The Quito I encountered in April, 2002 was not the same city I last visited in May, 2001. Prices for chicas are up and the quality has gone down. But with some effort I managed to find just what I was looking for at almost the price I was looking to pay...but I am ahead of myself.

MONDAY.
I arrived on an eventless midnight flight from Miami, walked through customs and grabbed a cab. $5 and 20 minutes later I arrived at my hotel. The suite in which I normally stay was occupied, but the front desk managed to locate a corner suite on the 9th floor. Great view of Quito!

Suites at the Alemeda Plaza are wonderful....1 1/2 baths, a tastefully decorated living room with an expansive window at one end to enhance the view, a kitchen, a large bedroom with king sized bed, and a 29" tv with lots of chanels in English, and a marble bath. All for $65 plus tax. Breakfast in your room or in the penthouse restaurant in included. Yes, of course, it is chica friendly!

The decor of the suites is English traditional, in contrast to the moderninity of the steel and glass high rise exterior and the sleek contemporary furnishings found in the lobby.

I was tired and thought briefly about going to bed...but horney devil that I am, I rejected the idea of sleep in favor of the never-ending pursuit of the ideal chica.

Quito is a city of contrasts. Abject poverty in the midst of super wealth....a trolly system that would be the envy of any US city alongside decades old busses belching toxic fumes....and, more to the point, a city that closes down at 10:00...except for the chica clubs and a few discos that do not open until 10 and rock on until 6 AM.

By 1 AM I was in a cab headed to A Doll's House (Casa de Munecas), located in North Quito some distance from my hotel. The club is located on a side street off 6 Deciembre. The security guard in front informed me of the prices ($30 salida and $21 cover charge, including 3 drinks) and patted me down to be certain I wasn't carrying a weapon. In response to my question, the guard told me I could take a chica out for the night for $70. Sounded reasonable to me, so in I went.

Inside there is a small stage, a seating area and a bar. 10 to 15 chicas were working, and a couple of Ecuadorian hombres were sipping drinks at the bar. Maybe it was just a slow night...it was a Monday after all...but I was not impressed. Not with the club or the chicas.

Almendra decided I was going to be her date for the evening and latched onto me before I could choose a chica more to my liking. She was Columbiana, as were 75% of the chicas I would meet in Quito. She had bulges in a few of the wrong spots, and since I prefer flacitas...I brushed her off....and departed after a hurried Cuba Libre.

On to Cinco Quince I told the driver. Cinco Quince was the premier club in Quito last year and I had no reason to think things had changed. They had. By the time I arrived it was 2AM or after...and there were only a handful of chicas available. Of these, only one was thin...and I was needy, so I grabbed N. and retreated to the hotel. $55 for drinks and a salida got her out the door and she wanted an additional $100.

For my money I received some great sex from a girl with a great body and somewhat below average looks. Even at 2AM I recognized she was less than beautiful, but at 7 the next morning I was even more keenly aware that I had lowered my standards a notch or two.....not that I am above lowering my standards if we are talking about, say, $10 for 20 minutes...but for $100, I have come to expect more.

TUESDAY.

I decided to check out several MPs today. 270 LaNina was my first stop. Three very tired looking chicas and the same rotting carpet. I drank a $2 Pilsener, bought a round for the tired-looking chicas, and left.

203 Almagro (near the Embassy Hotel) was closed. Too bad. This place was a blue collar dive that was always full of Ecuadorians and nasty, if somewhat chubby, senoritas. There is a 4 sale sign in the window if anyone is interested in owning a great play for pay property in the Andes.

574 Tamayo. I have read about this place, but never visited here on my previous trips. It looks like a house in an otherwise quiet street near Mariscal Sucre. I rang the bell and the senora let me in. The interior is very pleasant. Newer, clean furniture, hardwood floors, exposed beams, a fire place and $2 beers, no minimum. Too bad the chicas were not as nice as the decor. Come back after 6 for a more extensive selection they told me, waving a cheerful farewell.

Discouraged, I retreated to my room for a nap and to watch a movie on HBO. Before dozing I phoned a service that I found advertized in El Diario, one of the local papers. $70 for one hour, $100 for two, or $150 TLN. All Columbianas, all jovencitas I was told....Sandra, the phone lady, suggested J., a 21 year old. J was a blanca (I guess she assumed I would want a white girl), tall and very attractive I was assured. I opted for an all nighter and asked for her to arrive at 9 PM.

J was very prompt, which I like. She had enormous tits, which I like. Listens to classical music and reads philosophy, which I like. In other words, we had much in common...but she was not exactly my type. She tried, I tried, but things did not click between us en la cama....sigh...strike two!

WEDNESDAY.

Today would be the day! After working much of the day, I went out to eat at Arcate, my favorite pizzarea in town. I spent a total of $5 for a medium pizza and a beer and retreated to the hotel to prepare to go out at 10:30.

Other than 515, the other best bar in town last year was Ecstaci and that was my destination for the evening. Good move. Ecstaci had lots of good looking chicas available at 10:30...and more were trickling in. There were very few hombres, so I decided the odds were in my favor and I would bide my time. Bad move.

By 11:30 the place was packed with hombres and chicas. My top 3 prospects had all been taken...and I was beginning to have visions of another night with another very average chica when I saw M standing with two other chicas talking to an hombre. I grabbed Federico, my waiter and procurer of chicas, and told him I wanted to buy M a drink if she wasn't already committed to the guy she and her friends were with....He grabbed her by the hand, pulled her aside, whispered something in her ear....she smiled, and walked with him over to me.

M. is a Columbiana, 22, skin the color of pale honey, big, dark eyes. She spoke almost no English, but we managed to communicate. She had never been with a gringo before, prefering Latinos and Japanese.

Yes, Japanese...think about it. They are polite. They are highly intelligent and tend to speak excellent Spanish. They spend lots of money and have small dicks. A working girls dream.

I told her she hadn't really had sex until she had been with a gringo who was skilled in the art of love making. She grinned and said, ok , let's go....$100 to her and $54 for the house for drinks and a salida.

I spent a total of 4 nights with M. She has a sweet, gentle demeanor. She likes sex to proceed slowly, very slowly. No rough stuff. She also told me after my first session with her that she loves oral sex...Giving or receiving, I asked? Receiving was her enthusiastic reply. Hmmm, it just so happens I love to give...so we got along quite nicely.

The one night when M. was not available for the rest of the week, I went to Swing, a raunchy strip club in the central part of Quito. Drinks are $3 and a mini-lap dance is $1. Chicas are $70 to take out for the night, including salida.

I took home a girl from Guaquil who had only been working for 3 days. A was enthusiastic, but a step down in quality from M. Give me an attractive Columbiana any day over a chica from Ecuador. Personal bias, I suppose.

I am scheduled to return to Quito in mid May for a longer visit. If M is still in town, I may just opt to spend all of my time with her....largely because I found the search for worth while chicas to be more difficult than a year ago.

Ezy- Why do you go back then? Work? You sound so much happier when you write about BA.

He loves BA.

Yes, I will go back to Quito for work. Yes, I sound happier when I write about BA. Probably because I am happier in general...prices are lower in BA than in Quito, the overall quality of the chicas is higher, BA is cleaner, has nicer restaurants, and is more "people friendly" (green spaces, pedestrian malls, etc) than is Quito.

This having been said, a guy can have a great time in Quito...it just requires a little more work....

I cannot stand it. Ezy gets more sex that all of us combined, and he is complaining. What a life.

Sorry, Cannonperdido, I will work on my attitude.

I do have a good life....but it would be better if I could spend more time in BA....

And, you are factually incorrect...Moondog gets laid more often in one weekend stay in Brazil or Buenos Aires than I do in a week. I am a marathoner , he's a sprinter.....

If you lived there, the girls would be paying you(grin).

Actualy, I'm gong to to relax this weekend, and work on a new BA map.