This thread is morphing and it might be time to start (restart) a new one. I've been meaning to write up a La Tropa experience report for some time now but have never gotten around to it. But I think it would dove tail nicely into the experiences that Sampson is talking about. One of the things that I really liked about La Tropa was that you could actually dance with the chicas. In HK, AD, and CC, only the chicas are doing the dancing. (Oh, yeah. Sometimes some very drunk mongers wind up on the dance floor but that is very unusual.) Plus, the music at La Tropa was no where near as loud as AD or HK, which is to say it's not ear-splitting and heart-numbing. (The music at CC usually isn't too loud for my tastes.) My speculation is that the other bars that Sampson was referring to are more along these lines. (Please advise if I am incorrect.) In other words, they were more like non-pro bars even though the chicas are available for sessions arriba.
What I didn't like about La Tropa was once I had fallen in love with one of the chicas enough to ask her upstairs, the ensuing ritual was bizarre. As Fireballs has already related in a thread about La Tropa, they want you to buy the chica a bucket of beers to take up into the room. This was after I had already bought her a few drinks and we had danced for quite for time together. I was pretty sure she was already fairly drunk because she and her friends seemed to be drinking before I joined them. (It was the birthday of one of the chicas.) I asked her, "Do you really want to drink more?" I was sure she would say no. But she jumped at the opportunity. She was not a spinner but she was not that big a woman, either, and I thought, "Damn. I sure hope she doesn't get sick or pass out." But she drank them down without a problem over the course of our session.
Also, the masera who was waiting on us and also who insisted that I buy the chica the bucket of beers before we go up, was a women in her early middle age. (I think -- I'm very bad at ages.) Well, she followed us up the stairs right into the room! She insisted that I give her the $60 I had negotiated for the session with the chica?! I could not really understand what she was saying as she was talking a mile a minute. (They must have thought I was fluent in Spanish because I was spouting off some of my bad Spanish downstairs.) I didn't want to pay her the money; I wanted to pay the chica the money and I certainly didn't want to pay before the session. I normally lay the money on a table and say, "Este es para despues, gracias." (This is for afterwards, thank you.) That was almost the deal breaker. But then, I thought, if she's coming up to the room with us and she wants me to pay her directly, why don't I try to get her into the act? At first, she seemed embarrassed and incredulous at the idea and I think she didn't think I was serious. But I persevered for more than a few moments. I was now intrigued with the idea of getting her into the act and it was a lot fun. The chica was laughing loudly and I think she would have gotten into it. I'm not sure, but I think I almost got her to join us but she eventually bowed out and left in a huff. I wound up giving the chica the money after our session.
It was a memorable session but not great -- certainly not the prized GFE. And after all the drinks and the bucket of beers, it wasn't inexpensive, either. I've since poked my head in a couple of times in La Tropa but haven't stayed longer than a couple of minutes.
Bottom line: If you enjoy doing more than fondling the chicas before heading arriba (such as dancing with them on the dance floor and partying like a regular non-pro bar), then maybe you'd like La Tropa. But that bucket of beers requirement and the mesera coming up into the room with us and asking me to hand over the money to her was pretty strange.
Anybody else have any other out-of-the-ordinary experiences with La Tropa?