Lata Bar – This was supposed to be the best bar, but it was never busy.

Rícoma – This is the hottest Disco in town. Mostly non-pros, but the pros will stop in to try to make a score, too. 11p is the time to arrive, cover is 60p, beers were not expensive, and as it’s just a disco you pay nothing to the house if you hook up. I took home a girl (turns out she’s a semi-pro working LRM for a month to gain a year’s worth of income as she lives outside of Santiago – so I was told by her) and paid her 1,000p for the overnight, 200p propina, and 35p for morning guagua return transportation. The action in the street and across the street from Rícoma is good from 10p to 11p.

Sports Bar - I found a nice little sports bar between the doors of Rícoma and the Nestle ice cream place on the corner (big Nestle sign). It has four TVs and the guys there were very friendly. I was looking to watch the Brasil/Argentina Copa de Americas final, but it wasn’t available and we only watched baseball (they had nearly 1,000 DTV channels). It was just me and like 10 men, a couple in their 20s or 30s and most over 50. We talked sports, and then I left to hit Rícoma, but I discovered action in the street and across the street first, as the party was spilling into the street. Anyway, turns out these guys at the sports bar are the doorman, manager, and bartender at Rícoma! So I was recognized and treated like a friend for my night there – a great perk. So, my advice is that if you plan to hit Rícoma, go watch some sports and have a beer first, and just do some male bonding at this place, not letting on that you know in advance that everyone is just hanging around waiting for the night to gain steam. Presidentes were very very cheap here. Of course, no one spoke any English at all; at least I didn’t hear any.