Good place to stau in cucuta? quik replies please

sirwhale says on Jul 3, 2009, 11:39:

I´m trying to wait for a reply from the Uni, they should be sending the letter from airport to airport, at least thats what the consulte requested. I´m considering staying in San antonio at the minute. What ever is cheapest.

If i went back to cucuta, would i have to bother with the stamps? i see hundreds of people just crossing the border. Instead of doing them again now, again on monday morning and again to go back to colombia, i could just do it once everything is done.... bad idea?

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sirwhale says on Jul 3, 2009, 11:50:

Right im gonna go back over the border

and ask a taxi driver to help me find somewhere, Im sure its gonna cost me a lot but cheaer than the bus back to medellin right now.

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stephen_aubrey says on Jul 3, 2009, 11:53:

I remember in May your post "Am I going to survive with 2.00.000 peso"
I said at that time
"he is coming here with only 2,000,000 peso with no other source income only the hope of finding a job ,I think you will survive for a few weeks 3 or 4 than after that you will either die or become just another one of those foreign scammers here that claims they just got robbed and need 10,000 peso to take a taxi to their embassy."

I think you should cut your loses while you still can and go back to Chile,
you seem to have a black cloud over you here.

" Most people talk a lot, few are up for the moment"

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Loggi says on Jul 3, 2009, 12:17:

Just take a walk over the bridge. The taxi fare is equal to one night in a cheap hotel. There are very cheap trucker hotels just as you enter Colombia and e few clean and safe hotels 3km up the road in Rosario which is walking distance to the border.

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Loggi says on Jul 3, 2009, 12:19:

The hotels in Rosario close to the square were charging 25,000 pn last time I was there. Just ask at the cop station which is also on the square

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sirwhale says on Jul 3, 2009, 15:08:

I think you´re quite the pesimist stephen. The things that have happened to me are nothing short of normal. I´ve been in Colombia over a month now and should be able to survive a few more weeks before i get paid. I have a good job at EAFIT and should be earning 1,600,000 to over 2,000,000 depending on my hours... plus the classes are back to back, i get free intensive language classes of any of the 7 they teach and as i live next to the uni i can use the swimming pool frequently. Not to mention the girls ill meet working there.

Dark cloud? Take your sunglasses off mate ;)

BTW I´m staying in san antonio now for what should be 18,000 a night but they made a mistake and i got it for 12,000. The official rate for the Bolívar is noway near the rate here. I can´t believe how cheap some produce is here.

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Loggi says on Jul 3, 2009, 15:47:

Stock up on toiletries, they are much cheaper there. Good luck

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Loggi says on Jul 3, 2009, 15:57:

At the bottom end of town is a club with a pool and very cheap drinks, worth checking out when you get bored.

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sirwhale says on Jul 3, 2009, 16:02:

Cheers Logi. Tomorrow i have to head into cucuta to pick up what EAFIT has sent me. I met a cucuteño in chile when i was there and i´ve got in touch and he´s gonna see if a family member can put me up tomorrow and sunday to save a bit of cash.

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tropicalshirt says on Jul 3, 2009, 18:23:

sirwhale

Cucuta cheap hotel - Republica Bolivariana with fan. Avenida 6, nos 11-77 just block south of Parque Santander.

You got the situation right.

Good luck.

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njc (Dev team) (☼Travelguide writer) says on Jul 3, 2009, 19:01: