YEARS ago, there was a "Last steam train" ride to some place in Mexico. The LA Times sent down a reporter ahead of time to meet the train.
He's sitting there, having a drink, when someone rushes in and yells "Americanos aqui!". The owner of the restaurant calmly goes over to a menu hanging on the wall and flips it over. Prices quadrupled.
The only thing that ‘really’ mattered was the ‘price of p going up’.
Everything else, food, meals, drink (EM or PO club) berthing could be handled elsewhere....
I would ‘volunteer’ for Shore Patrol (not while fleet in- there was ‘work’ involved then) and find out where the real ‘hot spots’ were, though I was an E5 in a ‘non SP duty role’ would stand by for an E6 or E7.
Not ALL spots marked off limits were because of how the indegenus citizenry ‘treated’ us, some just didn’t want us aboard but SP was ‘always’ welcome...
Quite a difference in prices in the ‘native section’ than the waterfront bars offered which was plenty cheap enough.