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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Hostel or Hostal?

The concept ‘hostel’ is a bit confusing in Cuba.  Basically there are 2 types of accommodation in Cuba: Hotels and Casas Particular.  Hotels are state owned (at least 51% but let’s not get technical) and don’t live up to the international classification. Deduct at least one star for the real comfort level. So if you are […]

Rent a car

Last update April 2019 The second best way to explore Cuba is to rent a Car. If you want to rent a car, do so before you go. But you might want to read this post to the end (and our book) before you do so! Once in Cuba the agencies never have the car […]

Rent a bike in Havana

Rent a bike forbidden Until recently, renting a bike was impossible in Cuba because Cubans were not allowed to rent their bikes. (Something with dirty profit and thus capitalism.) So now, with some pride and we like the guy so to promote him, we announce: Rent a Bike in Havana Ovidio (an old-timer of 73) […]

Cuba Embargo

The US embargo is hurting Cubans in different ways

Cuba Propaganda

Propaganda… We have it too! “Always Coca Cola”, “Mc Donald’s, I’m loving it!” We have our kind of propaganda in our capitalist society. Our propaganda aims to make us consume particular products and services. If you are aware of this or not, it works… Ministry of Propaganda I do not want to get into the […]

Rent a Motorcycle in Cuba

Until recently people that wanted to rent a motorcycle could only rent 50cc scooters that were not fit to discover the whole island. And those are no real bikes at all.  Piaggio Something in between the scooter and a real bike is the Piaggio It’s not a real motor cycle but not a shitty scooter […]

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 […]