Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/12/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Tina Els and I traveled in 2010 for 4 weeks thru Cuba. We spend 5 days in Havana (Hotel Inglaterra) and for the rest of the trip we had a small rental car that was picked up in Havana and dropped of at Holguin (airport). My experience was that driving around Cuba was very safe because there is very little traffic. Although you have to be constant on the watch for potholes. Our trip was Havana, Pinar del Rio, Soroa, Guama (Bay of Pigs), Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Camague, Bayamo, Santiago de Cuba, Baracoa, Caya Saetia, Holguin. Most of the hotels and the rental car where booked here in the Netherlands by a regular travel organization as a Fly-Drive arrangement. For a number of places (Guama & Soroa) I booked directly via Internet on a Spanish booking site. I'm not sure how the situation is at this moment, but in 2010 you couldn't use any form of electronic payment system (no credit cards, no ATM's and no traveler checks), so you had to carry all needed funds in dollars and change these at your hotel in CUC's. Further because we weren't on a package tour we had to find eating places on our own. Finding was not the biggest problem, but most of the times there was very little available. Also the quality of the food in the restaurants of some hotels was very poor. This was not an issue in Old Havana and in touristic places like Trinidad. A problem we faced was that both of us don't speak Spanish, which was not an issue in most of the hotels, but elsewhere we encountered very little English speaking people. regards Meino On 12/18/2014 9:07 PM, Tina Manley wrote: > PESO: > > Has anybody been or planning to go? Suggestions for the best route? Photo > tour? Looks like we still can't go independently. > > Tina >