Last minute trip to Rio Dec 5th to ?? Dec 25th Anyone else in Rio now or coming soon?

[travguy]

Update, Christmas Day, Wednesday, December 25, 2024:

Happy Holidays to all

Past weekend was partly sunny, partly horny, partly cloudy, some drizzle (weather and penile, LOL).

Saturday night / Sunday am: Arrive 230am at The Week. The Home is the new name. Barriers but no one in line. Then they ask for ID – which I did not bring. LOL.  R, vs 0016 0419 hrs. Thumb printed me mult times upon enter and once at exit. Finally gave a long number in place of ID as even my ID app did not work due to lack of wifi. Had to give birthdate ? Country?. Then get a drink card which likely links to ID. Search of small bag – had cell phone in it. I was patted down
on entry and on exit. Had to turn cell phone on and put code in to prove it was mine at exit (due to many thefts I guess). Also used metal wand at entry and exit. Almost no one in line when I entered. Likely should have entered earlier – but when? 0100 hours?  Maybe crowd was less due to Holiday party weekend? Change of DJs and show was at 0300 hours. Maybe 10 minutes long. There was another DJ and dance area on 3rd floor near balconied area. Second floor balcony was for VIP wrist banded folks only? VIP was extra 60 R$ when they wanted my ID. Pay all bills at exit only. Wanted me to pay cash at exit even though they had handheld CC machine. LOL. I insisted on CC payment and receipt. Had fun. Sort of like big clubs like Heaven or Limelight? In London or large NY or SF gay clubs 15-20 years ago. Lots of steroid and surfer type build guys (20-70 yo). Some hot looking twinks (no fat and in shape minimal muscle; 20-25 yo). Not much sweating as the AC worked well. But the shirts were mostly off. Moderate number of young women, maybe straight. Did not see any drug use and not much water or anything else on the dance floor. Some older bears simply could not stop rubbing against me or invading others’ spaces. These were the only rude folks. No sex on the dance floor beyond grabbing and deep French kissing; mostly 20-40 yo extremely attractive guys. As the semi clean bathrooms had floor to ceiling dividers in the stalls, you could frolic in these if desired. Yeah, impossible for the WC to be really clean.
Crowd on the balconies was thinning by 0330 or so. I left after 0400 hours. Music was a bit too loud, but not painful. Did not see any ear plugs, but would have helped. My guess is that the loudness was mostly from the bass. Spot light show was reasonable and no lasers in my eyes. Would be fun with friends, but tough to hook up as an older guy alone. Given how wiped out I was on Sunday after an all nighter Saturday night / Sunday am, probably will not do this again alone. Part of the issue Sunday was someone banging
away doing construction work next to my bnb apartment Sunday – so I could not sleep after 0900 or so. After Home, I walked to Pres Vargas and a bit beyond on ave Rio Blanco, got lucky and waved down a bus which was going all the way to Ipanema close to my bnb via Copa around 0430 hours. Used Rio Mais card for fare, but driver could take cash and make change as well. Almost nothing was open in Ipanema when I arrived. They were starting set up for Hippie Market. On the bus, passed a newer? Gay club, Pink Flamingo, near where Copa and Ipanema meet. There was a small cue to get in around 0500. Got cleaned up and slept. Never woke up at 0800 to make Sao Bento Monastery back in centro (which I almost passed walking from Home) for 10am Gregorian Chant service.

There was no band today at Gloria on Sunday, just the market which was closing down at 1600 hours, likely 30-60 min earlier. Took 3 tries to get an Uber to Bangu from Vila Rica. They even tried to hit me with a cancellation fee of 5.25 R$ even though 2 drivers never showed !!
430-530 pm Uber to Bangu Boate Casa Grande. No luck at all. The few GPs I liked just walked right past me. Not that they were hot vs bearch, 117 or 202 guys-not. Offered me a free raffle ticket but I left before raffle was drawn. It rained heavily just before I arrived, but rain stopped within an hour or so. It mostly seemed more like an office holiday party where the boys were getting some beers from their usual punters and some would head down or up the stairs for sex. Some GPs were more interested in drinking and hanging out than providing services. Oh well. Seemed like a few GPs were doing groups of local punters at a time. One better looking light skinned black GP seemed to have a new customer every 30 minutes or so ! So I assume he was a top. Even the tatooed twinkier scally lads had big tools.
Left around 2000 hours after hanging out for 3 hours. Min rain on return to Rio via uber. Back in Ipa at 2100. By now I was tired and too wiped out to even try 117 or 202 at 9pm – due to The Home all nighter.  Ubers were about 75-100 R$ each way. Attendant at Boate Casa Grande helped to make sure Uber driver picked up at the club. Unlike 2 weeks ago, there were many cars parked outside, and the music was blasting out into the street - seemed like a commercial area.

Saturday and Monday (23 Dec) I went to Cine Iris, rua Carioca 49. Too hot inside on Saturday around 1430 hours and Monday was cooler inside. Had some trannies both days. No other obvious pay for play guys of interest. Got 1 good BJ. Then went to Sexy Rose to follow on Monday and had a blast. Stayed from 1530-2000 !! I guess I won the ho' award on Monday Dec 23rd. I don't think my dick had been serviced by so many mouths and holes in eons. I wore the linoleum down beating a path to the washroom to clean up after each episode. I still humble myself before our legendary sexer (TomCal I think. Apologies if incorrect). On Tuesday 24 December, 117 was closed. At Fazendola for lunch there was a Super-hot guy eating near me, but I could not get his picture. So, I am including a pic of an older regular guy of similar type found on a hook up website today. If this violates anything, as his face is visible, my apologies and please remove. Lots of guys like this and younger at the beach and were found often enough at 117 / 202 pre COVID. As others have noted, maybe they are on OnlyFans now.

 

Went to the beach due to an unexpectedly non rainy day. Partly sunny am. Dark nasty clouds over far Leblon and the Sheraton, Dois Irmao peaks etc to the west, but mid Ipa Gay Rookerie was only partly cloudy, but not too busy. Despite a base coat, I still got a bit pink - red. Met a young stud Russian guy who spoke good English and might have been the item for an older quite overweight guy, that I did not hear speak. Possibly an oligarch or other older Russian guy that one simply does not mess with unless you are into "small pieces" as Joe Pesci said. Got to Sexy Rose around 1500 hours and a great first 15 minutes or so of great action. But then the place, which was already dead on Xmas eve, went a bit a bit quiet. But multiple folks were still trying to get off and there were some decent group scenes as well. On patron even brought his luggage which was held at the front desk !  Cinelandia was mostly closed up when I left around 1645 hours. The lights went on at S R and they were cleaning the floors, as if that is even possible before closing at 1700. Drizzling so I took the subway back to Ipanema. Many places were closed or closing there too. At least the supermarkets were still semi open to buy food until they started wrapping up for xmas eve at 1800 hours. Could not figure out where to go for a nice drink. 

Xmas day looks like a beach day. Unlike the forecast of thunderstorms, rain and drizzle all week into NYE, it is sunny today. 117 is closed. Not sure if 202 or Meio Mundo is open. Checking on my flight back I was greatly surprised to find some flights for only about $200-300 USD more than the usual lower fares for 1 Jan 2025 evening departures to the US. Seat maps showed many unclaimed seats as well. Not sure if related to the AA meltdown on 24 December that is apparently fixed now. However, finding a last-minute nice place for NYE would be very expensive. They were beds available in youth hostels that are likely just fine. Without a main squeeze or some buds to hang with here for NYE, decided not to change plans and leave before the 31st.

[floridarob]

4 hours ago, travguy said:

Many places were closed or closing there too. At least the supermarkets were still semi open to buy food until they started wrapping up for xmas eve at 1800 hours. Could not figure out where to go for a nice drink. 

One year I ended up going to a midnight mass because there was nothing else open and was drizzling out.... I thought what a lucky priest when I saw all his altar boys 😝

[vtu27]

Thanks for sharing. I am in RJ right now. All closure in Christmas is a little disappointing. But good to know the fresh report about the Home. I will check that out this weekend.