Cuba - Recommendations / Suggestions

Vexorg

Anyone been to Cuba ... your thought comments and recommendations please....

Especially the good places and the bad places....


Vex.

Von

Alright Vexy! My sister was there during the summer. I'll ask her for some info for you. I think the only bother she ran into was when she was trying to get home.

Vexorg

Von, hows it going....

Appreciate any tips at all..

Can you ask if she had travellers cheques , and if there were American Express, did she have any problems cashing them.

Some guide books say that American Express travellers cheques and credit cards are simply not accepted while Thomas Cook and Visa are fine...

Thx again



Vex.

Von

Okey doke, i'll find out. Are you going on an all inclusive package thing or what?

Vexorg

Von

Just Got Flights to, and a couple of Nights hotel, in Havana, then flying to Santiago De Cuba for a week, and will do day tours from there, then back to Havana and then on to Varadero for a week days in a nice resort to chill....

Vex.

Von

Vex baby, we were very drunk when discussing this but this is what I recall clearly.

No american express anywhere. She used visa. Get your money changed before you go cos it's cheaper. Travellers cheques too awkward cos of weird bank times.

She stayed in Havana and said it's very safe, the safest city she's been in, even though there's a lot of spooky dark streets and whatnot. Lots of possible explanations for this, one being that cuba's a police state and so there are cops everywhere.

People are very friendly, a proper kind of friendly, not drunken friendly like here. Don't be alarmed if they just start chatting to you in the street. They're not trying to mug you or sell you stuff, they just like yapping. They dance away like nobody's business. They all have good english, particularly younger people, but if you don't know any spanish already, it's a good idea to learn a few phrases.

Presidential palace and revolution square recommended. Cigar factory is cool.

When you planning on going? In summer it was really really stupidly hot during the day and she says drinking heavily before noon is not advisable.

Very cheap to get around using taxis, bike things and so on.

Don't take any bollocks from aeroflot if they try to tell you your plane home is full.

Hope that's of some use. I'll let you know if we have any more info. You got guide books? You can have me sister's one. Can drop it into you if you want.

Vexorg

Thx for that Von...

Regarding Guide Books ... I have the Lonely Planet and Rough Guide to Cuba.


Thx for the info.


Vex.