Managua

[QUOTE=Noguera; 1174717]It is Montelimar. Not Montepillar.

Actually, Managua has the lowest crime rate of all the capitals in Central America. I have lived there for several years, and worked in Managua for 15 years. I have never been robbed, nor ever had any problems. However. Just simply do not walk places at night. Managua is spread out. Granted MetroCentro is "kind of" a downtown, but really it is not. From the InterContinental it is safe to walk to Diamond Club (see its website) , however, walking anywhere else is just tempting fate. Taxis are cheap, use them.

Managua is not a crime infested city. It is as safe as any city of 1, 000, 000+ anywhere in the world. It is just a dump! It can be a hell of a lot of fun, and quite an adventure. Just don't walk places.

The street girls between the Esso and the Texaco MetroCentro are perfectly safe. As are the street girls maybe 100 meters south of the Hilton on Carretera Masaya. Just use some common sense with street girls.

Fenix and Good Times are only 5 minutes from MetroCentro by taxi. Diamond Club is across the street. The tiny little casas de citas are in the barrios all over the city. You will never find them unless you ask a cab driver.[/QUOTE]Noguera is one of the few people I trust and you can trust what he says.

Do not walk without a gun, simple. And you can't get a gun. If the $2-3 is too much then don't go.

I will agree to disagree on the street girls near Hilton, there are some cute and a lot that are a hassle, thieving arguing, non-performers.

One thing I can say if you don't speak Spanish or have someone with you that does well (and English of course) , think about going elsewhere.

Noguera's point about the casitas is correct. You will never walk, due to the distance alone. The lack of street names and addresses makes finding things a problem. You will need a taxista to call them for directions, other than Fenix, Morena, Good Times and Cueto Club. The madam at Morena, Gina speaks excellent English as do a lot of her girls who hail mostly from Bluefields.

[QUOTE=Noguera; 1170965]Damn. If this thread gets any more dead we are all going to wish we had Meatloaf back!

Nah. We aren't that desperate yet![/QUOTE]Nobody with a functioning brain would wish that. See a doctor.

Smilies are not working, so my smiley didn't show up to say that Noruega isn't crazy.

Back with a vengense I see!

[QUOTE=Ready Ru;1182713]Back with a vengense I see![/QUOTE]Let me correct me before you do," vengence". LOL

I appreciate your kind words. There is nothing complicated or unique about Managua, other than there is no downtown, it is spread out, and a dump! We have all told these guys that it is just not practical to walk everywhere. It is not like downtown San Jose or downtown Guatemala City. If people choose not to listen, well. That is their choice. Wish I had something more profound, but just use common sense.

[QUOTE=Grand Pollo; 1182705]Not heat but for noobs and the unfamiliar it is bad advice. It's worked for you but it is still pretty risky after dark for what? $1. 50.

Nicaragua certainly is not getting better. I left January 4th and haven't been back. In the last 7 years I was in Managua every 5-6 weeks. I went through two relationships, the last ending two days before NY Eve, and I am just tired of the commute. I am back October and have a ticket on TACA for Christmas, and I will see the tone and temperment in October to decide if I am going back in 2011.

And I have 3 friends with benefits including the December ex, so it isn't lack of girls. Just tired of the treadmill.[/QUOTE]It is certainly not the $1. 50. It is the fact that I like to walk at night, and I will not let myself be afaid of possible harm.

You are 100% right it is not for most people. Just guys like me who like to tempt fate.

As far as the commute, it is a killer. That 1am flight back, then another connection, and then a 40 minute car ride home is getting very old.

[QUOTE=Grand Pollo; 1182708]You don't have to be gangbanger tough. The barrios where you [B]can [/B]go are decent enough, Fenix is on a arterial road, so is Good Times (which I still think is a waste of time, buy YMMV) and it is next door to Cueto Club, Morena is in a retail area in a good barrio. I don't like the pricing but Bellmarys is in a great barrio in Cd. Jardin, residential, clean, quite nice.

My ex-GF lived in and then near Camilo Ortega. There's no casas etc, there but it is a definite non-gringo area. There I was tolerated and my Man Friday is armed. There are other quite obvious barrios that are very dangerous, example Jorge Dimitrov (the police don't go there) , but again, there is no reason to go.

Going to Fenix every day using different cabs or a trusted driver is not marking you for anything but a regular customer.

How much you take depends on how much you drink. I heaer Fenix is all in under C$500 and a taxi roudn trip unless you are across town is maybe C$50. Leave with C$1000 and you are probably OK. That's US$48.[/QUOTE]Where's / what is Bellmarys?

Nicaragua is generally a safe country by latin american standards. Managua is by far the most dangerous place and you have the Carribean coast with lack of law issues etc. Outside of Granda and Leon it is fairly untouristed. I paid 30 to 60 cordobas for a taxi single journey of varying lengths in Managua. When I spoke to locals and I said a fare was 100 for example, they would tell me it was 80. Definitely a better place for Spanish speakers as has been said.

[QUOTE=Ready Ru;1182714]Let me correct me before you do," vengence". LOL[/QUOTE]

If you are going to show off by correcting someone's typo, you should learn to spell [B][I]vengeance [/I][/B]first. Though it isn't vengense either, mind you.

[QUOTE=Elropaazul; 1183021]Where's / what is Bellmarys?

Nicaragua is generally a safe country by latin american standards. Managua is by far the most dangerous place and you have the Carribean coast with lack of law issues etc. Outside of Granda and Leon it is fairly untouristed. I paid 30 to 60 cordobas for a taxi single journey of varying lengths in Managua. When I spoke to locals and I said a fare was 100 for example, they would tell me it was 80. Definitely a better place for Spanish speakers as has been said.[/QUOTE]

A casa in Ciudad Jardin as I said where it was when I said "in Ciudad Jardin".

What it is, how to find it etc., has been posted many, many times.

Guys, please RTFF then ask.

[QUOTE=John Gault; 1182741]It is certainly not the $1. 50. It is the fact that I like to walk at night, and I will not let myself be afaid of possible harm.

You are 100% right it is not for most people. Just guys like me who like to tempt fate.

As far as the commute, it is a killer. That 1am flight back, then another connection, and then a 40 minute car ride home is getting very old.[/QUOTE]Well, to each his own. To the people with no experience in Managua don't be this foolish, please.

[QUOTE=Noguera;1182725]I appreciate your kind words. There is nothing complicated or unique about Managua, other than there is no downtown, it is spread out, and a dump! We have all told these guys that it is just not practical to walk everywhere. It is not like downtown San Jose or downtown Guatemala City. If people choose not to listen, well. That is their choice. Wish I had something more profound, but just use common sense.[/QUOTE]True. I don't know if I'd say "dump". There are dumpy parts and pretty good parts.

Good parts all of Zona Rosa, Metrocentro area, most of Cd. Jardin, a fair bit of Bello Horizonte, Los Robles and Altamira, the area around Plaza Espana, a lot of C. Masaya out to the Hospital, near the old Embassy, Mercado Huembes, etc. Immediate vicinity of the good hotels.

Bad areas abound in areas a gringo unaccompanied would do miserably and would be at risk. And a few boderline areas like Plaza Inter / Crowne Plaza are OK but a block away near the Nica Bus and the Conquistador are pretty risky.

But the spread and the lack of street names and address numbers makes walking pretty silly. Noobs with no idea where anything is will require a taxi as much to find a place as get there anyway. I guess if you stay 1 block away from Fenix and just do Fenix all the time, you can walk but how boring can it get?

I'm back Oct 10-15 or 17 and we'll see what's what. If I line up the three FWB's I may not get out much other than to eat and to go to the bookies.

Grand Pollo's basically got it covered, but in many years of passing through Managua I've never had a problem (though I know the odd person who has).

Take taxis after dusk.

In the daytime I walk whenever I'm not too hot / lazy / drunk to do so. It makes a change from taxis, but is only practical if, say, you are going round the ferreterias on the Carretera Norte. Otherwise the distances are too great.

Ciudad Jardin? The shipper I use is there, and it's never struck me as a "nice" area like Centroamerica or Los Robles. Not a bad area, though.

[QUOTE=Grand Pollo; 1182701]First sentence above is utter bullshit. Much has been said against street girls who are thieves more than dangerous, but there are lots of girls in the few clubs and casas unless you are an imbecile.

Second sentence is a recommendation for one of the three clip joints aimed at suckers and Japanese and Korean businessmen with deep pockets. The others being Solid Gold and Elite. $14 drinks, you have to be kidding.

If you can speak Spanish and don't look and act like a total doofus then you can find anything you want in Managua.

If you like Diamond girls, you can get their numbers if you hang around the Texaco Star Mart / Mc Donalds alongside as the girls are there constantly especially before they are opening and it is dead obvious who they are.[/QUOTE]You like to throw names around but obviously do not have a clue. You want to call non-slummers, non-ghetto dwellers and non-bottom feeders like your inexperienced, uneducated and unsophisticated self names such as "imbecile and dufus". That shows your lack of coothe and intelligence.

I lived in Managua for 1. 5 years, until about 4 years ago. You go in and out for short vacations maybe if that? I lived 2 blocks from the Diamond club but mongered all over, as I have in Asia, All of North America, Europe, Central and South America. I also owned and ran Strip Clubs, Escort services and adult entertainment broadcasting studios. Hell, in my prime, I used to strip in Ladies clubs and sell my services to the rich bitches or those who saved up to splurge on my splooge. I have had more free and paid pussy globally than 100 smucks like you, as well as being paid by the pussy to service them! And its been models, strippers, escorts etc of all top quality, other than a few rich bitches that antied up big for the privilege, unlike the dumpy / sloppy type you favor at the Phoenix and similar slum **** scenes! Nor do they want to slink around the garbage cans outside a club trying to pick up the lower quality girls who may go for that.

The high-quality girls stay in the high-quality clubs to meet the high-quality gringos and local power & profit moguls. Even the local guys who have money and position, education etc do NOT go for the street rats. So if you want to hang with the high quality locals and girls you go where they are. Where they are safe and so are you, to the max. If a guy is down here for short stints on biz or pleasure and staying at the high-quality hotels within 3 blocks of Metro Centro and the Diamond Club, the smart ones will go there. Especially if they have a wife, girlfriend or good career and don't want to chance the numerous types of bad encounters known to happen in Managua and other Monger towns. They probably do not have an armed escort as you mention like your "man Friday". Why ya got to have an armed escort? Are you that frail and faggy lookin that you're under constant threat? I went all over Managua, alone in taxis and walking and never had a problem, mongering or otherwise, but knew of others that did, even those who were robbed & even stabbed or killed in Taxis, which was happening even to locals there for awhile.

So don't take shots at others choices and persons, as unlike you and yours, they may have too much to lose to slum it, and still want to enjoy quality life and quality ladies while in Managua. If so, I will see some of them on my regular return visits to the Diamond Club & Managua.

I picked up girls all over Managua, but not all of those who come on this board want to go thru the adventures, dangers and challenges you can get into by doing so, especially as a non-spanish speaking gringo.

To the high-end high-quality guys in the crowd, do not let little weenie pricks like this guy intimidate you into doing something stupid and / or dangerous, just because he has nothing better to do with his lie and time than post hundreds and hundreds of his supposed stories and opinions on borads like this (Meat-Laof reborn anyone?). Quality working girl-Mongering is not about getting the cheapest low-quality putang all over the world. For the sophisticated among us, its about safe and smart pleasure for both us and the girls, unlike this wanker and his kind!

Come on, Diamond club is a take on for the area.

Nicaragua is not Colombia or Brazil and Managua is fun but nothing in comparison.

A couple of you have recently mentioned that there is some sort of crack-down on P4P in Managua due to the upcoming elections. First, the coming elections are a joke. Daniel is going to win, basically unopposed. Alemáand is only running to try and get a few of his own people into the Asemblea and basically positioning for the 2016 elections.

Secondly. What crack-down on P4P? I see nothing different in the P4P scene here in town. Good Times, Fenix, Elite, Diamond Club. All are open for business as usual. I have not spent much time in the smaller casas recently, but word on the street is these are all running as normal.

Give us a few 'specific' examples of this alleged crack-down.