The current situation in Cuba April 2024

Alert! There’s a new trick to separate you from your money. The airport taxis sometimes have a kid hidden in the trunk. If you put your backpack with your money in, the kid has half an hour to find your money and take half… This pitfall isn’t in the book yet so we will put […]

Money and prices in Cuba

Money and prices in Cuba can be quite complex, following the history of the country’s currency system. Up until January 1, 2021, Cuba had the dual currency system, which included the so-called “tourist peso” (a misnomer). However, this dual currency system was eventually abolished. Thus creating a dual currency system (yes, that’s Cuban logic). Afterward, […]

How to find a good restaurant?

Good food in Cuba In Cuba, good food can sometimes be difficult. How do you find a good restaurant? You basically have four categories of restaurants in Cuba: good and expensive, bad and expensive, Cheap and good and Cheap and bad. How not to How do you make the distinction? Certainly not with Tripadvisor because […]

Cuba Cheaper

Cuba is not cheap, but you can make it cheaper. Updated July 2018 To discover Cuba cheaply is quite impossible… You can go to Cuba cheap, but then you do not discover it. The cheap way to go to Cuba, without actually getting to know it, is to take an all-inclusive holiday package, which will […]

Where to eat? State or Paladar?

Where is the best place to eat in Cuba? In the private restaurants, also called Paladar or at state owned restaurants? Some sort of comparative research halfway through the year after the CUC was abolished. On January 1, 2022, the CUC officially no longer existed and you could no longer use it to pay. All […]

Reasonable budget for Cuba

What is a reasonable budget for Cuba? You can spend all the money you want in Cuba; it is not a cheap destination. It’s not Asia, and you definitely can’t live on 5 $ per day. We’ll explore a reasonable budget here. But before you go into determining your budget, you have to understand how […]

How to get around in Cuba

There are many different ways to travel from A to B in Cuba.  Here is a list of the different forms of transport from the most expensive and comfortable to the cheapest. Rental Car. It’s hard to rent a car. There are just not enough cars available as Cubans rent many of the cars that […]

ATM in Cuba how-to and what-if?

Can I use an ATM in Cuba? The answer to that question varies… But the short answer is ‘Don’t‘ And that’s a pure economic answer. If you use an ATM it will give you Pesos at the official rate of 1 USD for 24. And 1 USD on the street is about 4 times that […]

How to get around Havana?

This post explains the different ways to get from A to B in Havana. Havana is huge. A lot bigger than you think and walking is only an option if you want to limit yourself to the Old Town, Centro and Vedado.  Here’s some more info about Havana, this post is about getting from A […]

Cuba Cheap

How to make Cuba Cheap Here are a few tricks to make Cuba cheap, although it will never become as cheap as Asia. Buy food at the market and preparing your meals will bring down prices of feeding yourself by 80%. Eat in MN restaurants and cafeterias. A meal for 1.50! Buy big 5 litre […]