibis is definitely my favorite hotel spot only brought one girl back just asked for cedula of course. 11,000 pesos Uber to andino. Home burgers right across the street best burgers in Colombia. Oxxo two minute walk and bank machine s galore. Cheap and reliable laundry place just up the hill from ibis by the gold museum just follow the white wall up the hill 10-20 k a bag.
Thank you for your detailed report!
[QUOTE=YyzTravel;2514640]OK guys, been home for a few days after a 7 days trip. Here is a full trip report for everyone. [/QUOTE]You shouldn't have to explain why you're spending your money as you see fit, well, as long as you're not grossly overpaying or give outrageous tips because that does have a potential to raise prices. But as long as you don't make them reevaluate (LOL) their price tags who gives a shit? It's your money. As to airfares or lodging costs, I don't think it's anyone's business to begin with. Just like you, I don't have months to explore the scene, and I won't try to pinch pennies by staying in shitty hotels.
Could you explain how GoodRX works? They always spam all my emails, so I've never given them a second thought. For this kind of money, though, I'm pretty sure it's generic they sell, no?
Also Lecethin. Any side effect you've noticed? I used to take Maca, and it worked initially, then I noticed it stopped being effective.
