The man is right.
But if someone is reading this thread who's not familiar with NLBT, then look at the map in the first post. Or below this post.
The problem areas are as follows, and mostly apply to the wee hours.
Upper right hand corner, walking around from Street One to the Marabu.
Upper left hand corner.
Street Three if it is late and you're alone.
Street Two if it is very late, and you are a lone newbie.
I don't follow my own advice, I go where I want, when I want. Someday I will probably suffer for it. Don't be like me. I am stupid. I almost always monger by myself, because I've had too many guys pussy out on me and want to quit early, get drunk and need a babysitter, etc., etc. One guy put a pistol in his boot, if he'd been searched I'd probably be a permanent resident at the worst address in Mexico.
If you don't know how to protect your watch and your wallet, you may get relieved of them on Street Three, especially if you are walking by a transie bar and find yourself surrounded by grabbing ladyboys trying to get you to come in their bar.
For that matter, you are even more likely to get your pocket picked when those toothless fucking hags start grabbing at you in front of the 1-2-3 on Street One.
You don't really want to hang around the local bars on Front Street, although you're not likely to have trouble unless you're looking for it. I have been in all those bars, no problem. But Mexicans are sensitive about guys eyeballing their women, and Americans tend to gawk... a recipe for trouble.
But if you don't start no S-H, there won't be no I-T.
The street in in front of the Marabu is best avoided late at night, as the map legend says, if there are only one or two of you.
It's usually OK anywhere in BT, but sometimes groups of local punks hang around in the out of the way areas, and in groups so they have enough guts to accost a lone monger.
I have picked up so-called "door girls" or "room girls" in the Siete Negro and the La Cosita, on Back Street. Older ones who didn't have the shitty attitude of the young ones.
I remember one in her thirties who let me do anything I wanted to her for as long as I wanted to, for twenty bucks, and she didn't seem to even care about the money.
I gave her a good butt and thigh spanking, fucked her asshole, pinched her nipples really hard, spanked her pussy, she even got me to smack the bottoms of her feet with a dowel from a pants-hanger.
She licked my ass like there was no tomorrow, until I had to make her stop. What a freak. Unfortunately, I could never find her again, but that's the way it is with whores, here today, gone tomorrow.
I think she wanted to get pregnant by a gringo, but I declined her invitation to fuck her pussy bareback. The fact that she had a drawer full of rubbers was a tipoff.
BTW, use rubbers, boys. I tempted fate for years, and got lucky. I don't do that anymore, although I still like bareback blow jobs. I buy those little sample mouthwashes from the bins in the drugstore, pocket a couple, and make them use it before sucking me off. I believe it is effective if it contains alcohol, like Listerine.
Take your own condoms. Those that the health dept. gives to the girls are so thick they would protect your dick from bullets.
If I were you, I would avoid the taco stands that some mongers swear by, that's just my opinion. Figure it out for yourself. Eat before you go, but if you must eat, and the hour is reasonable, there's a kitchen in Papagayo at the lower end of the building, map-wise.
That's where the whores usually eat, and the girl who cooks won't ask for money, but be a good guy and throw her a five. Not a couple of bucks, a five, you cheap-charlie mother-fuckers. No guarantees, but I have eaten there a few times. It's just rice and beans, but any port in a storm, and you don't have to leave the building.
Do not be paranoid of the transie bars. They are entertaining unless you are a redneck homophobe. The floor shows on the weekends used to be amusing. You will not get your dick sucked or anything else unless you pay for it.
Yes, some of the shemales are thieves, but so are some of the girls. In my experience, most of the girls and lady-boys are pretty honest, more so than mongers, probably, as a group. They are just people.
Keep in mind that I haven't been to NLBT in a few years, and things change. I am way overdue for a trip this summer. If anyone wants to add anything, or correct me on anything, feel free.
I'm adding a google earth pic so you can see why some of the lonely corners are to be avoided if you are green, and weren't we all at one time.