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05-16-14 18:03 #3610
Posts: 161Originally Posted by BlueSkyOne [View Original Post]
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05-16-14 03:44 #3609
Posts: 81Beer
Originally Posted by Bart1 [View Original Post]
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05-16-14 03:38 #3608
Posts: 81Times to go out
It has been some time since the last time I was in Cuba, and if there's anything that's true about Cuba it's that conditions change rapidly. Clubs are in, then out, the crackdown is on, then off, etc etc. I'll be going down again in July, and while I'm prepared to sweat my balls off I'd prefer not to doing waiting around for stuff to happen, so my question is what are the current best times to go to the following clubs in the evening. Or perhaps better to ask at what time each club starts to get busy now? I've been looking back through the posts and while some guys mention when they go out there don't seem to be time guidelines. Can you guys say when things will start to get busy at the following clubs:
Dos Gardenias.
La Cecilia.
Salon Rojo.
El Gato Tuerto.
Don Cangrejo.
I'm going to assume not before 11 pm at the earliest for some of these places, and maybe 12-1 am for some, but if someone could narrow that range I'd appreciate it mucho. Thanks gentlemen! I'll be sure to provide a complete report on my return.
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05-16-14 03:04 #3607
Posts: 305Beer any good in cuba
Originally Posted by BlueSkyOne [View Original Post]
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05-16-14 03:00 #3606
Posts: 305Chicas entering casas
Originally Posted by Guillermo [View Original Post]
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05-16-14 02:18 #3605
Posts: 30510% penalty
Originally Posted by Havana927 [View Original Post]
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05-15-14 19:41 #3604
Posts: 64Currency
Originally Posted by Bart1 [View Original Post]
What about American money, would you change to Canadian money than to cuc, last time I went 5 years ago I lost money changing back and forth.
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05-15-14 18:41 #3603
Posts: 10Originally Posted by Guillermo [View Original Post]
Thank you for adding words to the list. I am planning to visit for the first time in June with limited Spanish skills. So any word counts.
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05-15-14 18:29 #3602
Posts: 161Originally Posted by Bart1 [View Original Post]
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05-15-14 18:22 #3601
Posts: 161Originally Posted by Bart1 [View Original Post]
BTW - Is the local cerveza in Cuba any good?
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05-15-14 14:45 #3600
Posts: 305Atms
Originally Posted by Ewe52 [View Original Post]
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05-15-14 14:03 #3599
Posts: 3052 Weeks in Havana
Landed at Varadero airport via Westjet air only, no package, from Vancouver mid April. I was probably the only person on the flight going directly into La Habana, others getting picked up by tour buses headed to the Varadero beach hotels. Viazul bus lines goes the 3 hrs into La Habana from the airport but only every 2 or 3 hours. There are a few tour buses going directly into La Habana, I wandered around the parking lot a found one with all german tourists going to the city, driver wanted $20 cuc, the locals pronounce the cuc as coos, the national currency as cubanos 25 to 1. Good deal took me directly to my hotel in Vedado where I stayed for 2 nites while looking for accommodation in centro. There is a new 3 cubano coin, value $.12 USD, same value as the paper 3 cubano note with che foto the new coin' new to me as my last visit 4 years ago, is the same size as the $1 cuc coin. Value $1.00 USD. Cubans can do the math..cubano coin value $.12 USD versus $1.00 USD, good profit margin eh? So now the really important stuff, Chicas...The Malecon from Prado de Marti 'centro la habana' west to near vedado border is a total right off.not sure about the vedado area of the malecon... Because of high police presence. I saw few chicas there and was told by others chicas I met elsewhere that they avoid the malecon area. There are chicas on the prado de marti and obispo. The best areas I found was on galiano, lots around the several block area either way from the casa de musica on galiano at neptuno. An excellent restaurant next door to the casa de musica is the "americano".
$1 cuc mojitos, excellent food and great prices, lots of cubanos, air con, and in 2 weeks I never saw another gringo in there. You can meet chicas on all the streets between galiano and parque central 'top end of the prado' about 6 blocks. The chicas like to wink you as they pass you on the street. Finding a casa particular with private entrance is difficult. I stayed in 5 different casas in centro and always some problems. Stayed 2 nites in a chicas home, her carnet card stolen so could not enter casa I spent a whole day with her going to 3 different offices getting a replacement, she had her sister and sisters 2 kids go to a novios house. Apartment had no running water, just a 45 gallon barrel, no frig, 2 burner gas stove, we showered cubano style, with a dipper into a 5 gal pail with water heated on the stove. This was near the Lincoln hotel on galiano. She was 19 and I am 60+ and wanted to get married. So what should a guy do? I left Cuba and am now in my favorite city Medellin, Colombia, but I sure do love those cubanas and will stop in La Habana on my way back to Kanuckistan, Canada.
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04-26-14 08:22 #3598
Posts: 88RE: Travelling with a Cubana from place to place
Originally Posted by AngryMime666 [View Original Post]
A Latino friend of mine just came back from Cuba a few months ago. He had told his woman, a Santiaguera, that he was coming months in advance. He was planning to hang out in Havana for a day, head to Trinidad for about 2 days, then go to Santiago to spend time with her. Somehow, she talked him into having her meet him at the airport in Havana. So she traveled to Havana, met him at the airport and the whole thing was a nightmare for him although he had been to Cuba several times before AND was a fluent Spanish speaker.
I had actually advised him against the idea of his chica meeting him at Jose Marti airport when he was in the process of planning his trip. He said he missed her so much and wanted to maximize the amount of time they would spend together, now he never wants to see her again. He told me that his trip would have been better of she had just met him at the Viazul bus station in Santiago. Es Cuba!
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04-25-14 07:16 #3597
Posts: 228Originally Posted by AngryMime666 [View Original Post]
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04-24-14 15:35 #3596
Posts: 41Locals don't speak good English where I've been to in Cuba, although I've never been to Havana. Everybody's English there is pretty shitty. People understand numbers though.
I have withdrawn cash from a Cadeca (currency exchange booth) using a Canadian MasterCard. You will pay a $5 fee and then you will pay the CAD-USD exchange rate difference + %2.5 (or whatever your credit card charges for forex transactions).
You will also pay a little fee. E. G I took out $100 CUC and to take that out they charged my credit card for $103.25 USD, which got paid in Canadian.
But YMMV. It is Cuba, there really aren't rules and the money system is fucked up.
As the other poster mentioned, bring more hard cash than you need. If you are brave, bring USD and exchange on the street.