Havana

Hello mongers and friends,

As an avid cuban tourist, (this was my 9 trip since 2002) I like to share my experiences in Havana last week.

If you want a true GFE, you must speak spanish, chicas likes to be treated like "novias", not like "p*tas, so bring a gift and be kind, to avoid pros use website for contact like amigos.com, mejoramor.com and match.com, ask for her phone number (home or your neigbor, if she have a mobile phone number avoid her, she could be a pro) start a friendship and you will see results in Havana.

Just be yourself, open mind and girls will love you, just like in every other country.

A taxi driver told me that police is being hard on girls lately due to the murder of two Italians by two pros, so to avoid trouble with your friend you must stay low profile on your clothes, behaviour and don't go to touristic areas with your friend.

23 or "la Rampa" is a nice place to get semi and pros, better go to the line or "fila" of the copelia icecream and start talking to someone you like, and if you are nice you will score.

Bring Canadian dollars or Euros instead of USD. You will receive more CUCs in the CADECAS.

Can't wait to next year (january) to go again to visit my friends.

Be cool!

A cubanitas fan from México.

BTW, fly with CUBANA, you get the cheapest tkts and fly on Airbus planes.

[QUOTE=LatinBull]Hello guys.
Can somebody recommend me a Casa/Apartment independant (no sharing with Cuban Family)
Please PM with phone and contact.
Muchas Gracias.
Latinbull[/QUOTE]Hello Latinbull,

I recommend to you a casa particular that I enjoyed in my last trip last week.
is a big house but have two front doors, one for the owner and one for you, independant from the owner, tv/vcr, freezer, hot watter, fan, (no phone :( )

The house is in vedado, look for "casa de Michell" ask for Rafael. Is in K street between 17 and 19.

I cannot post phone numbers and e-mails due to forum regulations, but there is a nice place to stay, a lot of privacy and chica-friendly, no matter how many girls you invite.

Spoke to an official about travelling to CUBA. It is also impossible as an American.
U would have to so so so much to make it happen. How you guys do it legally I don't know but I have spoken with to officials and I do not have the patience to make it happens.

Outside of legally doing it, illegally is too risky for me.

Havana report November 2005

Well folks, as a frecuent flyer to Cuba let me post my first report on this forum. I hope that you find interesting and usefull for your next vacation to the island.

Going to Cuba as a Mexican is easy, just buy a ticket in the airport and prepare to fly. MEXICANA: the best mexican airline with the newest planes all over the world. Expensive ticket but better service, I fyou buy your tickets in mexicana you get the visa to cuba at the moment. You can buy tickets online also.

CUBANA: better price, nice service, cons: flights are too early. I´m not a morning person.

My first vacatios tu cuba was with Mexicana, but the rates are way better, so I wll keep flying in Cubana.

I spend 380 dlls for a round trip last week. Versus 580 from Mexicana. (both direct round trips tourist class)

So my advice is to choose a travel agency and ask for the lowest fare to la havana with Cubana de aviacion.

They will take care, visa included. . Choose trave agencies that manage conferencies groups or students groups to find a very low rate.

Please divide your belongins in two bags, as a normal trip because in josé martí airport sometimes steal thing from your bags from the airplane to the bagage reception. So please put you important and electronic equipment in a handbag and allways carry next to you.

Arriving at the josé martí airport I nottice some changes: inmigration ask me if I know cuban people? duh! its my 9th trip. Of course! (I know is part of their work)

Cadeca has two huge lines since is handy to change your money right in the airport more security officer inside the airport, more lines to the exit, more peple is asking to open their belogins, new merchandise must pay taxes, if you are going to make gifts like clothes put them without tags inside your bag with your clothes.

Very high taxi cab rate to go to havana city (25 dlls) by the way: keep in mynd this rates

Red taxi cabs (more expensive) white taxi cabs (expensive) yellow taxi cabs (normal)

Yellow one usually chat with you to fix a good rate, if you are new in havana, use always the taxi-metter.

My place to stay was really good (see my last post) and don't forget, if you are loking for a casa particular, you must find for your confort this things: individual front door, isolated from the owner, ac, hot watter, freezer, close to the action like vedado.

My place was a two blocks from Copelia, Cuba's famous ice cream parlor which is my favorite place to make new girlfriends, in the line for cubanos start making conversation and share an ice cream with your new friend. Then ask for her number and prepara to go out in the night, if you are horny as hell the house proximity is handy.

Knowing her phone numbers (the friends from the net) is easy to manage dates in the days I stayed in habana, just make some nice gift like a sample parfume (just buy a 45 dlls sample box from Dior and you have 5 nice gifts). (I add a personal touch I parfume and one bottle of tequila, both will opened in the same night! ) be kind and gentle with cubanas and you will never pay money for girls, just take it to a romantic dinner to a nice place.

Now, if you don't want to do this work, choosing a pro is easy like 1-2-3

Now the rampa (23 street) scenario: in the day you will find a lot of beauties (pros and non-pros) walking arround, you can start talking nicely, but beware of the police because they can fu*k your progress with the girl keepin away from you. Act cool and keep your aspect (clothes) low profile. I'm blessed in this aspect because I look like a white Cuban. So I barely have trouble when I am with a girlfriend, in the night the police pressure is more. Right now all the action in rampa and arround are inside bars and restaurants because you can chat more freely with chicas and set price and conditions of the encounter.

In open bars like bulerías or a small one in 23 almost in front of the Cubana airlines office. Girls (8 and 7 mostly) beg to me to take her to my house for 30 cucs, I think the crackdown (created by police) for the murder of two italians have make effect.

Don't overpay like italians: 60cuc is for a real beauty, so-so girls go with you paying 40 cuc

I know that right now if you go to EL ALJIBE you can find top models with rich old people asking for 100 an hour, but I preffer to meet a real cuban (same beauty) and make a real friend that treats me well when I am in Cuba.

Note: all my chica pictures are not related or are my real cuban girlfriends, all was from my first trips when I did not have enough experience to contact real friends.

So I hope that this info can be helpfull on your next trip.

Cubalserito

A friend from Mexico who love cuban culture and people.

Only a fine of $7000 if you get caught. To date, no one has actually been required to pay the fine. I have heard people getting letters in the mail, but then that is the end of it. Just don't be stupid in your planning and you'll be fine. Spend a day in Mexico City and buy a ticket there from Mexico to Havana. All will be well.

Viper

[QUOTE=Liucio]Spoke to an official about travelling to CUBA. It is also impossible as an American.
U would have to so so so much to make it happen. How you guys do it legally I don't know but I have spoken with to officials and I do not have the patience to make it happens.

Outside of legally doing it, illegally is too risky for me.[/QUOTE]

Can someone tell me more about the two Italians that were mentioned here as being murdered. I also heard a story about an Israeli tourist being stabbed to death during a robbery not too far from his hotel. All I can find on news sites about Cuba are vague references about increasing violence towards tourists.

Can anyone tell me more about the two Italians being murdered. On news sites about Cuba all I found was a story about an Isralei tourist being stabbed to death ot far from his hotel and vague references to increasing violence towards tourists.

[QUOTE=Manzano7]Can anyone tell me more about the two Italians being murdered. On news sites about Cuba all I found was a story about an Isralei tourist being stabbed to death ot far from his hotel and vague references to increasing violence towards tourists.[/QUOTE]Such incidents are not as seldom as it seems. The problem is that the cuban press doesn't mention it in their newspapers. I was in cuba several times but i never read about a crime against a tourist in "el rebelde" or "granma" but i often (bout once a week) heard about cubans or tourists being killed on "radio bemba" (thats the cuban mouth to mouth news service). Most crimes took place during the darkness and around centro and old havana. Especially the area east of el prado is dangerous (drugs) during the night.

But who wonders? Havana is a 680.700 people city!!!

[QUOTE=Manzano7]Can anyone tell me more about the two Italians being murdered. On news sites about Cuba all I found was a story about an Isralei tourist being stabbed to death ot far from his hotel and vague references to increasing violence towards tourists.[/QUOTE]Hi!,

I forgot to tell that the Italian murder thing is not on the news in Cuba, like many news they tell people to people (like rumours) in the street, but I heard the same thing over and over on several people in Havana. They say that this murder is the cause of increasing of cops on the streets. Pros are a little more afraid, but with a help of their chulo and a taxi driver skills you will get your girl.

Both murders were the result of drug deals gone bad. Other forums have confirmed the story.

Thanks for the reply.On [url]www.cubanet.org[/url] you do get some unofficial news about Cuba sometimes, including crime. That's where I read about the murder of an Israeli tourist. I know Cuba quite well and through my Cuban friends I know that there is quite some crime among Cubans but violent crime against tourists is really quite rare so these recent events seem a new phenomenon and possibly not good for the future.

Hi friends,

Me and some friends have decided to celebrate christmas and new year in Cuba.

Does anyone have any experiences and/or suggestions? Will it be hard to get Casa / Hotel especially for New Years Eve. Do they have any special Party´s on newyear?

We are planing to spend a few days upon arrival in Havanna and the have christmas in Varadero and head back to Havanna for newyear.

All tips or suggestions are welcome either here in forum or on pm.

Thank you for all the A.I. experience that this forum gives.

/Amex

Hi gents!

My first time in Havana has been almost a delusion!

I stayed there one week and visited the whole town by day and night. I've never seen such a low quality of girl on the street, clubs(macumba, casa della musica end many other..) regular and pros.

Sure it's really easy to pick up girls but don't tell me about their beauty!

I tried six girls even two at same time and I can say they have a good attitude for sex and GFE but about beauty they are far away from other country.

Bye

[QUOTE=Amex Card]Hi friends,

Me and some friends have decided to celebrate christmas and new year in Cuba.

Does anyone have any experiences and/or suggestions? Will it be hard to get Casa / Hotel especially for New Years Eve. Do they have any special Party´s on newyear?

We are planing to spend a few days upon arrival in Havanna and the have christmas in Varadero and head back to Havanna for newyear.

All tips or suggestions are welcome either here in forum or on pm.

Thank you for all the A.I. experience that this forum gives.

/Amex[/QUOTE]Hello!

I have not experiences on new years eve in cuba, but I have read in other forums that going to cuba on this season is not worth it mostly if you are new in cuban affairs and looking for pros, because most cuban pros return to their houses in oriente. and local girls also stay in their houses for this celebration. it will be less pro action.

I am curious about tasting traditional new years dinner, people likes to make a whole pig (cerdo en pua).

[QUOTE=Manfred77]Hi gents!

My first time in Havana has been almost a delusion!

I stayed there one week and visited the whole town by day and night. I've never seen such a low quality of girl on the street, clubs(macumba, casa della musica end many other..) regular and pros.

Sure it's really easy to pick up girls but don't tell me about their beauty!

I tried six girls even two at same time and I can say they have a good attitude for sex and GFE but about beauty they are far away from other country.

Bye[/QUOTE]Hello Manfred77.

Beauty sometimes is relative, its depends on everybody tastes, it seems like europeans like latin girls and vice-versa. as a latin man, I like blondes, I am aware that Cuba did have a lot of blondes, but I'm going to cuba allways with my partner "the common sense" , I will not find russian beauty in Cuba, for this I go tu Ukraine. Maybe i did not explain myself to make my point becasue english is not my main languaje.

I hope that is is not the begining of another classic post of "what is beauty for you? with pictures"

but I invite you manfred to post a picture of an example of what is what you are looking for, and I will tell you (with my 9 travels to cuba) if is possible to find it.

best wishes!

Cubalserito