[Leica] Cuba?

[Tina Manley]

Thank you, Meino!  That is great information.  It sounds like the kind of
trip we are planning.  I hope by the time we get there that credit cards
will be accepted.  That seems to be one of the things they are working on.
Tom was worried about driving, but it sounds like it might be safe.

I speak Spanish so that should help some!

Thanks for the encouragement!

Tina

On Fri, Dec 19, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Meino de Graaf <meino at innerside.demon.nl>
wrote:
>
> 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
>>
>>
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