Havana

CubaCurious,

I was there a few days back and had a terrific time.

I suggest you to contact http://cubabudgettravel.com/
I used them a couple of times.
The lady in charge of this site is reliable.
She knows many houses, apartments and B&B types of accommodation.

Caliente

Yo! CubaCurious. if you have a cheap flight, just go and check into Hotel Colina for the first day and it's only $50 (for 2 people). The hotel has a single public computer for internet access ($6/hr). I believe it's the cheapest state-run hotel. When you have checked in then go to http://cubabudgettravel.com/ to look for cheaper accomodation. Ask for casas that have private entrance.
Do not check into casas that have no chica policy. Why bother?

Go have have some fun! NOW! (Don't forget to bring US$)

Warning & recommendation:

Just came back from a brilliant stay in HAV. To all fellow hunters here´s my 2c worth: Keep your eyes open (and possibly doors closed) when in Quinta Avenida. There are "chicas" on 5ta that are not at all what they pretend to be. Males dressed up, and interested only in robbing the cash, watch and other items you carry. Having the strength of a man, they shouldn´t be underestimated. Although if you are interested in their service, they might as well give it to you.

Second, in one of my prevoius stays I had three ladies waiting, and once I stopped, they were in my car before I couldn´t even ask the prce. Well, it was 20 $ each plus 10 for the casa particular, and well worth it :-)) but if you don´t trust ending up with more than one keep the doors well shut before any agreement.

I might add, there is an excellent Paladar, that I hadn´t come over before, El Gringo Viejo, on eof the very few places thatt don´t serve food of the pollo/congri quality, but do have spices and red wine for the interested few. It´s a little hidden, but ok, located in Vedado, calle 19 entre E y F.

enjoy.

Are condoms easy to obtain in Havana or is it best to bring your own?

Bring your own condoms, you will thank me. The condoms available in cuba are chinese ones, that couldn't fit, and were slightly thinner than an inner tube, bring some durex and you will be happy
VIVA FIDEL!!!

Is there any known punishment for john's in Cuba when caught with a known working girl other than the obvious harrassment?

When I was stopped by the police with an obvious working girl in tow, the girl told me to give the cop $10 for his family. I was afraid to do so in case I would be arrested for bribing a cop. So I gave the girl $10 and she gave it to the cop. The cop left us alone.

Money talks, especially in Cuba where the cop probably made $10 a month salary.

[i]...do it off a yahoo or hotmail account which are completely private and protected by strict privacy laws. [/i]

Catire

Hi fellows -

I spent about 3 1/2 hours today reading the entire Havana forum, I am thinking about taking a vacation from Mexico....

But I just wanted to let Catire and everyone else know that an email account from Yahoo or Hotmail is not as anonymous as you might think.

Any email you send from these accounts will log the IP address of the computer that you are using to send the email. Anyone with a smidgen of technical knowledge can figure out quite a bit by looking at your headers, and then law enforcement could get a warrant to get your ID from your ISP....

Example email that I received from a friend (real identifying stuff has been stripped):
______________
Return-Path: <emailaddress@yahoo.com>

Received: from web20205.mail.yahoo.com (web20205.mail.yahoo.com [216.136.226.60])

Message-ID: <20030111151858.95953.qmail@web20205.mail.yahoo.com>

Received: [b]from [XXX.233.135.75] [/b] by web20205.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:18:58 PST
______________

Anyhow the headers log your IP address - your IP address will lead someone to your Internet Service Provider, and then if someone were motivated to request a warrant, for instance, then AOL or whomever would have to say, "hmm, 135.75? let's see on the 18th of January, that was assigned to Bob Jones, living at 123 Elm Street."

If you want to be truly anonymous - you'll have to use one of the remailing services, or set up a free email acct and always use your acct at public access points - ie internet cafes, libraries, what have you.

I am not trying to make anyone paranoid, just thought that you should have a little less faith in a supposedly "anonymous" email account.

Hey, it seems that it is about time for driedup3030 to have returned, and give a report like he promised...well 3030, you back yet? Let's hear your report.



In8

re- emails etc.
If you're an a mass IP like aol or msn.com - all I can say is good luck tracking down that IP address to any person. But whatever, if the guy doesn't want to e-mail me, that's his prerogative, and perhaps his loss :)

btw - re www. cubabudgettravel.com or whatever it is.

$15 hr for salsa lessons?

You've got to be shitting me.

Most Cubanas would be [url=http://isgprohibitedwords.info?CodeWord=CodeWord140][CodeWord140][/url] happy to teach you for $5 an hour.
Many will even teach it to you for free - though it can be difficult and learning it will require some time and dedication.

In a place where most people make $10 a month, or where $50 a month is considered better than who most can get their hands on (true, though every third Cuban gets money from abroad, family, boyfriend/girlfriend, etc)

to charge me $15 an hour for anything takes a lot of chutzpah.

Like I said - $5 is quite generous, whether for private salsa lessons or private Spanish lessons. Everyone in the neighborhood will line up to teach you whatever the hell you want at $5 an hour.

Also, since this site surely gets a cut off the rate, I think I'd actually prefer to have some jinietero or another local make a couple of bucks for finding me a casa (IF I'm going to pay a middleman AT ALL! ) - rather than some foreign Internet operator.

Of course, most people will follow the path of least resistance, which is why such "businesses" exist.

Hi, fellow hunters

with a little luck you might find some nice fotos in the WSG gallery soon, which I sent away to the admin recently.

enjoy and let me know your experiences, too..

snark.hunter

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Catire
[i]re- emails etc.
If you're an a mass IP like aol or msn.com - all I can say is good luck tracking down that IP address to any person. [/i][/QUOTE]
Again, I hate to post off topic, but someone with technical skills can find out quite a bit:

This is from a website statistics log:

Jan 21 19:32:36
xxx.1x7.8x.6
w5poolE25.albq.uswest.net
MSIE 6.x
Win 98
800x600

Okay, so I have this visitor's IP address, I know that they use US West as their ISP, they live in albequerque, new mexico and they are using Windows 98, that they bothered to download the most recent version of IE and their monitor resolution is set at 800x600, and therefore is most likely to be a laptop.

AOL makes similar identification in the statistics logs. Also don't forget the Earthlink and AOL both cooperated with the FBI for their Carnivore technology (which was going to be used to capture email of people - if the FBI had a search warrant).

No one on this forum is really advocating illegal activities, but still don't be naive about anonymity. If AOL or MSN can manage to bill your credit card every month, trust me, they can track down which customer was assigned a particular IP address.

I am not going to post anymore about this in the Havana forum. I will be glad to continue this discussion in the internet security forum, or via email: diablo_mactavish(at)hot mail(dot)com.

regards -

diablo

and the only way to have a truly anonymous e-mail account is to go to an internet cafe and use one of the "free" accounts. There is a "little" problem, though - I suspect that my MSN PW was "captured" by a "stroke reader" program and I only found out about it when some messages "bounced". Upon checking the headers, I found they originated in MX (Mexico) and lo and behold, I had frequented an internet provider some 3 weeks ago in TJ. So watch out

I have a huuuuuge favour to ask anyone who is in or soon will be in Havana.

I am trying to locate a very good friend named Miguel Rozas from Santiago de Chile. I met him in Havana about 3 years ago.

I have been trying to find him since I will be travelling to South America for the next 5 months. He had a good friend called Chino in Casa de Cultura. Don't know his full name, he went by the name "Chino" - a cuban, but he obviously looked chinese to cubans.

If anyone stumble upon Casa de Cultura and ask Chino if he know how to get in contact with Miguel Rozas, I will buy you the best garota in Havana.

I will be in Havana in the second half of April to honor the offer or I could transfer the money to anyone who could be bothered to swing by and ask Chino. This is very important to me.

I know it is a loooooooong shot, but I have to try :)

Contact me on tobeppe@yahoo.no

Contact me on

Beppe:

Are you fucking retarded or what???