[Badstuber]

Trip report on one of the most unknown countries of South America. I'm guessing not one of you guys traveled there.

General info:

-Getting in: Caribbean Airlines from Trinidad, KLM from Europe (Netherlands) and Surinam Airways from the Netherlands, Belem do Para, French Guyana, Trinidad and other Caribbean countries. You can take a taxi to your hotel for about 35 US dollars (50 KM ride,) so that's cheap as hell when compared to other countries.

-Currency: Surinam Dollar. 1 USD runs about 2.8 SRD and 1 Euro about 4 SRD. There are currency exchange offices around the country and USD and Euros are widely accepted.

-Language: Dutch. You can get by with English everywhere unless you go to small villages and poor neighborhoods no tourist ever gets in.

-Transport: Public Transportation is only used by the lower class. I recommend you to use taxi's since they are dirt cheap. Keep in mind never to use a street taxi because they charge double the fare normal taxi companies do. Same goes for hotel taxis. Just call a cab company and they'll pick you up. Befriend the taxi driver and ask for his number and he will take you anywhere.

-Safety: Tourists are easy targets, just like any (South American) city. If you are white be sure to never walk in places where there's no one around. If you're white, people will think you have money on you. Same goes for other S/A countries.

-Weather: The weather is around 30 degrees celcius all day. Around night-time the temperature drops to about 25.

-Food: Buying restaurant food in tourist spots is expensive, there are also restaurants for the middle and upper class. They are expensive as well.
Cuisine ranges from Indian, Indonesian and Chinese food.
If you want to find cheap food, you'll have to find a dirty Chinese restaurant at a corner most of the times.

-Neighborhoods: You'll most likely be staying in a luxury hotel. All of them are in downtown or within easy reach of the city center. There isn't really much going on in other areas since they are regular neighborhoods with homes.

-Hotels: Hotels aren't that expensive. You can find a great hotel for about 130$ a night.
Good hotels include:
Hotel Torarica; great area. You are in a tourist spot with lots of night-life.
Hotel Marriot; about 2km from Torarica, bad location if you want to walk since there are no pedestrian pads there.
Hotel Best Western; In the city center. You'll have to take a taxi to go clubbing, etc.

-Cell Phone Service: All girls here have a GSM cell phone BUT they have no credit on their phones! The 3 major operators are Digicel, Telesur (gov owned) and Uniqa. The most popular ones are Digicel and Uniqa. If your girl has one of the 2 you can call and text for almost free.
A SIM card costs like a couple of US dollars, downside is that they're gonna ask your ID.

-Internet access: There are internet cafes virtually anywhere and internet in the hotel is free.

-Value for your money: If you spend your money wisely and not think like your average tourist, I believe this is one of the cheapest countries in South America. The only thing that's expensive are electronic appliances like TV's.

Girls, nightlife and gaming women:

You will find all sorts of girls in Suriname.
Suriname is more culturally diverse than any other South American country, or about the same as Brazil.
You will find Chinese, Indian, Indonesian (Javanese), Black, white and mixed girls.
A lot of the girls are Mixed race and are mixed with all races you can find on the planet. That is why there is (almost) no racism going on in Suriname.
People could care less about where you're from or what you look like, but you will stand out if you have blond hair and blue eyes. Both positively and negatively.
Pictures of girls:









And here for night life pictures: http://www.partypixsuriname.com/pix.php

Girls live with their parents forever (or unless they marry.) So many of them will do things secretly. It often happens that girls secretly leave the house and get in a car around the corner to meet her BF. Women aren't as emancipated like in the US or Europe. It is perfectly 'fine' to order a woman to do something because many of them are poor and do anything to have a westerner. No woman ever pays stuff for a man.
Now, there are upper class girls who drive daddies car and spend money like water. These are the girls with major bitch shields, many of them travel to America and Europe and you can treat them just like you're treating a US girl with a bitch shield.

Meeting girls:
Club game can be run during the weekends as most clubs are closed during the week. Mall game is much better since they also hang out during the night there. Gaming near Hotel Torarica would be harder since only the upper class and tourists hang out there.
If you're interested in Dutch girls, Suriname is a good place too.
Many young Dutch students travel to Suriname for their internship. These girls will have sex with anyone, some of them also have a jungle fever and only hang with black Surinamese guys.
Surinamese Indian girls will be hard to crack for black guys since the Indian girls' family are very receptive of dating black men. You rarely see Indians with blacks.

Addition, flakiness of girls and Surinamese people in general:

Almost all of the Surinamese people I've gotten in touch with, have flaked on me in a way. If you're supposed to meet a girl at place x at 9PM, she won't show up at 9PM but at 9.30PM. Call her before you're at place x so she knows you're already there. Never call her to ask where she is if she isn't there, the best way to deal with this type of situation is to leave 15 mins after the time you were supposed to meet. Do not call her you're leaving, she will just take longer. If she calls you when you left, just make up some lame excuse and move onto the next girl, that will learn her a lesson.
This also counts for guys you're meeting at a club or places like that.
If you're supposed to meet him @ 10PM, the guy won't even show up and make up silly excuses like: "I had to wash my mothers clothes," or "I forgot I had to do something else."
Many girls will also flake on you before you have to pick them up from home.
In my experience, the best way to deal with this so called 'Don't worry/I don't care mentality' is to not pay any attention to them at all and move on.
I've read from you guys that Colombianas do the same, so I guess it's South American attitude!

Clubs:

Club Zsa Zsa Zsu:
Friday-Saturday from 11 till 05:00. You'll be needing a taxi to and from the place.

Club Starzz:
Wednesday: 23:00 to 05:00
Friday: 23:00 Until everyone leaves.
Saturday: 23:00 Same as Friday.

Your competition:

Some guys have Cash $ and most of the times it works.
If you are from America, be sure to tell the girls you are from Miami, Los Angeles or New York. They do nto know other places in the US because those are the cities Hollywood focuses on.

Game of Surinamese guys:

I have noticed blacks like to make funny sounds to girls, almost like they are calling a dog. I am dead serious, many Dutch girls fall for it since they never experience stuff like that back home.

Then you have the guys who try to sweet talk the girl, black guys do the same.

And Surinamese women know all this so that is why being a westerner/foreigner gives you an advantage. Surinamese women will love your style because they are so used to seeing badly clothes guys calling women names.

You can bring the girls back to your hotel or to a love motel, the motels are well hidden, you can even park your car in them since Surinamese men openly cheat. It is common for a married man to have 2 or 3 wives. just ask the taxi driver to bring you to a motel.. Just be sure to pay for everything since these girls DO NOT have money, these girls do not even have credit on their phones. You have to do all the work because you are the rich westerner.

Good luck!