Post: #26

I spent a couple weeks in Margarita Island. It was all right for the beaches, some were really top class. The nightlife was whatever. I was there in low season so not much was going on.

I spent a night in Caracas and got out. Seemed pretty shitty, though honestly not more than a lot of other large Latin American cities (Lima, San Salvador, etc). If you stick to the high class areas where the embassies are it seems like you are somewhere else. Accommodation options suck balls.

I didn't see that many hot girls in Venezuela, even at the beach in Margarita Island. I'm sure they are there it's just that you need a local connection to find the places to go because you don't want to make a wrong move.

I heard Merida (a college town with lots of outdoor stuff going on) is a better place to go. Unfortunately, I didn't go.

I won't go back till Chavez is gone and the currency blackmarket bullshit is over. It's like Cuba, as soon as the politics change the place will be flooded with 300 pound Americans buying shit left and right.

Post: #27

Can you get 8 to 1 exchange on the island without too much trouble?

Post: #28

It's harder to find blackmarket money traders on the island than in Caracas but in the main city (I forget the name) it is possible, especially if you speak fluent Spanish.

Post: #29

Hey all so i got pm'd 2 questions. I apologize in advance because i believe i am likely one of the reasons the rep thing got dragged down for posting so much! My bad, off earnings season but i'll be MIA starting end of this week so want to contribute quick so hopefully some dudes out there will help me out when i PM them. Anyway the 2 questions were strip clubs and exchange rate.

For the more important question, strip clubs:
1. I went to one, i honestly hate them usually because i am addicted to just going out and picking up instead but i did check one out on the same night I had no chance at all with the high end event I was @. I was definitely impressed it was comparable to something like "little darlings" in vegas or some of the ones in Brazil. Maybe i am being biased here but I still think the regular high class women were the best. If strip clubs are your thing, you'll see some good talent as you've already seen from the theme here, ask for the high end one.

In terms of finding the best ones i would simply ask the hotel you are at. As dudes responded on here general low end accommodation is crap. You will get the "sex tourist label" but who cares if u are a p4p dude. I have no moral dillema against people who do p4p it is what it is. No different than a lot of gold digging wives i've seen people have.

2. Currency. Yes good luck it is tough. I have a decent network of bank friends who helped me get around and got a forward contract locked up. For the financially unfit, i basically searched for a situation where there was a large sum of money being exchanged Bolivar to USD where they needed people to pitch in for the capital. Think ~50K+ USD for these things generally, so u fill the role of being the other side, so i guess its a bit confusing but i flipped back and forth @ 4.28 for the majority of the transaction, maxed out that 10K part with cash, black market, and it was a done deal. This again is not for the financially unsavvy but can be done if you really get into the trenches of locking up the other side of the deal. Don't think u can say hey 'll bring down $2K slum it, spend 1K and use the other to make the return. No bank "needs" a 1K deposit. If you're crafty and pull together smart dudes can be done though, but don't try to get lucky unless you for some weird reason, have an in with a guy who works at a small trade Venezuelan bank.

To be crystal clear on if u wanna do this low scale, i'd say bare minimum is $5-10K USD. Which is a big roll of the dice and u have to go to some small banks in weird offshore transactions. This is getting rare because with all the political nonsense everyone is ripping off one another.

The regular 8:1 is not that hard to get assuming u r not there to create the scheme above, 7.5 is good IMHO.

Plz feel free to reach out this week, boss outta town, again my bad to some guys on here who think i'm not really on the street but that should kinda explain my weird traveling style. Just love game as much as anyone and i truly believe that level of passion is how u get good anyway.

Post: #30

$500 for only entrance in a club, I smell something

Post: #31

Fair, i realized a lot of the post and prob even the Curitiba one sounds like complete ridiculous nonsense. I agree with that and shit if I met myself i would half disbeleive it. Consider the following:

1. I stayed at copacabana palace my last 2 nights in Rio. I love to see the super high end every time I see a city because i need inspiration to not up and leave my job working 60-70 hrs a week waking up @ 4:00am on the reg.

2. I admitted I bribed the dude. If you think you can get into a super high end establishment that was likely a private party without $$$ i'd like to hear it... particularly when u were the youngest non-female in-line.

3. My review of Caracas relative to BRL and other places was negative. My only positive takeaway from the trainwreck was the high end. I do believe some people on here are making good money, its simply stats, so if they want to challenge themselves do it up. Finally, it helps give everyone a sense of what kinda "style" i have and taste in women since i think the hottest were here.

4. I will be in Mexico in April, will write up a report, and i'll even take photos from my iPhone to load up here so people don't think i am slumming it since i realize i may have hurt some egos with the weird life i live. But at least this is a place I can straight up tell the truth. I do my own style, not anyone elses. If you stay at hostels/have low $$$ all the time, no hate at all. If you go for the hipster look no hate either. Same with if you like XYZ over XYZ type of women. If you know yourself it'll come off cleanly over time anyway.

That's about it, glad this is like a semi-intro of myself to this forum as well.

Post: #32

I got a PM regarding the exchange rate scheme. I am going to post it here so no one gets confused by reading this thread. This issue is not the 8:1 VEF. As Neil, soma and others have pointed out correctly the issue is changin your VEF back to USD at 4.28.

Absolutely do not go down there trying to run the plan outlined without locking up the buyside. (VEF back to USD) IMHO if u are willing to go to such great lengths to get this done, you may as well max out your 10K legal limit to pull this off because it will be a bitch to pull off unless you are really well connected.

Post: #33

So banks in Caracas won't buy VEF from American tourist at 4.5 to 1?

Post: #34

Correct not that easy otherwise I would spend a second in my office and I would go down there and fly back and forth every single day.

Post: #35

(03-07-2012 04:51 PM)WestCoast Wrote:  Correct not that easy otherwise I wouldn't spend a second in my office and I would go down there and fly back and forth every single day.

Post: #36

Hey, I can add some pretty good thoughts + data sheet on Caracas and other parts of Venezuela as well after spending quite a few weeks there. Should I make a new thread or add it to this one?

Post: #37

I wonder if anyone would buy back the venezuelan peso, seeing as there is an obvious black market and if it was that easy to exploit an arbitrage opportunity, a lot more people would be doing it.

I'm guessing it's much easier to buy pesos on the black market than to sell them on the legit currency market.

Post: #38

(04-27-2012 04:18 AM)bacan Wrote:  Hey, I can add some pretty good thoughts + data sheet on Caracas and other parts of Venezuela as well after spending quite a few weeks there. Should I make a new thread or add it to this one?

mate I am looking forward to reading it...Venezuela has a heap of appeal

Post: #39

The country is basically devolving into a Lord of the Flies type scenario.

Last time I was there I got robbed at gunpoint and beaten up.

I have a wealthy friend in Venezuela who travels with bodyguards that take their job very seriously.

However, I have been with him to Isla Margarita, and it is insane how well the Venezuelan upper class lives. And don't think its a aristocratic snob thing either, all of the Chavez cronies who have looted the country for the past decade mix freely with the traditional elite families, as well as those I suspect are involved in a variety of illicit businesses.

Post: #40

(04-27-2012 04:18 AM)bacan Wrote:  Hey, I can add some pretty good thoughts + data sheet on Caracas and other parts of Venezuela as well after spending quite a few weeks there. Should I make a new thread or add it to this one?

Up to you, you can add it on here.

Post: #41

I just hung out with one of my online chicks from Caracas here in NYC. She said she would invite me to Caracas, but that it is unsafe. She said she can't walk the streets there, as she drives to and from work, and not much else. She also said she's hoping Chavez gets ousted.

Post: #42

Met a young venezuelan dude in Santiago, DR. He's married to a dominican here for about 8 years i think. He said he is from margarita island. He also said that in Venezuela its like "hi. hello. Whats your name? Great. Lets fuck. Okay." Compared to DR where the girls put on a show of being pure and hard to get but are really whores if you work at them.

Post: #43

Yeah... I have an opportunity to go down to Caracas with a kind of LTR dominican chick. She is dominican by blood but was born in Caracas and live there until 13.(so we would stay with some family of hers). It will be a good chance to get the nonforeigner experience/intel. But i wont be able to game. She was warning me that its more dangerous that DR. Which, I dont care. But I have met some flooring Venezuelan chick in the US. Sooooo Any opinions on this would be appreciated.

Post: #44

(03-06-2012 07:58 PM)scotian Wrote:  Nice data Westcoast and welcome to the forum, you are one crazy dude!

Another forum member I was chilling with lately recently spent about 2 weeks in Venezuela where he did a visa run from Colombia, he didn't have too many good things to say about the place, he actually thinks that Venezuela has an obesity epidemic! Did you find that there was an abundance of fat people there? He was comparing the quality of women to Colombia and he said there's no comparison, Colombianas are hotter, hands down.

Of course the scene is probably better in the Capital than the smaller city he was in but, with the crime and violence and shitty politics, I think I'll pass for now.

Funny thing is that just a few years ago, Colombia was the "crazy" place and Venezuela was relatively stable, interesting to see what a right wing gov't (Colombia under Uribe and Santos) and a left wing gov't (Venezuela under Chavez) can do to two seemingly similar countires.

I saw the same thing, although I don't think it's an epidemic. The food in Venezuela is better, but also more fatty. Girls in Venezuela I noticed are taller and more big boned, so after spending time in Colombia then going to venezuela it's easy to see how much larger Venezuelan women are. But maybe, Maracaibo is different from other areas of the country.

Post: #45

Post: #46

Any forum members been to Venezuela recently? I am curious how things are developing...post-Chavez. The chavez-era stigma will keep Americans out for years so I am eyeing the place as a potential pussy paradise. And with some economic reform, the place could be like Russia in the early 90s, a lot of money to be made. Not holding my breath on the last one though, it is latin america after all...

Post: #47

(12-27-2013 11:13 PM)SpecialEd Wrote:  Any forum members been to Venezuela recently? I am curious how things are developing...post-Chavez. The chavez-era stigma will keep Americans out for years so I am eyeing the place as a potential pussy paradise. And with some economic reform, the place could be like Russia in the early 90s, a lot of money to be made. Not holding my breath on the last one though, it is latin america after all...

Good question. Hopefully things have settled down. Lack of gringos even talking about this place sounds good.

Post: #48

(04-22-2014 06:22 PM)JayMillz Wrote:  

(12-27-2013 11:13 PM)SpecialEd Wrote:  Any forum members been to Venezuela recently? I am curious how things are developing...post-Chavez. The chavez-era stigma will keep Americans out for years so I am eyeing the place as a potential pussy paradise. And with some economic reform, the place could be like Russia in the early 90s, a lot of money to be made. Not holding my breath on the last one though, it is latin america after all...

Good question. Hopefully things have settled down. Lack of gringos even talking about this place sounds good.

Things will not change because Chavez died. That is a fact. You may not like socialism but what stigma are you talking about? ONe thing is the governments, and another is people. And you got to be crazy not to feel attracted to local hot venezuela babes. American or not, that has nothing to do with any stigma. US vs Venezuela is one thing and we might not be in same paths but tourist people wanting to meet Venezuela girls and lads has no shame and stigma at all