floridarob

I have been to Cuba for a couple of times and most recently I stayed for 3 weeks in January 2018. Here is the brief report:
Weather is very nice in January. it is neither cold nor very hot, much better than the hot and humid weather in July. 
La habana:  malecon (avenida 23 & calle hospital),  cafe Toki (calle 25 & Infanta), parque central are the top spots to cruise.  Parque central in the day time, just sitting and watching young men passing by;  Malecon & Cafe Toki at night (and after midnight), typically 30+ people gathering in groups, with locals and tourists.  typical price 25-30 CUCs (dollars); there are plenty of short time casa particulars nearby, 10 CUCs for one hour.  It is also easy to find a private apartment with private entrance via Airbnb.
Santiago de Cuba: unlike La habana, there are no visible cruising spots.  I managed to find a men through Romeo, but the profiles on Romeo were very limited.  I saw a couple of gays/trans in the plaza de dolores after midnight but I didn't talk to them. there is a love motel (casa particular) on street calvario No 551, just next to Plaza de dolores, where my Romeo friend and I had half an hour good time. I paid the friend 30 CUCs and the room 10 CUCs.
Santiago is a very poor city.  One day when I was strolling down the malecon at sunset, I saw two very handsome young men with great bodies. Both are 19 years old and are about 1.85 meters.  It turned out that they were from the local lucha sport team and they had to train every day for local competitions.  I invited them for beers and we became friends.  In the next 2 weeks, I gradually learned about their lives, visited their homes, talked to their families,  helped with their (money) problems, and got to know more of their friends.  we went to beaches and discos. In the end, I managed to jack off and suck six young straight cocks from the same street neighborhood, all are 19-21 years old. The boys were willing to play as long as it was kept secret. One needs to get inside the communities to enjoy Santiago. But it requires patience, language skills and most important, luck. 
Holguin: very peaceful city.  I found a 19 year boy via Romeo. there were a couple of trans in the corner of parque centro after midnight. I only spent 3 days in Holguin but I guess, just like Santiago, there were always opportunities. 
Trinidad: I spent 2 days but I didn't find any.  I think Antigua of Guatemala is a more beautiful colonial town.
Cienfuego:  I stayed one night in Cienfuego and met a 20 years old men in Malecon ( we mad eye contacts when he passed by me). We had a good time in a nearby motel casa particular.
Cuba is a very safe country. Almost every night I walked alone in the central area and never felt unsafe, often after midnight.  I also found weeds were  popular in Santiago, but possession could lead to 10 years prison in cuba, though there were far less policemen in Santiago than La habana.
In conclusion, I have had great time in Cuba.  But offline cruising can be very consuming so I am looking forward to the time when Cuba is opening up and getting richer and when wifi is widely available to local people.  I probably will not visit Cuba for the next couple of years.
 
 
 
 
 

On 1/27/2018 at 10:49 PM, kjun12 said:  He appears to subsist on flattery but despises criticism in any form and his forum actions are clear evidence of this.   Perhaps Daddy is really Donald Trump ?   

Rob you have a knack for putting things so succinctly! :-)

Reading Tomcal's post, seems to confirm what I suspect is going on in Rio. The big sauna night in the city is no longer 117's Tuesday night, the crown now belongs to Point's Wednesday. Hopefully this won't go in Junior's head and spoils the situation as has happened in the past. 
Changing cities would be great if Tom could elaborate on his visit to Bar Fama, seldom covered on this forum while a lot of people claim on something to do in SP besides Lagoa. I've been twice to the place, a couple years ago, one time was great, the other there was hardly anybody there (at 1 AM), can still be described as a hustle bar?  Any updates woul be greatly appreciated. 

Tonight I received an email telling me that my nephew's neighbor went to Brazil and was killed outside a bar. I don't have any details, but I will try to find out where it happened. He could have been asking for trouble, I dunno.

Lucky he is So American but not Brazilian,   moved to Brazil 5 months ago and is not a Garoto! that’s as much info as i am giving out right now!  :-)

Oh, tomcal, you tease! You know that we all want to hear about that "certain guy!" Is it love?

Lucky, I  smiled "big time" during and after the read! 
But as I recall, a while back, TomCal wrote that "he was not the marrying type."  ...can't remember if he posted it here, or wrote it in an email to me!  

In another thread floridarob says that tomcal is in Brazil and he thinks that tomcal is in love. Imagine that! Tomcal settled down!
The loss to the garoto trade wold be immense, and the guys in Merida would not be pleased. Until they saw tomcal's happy face.
 It would be the Boytoy wedding of the century! Totally Oz would preside, resplendent in a gold tiara and surrounded by his acolytes.Perhaps the wedding would be at tomcal's Merida home, around the pool, with all the young guys in bikinis.
Maybe I should wait and see if floridarob is right. But imagining the wedding is so much fun!

He's in Brasil....in love I think ;-)

Thanks for the reports. With all of the criticism directed at other reports, I am glad that you resisted that threat to give us the good, bad, and the ugly!

this thread is getting more and more sophisticated with every post

Hey geodesic... What do you mean with "the center" of Rio? 
If your fake position app places you in the middle of a favela... U won't have a lot of replies. 

Couldn't agree more....Pope Francis, sorry to have interrupted your post...they are detailed, informative and a good read.

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

ironic that you had to make an intermission to talk about others intermissions  

Floripa is an awesome place to TAKE guys you already know.   Very high quality of life there, always scores high as to where Brazilians themselves would like to retire.  Charming B&Bs and excellent restaurants.  As was posted above though avoid it like the plague in the peak (summer; here that is) months though, as traffic is just horrendous and the Island overrun.   In terms of beaches, avoid Canasvieiras, a cheap and tacky tourist racket,  although Praia Brava is  always amazing for the hot crowd, as is Jurere Internacional.   Although not particularly gay, excellent nightlife around the Lagoa area.     

Dude.  You seriously need to chill out.  

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

Yawn.

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

Don't worry, My feeling don't get hurt easily....I'm not a bitchy queen, just a sarcastic Bostonian.
 
Funny thing is that even though I don't post much, I've been a member of this board since its inception as well as from hooboy.
Been going to Brasil nearly 20 years, back in the days when we organized parties on the roof of the Atlantico Hotel with members from here and boys from the sauna...Jr. from Point used to come as well (point was new and he had his other sauna Estacao).

I lived in Rio & SP for a couple of years off/on, know the owners of all the saunas in those 2 cities, traveled through most of the big cities, speak Portuguese and still in contact with GP's going back 15 years.

If you  come to a message board and  post your exploits, it's an open board....I'm never rude (sarcasm is sometimes interpreted as such, but is not) and I give my opinion , which is from many years of experience, my own and many that have come before us.

So what I find odd is johnny come lately's, feeling some sort of "ownership" of threads or that somehow threads going off topic isn't to their liking.....too bad.

There are some posters here that I regard as well traveled, level headed and people I like to hang out with. On the other hand  (and I've seen you in the saunas) Wouldn't want to be seen walking down the street together...... and if using big words while trying to insult someone makes you feel better/more educated.....it just makes you look like an ass in my book ,lol

 

I arrived to Rio yesterday mornings ng. Arrival was very fast. I was second at immigrationand when i got to luggage my suitcase was already on the belt. 
I rented a nice studio just a few steps rrom Rio metro station on Praca general osorio. Wheather is gray, but warm with occasional sprinkle. But it is not beach weather. This is surprising me, because i always come here in january and it was always sunny. 
In the late afternoon i went to 117. I arrived there at about 18.00. It was quiet a lot of people in the club, half more boys, then customers. What it was surprising to me, all familiar faces, from last year. Only 3-4 boys were new to me. I saw Fernando and Pablo,. While i was in club for 2 and half hours, they did not have any customers. Some negative reports on them here, and Brazilian customers also talk. 
But as i said, a lot of familiar faces, almost like a renuion. I was hoping to meet Ricardo, but he did not show up. 
I have chosen Gabriel, 23 year old white boy. Very big cock. Nice session, but not unforgetable.  Promised 150 with leitada, paid 170. 
 
I have returned to Ipanema with metro at around 21.00.  Shower time, all the places on Rua Farme de. amoedo were almost empty, with exception of Tonemai, that was packed. A lot of familiar faces, obviosly the same people take vacations in January. Also some boys , who were there on business. I finish my evening with a few sushis at Koni. Tasty.