In Santiago for just a Sunday. What to do?
I am doing a mileage run to earn status on Delta and because of this I will be in Santiago on a Sunday at the end of the month from 7 to 5 PM. I am looking to experience the sights, in more ways than one. I looked and lamansiondelmasaje is not open on Sundays sadly. What are my options for quality, low risk mongering? Hotel for the day? Find someone on apps and be upfront? Another massage place? I speak little Spanish as well so will need to stay in the center part of the city.
Santiago for just a Sunday
[QUOTE=LonelyMan718;2860796]I am doing a mileage run to earn status on Delta and because of this I will be in Santiago on a Sunday at the end of the month from 7 to 5 PM. I am looking to experience the sights, in more ways than one. I looked and lamansiondelmasaje is not open on Sundays sadly. What are my options for quality, low risk mongering? Hotel for the day? Find someone on apps and be upfront? Another massage place? I speak little Spanish as well so will need to stay in the center part of the city.[/QUOTE]You are aware of the coffee shops and what they have to offer a monger, yes?
"Toples" bars. How to
OK, so as a follow-up to the cafe post, let me share the experiences of going to the "toples" bars of Santiago. "Toples" (one s) is the name used by Chileans, so I'll stick with it. Most of the ones I visited belong to one chain, with the keyword in the name "Paraiso" (not to be confused with "Paradiso") . If you hear a man on the street offering you "paraiso" in a hushed voice with a card in hand, he's inviting you to one of these clubs.
First of all, they're not really bars. They don't sell beverages. Or they offer just one type type, non-alcoholic (like Red Bull), and at a steep price. But nobody drinks anyway. Some customers bring their own drinks, like Powerade in a bottle. Second of all, they're not so much topless, it's more of a full-strip venue, where groping the naked stripper is absolutely normal. Tits, pussy, just don't insert your finger. And try to read what the stripper is okay with, for best effect.
Even more surprising perhaps, is that these are DAY venues, noon until 9:30 PM or 10 PM. Entrance is 4000 CLP, in some 3000 CLP. On two weekdays that I checked (Friday, Monday) there were quite a few men already around 1 PM-3 PM. Everyone's dressed in street clothes, I'd say most are underdressed. Many have backpacks. But they look very average in the positive sense. There's everything from elderly gentlemen, to very horny 20-year olds. It's a mix.
The bars don't have dedicated strippers as such. For all of them the stripping is like a side job, or a side obligation. Most of the time they stand or sit in the main area, offering "extras", and they strip in rotation, with long breaks. I'd say there's a show / strip 1/3 or 1/4 of the time, and only if there are enough customers. But sex is the end game for all the girls. The strip is just to entice you to take a "private session" ("privado") or at least a "private dance" (baile / bailecito privado). The private dance (5000 CLP) is done standing up, in a corridor leading to the girls' changing room, behind a curtain. This, in fact, is just a sample of what will be offered in the proper private session, allowing you to gauge if you really want to go all the way. The private session costs between 20 000 CLP and 50 000 CLP, usually you'll get quoted two options: 25 000 CLP or 40 000 CLP, and you substract the cost of the private dance from that, if you took it.
I always took the 25 000 CLP option, as the more expensive ones were just not convincing. The 50 k CLP offer I once got included anal, and it was in some bigger bathroom or some "better" storage room. Who cares. In the end 25 000 CLP for 15 minutes max is the going rate, but YMMV, it's not unusual to get quoted more.
So where are the toples bars / clubs? Most are concentrated in the northern part of the center of Santiago, especially around Bandera street:
1/ Catedral (Paraiso Catedral) - on the corner of Catedral and Bandera (around -33.43731788213332, -70.65245046296722). It's on the lowest level of the "Catedral" Shopping Galleria. After entering from either street, just keep climbing down.
Own experience. In my opinion, this one is the best. There were always a large number of girls, customers, and shows, whenever I came in. And there was quite a lot to choose from.
2/ FashionGirls. Bandera 642, between Rosas and Santo Domingo (around -33.435955266712774, -70.65316243001527), in the basement of the galleria, just keep going down.
Own experience. Went there twice, it's OK, similar size to Catedral, but not even close in number and quality of girls, and the number of shows.
3/ Morande (Paraiso Morande) - Morande 783 (around -33.43456107003983, -70.65435027214157) - it was kind of OK, a bit smaller than the previous clubs, but not much happening.
4/ Bandera (Paraso Bandera) - Bandera 862 (around -33.4335757, -70.6533144) - easily the worst of the four; I came in around 2-3 PM, all the women were older and most ugly, max 6/10. No shows when I was there, the common area and show area is a few times smaller, there seems to be an upstairs for private sessions. Left me totally unimpressed.
For a more complete list of toples see: laestokada (DOT) CL. BARRIO ROJO. Santiago Night & Day Clubs. Directorio De Topless. Direcciones why horario. Especially the places with underlined names. Just please be aware, some of the lesser-known strip bars, especially the ones operating at night, are both highly overpriced and, according to quite a few posters in the forum, drug their customers by adding stuff to their drinks to entice them to spend more. Be warned and do diligent research. Google Translate is your friend, again.
Now what was my tactic in these bars? I liked the shows and the groping, so I'd gently send off all the girls offering me sessions immediately after entering. If they came to chat, do some preliminary grinding and just sit with me, it's totally fine, I'd enjoy all these free activities. I loved the somewhat amateurish shows. After an hour or two of observing and some chatting (and some groping), I could get a picture of who's good-looking AND friendly to me, and I would be more willing to go to a private dance and session. If the private dance was so-so, and the girl turned indifferent, I'd skip the main course.
The bathroom sex conditions are not much better than in cafes con pierna (bad), but at least you have more time to check the girls out and have some fun. One girl seemed to really liked me, trying very hard to please me (probably thinking of playing the long game? I'd invite her for a longer "date" outside the club, if I weren't leaving town so quickly. I have seen other customers taking girls back home at closing time too.