I am back from a one week vacation at Cartagena. It was really incredible there. One of the best places I have visited. The city is really beautiful and the night life is more better than I would have imagined. Women are friendly -- no male hatred I could sense. Some clubs actually try to keep out the girls and welcome in the gents. Like free gents nights while women have to pay to get in. The beach is right along the mian road and ocean has these amazzing waves that keep coming in -- that one can throughly enjoy and have a water massage. If anyone needs some particular info -- let me know. I should be able to help out. Definitly worth the trip.
Here is a nice slide show:
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However!!!
After doing a data sheet objective analysis of Cartagena, I have to say there are more negatives than positives. I would not likely be visiting there again --unless a really cheap package came up.
The negatives are in order:
-- A bit too expensive. Prices are the same or a bit more than in first world countires. Accomodations and Food are not cheap there.
--Hookers everywhere - in the night. And theyare not cheap either. Hard to meet regular girls.
-- The city has enormous amounts of peddlers and hustlers - who hassle you pretty aggressively. The city is on an aggressive mission to take as much money as they can from tourists.
-- You cannot go out of the tourist areas and into the main parts of the town -- as it may be dangerous --
--You cannot rent scooters there -- if you do find one -- it will be very expensive -- and scooters are not allowed on the roads after 10 -11:00pm. Many robberies occured with scooters being used in the night -- so now scooters are not allowed in the night time. -- That is a big issue for me --as I find scooter important to use to get around.
So Cartagena is definitly worth a visit -- but not a place to stay too long.