Reporting on January visit and seeking updates on Medellin

[mjd]

I visited in Cartagena, Medellin and Bogota in January. Had a great time. I was very surprised how pleasant Cartagena was. Found some great restuarants and enjoyed strolling through the streets in the walled city.

I stayed at the Bonbon Allure which is a short walk outside the city gate, very nice neighborhood and across from the water. It was a beautiful hotel with outstanding breakfast service. They were very discrete about visitors. My friend and I each booked double rooms. We were allowed one visitor per 24 hour period and beyond that the hotel assessed a fee, $25 I think.

There was a gay disco just down the street. Lots of hot young guys. Packed, loud and obnoxious EDM. We left after one beer. No one approached in the disco and the music was too loud to try to talk to anyone. But we left, got on Grindr and there must have been a dozen guys messaging us saying "we saw you at the disco, we want to meet!"

Grindr and Hornet were very busy. Some guys included $ in their screenname so you know what they were seeking. A broad selection of gorgeous men. Loved it. The museums were also great. I thought it was very relaxing.

Bogota was same as usual. Stayed in the gay mini hotel the San Sebastian in Chapinero. Decent rooms and sweet staff. Immediately next door was a place "Boys Internet Cabinas." I honestly thought it was an internet place so once when the internet in the hotel was running slow I visited. Haha! Lots of cabins and lots of boys but they weren't there for the internet. GLory holes everywhere and lots of non-commercial blow jobs.

We took the Turistren which was a fun Sunday afternoon. Pretty ride, both through the city and then in the country. Stopped at the Salt Cathedral, interesting, worthwhile, and then had an hour or so in a colonial tourist town for lunch. Musicians on the train and the Colombianos all partied and danced as the train lurched along. Lots of fun.

Didn't like the saunas in Bogota. Babylon was packed with stand and model gorgeous muscle boys. Very busy dozens having sex in the steam room but unless one is young and of model quality no one is interested. Went to two other suanas. Awful. Went to a couple bars but not very interesting. I hadn't been to the colonial downtown before and enjoyed a full day sightseeing there.

Medellin, as all say, was terrific. We stayed at the Estellar Blue Hotel in El Poblado. It's a long but pretty walk to the Metro station. Parque Lleras with all the open air bars and restaurants was fun. Steak houses good -- the "famous" Thai restaurant was about as Thai as my German grandpa and the food was mediocre. Several of the restaurants were at best middling. On my return in June I'm going to pay more attention to reviews to find better fare.

Mixed results bringing saunas boys home from there. My friend Vince, who doesn't speak Spanish, invited a masseur from Club Tobi. Vince had a double room but the front desk made him register the guest and pay, $30 I think, for the visitor. My favorite, the bartender at Club Tobi came around 10pm but the hotel wouldn't let him go up to my room and they wouldn't call for me. Duh, I should have told him to call my room first so I could meet him in the lobby. I don't think the hotel was anti-gay or anti-visitor, just doing diligence for safety. The hotel was beautiful, only $70 a night, huge rooms, brand new, perfectly clean, everything working, premium channels on TV, free breakfast AND dinner. I'd recommend the Estellar Blue but for June we're going to the Hotel Dix, closer to the metro station and Parque Lleras.

We did the Comuna 13 tour and I highly recommend it. There were 2 other guys on the tour, both gay and from San Francisco, cute, smart, and lots of fun. We went up the escalators, through the neighborhood, all over on the cable cars. It was a long exhausting tour but very satisfying and well worth the price. Tour guide with sense of humor, highly knowledgeable and articulate. Good English.

We also spent a day in the downtown museums. We had a hell of a time finding the "street of sin" and during the daytime. But when we saw some fierce drag queens, some strung out looking young guys. Plan to return there for a visit.

The masseurs at Club Tobi, spectacular.

We didn't get to any clubs. Donde Aquellos was largely deserted when we went by.

[JAYBLK]

"The masseurs at Club Tobi, spectacular."

Can you elaborate a bit? My experience was quite different. I found them lackluster and less than enthusiastic about the non-therapeutic aspects of the massage. I was there in November. Perhaps, the staff has changed?

[mjd]

When we visited there were always at least 3 masseurs and sometimes the massage rooms were backed up so there was a wait. Masseurs came and went.

They had three price levels and I couldn't discern any difference between the two higher prices. The masseurs gave a decent Swedish style massage and then all out sex. All of them were gorgeous young men with beautiful bodies and big cocks. I thought they were enthusiastic and great fun.

My first was a top but not a gruff macho. The second I thought might be active but he insisted on a no-touching massage first and then proceeded to sit on my cock and choreographed my fucking him every which way except hanging from the ceiling. My friend liked him, too, so he arranged for him to come to his hotel room and they had a great time.

There was a young but a bit rougher looking guy working the bar downstairs near the pool. He told me he, too, gave massages, and went back into the kitchen -- so he wasn't seen on the security camera -- and pulled down his shorts to display an awesome cock. Hard ripped body, 7% body fat type. But he couldn't get away from the bar so he was to come to my hotel after work, around 10pm. Unfortunately he came to the hotel 20 minutes early. I wasn't in the lobby and he was stopped and turned away by hotel security. I don't know why he -- or the hotel -- didn't call me in my room. I was so disappointed and it was my last night.

[Guest thumper123]

Hi Mjd

My friend and I are off to Medellin in 2 weeks, first time.  Will definitely check out Club de Tobi.  But keen to learn more about clubs with house or electro technol musics, if you can suggest any.

Thanks