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Help with Cuba Hotel Bookkeeping Anonymous
Hey everyone, im not sure if i posted in the wrong section, since i thought this place would fit the topic.
So im asking your help.
Im going on a vacation next month.(I live in Canada) and i was wondering if anyone
who has visited Cuba would mind sharing their feedback with me. I'm also trying to find a flight/hotel to book. Anyone have any recommendations? Links would also be good with prices and such.
Atm i've looked through the majour travelling agencies, but only redtag.com and holasunholidays.com have good prices.
Im currently looking for All inclusive, in Varadero, 4+ Star.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. =)
>> Anonymous
Enjoy your beggars everywhere wanting hard currency
>> Anonymous
not rly....but all i can say is cuba has one of the nicest beaches ever untouched by man(hotels or house etc)
>> Anonymous
Make sure to properly honor la presidente.
>> National Clandestine Service
We'd gladly pay for all of your expenses if you kill Raul.
>> Anonymous
>>15025
If you want to be cheap, you could go for a rent-a-casa's, but I reckon the hotels would be a lot better.
>> Anonymous
>>15275
Well we might eventually get a hotel.
Although a friend told me that it would be
better to get a house for the same price(Villa)
since you get a whole house for yourself rather
than just a room.
Does anyone recommend a hotel/house thats within my specs?
>> Anonymous
>>15573
Can you update if you find anything? Because I'm thinking of going to Cuba in summer too and I have no fucking idea on where to stay.
>> Anonymous
i went there for 3Weeks, rented a car and visited almost every part of the country. Really beautifull, with "rich" and poor cities.
expect beggars everywhere, every cuban that will speak to you expects money, every girl will prostitute herself, but watch out for the police (theyre everywhere).
only drink bottled water.
you can eat very cheaply in the streets, but expect to get diarrea. (don't forget your medicine)
lonely planet guide can give you addresses of restaurants worth visiting.
all the cigars bought outside the official shops are false. You can still ask to smoke one first and buy it if you like it.
they tried selling me tea for weed, and i don't know what it was they were offering but it sure wasn't the promised "snow". Drugs are prohibited.
You could take medicine with you to distribute there (give it in hospitals), also instead of giving people money for a favor they gave you, give them your used tshirt or other clothing, or any western quality stuff..

As long as you don't commit any serious crime, the police will treat you like a god. we saw a guy at the airport who got in a fight with a policeman, he got beaten/raped for a week and asked to leave the country.

the rum is cheap (havana club is the best quality, bucanero cheaper), the homemade rum the cubans are drinking themself is like 2pesos (Convertibles) for 1 or 2 liters.

(there are 2currencies in Cuba, one for the rich tourists, and one for the locals, they will always ask for the convertibles instead of the regular cuban pesos worth 1/26)

Varadero is a beach resort, nothing worth seeing.

if you have a US stamp in your passport, chances you'll be interrogated at the airport are high :)

maybe ill drop some pics later
>> Anonymous
>>15593
Sure if I find anything il let you know.
>>16068
Thanks for the info. A friend of mine said that Varadero is perhaps the only good island, since it has all the clubs, parties etc...
Also did u stay in a hotel, or house? What would u think is better?
Another questions what type of drinks would u recommend, since im getting an all inclusive?
And finally what agency did u travel with?
Thanks :)
>> Anonymous
>>16344
>16068 here

we didn't stay in varadero because we didn't pay 750euro to travel from europe to see some clubs & staying at the pool...

we stayed in houses (casa particulares or something like that)(it's just a room you share in a cuban's house, not the whole house)(40pesos / night / 2 people) and crashed at hotel-pools from time to time (until we get kicked out).
The casas are cheap, you get to know the cubans a bit better, they can cook for you, normally they are nice with airco, depends from town to town, again, lonely planet guide was very very helpfull.

in hotels you'll probably be able to eat something else than chicken/langoustine - rice - beans - fried bananas & fruit, you'll meet people who are not depending on your money,...

we also went to a camping in vienalez, wich was the place where cubans go on holiday, so the cubans weren't begging whole the time, we partied with them (you'll never see an ass shake as fast as a cuban girl's one)(they can all dance like pro's from their day of birth..)

they only listen to daddy yankee and other reggeaton.

we got into a club once telling the owners we were famous dj's, but they made us pay entrance after we screwed up with the music hardware...
got kicked out after stealing a bottle of 25yo havana club.
>> Anonymous
drinks:
every cocktail with rum, the mojito's especially, but the quality depends from place to place.
their beer isnt very good but you'll get used to it.. (buckanero? is the most famous i think?)

and we didn't travel with an agency, we bought some tickets and got their with a lot of money.

if youre not staying at a hotel, be sure to have someone speaking or at least understanding spanish with you, it will help you avoiding being ripped off, got us talking out of a speeding ticket (100Km/h instead of 40 trough a police checkpoint = 5dollar fine or something...)
(as long as you don't commit a serious crime, they'll treat you real nice)

recommendations i remember:
in la habana at night go to the seaside (el macaron?), full of people, nice music,...
vienales for the nature
playa santa maria or something like that (the most western point of cuba, the end of the tip), really nice to go scubadiving over there, lot's of crabcrossings at night during summer)

if your there in july-august somewhere, there's a carnaval in Santiago de Cuba, really nice to see, and go partying with the locals.

hmmm if anything else just ask
i went there in 2004
sry for spelling & stuff