The current situation in Cuba March 2024

What’s Cuba like at the moment? This is a page that I will have to edit every month because today’s circumstances are not next week’s. A lot is changing at the moment and that is happening very quickly. For example, last month’s fuel shortage with long queues for the gas stations has now been resolved, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Havana es Havana!

Havana: Nothing compares to it! Last update 12/2018 Some fun facts about Havana and a few must-sees just of the beaten track. The capital of Cuba is the biggest city in the Caribbean. ‘Havana es Havana’ say the Cubans, and it is hip and happening. The Old Lady is bent and bruised but just got […]

Finding a fixer in Cuba

Everybody is a fixer in Cuba This blog is about finding a fixer in Cuba. Sometimes a fixer is worth his weight in gold; others just cost their weight in gold. You have to make the difference. Offers of fixers: Cuban streets are full of people more than willing to help you out. In the […]

Taxi wars in Havana

last update 03/2020 Fixed route Taxi Many people in Havana depend on the old American cars that drive around as fixed route taxi. It’s simple. You stick out your arm horizontally and shout or signal your destination at the driver. He stops, you get in and get out, paying 10 or 20 MN depending on […]

Cuba Peso

Two Peso in Cuba The currency in Cuba is called Peso. Both of them are called Peso. So if people say Peso, then they are talking about CUC or Moneda Nacional (MN). Up to you to figure it out. CUC Peso The CUC is the Cuban ‘hard currency’, pegged roughly 1-1, to the US dollar. […]

How much Money to Cuba?

Bring cash to Cuba Cuba is one of the last economies in the world where there is a cash only economy. So how much money do you need to take to Cuba? Of course, this depends on your life style. How much does a car cost? Except in some hotels, plastic money is useless. To […]