Ding Dong wrote:
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do you pay the girls in USD or local currency?
This has been debated many times here and the usual advice is to negotiate in colones.
I am still in the minority and advise most newbies to negotiate in dollars, why? she says cein, you say $60.00 she says 40000 colones.
If you can instantly figure out she just said $86.00 then by all means negotiate in colones if you can not do the conversion stick to dollars.
Believe me the chica can do the conversion instantly
Depending on my grasp of the local currency rate, I have done both in other countries..but with 100usd =
46,795 colones, I get confused trying to figure if I should round that up or down.

(of course, one could just memorize that $50 = 23,397.50, and then one could guess that 400000 is wayyy too high) Good to hear that Sundays and Mondays are fine. My original June 2-6 trip has now become May 29-June 6, and it's my cherry trip to CR. Can't freakin wait, but at least I'll get in some "training time" in MX next month

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