I'll be happy to address what you seek Michael.
What you pay for chica services in La Zona is based on many factors.
Pricing for bar girls has been pretty consistent over the years.
I find that mongers who have been going down to TJ for more than 4 or 5 years often hark back to the days of widely available $40 half-hour sessions. But unless your hobbying experiences in TJ go back at least that long, you've probably experienced bar girl pricing in the $50 or $60 range over recent years. While I've enjoyed just a couple of $40 sessions (with some gordas
) I definitely prefer the flaca (thin) girls who are in somewhat greater demand. Consequently I'm usually paying 600 pesos for the pleasure of a session upstairs with an attractive flaca.
Even after a few years of mongering I don't know enough spanish to hold a decent conversation. But I quickly learned how to negotiate with chicas completely
en espanol. I'm not one to sit and drink and pay for repeated fischas with a chica before taking her up, but instead make most of my chica selections from observation and ocassionally due to recommendations by fellow mongers. So limited spanish has gotten me by since I only negotiate specific services (i.e. acts) with street girls. I simply expect that a bar girl will allow me to do what I want for half an hour, and that's generally the case (It's absolutely the case with BGs that I repeat with).
I've only paid 700 pesos three times after well over 100 BG sessions.
The first time was with AB's daytime Alejandra de Guadalajara. I had sessioned with her two or three times before @ $60 in 2005 but for my third (or fourth) trip upstairs with her I tried paying her in pesos instead. She politely informed me that it would be 700p if I was using pesos. I paid her the 700p with a smile and then continued to be polite back to her for more than half a year as took up other girls and never made
her another arriba offer. After this went on for many months she eventually blocked my path one afternoon as I entered Adelitas to use the banos and asked me if I wanted to go up. I squared away that I would be happy to go arriba with her... for 600p. She gladly accepted and 600p became our established rate for several more sessions in 2006!
I ran into Ingrid de Tijuana the first month she returned to CC in March 2006after a 3 or 4 year retirement. She quoted me $70 firm and refused my 600p offer. It was around 2 AM and I then offered her 700 pesos but said I wanted the session to be in my Leyva room and not the Jalos Hotel (attached to CC). She accepted, but I had to return at 3AM when her shift was over.
The third time I paid 700p was for a chica from Bar Tropical, but that was for a promised
one hour session at my room in the Leyva. Otherwise I've generally paid 500 pesos or 600 pesos for bar girls as I stopped using dollars very early on. There is usually nothing negative perceived by the chica for making her a low (but not insulting) offer or countering her initial offer. It's customery and not distained like that type of negotiating might be in the United States.
For example, a year ago last January I finally decided to take up the infamous Malena at AB. She quoted me $60 but immediately accepted my counter offer of 500p without batting an eyelash or displaying a frown. $46 for half an hours work in Mexico is good money.
Maybe in another thread I might outline my negotiating practices with street girls.