Cartagena trip report Friday the 13th.
Finally a real boots on the ground report.
The Tall Man spent a few days in CART and strolled all around the clock tower and clubs (those that were opened) on Friday the 13th of November.
In the clock tower plaza at about between 9 pm until midnight saw probably 40 chicas out and another 40 give or take walking around the streets of the clubs.
Some were very good looking and made instant eye contact even though I was with a young tall slender paisa who traveled with me from Medellin. My paisa girl has a true stripper body and a face, when she makes it up right, can look like a porno star with her natural expressions and damn her twerking body just the way she walks.
So for a moment I considered inviting one of the clock tower cuties to join us but just wasn't in the cards.
The following day, Saturday November 14th it rained all day hence the street flooding and just as the photo shows of the clock tower plaza was knee deep.
The Tall Man.
Youtuber who I think is a tout in Medellin
From the looks of this video the chicas in Plaza de LOS Coches by the clock tower are now ready to fight over a client. Desperate times indeed.
I have watched a few of this guy's videos and he seems to be a tout / guide who is using youtube for targeting guys interested in the mongering scene in Cartagena. Smart move on his part probably but I do not think I would recommend a tout / guide like this over doing your own research. These guys all have an angle and a person really limits themself if they choose a "guide" and you'll never know what you missed or how much extra you spent.
In this video which by all appearances seems very recent he walks up to La Dolce Vita and Space (2:25) Then he shows two chicas about to throw down in the Plaza de LOS Coches (2:42), at 3:47 they are walking around in Castillogrande and you get a quick view across the Bay of Cartagena (Bahia de Cartagenas) straight across the water is Manga and to the left is Bocagrande. And then later in the video he is on Playa Hollywood (5:34) , You can see the roped off areas they have set up for social distancing. In part of the shot you can see part of the Hotel Caribe. Place of infamy for being the place where a US Secret Service agent ended his career over arguing with a prepago over the price. Let that be a lesson to anyone who goes down to Cartagena on official business. When you negotiate stress on the world "pesos" - make her quote you the price and hear her say "pesos" LOL.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSbsHjlNMB4&t=325s[/URL]
Information about Cartagena and some ramblings
So because I have noticed that this thread is so slow and because Covid stopped the world for 7 months and because it appears that there are some lurkers that are looking for information and mostly because I am bored I am going to write some posts about what I know about traveling to Cartagena for the purpose of mongering. I qualify these posts by saying it has been over a year since I have not visited in a year. Even though Colombia is open it is still not completely back to normal. More on what I know about that later.
Apartments.
Before traveling to Cartagena for purposes of mongering you need to know that not all apartment buildings and hotels allow you to bring women to your apartment / room. Some do but the majority do not. I highly recommend studying the thread "Cartagena Hotels and Rental Apartments" I also strongly suggest that you study the thread called "Cartagena Lists" where if you look you will find a list and and a special made Google Map of cartagena which will show some of the apartment buildings and hotels as well as locations of mongering activities. Everyone pretty much agrees that you should contact the owner of the apartment to ask about their policy concerning bringing visitors in. Many if not most of the buildings have security that will check their ID when they come in so you also want to make sure the chica has a government issued ID. In Colombia this is called a Cedula (say-do-lah).
General Security Concerns.
Members have reported that chicas have stolen from them. On some rarer occasions members have been poisoned and then robbed though I have to say that I have only heard of this happening in Medellin and Bogota and I am not aware if any incidences in Cartagena. I am aware of incidences where chicas have just stolen stuff that was laying around. For this reason you need to come up with your own system of watching out for your shit. I usually make a copy of my passport to carry around with me then I can put the actual passport in the safe. If I am going out to somewhere to get a chica I set up everything before I leave the apartment. I go to an ATM and get the cash that I am going to need to pay her and whatever walking-around-money that I am going to need. I stash that under the mattress so I can pull it out when she leaves. I take just enough cash for the roundtrip taxi and money for some drinks etc and before I go to find my chica everything except my walking around money and my copy of my passport gets put in the safe. One member reported that he had brought two chicas home once and while he would be messing with one the other would be walking around looting his apartment for some of his smaller lesser valued stuff like electric toothbrush, a watch etc. Not a disaster for him but still annoying. Another thing you can do is what I did in Medellin last time was that anything like that I just kept locked in my suitcase, I have those little TSA locks for my suitcases and I keep my laptop bluetooth speaker (if not using it) and other small semi-valuables locked in a suitcase under the bed. So they are not going to slip that in their bag and walk out with it.
Money and Currency exchange issues.
Many people tend to wonder if they should bring money and exchange US currency for Pesos, my advice is to just make sure that you let your bank know that you are going to Colombia and on what dates. Then just use the ATMs when you arrive. The bank gets the best rate of exchange and you will end up paying some fees but for me it is worth it for the convenience factor. Some members are better about getting the best deals on ATM withdrawals but it seems to depend partially on your bank at home as well as the bank that you use the ATM. I have read that banks that are labeled Colpatria / Scotiabank and they need to say both not one or the other, have free ATM withdrawal and minimum fees.
[URL]https://www.scotiabankcolpatria.com/oficinas/cartagena[/URL]
Cell phone.
There are various thoughts in cell phones, from buying a drop phone and buying a SIM card when you arrive to doing what I do which is I use my Google Pixel phone to download an electron SIM from Google Fi and gives me unlimited data and unlimited texting without roaming charges across the world. Voice calls though cost 20 cents a minute but the only time I might use a voice call is to call my bank if I have any issues.
I should mention that this is something I have been doing for the past couple of years but have done other things also. When I first started visiting Cartagena there were no smart phones so I would just go to the local Supermercado Olimpica and buy a flip phone as well as the SIM (remember to bring your passport to get the SIM activated they require it). Later when the world moved onto smartphones I found a "world phone" (a phone that works on most of the cellular microwave bands used around the world) on amazon that I would take with me wherever I traveled and buy a SIM on arrival and have it put into that phone. My primary service has always been Verizon and since verizon uses CDMA networks I needed the other phone to travel with but now with the Google Pixels and probably most iphones too, the phones tend to work on multiple bands. You may need to research this before you decide what phone you are bringing just to be sure that it is compatible with the cellular infrastructure.
Where is the Pussy? How much should I pay?
IF you are actually interested in this post than I strongly urge you to go look at the thread "Cartagena List" and see the entry that has the Cartagena List and the Cartagena Google custom map. The places I mention are shown on the map.
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2180-Cartagena-Lists[/URL] post #491.
This is probably the subject that I am the weakest on because I stick to the tried and true methods that I have always used in Cartagena. I pull from the clock tower area (Plaza de LOS Coches) and La Dolce Vita and a little from Playa Hollywood but not in a while. This is also something that may be greatly affected by the Covid situation.
My habits have always been these three spots. La Dolce Vita (henceforth called LDV) and Hollywood beach. During the first few years that I started going to Cartagena LDV was located in a small shopping center in the small neighborhood of El Laguito. Hollywood Beach (aka Playa Hollywood) is located just next to El Laguito also so I became accustomed to renting apartments in El Laguito and so I still do. La Vita Dolce to be clear is a discotecha / a nightclub, but all or at least the vast majority of the chicas there are prostitutes (yay! Back then there was another bar located in the old city neighborhood of Centro called Elektra and this place is where the LDV crowd went after about midnight and it would wind down around 2 am. Now LDV is located about a 5 minute walk from the Plaza de LOS Coches (by the clock tower) and a second bar called Space is located next door / upstairs that serves the same purpose.
This is not a setup like in Thailand where you have pay a "house fee" or "bar fine" to take a chica they have no connection with the bar. I strongly suggest that you buy some drinks while you are there and buy the chica some drinks. At one point when LDV was located in El Laguito they instituted a drink minimum but I and not sure about the present one because I always spend money there anyway and would not get challenged.
It has been my experience that the hottest chicas are hanging in LDV but that's a hard one to say because there really are hot chicas all over. When I first started going to Cartagena you did not have to go far to find pro chicas. I have seen them walking around all over. I have seen them in Plaza Domingo, I have seen them having drinks at sunset at Cafe del Mar, but since those days it seems that is not as prevalent to see them in the hot tourist spots so much as it was then and the biggest concentration is in Plaza de LOS Coches (the plaza next to the clocktower inside the walls of the old city) after 10 pm. FOr the most part the chicas are standing around in the area of the statue in the center of the northern part of the plaza, some are standing in the immediate area of the statue, some are standing along the sidewalks adjoining the buildings on either side, some are sitting around on the benches near the wall, some are standing along the wall, around 1130 pm is probably the height of the number of them but that is a guess and most likely varies night to night. Chicas go back and forth too between the plaza and LDV / Space.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YSY5hNbniI[/URL]
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iA5ocNikVc&t=160s[/URL] (Plaza de LOS Coches aka Clock Tower at 2:39).
For those who do not mind paying extra and do not mind if someone squeeze you for a few extra buck then there is Tony on Playa Hollywood who will locate the women for you and send them your way. I have read just as much good about Tony being helpful as I have bad about Tony. He is going to get a cut from everything he helps you with so you can either think of him as a middleman who is adding to the price of your experience or a concierge who is filling in your knowledge gaps and making things more convenient The guy who made this video obviously thinks of Tony as a concierge type figure. To be sure if there are prostitutes on the beach, Tony is going to know it. He has his little minions with their feelers out. Not to mention some chicas I have been with are chicas who fly into Cartagena from places like Medellin, Bucaramanga, Bogota and other cities to work for a week or so and then fly back home with their families being none the wiser to how they got their tuition money or that money to buy that new Coach bag etc, but all these chicas they know who Tony is and he knows them.
[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dOr_tDC6_3U&t=449s[/URL]
In the plaza by the clock tower (Plaza de LOS Coches) no chica should be trying to quote you more than 200 k Pesos for ST (short time) and no more than 400 k pesos for TLN (toda la noche) . This I usually find includes a covered blowjob and a one pop session even kissing is not guaranteed. So anything else beyond or less than that is negotiable. One can and should always try to negotiate this basic service down to 150 k, I may go the 200 k if the chica is willing to do an bareback blowjob and full GFE kissing but I am not paying 200 k for less service than that, Ijust usually have to shop around and negotiate to get this. Never negotiate with a chica in earshot of other chicas because the audience may affect what they choose to do. Some chica may be worried that the other chica is going to think she is nasty for doing a bareback blowjob etc.
Back when I used to frequent Play Hollywood I would not pay more than 150 k to a chica for ST, they have all day and night to get another payday so I find they are usually quick to give into this price.
