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Basics

Money Exchange
You can change your USD into Cuban Pesos in the money change Houses, called “CADECA”. You receive 21 Pesos (January 2000) per each USD. There are CADECAS in big cities only, that’s why you need to change a lot of Dollars if you want to travel for a long time into the country side.

If you go to Cuba for one or two weeks, and if you want to stay only in touristic places like Vedado, Havana, Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba and so on you don’t need Cuban Pesos. But if you want to go the the country side traveling like Cubans and like I suggest it at my page you need the national money!

Take lots and lots of $1 bills and even lots of US Coins. You must pay for almost everything you buy in dollars, and unless the seller has small bills (not likely), you will get virtually worthless pesos in change, making costs even higher than they already are.

Traveler’s Checks
Traveler’s checks issued from a U.S. bank cannot be used. You can purchase traveler’s checks from Thomas Cook or Visa in Canada, but this will require that you first change your U.S. dollars into the Canadian dollars, then purchase U.S. dollar traveler’s checks. This is generally a money-losing endeavor, not counting the fee charged by the company issuing the checks. In addition, hotels charge a hefty 4% commission for cashing traveler’s checks, and banks charge between 2% and 3%. But if a traveling mishap occurs, the security of “emergency funds” can be well worth the exchange rate and commissions. We suggest purchasing a small sum of “emergency” traveler’s checks while in your transit country, either from a Thomas Cook or a Visa office in Airport.

Credit Cards
U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens are prohibited from using credit cards in Cuba. U.S. credit card companies do not accept vouchers from Cuba, and Cuban shops, hotels and other places of business do not accept U.S. credit cards. Neither personal checks nor travelers’ checks drawn on U.S. banks are accepted in Cuba.

Tipping
At client’s discretion, not included in bill. Normally tourists give to the waiter 10% (cash) of the bill.
Bring lots of small bills — no-one can break 50ís or 100 dollar bills Cuban tourism workers rely on tips. People who deserve a US$1 tip include museum staff who give you a complete tour, hotel guards who watch your rental car all night, helpful bus drivers, attentive wait staff or anyone in the service industry who goes beyond the call of duty. Do not offer money to officials to obtain preferential treatment; governmental corruption is rare in Cuba and attempted bribery will only make things worse.
Taxes: Nothing is taxed anywhere in Cuba.

Cash
There are three types of money in Cuba. The Cuban Peso which is the national money. The Convertible Peso which is used as Dollar and de USD itself as the third used type. The convertible Peso and Dollar are called divisa or “Fula”, too. You can change the Convertible Peso into USD at the airport before leaving the country, because it doesn’t have value out of it.

In Cuba you need more Dollars or Convertible Pesos which are the same. All hotels, private houses Taxis (Pannataxi, Touristaxi, Havanataxi, Taxi OK etc.), shops (called in Cuba “shopping”) only accept USD.

Passports and Visas
U.S. citizens are required to have a valid passport and a Cuban Tourist card to enter Cuba.

Airport to Hotel
You will be arriving in Jose Marti Airport. Never get in a Cuban taxi without discussing price before especially if you don’t see a meter. never tip the driver if the meter is covered up either.

Holidays
1 January – Liberation Day
1 May – Labor Day
25-27 July – Celebration of the National Rebellion
10 October – Day of Cuban Culture
Note: Christmas Day has been observed as a public holiday since the Pope’s visit in 1997

When to Go
Worst Time To Go: September, October and November are the worst months to travel, it’s too wet then. January to March is warm and rather dry, but occasionally the Nortes (cool North winds) spoil the weather for some days. Cubanas don’t go to the beaches a lot at this time, too cold for them (not for us).
Best Time To Go: July and August are better because the weather is as hot as the Chica’s and the beach life is great. Also electricity outages (apagones) are less frequent during holidays. Rain is normally limited to some afternoon showers.) Cubans take their hols in July and August, so this is when the local beaches are most crowded. Christmas, Easter and the period around 26 July, when Cubans celebrate the anniversary of the revolution, are also very busy. Havana is always great though. Another advantage to going in June July and August is it’s low season and the island isn’t overrun with sun worshipping frost bitten Canadian and European Touristas.

Jiniteras
Many girls who are prostitutes do not use that word themselves. They prefer to call themselves “Jiniteras.” Anyone who makes a black market living on tourists is a “Jinetera” or “Jineteros.” The word means “horse rider.” The horse in this case is the tourist.
Paladar means a private restaurant. Cubans are allowed to operate some small restaurants. The law says that this restaurants can’t have more than three tables and twelve chairs. They have to pay a high tax, the tax depends much from the place.
Carnets are Cuban ID’s and you will see the police checking the girls ID’s from time to time.

What to Bring
Toilet Paper, bug repellent, suntan lotion and bandages, good supply of diarrhea medicine, condoms.
Soap and Shampoo you cannot buy good soap and shampoo in Cienfuegos even in the dollar stores.
Plenty of T-shirts Cubans will always ask for clothes from tourists.
Portable Flashlight Power grid often goes out and many streets have no working street lights.
Presents Medicine, pens, pencils, note pads, small toys for the children, (I often see children using condoms for balloons as they cannot afford balloons), baseballs, fake jewelry, any type of clothing including children’s clothing, sun glasses, hats, books, magazines, newspapers (English students often have no up to date material to read), baby food, paper, music on cassette, nail polish, lipstick, compact cassette players.
Medicine Bring a good supply of all medicines you might take such as painkillers, allergy pills and cough medicine.

Internet Access
Check out the new service at http://www.mailcuba.com

Buy Internet cards in Veradero, Havana, Santa Clara and Cienfuegos. They have local numbers in all these cities as well. Long distance fees within Cuba (from one Cuban city to another) are cheap. So you can use Internet access in Santiago even if they do not have a local numbers. Internet cards are sold at ETECSA (the phone company)you need a passport. The price is $15 USD for 1 card for 5 hours. They also have terminals in the above mentioned cities where you can use their computer if you do not have a laptop.

Four Types Of Taxis
1) Tourist taxis which are the most expensive ones.
2) Pannataxi which are real cheap if the taximeter is running. If you bargain a fixed price beforehand you may pay more.
3) Taxi particular which are old cars with a incredible smelling of gasoline and are more expensive than Pannataxi with a taximeter and not worth the price.
4) So called Peso-Taxis which are the cheapest ones if they take you.

\b}Notice about Cuba}
Trips to Cuba can be fun but it should be noted that the U.S. government restricts travel to Cuba if you are a resident of the United States. Below is a list of the major ways that the government has been identifying non-licensed Travel to Cuba. I really don’t see this as a major problem just listing information so that you know I still will and do travel to Cuba.

(1) You are identified on-site at a transit airports – this applies to joint US-Canadian/Bahaman operations. Usually meant to identify non-licensed travelers after re-entry back into the transit country, before departure back to the US. This is not possible to do through Mexico since joint-activity is not allowed on Mexican soil.
In Canada/Bahamas this has meant that to date US officials work to identify non-licensed travelers making “next direct connect” back to the US. Rather than taking the next/best flight back out of the transit country, many smart Americans using Canada/Bahamas have been staying overnight in the transit country, and taking a flight back the following morning, departing before the next day’s inbound Cuban flight arrives.

(2) US port of entry identification by US Immigration/Customs inbound to the US from transit country – this is where Immigration and/or Custom’s identifies non-licensed travelers inbound normally from “direct connect” flights next available flight from transit country to the US.
This can apply to inbound travelers from any transit country, including Mexico. This risk can be minimized in a few ways. (a) Avoiding outbound Havana passport stamp, or if stamped using alternated approved identification for US re-entry. (b) Using “non-direct” flights, normally flights inbound to the US that left before the daily inbound Cuban flight arrives in the transit country. (c) Having no physical evidence/souvenirs of Cuban travel in your possession if subjected to a US Custom’s search.

(3) Identification of non-licensed US travelers by US consular staff in Cuba – US consular staff is not given the job to identify non-licensed US travelers. The US government (courtesy of DEA joint action with Cuba Federal authorities) even do have daily access to all in-bound US passport holders from Cuba immigration (under US Federal statute – this illegally obtained information cannot be used). There have been cases where non-licensed US travelers have gone to the US consulate in Havana to request a “tour” and the Consulate is then obligated to record the passport numbers

(4) Post-travel identification in the US – cases where non-licensed US travelers have made reports of there travel in US media. Reports on this board are fine because your posts are not linked to your name only your handle.

Customs and immigration
Arrive at Jose Marti Airport in Havana, deplane into the spacious red-roofed, white-beamed facilities, and follow the yellow and black signs in English to the immigration desks.
Havana’s customs and immigration is less casual than Canadian but nothing to get in a sweat about. Immigration is composed of about 20 stations, each with a short hall, small office, teller-style window, exit door and one agent. Most agents and airport employees speak some English.
Tourist Card and Passport
As you slide your tourist card and passport across the counter to the immigration agent, you should politely request that the agent stamp only your tourist card and not your passport.

Immigration agents are quite used to this request from American travelers, aware of the legal nettles that could arise from a Cuban stamp on a U.S. passport. They will oblige your request, generally without remark. Once your tourist card is stamped and your passport examined, the agent will press a button unlocking the door for your entry to customs.
Cuban customs X-rays your carry-on baggage, just like in any other airport, as well as frisking you. This is low key and pretty informal a female security agent checks female travelers, and a male agent checks male travelers.
Luggage
Collect your luggage at baggage claim, but keep your passport and tourist card handy. You’ll have to show them to one more agent before you leave the baggage area. He or she will make sure you have your tourist card, glance at your passport photo, and casually ask if this is your first time visiting Cuba, how many days you’ll be staying, and the name of your hotel or rent a room address.

Immigration officers frequently ask tourists for a hotel voucher. You are not allowed to enter the Country without an address where you will be staying. If you are unable to supply the officer with the address of your accommodation you can be forced to make a reservation for a couple of days at the port of entry. Instead of the name of a hotel you can also enter the address of the casa particular you will be staying at.

Transportation from the airport should be included in your travel package. A driver, who received your name via the tour company, will be waiting along with a coterie of fare-ready taxi drivers right outside the baggage claim area. An appropriate tip for an airport drive is $ 2.

When returning to the United States the above steps basically work in reverse. Instead of paying an airport or departure tax to your transit country, you must pay $ 20 departure tax in Cuba. If you are traveling on the sly, having circumvented the license application process, exercise discretion by removing Havana baggage tags from your luggage and discarding any goods or papers including boarding passes.When completing your reentry to the United States.

 

FOOD AND DRINK
Cuban food is highly seasoned, but does not use hot spices. Traditional dishes are generally based on rice and beans, pork, and fried or bodied root vegetables flavored with onion and garlic. Meals are usually accompanied by beer. Seafood is of excellent quality and taste. However it has been reported by many travelers on our site that the food is not very good in Cuba, however in our members section you might find some good places to eat!
A Budget meal can cost US$5-10. A Mid-range meal can cost US$10-20. And a Top-end meal can cost US$20 and upwards.
State Run restaurants: A meal in a state-run restaurant is US$10-15
Paladar (privately owned restaurant) averages US$7.

Rum is the drink of Cuba. There are extra dry and aged rums of magnificent bouquet. The white rum mixes with practically everything and is ideal for cocktails. The traditional drinks of Cuba are the Cuba Libre, Mojito, Mulata and Daiquiri. There are various brands of beer as well as carbonated beverages.

Do NOT, under any circumstance, drink water unless it is in a bottle. It costs depending on where you buy it, 65 cents to $1.10 for 1.5 liters. Drinking tap water will make you sick.
Bottled water is available all over the island.

PHOTOS
You can take a camera with you but do not take anywhere near military and prohibited zones. The girls are very shy when it comes to getting pictures taken in the nude but some can be persuaded. A digital camera is the best.  Some put the memory card inside your wallet or even sock when exiting the country.

WORDS AND PHRASES
Jiniteras: Many girls who are prostitutes do not use that word themselves. They prefer to call themselves “Jiniteras.” Anyone who makes a black market living on tourists is a “Jinetera” or “Jineteros.” The word means “horse rider.” The horse in this case is the tourist.
Paladar means a private restaurant. Cubans are allowed to operate some small restaurants. The law says that this restaurants can’t have more than three tables and twelve chairs. They have to pay a high tax, the tax depends much from the place.
Carnets: These are Cuban ID’s and you will see the police checking the girls ID’s from time to time.

TOUTS AND BEGGARS
Refrain from handing out money or anything else to children or beggars on the street. Cubans are not allowed to beg from tourists, and plain clothes police are on duty in most places where tourists and Cubans mix. It may be gratifying to hand out trinkets to people you view as needy, but these people could be questioned as soon as you disappear from sight, and you may be personally responsible for sending someone to prison. Avoid Jineteros (touts) who offer to lead you to a room or restaurant, unless you don’t mind having an extra US$5 or so tacked onto your bill.

Cubans on the street: All they want are your dollars! They will offer you casas, cigars, Chica’s or whatever you want. Ignore them, you will never make a good deal on streets.

GIRL TIPS
Cuban girls love sex and they do not get offended by overtures the way cold blooded American bitches do.
The normal Cuban girl begins her sexually active life in the average of 12 years of age. A 16 year old girl is in the best years whereas the 18 – 20 years old ones seemed to be already old. The typical Cuban girl with whom you might seek a relationship with will in all likelihood will be very skilled, maybe a lawyer, doctor, optometrist. In general, the Cuban girls have “dark” features, and their eyes are dark, some with an almost single eye-brow – thick eyebrows, don’t shave, and have HUGE fucking forests growing between their legs. The Cuban girls have a somewhat longer nose and broader nostrils…. slightly protruding forehead. Makes them look “angry” and though they can be “sweet” they can look absolutely fucking hideous/evil when they get angry or demanding – which some of these girls do get. Bring all condoms you suppose that you will need. All Cuban girls (including the professionals) have no condoms.

How Cuban Women Feel Towards Men: “Age or looks are irrelevant here to the girls. Your heart (and sometimes your pocket book) is what counts. I dated two 18 year olds and they felt like real girlfriends (yes, I know this is fantasy island). Some girls just want some chocolates from the dollar stores, some wanted nada, some a friend in the U.S and some wanted $$ — you’ll will meet all. A good girl (even though she sleeps with you in two hours of meeting you) will be insulted by money offers — take her shopping or buy her a real dinner or use your imagination. Sex is part of life in Cuba, as we learn how to drive, the girls learn how to please — they are all experts and sex is part of their daily routine.”

SECURITY
Cuba is a hospitable country. It is easy to find help whenever you need it. The streets are safe and attacks are rare. There are tourism police in hotel areas.

MEDICAL FACILITIES:
Medical care does not meet U.S. standards. Many U.S. medications are unavailable. It is useful for travelers to Cuba to bring with them any prescribed medicine, which is for their personal use. A copy of the prescription and a letter from the physician explaining the need for prescription drugs facilitates entry into the country. U.S. medical insurance is not always valid outside the United States. Travelers have found that, in some cases, supplemental medical insurance with specific overseas coverage, including provision for medical evacuation, has proved to be useful. Useful information on medical emergencies abroad, including overseas insurance programs, is provided in the Department of State, Bureau of Consular Affairs brochure, Medical Information for Americans Traveling Abroad <medical.html>, available via the Bureau of Consular Affairs home page <http://travel.state.gov/> at http://travel.state.gov and autofax service at (202) 647-3000.

Tourists needing medical assistance are usually steered to the CLINICA CIRA GARCIA, at Calle 20 # 4101, Miramar, tel. 33-2811.The fully staffed hospital is entirely dedicated to serving foreigners. You pay in dollars-credit cards are acceptable unless they’re issued on an USA bank- (in which case, cash are required)

Low income patients are served by HOSPITAL HERMANOS AMEJEIRAS, at the corner of Padre Varela (Belascoaín) and San Lázaro, in Centro Habana, tel 70-7721.

You can buy medicines at the FARMACIA INTERNACIONAL, at the rear of the CLINICA CIRA GARCIA. It also has a splendid range of Western drugs.

HEALTH TIPS
Cuba’s quality public health system extends across the entire country and is free for Cubans. In emergency cases tourists are also given medical care free of charge.
Cuba is a very healthy country. Hepatitis A is a common problem among travelers drinking tap water in areas with poor sanitation.

Getting Rid OF Lice
There is a product called “RID”, that takes care of body lice, head lice, as well as pubic crabs. Its sold over the counter and is also available from drugstore.com. It isn’t a spray but it is a type of shampoo. Probably a good idea to lather up before you go home just to be sure. There are different anti-lice shampoos. The ones with the active ingredient permethrine 1% is best (easy to apply), malathion 0.5% is also good. Permethrine is the most expensive one, but still quite cheap: about $6 for one bottle. Adequate antibiotica against chlamydia or gonorrhea is not expensive as well (I don’t know the exact costs).

SHOPPING
Duty free shops can be found in all hotels and airports. Cuban cigars, rum, liqueurs, arts and crafts, t-shirts and other souvenirs are good buys. All goods taken out of the country must be accompanied by official government receipts, as well as a stamp of approval for certain arts and crafts.

TRANSPORTATION
Tourists can go anywhere in the country with complete freedom, at any hour of the day or night, by foot, by taxi, by plane, by train, by bus or by rent-a-car. In Havana town, a taxi will cost 2 to 3 US$. Taking the bus or train runs about US$4 for 100 miles (160km), while a rental car could cost as much as US$100 a day.
Tip: Before you take a taxi, ask how much it costs. Always arrange a price before you get into a taxi.

AREAS, TOWNS AND CITIES
There are different cities, towns and areas in Cuba where you can find Cuban women who want to have sex with you for very little or no money at all. The rule is the same for anywhere in the world that the bigger the city, the more expensive the sex will be; supply and demand. If there are a lot of tourists or foreigners in an area, then the prices will usually be higher, in most cases. For example, take the city of Havana. Havana is probably the most expensive place to find sex with women. It can cost between $50 and $100 for a girl. But there are other cities and towns that sex can be found $15 a session, or short time. In our members section we have a list of places in Cuba where you can find young Cuban girls that will have sex with you that are sweeter and with less attitudes. Below are some of the places in Cuba we feature in our members section.

Havana (La Habana)
is the largest city in the Caribbean and the center of all things Cuban. In Havana you have towns, areas, hotels, streets, beaches, clubs and discos that all have horny Cuban women looking for foreigners to have sex with them. Havana
Other places in Havana include:

Vedado
This part of the city is occupied primarily by office blocks and hotels, business is centered on La Rampa. At night the area known as La Rampa in the Vedado area of Havana is literally alive with pretty young girls roaming around hoping to link up with a tourist for the night or a few days. It is unlike anything you have ever seen.

Malecón
The famous waterfront street, El Malecón, is the place to see the Havana skyline and glorious Caribbean sunsets. In the summer months, the walled beach boulevard, the Malecón, is filled with people sitting on the seawall. Just walk along the Malecón after sunset and you will be approached. Chances are also good that you will find someone during the day.

Palmeder (spelling?)
Just outside Cienfuegos. To get there, go down the Prado about 15 kilometers. If you end up at the ocean, you went the wrong way. There are lots of non-pros wandering around. Rent a car and cruse around. In no time you will find yourself a cutie you can take back to Cienfuegos and bang for a week. Do not pay the girls from Palmeder more than $10 or you will fuck them up as well.

Ciego De Avila
Cuba’s best kept secret is Ciego de Avila. It is dominated by Italians and a few older Canadian guys also go there. The short of it is they have a lot of beautiful non pro Chica’s, very affectionate and gF types. They are happy with $20. Police are not a problem. Casas are inexpensive. Hotel Ciego de Avila is also good.

Cienfuegos
Cienfuegos means “100 Fires” while locals often refer to it as La Perla del Sur (The Pearl of the South) or La Linda Ciudad del Mar (The Beautiful City by the Sea). The famous Cuban performer Benne More sang “Cienfuegos the city I like best”.

Getting There
The easiest method of travel for Americans is to fly from either Toronto or Mexico. There are flights daily from most major American cities to Toronto. A list of travel agencies that can book a flight from Toronto to Cienfuegos is available by clicking here. A small list of travel agents from other counties is available here although they may not fly directly to Cienfuegos. Tickets in Toronto can be purchased over the phone and then picked up at a booth in Toronto International Airport two hours before departure. An air-only return flight for one or two weeks will cost from $130 to $330 USD depending on season. It is recommended to call several agencies as prices will often vary between agencies. Book your casa in Cienfuegos on line before you arrive in Cuba. Here.

Food
These are pictures of El Rapido in Cienfuegos. The name means fast, but this place does not know the meaning of fast. You can live off the food but do not expect a Big Mac, for the food to taste good or look anything like the pictures. Pic1, Pic2, Pic3. The menu consists of Ham/Cheese sandwich that is either 1/2 frozen or so hot you cannot hold it. $1.50. Hot Dog that is usually stale $0.65. Small microwave pizza that tastes bland $1.50. Chicken leg that is cooked in magic grease that requires you to wash your hands 4 times to get them clean and of course there is no soap in the bathroom.. The chicken is also, $1.50 and you get 4-5 cold French fries with it if you are lucky.

Hotels
Hotel Jagua. The only 4 star hotel in Cienfuegos. It would not be considered a 4 star hotel in other countries. The dinner buffet is okay here for $15.00 Pic

What To Bring:
Toilet Paper, bug repellent, suntan lotion and bandages, good supply of diarrhea medicine, condoms.
Soap and Shampoo: You cannot buy good soap and shampoo in Cienfuegos even in the dollar stores.
Plenty of T-shirts: Cubans will always ask for clothes from tourists.

Portable Flashlight:
Power grid often goes out and many streets have no working street lights.

Presents:
If you are the generous type, here are some things that do not cost too much that Cubans often like as gifts. Medicine, pens, pencils, note pads, small toys for the children, (I often see children using condoms for balloons as they cannot afford balloons), baseballs, fake jewelry, any type of clothing including children’s clothing, sun glasses, hats, books, magazines, newspapers (English students often have no up to date material to read), baby food, paper, music on cassette, nail polish, lipstick, compact cassette players.

Medicine:
Bring a good supply of all medicines you might take such as painkillers, allergy pills and cough medicine.

Safety:
There is little crime against tourists and it is more than safe to walk down the streets at night. Although the odd pick pocket may occur, violent crime against tourists is almost unheard of. Caution should only be given while walking down the poorly lit back streets at night.

The Girl Situation
There are only two main places to meet ladies at night and it all centers around the Malecón and Rapidos. The Rapidos is an open-air Burger/King. At night (good time to start the hunt is around 10.00 P.M.) it swarms with pros, amateurs, couples and everything in between. Across the street is the Malecón and some girls sit on the bridge awaiting some eye contact. If there is any sort of Police around, they all go to Rapidos and chat with their girl friends — this is the safe area!

Malecón is found by walking down the Prado towards Hotel Jagua (map). Fishermen (pic!) can be observed in the daytime while it becomes the cities entertainment center at night.

Girls here are different than Havana. Seems to be no distinction between short time and long time and girls will ask for $30.00 and settle for $20.00. Just make sure she has her id and is of proper age.

Night Clubs And Discos
Disco La Carabena is one the town’s hot spots. You’ll find many Chica’s here that will give you a good time. Be careful of pick pocketing here. The place is located about three blocks away from the famous El Rapido (across the street and away from the center of town). Every night (with the exception of Saturday, which was curiously empty), there were plenty of Chica’s to choose from. Very much like Rio’s “Help” Disco. Don’t expect the dancing to start before 11:30 p.m. There is a $2 cover charge, and all drinks are $1 a piece. Almost all of the girls there are regulars. The music is reasonable, with a mix of disco (mostly), with some salsa, reggae, and slow dances at the end of the night (4 a.m.).

Benny Mores
Located (very close to Park Marti on the pedestrian mall street). Typical Cuban yuppie club. Live music. Ladies are more “upscale” here and if you like a “challenge” this might be the place for you. Drink prices are very expensive here.

Arte EX
(two blocks away from Carabena), and the basement of the Pallacio de Valle (several blocks further out of town along the Prado, across from Hotel Jagua).

Club Caribbean
(in Punta Gorda, one street parallel to the Malecón towards the water). Probably the only “happening” disco in Cienfuegos. Two bucks to get in. Ladies $20 for the “evening” or “two hours” in some cases.

PINAR
The ‘action’ is concentrated in two or three places. The most important place where tourists look for Chica’s (and v.v.) is without question Cafe Pinar in Calle Gerardo Medina (opposite to the Coppelia). Here you can find young girls from noon till midnight. Of course, the choice is much larger in the evening, but in the afternoon, there are always a few cuties trying to attract the attention of visiting tourists. Pinar

Most of these girls are teenagers (from 18 up). Eye contact, a smile and a nod are enough to have them at your table in a few secs. But be aware, they hunt in packs. Most likely, several of her girlfriends will join her at your table. And they are always very thirsty: a beer, a refresco, how could you refuse? Without knowing it you are easily 10$ lighter before even being to the point of getting the girls’ name right. So it is wise to make your pick quickly and disappear with your latest sweetheart to a more private place.

At night (from 22:00 onwards), the place gets usually very crowded, especially when there is life music. Both tourists and Cubans have to pay entrance fee in US$ but tourists pay twice or sometimes trice as much – I never quite figured out the entrance fee policy of the Cafe Pinar. At night, the ratio of girls to tourists is less than 2:1, so it is better not to wait too long before making your choice.

Another nice place to go is El Criollo, which is an open-air cabaret close to the pub La Taverna at Calle Solano Ramos. There is dancing after the show and there are always lots of gorgeous chicks around, most of which are very available. The Criollo is not open every night of the week, but there didn’t seem to be any fixed days when I was in Pinar. Better ask around first if you want to go there.

Very good places to pick up girls in Pinar are musical events in the streets. Lots of very pretty girls in skimpy dresses dancing seductively and smiling all the time.

In Pinar, you can find girls of any size and color available. The racial mix is comparable to Havana. But the similarity stops there. In Pinar, most Chica’s are very simple peasant girls without any sophistication or interests beyond food and clothes. Oh yes, and sex of course. This is not too bad for a one-night stand but it lacks stimulation if you prefer a GFE.

Police:
There is heavy police presence in the main streets, especially at night. It is not as bad as Havana though, and they do not seem to bother any girls in the presence of tourists. They also don’t bother the tourists, of course. However, touts, ‘guides’ and other Jineteros are really afraid of them. At one night, there was a platoon of 10 cops taking siege of the Cafe Pinar and arresting every young Cuban guy who was even speaking with a tourist. I heard that they get heavy fines (75US$). Cops are always present on Marti between Isabel Rubio and Colon, checking cars on the (illegal) presence of tourists. The drivers usually know how to avoid them.

Better stay clear of the girls INSIDE the fancy clubs… they tend to be the hardened pros and if you don’t speak Spanish it’s hard to correct their attitude. Well they have shelled out a lot of money already and want it back (from you!). Girls OUTSIDE the clubs are better, they don’t have the money to pay the admission fee (can be 10 or 15$) and are much nicer if you treat them to a nice evening.

PRICES FOR SEX
The prices are between 15$ and 40$. This is also depends on your age, your looks and if the girl likes you. In the Disco’s the price ranges from 35$ to 70$. The best Chica’s want up to $100. It helps if you have little gifts for her like shampoo, t-shirts, make-up, etc.

A member wrote
“A reasonable price for a young (18-20 year old) hot prostitute is $25-30. A few at clubs tried to charge $80 or more, but I didn’t pay it! There are literally thousands of young ones that you can pick from who will accept $25-30, since this is a huge sum today in Cuba.

Clubs and Discos in Cienfuegos
D’Prisa: (On the Prado, just up from El Rapido) As Of August 2000, this is still the main “hotspot” in Cienfuegos. It doesn’t start hoppin until after midnight. Hang out with the locals, drink, dance and have a good time. Free. It has been know to have police in it every night so the selection is getting very limited. Many are underage as well.

Bene More
(At the end of El Boulevard near Parque Marti) High end disco. Real nice with live music. Good place to bring your Chica. $3 admission. It is also known to have girls who all want too much money. And there is often a line to enter so I do not bother.

Casa Verde
Prado e/ Ave 4 y 6. Located near Hotel Jagua with mainly Cubans with a strong party-vibe all nights but even more concentrated at the weekends. Entrance: 1 USD as well as the price of each beer. Open-air with sea-view and swimming-pool.

Discoteca La Caribeña
Calle 35 e/ 20 y 22
A terraced garden with dance floor and bar. 1 USD for entrance and usually attract very much young people and a lot of Jiniteras and Jineteros as well.

Discoteca El Benny
Ave 54e/ 29 y 31. Entrance: 4 USD. Very polished to be a Cuban disco, reminds of a European one. The prices still are 1 USD/beer and the dance floor has the best light equipments in town.

Discoteca Jagua
Hotel Jagua. New-opened (25th of July) disco. 1 USD should do the entrance and it should have the newest sound- and light-equipments.

DISCOS INSIDE HOTELS
HAVANA
Disco Salsa, in the Bruzón Hotel
(from 21:00 to 01:00 hours)
Discobar, in the Panamerican Hotel Resort
(from 22:00 to 05:00 hours)
Discobar Caribe, in the Bellocaribe Hotel
(from 21:00 to 03:00 hours)
Discopop El Cortijo, in the Vedado Hotel
(open 24 hours)
Guanabo Club, at 468 Street, Guanabo Beach
(from 22:00 to 06:00 hours)
Discoteca Havana Club, the most famous
in the Comodoro Hotel
(86 and 1st Streets, Miramar
from 22:00 to 05:00 hours)
Ipanema, in the Copacabana Hotel
(from 22:00 to 05:00 hours)
La Gatita Negra, in the Atlántico Hotel
(from 22:00 to 04:00 hours)
La terraza, in the Inglaterra Hotel
(from 21:00 to 02:00 hours)
Los Caneyes, in the Residencial
Marina Hemingway
(from 21:00 to 04:00 hours)
Ranchón Caney , in the Tropicoco Hotel
(from 22:00 to 02:00 hours)
Ribera Azul, in the Deauville Hotel
(from 19:00 to 04:00 hours)
Salón Rojo, in the Capri Hotel
(from 22:00 to 03:00 hours).

CLUBS AND DISCOS
Some of the clubs you walk into looks and feels and sounds like any other club in the US. It’s packed with people and especially young (18-21 years old), well-dressed, and attractive girls. Then you discover that almost any of those girls are “available” to you. You sit back and check out the wide array of beauties until you find the right one. Teen fantasy girls with huge tits, cuties with small tight asses, black girls with round butts, you name it. The most attractive women at some of the clubs, however, will ask for a lot of money, especially if they suspect that you are new to Cuba and don’t know the ropes. Finding out you are from the US can jack up the price to $100, especially if you don’t speak Spanish. After some negotiation the price can come down to $45-$50.

Comment
“One 19-year-old fantasy wore a short red skirt barely covering her firm round ass. Fifteen minutes after I first met her, I had her on her hands and knees at a rented room, with her skimpy skirt pulled up and resting on her back. It quite frankly was the best piece of ass I’ve ever had, She was incredibly tight and dripping wet!! She told me the youngest guy she had dated was 15 and the oldest was 74!–no doubt a tourist. I plowed her beautiful young ass the following day, which was even tighter than her snatch.”

Clubs and Discos In Havana
Macumba: ( Between 35 and 51 La Giraldilla) Live show with a cover charge of $15? A high class place all the way. Save the cover charge by eating there and staying on for the show.
One Comment: “I went to the Macumba disco in Havana where I found lots of near-perfect girls between ages 16 and 30 who were eager to meet foreigners and would fuck for a few drinks and $20.
Great music too with a cabaret show to boot.

Impanema
( AT the Hotel Copacabana) Small place with good music. $10 entrance fee and $15 for an escorted friend. Lots of foreigners.

Amancer
Don’t bring a date. Small and crazy inside. The music is fast and loud, the bodies are wall to wall. $5 entrance.

Jazz Club La Rampa Havana
Cuba. An underground place to hear Cuban jazz. Located near the Hotel Libre. A nice atmosphere with occasional guests from famous jazz artists from American and Europe. Great jam sessions through the night. $5.

Havana Club (at the Comodoro Hotel) Calle 86 y 1ra. Miramar, Havana. Phone: (53 7) 24-2902, 22-7712. Famous disco in Havana. A holiday of lights and sound with a contagious ambience that turns the place into an unquestionable center for entertainment. Four bars, snack bar and fine service. Daily from 22:00 hrs to 05:00 hrs. Dancing matinees on Sundays from 2:00 hrs to 7:00 hrs. Havana Club has very pretty girls. It is however about $8 by taxi from the centre of Havana (Deauville Hotel). Admission $10. Most girls arrive by 11-11:30 pm. They charge not less than $50 for 2-3 hrs. The best girls want $100. Drinks are exorbitantly priced at $8. There are about 30 girls on a week night, more on weekends. A private taxi from here to the Habana Libre Hotel costs $5.

Tropicana Santiago
Km 1 1/2 Autopista Nacional Santiago de Cuba. Phones: (0 226) 4-3268, 8-6920, 8-6821 and 4-3036 Fax-phone: 8-6090.
Located at Santiago Cuba, it is known as “Nightclub of the Caribbean”. Tropicana Santiago offers a super show with over 200 performers in the stage who have taken the most representative Cuban and Caribbean music all over the world. Meals include exclusive dishes of national and international cuisine, and cocktails are aimed at the taste and preference of the most demanding customer. Cover US$35.00 (one drink included). Opened from Wednesday to Sunday, 21:00 hrs to 02:00 hrs.

LEGAL AGE TIPS
It is no problem for a 16 year old Cuban to fuck a 14 year old girl. But it is a *BIG* problem for a tourist to fuck any girl under 16. You can go to jail for this for up to 20 years. Not only could you get in a lot of shit in Cuba, imagine if the newspapers at home picked up you did a 14 year old and wrote you were some pervert taking advantage of these poor children.

ID Cards
On the ID-card front side is a big number that starts with expl. 811208…. means she is born on the 8th of December 1981!

If the girl says she does not have her ID she is for sure a minor. All Cubans must by law carry an ID card. Often the 15 year olds will say they lost it and assure you over and over again they are older. If you are in a licensed house the owner will not let these girls in anyway. So, do not waste any time and money on a girl who does not have an ID card. Also, you will often see cards with the picture stuck on with tape on the back, these too are minors. Sometimes they will say they have fake ID because they do not want to get in trouble for being a Jinetera, but it is more likely they have fake ID because they are a minor. Look VERY closely at the pic of the girl as well. If she sticks her thumb over the pic when she shows you the ID, just go look for another girl. I have seen underage girls MANY times with someone else’s ID but say it is them, and I have seen many tourists tricked by this. If a minor stays in a rental house, the owner goes to jail so they check for sure.

BEACHES
Best time to go to Cuba to enjoy the beach activity is in the summer months, June, July and August. There is one beach one of our members writes about that is a half hour taxi ride east from central Havana) where there are hundreds of young and attractive thong-clad ladies basking in the sun and walking about the sand.

Mar Azul: (now also called Tropicoco)
Our Member recalls his last trip to Cuba as of July 2000: “I was there the first week of July, when many young women are on a break from high school and are in Havana, or other tourist spots, to earn money, so the average age of the girls was about 18. It looks like any other beach you have been to before–until you realize that most of the men there are foreigners and all of the women are young Cubanas. You discover that almost all of those bikini-clad girls are “available” to you. Again, you wait for the right one (pretty brunettes of every skin color, including dark-skinned mulattos). I was taken aback by the sheer array of young beauties on this beach. I could have had two or three cute 18-yr-olds if I had wanted. One tanned young cutie, with the tightest ass and perkiest tits I have ever seen, strolled by me in the sand. I smiled at her, she immediately came and sat next to me. We negotiated a price ($30), and after a ten minute taxi ride I had the lovely girl bent over a couple of pillows with her bikini bottom at her ankles, while I pounded her for all she was worth, first up her snatch, and then finishing in her ass!”

HOOKER AREAS
Malecón: If you cruise the streets and the Malecón, you can find plenty of women for 20-25 dollars.
In Malecón you can find a few girls waiting for customers in front of the Habana Riviera and the Nacional hotels, and on brightly lit parts of the road on the way to the Commodore Hotel.

Inside Hotels
Similar quality pussy also hangs around some of the 3-5 star hotels at night. Sometimes they even manage to get inside and sit in the lobby’s bars. Try hotels Caribbean, Deauville, Habana Libre, Inglaterra, Lido, Nacional, Capri and Plaza (see addresses).

Daytime
In day time girls hang around Cafe (Cafeteria) Monseigneur at O, entre 23 y 25, which is near the hotels Nacional and Capri. They are mainly black girls.

Several girls out on 5th Ave between Vedado and Miramar between 3 and 5pm is best.

The most notorious places to pick up a hooker are the 5th and 23rd Avenues in Vedado, the boulevard Prado in La Habana Vieja, and to a lesser extent the beach boulevard Malecón. Come here after sunset and girls will approach you. Prices are around $50 for the whole night.

Cathedral/el Patio in old Habana-afternoon/evening.
Other parks in old Habana and around Paseo Prado.
Playa del Este in front of Tropicoco (weather permitting).

IMPORTANT TRAVEL TIPS
Tip #1: Make a hotel booking before you get to Cuba. We didn’t, and arrived in Havana to be confronted by very surly officers who made us wait for three hours while they tracked down the tourist agent who proceeded to show us a list of hotels that we were to choose from if we wanted to be let through immigration. (The cheapest was about US $30 a night!!!)

Tip #2: Do not get a ride with the taxis that hang outside the immediate exit of the airport. These guys charge ridiculous prices (US $50 to get into town). We hung around looking a bit confused for a while and were soon approached by a guy who offered to take us into town for only US $5.
There is one thing that I learnt while in the country, and it was that patience is definitely a virtue. Without it, and a sense of humor, you will go bonkers in Cuba!

Tip #3: The best food is that you get in the private houses. As of March 1999 it’s illegal for house owners to serve food to people not staying in the house, but most will do it anyway if you are discreet about it. Without exception the food is good, plentiful, natural, and healthy. Costs run from US$5-7 for dinners and $2-3 for breakfasts. Some will illegally sell lobster and shrimp dinners for $7-10.

Tip #4: Bring earplugs!! Cuba is definitely a very noisy country where people often get up early and there is always a neighbor putting on a radio very loud at 8 in the morning.

Tip #5: In almost every city the streets are called by their old names by the Cubans and not by the new ones carrying “revolutionary” names – even on the cards for the tourists.

Tip #6: As you are no doubt aware passports are not stamped on entry into Cuba (for obvious reasons). Instead a piece of paper is stamped and placed inside your passport, the cost of which is $15USD. Well on departure I had to hand over my passport in order to get a boarding pass, and when I did, my visa had disappeared! Naturally no one could find it and eventually after paying a further $15USD, and a considerable delay (during which my passport was checked on a computer to ascertain that I wasn’t an arms dealer or a member of a Columbian drug cartel) another visa was issued so that I could leave. My advice to travelers therefore is to staple the visa to your passport.

Tip #7: Toilet paper: Take a little of your own when you are walking around town and expect to use a restaurant or public toilet (seriously). This is one thing that the Cubans are short of.

Tip #8: Take just enough money for the night… without paying up-front if you intend to bring a girl back to your casa (which is THE major reason for getting a casa!). Carry a PHOTOCOPY of your passport – NOT the real thing… and photocopy of your driver’s license and credit cards…- from a color copier…take several with you in case you lose one or two… then you will NOT have to worry about losing “EVERYTHING”. Also, carry wallets, money in FRONT pocket – it is MUCH harder to get into those without being noticed…

WHAT TO BRING
A Good camera, extra batteries, and plenty of film. Spanish phrase books and/or tiny dictionaries. A small flashlight. A credit card size calculator. Medical Kit: keep prescribed medications in their original containers with readable labels. Bring vitamin pills (if you normally take then), moisturizer for your skin, good sunscreen and insect repellents. Visitors need to save $ 20 USD for a Cuban exit fee, payable when you leave the airport.

SEX EXPERIENCES
A Comment: “I spotted a sweet teenie all dressed up. She was thin with short auburn hair. 18 y/o. Police were around so she wasn’t very responsive at first. Then she walked down a side street and I waved at her to wait. I asked her jokingly “where we going?” I had a load built up for a few days ready for her. We found a casa for a short stay for $10. I started making out with her and then stripped her clothes off to see that tight little body. I fingered her and took a little taste of her pussy. very clean down there. We did 69 and I licked her ass. I only lick those little asses. Big asses make a lot of doody. I put on a condom and fucked that tight pussy. It was hard to go in and out at first but then her pussy got nice and slick and I pumped her good until I squirted out a big load. I gave her $30.

Comment:
“I took a little afternoon stroll down calle 37 towards hotel Jagua and saw 2 little sweethearts. Exactly what I was looking for. I took both to a casa. One was light blonde and the other was a little dark. I made the dark one suck my dick while I ate out the blondes pussy. I fucked the dark one first because it would be easier for me to get it up again for the blonde. After I was done pumping the dark one I rested about 5 minutes. I got hard again and penetrated the blonde girls pussy. while I was pumping the blonde girl I sucked on the dark ones big firm tits. They never mentioned money. After I was all done I gave them $15 each.”
A Comment: “I made out with her, then I stripped her down and licked her body like a dog. I licked her pussy and ass for a while. I put my finger up her ass. I was as hard as a rock and ready to fuck. I humped on her for a few minutes then exploded. She wanted a condom, so I said….. how about just oral.. So we swapped doing each other orally till she came.. Then I had her lick the end of my cock while I masturbated and came on her tongue.”

INTERNET CAFES AND PHONES
Internet access Internet is not easily available in Havana – there aren’t any internet shops however if you go to the big hotels you can access internet there like Hotel National in Vedado I know has internet access. The 20th floor of the Havana Libre would have access also, however, I am not sure whether the access is restricted to its hotel guests. You can also send and receive e-mail at the Infotur offices at Avenida 5ra esq. 112 in Miramar, tel. (7) 24-7036, e-mail address infomire@teleda.get.cma.net, and Calle Obispo e/Villegas y Bernazas, tel (7) 62-4568.

OVERVIEW
A lot of us have heard that Cuba is one of the hot spots for sex travelers. This is so, however Cuba has its ups and downs depending on the crackdowns it endures every so often. What may true about the sex scene today, can be different tomorrow. Its been a hit and miss lately. In the early 90’s it was said that you could get laid for an ice cube, a hair brush, or a bottle of shampoo. Now a days the reality of prices for sex can range from $15-45 and as much as $100, depending on the quality of the girl, your looks, age and how well you can speak Spanish.

Like all countries, there are things to watch out for, things to know about such as where to stay, where to eat and and where the sex is. Below are facts and figures that may still exist today and then again may not. The information will be updated by research and inputs from all of you so feel free to send your reports in to help all of us keep apprised of the sex scene in Cuba. Unfortunately this is what you should expect from a country that has its problems with police and Government.

WEATHER WISE
Worst Time To Go:
September, October and November are the worst months to travel, it’s too wet then. January to March is warm and rather dry, but occasionally the Nortes (cool North winds) spoil the weather for some days. Cubanas don’t go to the beaches a lot at this time, too cold for them (not for us).

Best Time To Go:
July and August are better because the weather is as hot as the Chica’s and the beach life is great. Also electricity outages (apagones) are less frequent during holidays. Rain is normally limited to some afternoon showers.) Cubans take their hols in July and August, so this is when the local beaches are most crowded. Christmas, Easter and the period around 26 July, when Cubans celebrate the anniversary of the revolution, are also very busy.
Havana is always great though. Another advantage to going in June July and August is it’s low season and the island isn’t overrun with sun worshipping frost bitten Canadian and European Touristas.

HOLIDAYS
1 January – Liberation Day
1 May – Labor Day
25-27 July – Celebration of the National Rebellion
10 October – Day of Cuban Culture
Note: Christmas Day has been observed as a public holiday since the Pope’s visit in 1997

EVENTS
The Havana Carnival in late February and early March features parades in front of the Capitolio or along the Malecón on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. The Jornadas de la Cultura Camagneyana is scheduled for the first two weeks of February, and the Havana International Jazz Festival happens every second year in February. April sees the Semana de la Cultura celebrated in Baracoa and the Electroacoustic Music Festival in Varadeao. The first week of May has the Romería de Mayo in Holguin, and at the end of June Trinidad hosts the Fiestas Sanjuaneras. Carnival is celebrated in Santiago de Cuba during the last two weeks of July and the first week of August to coincide with the holidays around July 26. Carnival marks the end of the sugar harvest and originated as a period in which the slaves were allowed to celebrate. For those 10 days the drum is king. The Festival of Caribbean Culture is celebrated in June or July, October has the 10-day Havana Festival of Contemporary Music and the Semana de la Cultura Trinitaria happens in Trinidad in late November. The International Festival of Latin American Film is held in Havana in December of each year.

PRICE WISE
Prices depend on length of time you stay. The HIGH season is Nov-Dec-Jan and July-August)

GETTING THERE FROM WHERE
Almost all visitors to Cuba arrive by air, with scheduled flights arriving from Canada, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and Europe. The main gateways for US travelers continue to be Cancun, Nassau and Toronto. There are direct flights available from the USA, but US citizens will need the permission of the US Treasury Department, which restricts travel to Cuba to journalists, researchers and a handful of other groups. There are no direct flights between the United States and Cuba. Consequently, Americans have to travel via a third country. Going through Canada or Mexico is some options, Mexico being the cheapest way. Each of these countries host several tour companies that cater to Americans wishing to travel to Cuba.

FROM CANADA TO CUBA
To enter Cuba you will need a Cuban tourist card issued by your Tour operators or Air liners,
cost is $CAN 16. to $CAN 20. and a passport that has been valid for a full six months prior to your travel.
There are no additional visa or passport requirements for Canada or Mexico entering the United States from Canada or Mexico requires only a copy of your birth certificate and a valid photo ID. Take both, they’ll come in handy if you accidentally get a Cuba stamp in your passport. Since there is no U.S. Embassy in Cuba, we advise taking two photocopies of your passport.
If you lose your passport while there, you can use the passport photocopies to exit the country.

Customs & Bureaucracy
During the flight from the United States to Canada you will be asked to fill out declaration form.
Canadian customs will collect the for, proceed to your carrier’s Airline ticket counter or your tour operator agency’s booth to pick up your documents. At the carrier’s or tour operator agency’s counter, ask for your tour operator representative so you can pay for or pick up your travel package.
With tickets in hand, you can now check in for your flight. Note that most carriers only allow one carry-on. Be prepared to check all other bags.

AIRPORT TO HOTEL
You will be arriving in Jose Marti Airport. Never get in a Cuban taxi without discussing price before especially if you don’t see a meter. never tip the driver if the meter is covered up either.

Four Types Of Taxis
1) Tourist taxis which are the most expensive ones.
2) Pannataxi which are real cheap if the taximeter is running. If you bargain a fixed price beforehand you may pay more.
3) Taxi particular which are old cars with a incredible smelling of gasoline and are more expensive than Pannataxi with a taximeter and not worth the price.
4) So called Peso-Taxis which are the cheapest ones if they take you.

CUSTOMS AND IMMIGRATION
Arrive at Jose Marti Airport in Havana, deplane into the spacious red-roofed, white-beamed facilities, and follow the yellow and black signs in English to the immigration desks.
Havana’s customs and immigration is less casual than Canadian but nothing to get in a sweat about. Immigration is composed of about 20 stations, each with a short hall, small office, teller-style window, exit door and one agent. Most agents and airport employees speak some English.
As you slide your tourist card and passport across the counter to the immigration agent, you should politely request that the agent stamp only your tourist card and not your passport.

Immigration agents are quite used to this request from American travelers, aware of the legal nettles that could arise from a Cuban stamp on a U.S. passport. They will oblige your request, generally without remark. Once your tourist card is stamped and your passport examined, the agent will press a button unlocking the door for your entry to customs.
Cuban customs X-rays your carry-on baggage, just like in any other airport, as well as frisking you. This is low key and pretty informal a female security agent checks female travelers, and a male agent checks male travelers.

Collect your luggage at baggage claim, but keep your passport and tourist card handy. You’ll have to show them to one more agent before you leave the baggage area. He or she will make sure you have your tourist card, glance at your passport photo, and casually ask if this is your first time visiting Cuba, how many days you’ll be staying, and the name of your hotel or rent a room address.

Immigration officers frequently ask tourists for a hotel voucher. You are not allowed to enter the Country without an address where you will be staying. If you are unable to supply the officer with the address of your accommodation you can be forced to make a reservation for a couple of days at the port of entry. Instead of the name of a hotel you can also enter the address of the casa particular you will be staying at.

Transportation from the airport should be included in your travel package. A driver, who received your name via the tour company, will be waiting along with a coterie of fare-ready taxi drivers right outside the baggage claim area. An appropriate tip for an airport drive is $ 2.

When returning to the United States the above steps basically work in reverse. Instead of paying an airport or departure tax to your transit country, you must pay $ 20. departure tax in Cuba.
If you are traveling on the sly, having circumvented the license application process, exercise discretion by removing Havana baggage tags from your luggage and discarding any goods or papers including boarding passes.
When completing your reentry to the United States, don’t advertise your travel time in Cuba. As far as anyone is concerned, you’ve been in Toronto or Montreal.

CUSTOMS TIPS
Travelers can bring in two bottles of liquor, a carton of cigarettes, personal effects, photographic equipment, typewriter, personal jewelry, etc., all duty free. They cannot bring in firearms, narcotics, pornography or Cuban currency. Durable goods or valuables acquired in Cuba must be declared upon leaving the country, showing receipts.

PASSPORT AND VISA
U.S. citizens are required to have a valid passport and a Cuban Tourist card to enter Cuba.

TRAVELER’S CHEQUES
Traveler’s checks issued from a U.S. bank cannot be used. You can purchase traveler’s checks from Thomas Cook or Visa in Canada, but this will require that you first change your U.S. dollars into the Canadian dollars, then purchase U.S. dollar traveler’s checks. This is generally a money-losing endeavor, not counting the fee charged by the company issuing the checks. In addition, hotels charge a hefty 4% commission for cashing traveler’s checks, and banks charge between 2% and 3%. But if a traveling mishap occurs, the security of “emergency funds” can be well worth the exchange rate and commissions. We suggest purchasing a small sum of “emergency” traveler’s checks while in your transit country, either from a Thomas Cook or a Visa office in Airport.

CREDIT CARDS
U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens are prohibited from using credit cards in Cuba. U.S. credit card companies do not accept vouchers from Cuba, and Cuban shops, hotels and other places of business do not accept U.S. credit cards. Neither personal checks nor travelers’ checks drawn on U.S. banks are accepted in Cuba.

TIPPING
At client’s discretion, not included in bill. Normally tourists give to the waiter 10% (cash) of the bill.
Bring lots of small bills — no-one can break 50ís or 100 dollar bills Cuban tourism workers rely on tips. People who deserve a US$1 tip include museum staff who give you a complete tour, hotel guards who watch your rental car all night, helpful bus drivers, attentive wait staff or anyone in the service industry who goes beyond the call of duty. Do not offer money to officials to obtain preferential treatment; governmental corruption is rare in Cuba and attempted bribery will only make things worse.
Taxes: Nothing is taxed anywhere in Cuba.

CASH
There are three types of money in Cuba. The Cuban Peso which is the national money. The Convertible Peso which is used as Dollar and de USD itself as the third used type. The convertible Peso and Dollar are called divisa or “Fula”, too. You can change the Convertible Peso into USD at the airport before leaving the country, because it doesn’t have value out of it.

In Cuba you need more Dollars or Convertible Pesos which are the same. All hotels, private houses Taxis (Pannataxi, Touristaxi, Havanataxi, Taxi OK etc.), shops (called in Cuba “shopping”) only accept USD.

You can change your USD into Cuban Pesos in the money change Houses, called “CADECA”. You receive 21 Pesos (January 2000) per each USD. There are CADECAS in big cities only, that’s why you need to change a lot of Dollars if you want to travel for a long time into the country side.

If you go to Cuba for one or two weeks, and if you want to stay only in touristic places like Vedado, Havana, Trinidad, Santiago de Cuba and so on you don’t need Cuban Pesos. But if you want to go the the country side traveling like Cubans and like I suggest it at my page you need the national money!

Take lots and lots of $1 bills and even lots of US Coins. You must pay for almost everything you buy in dollars, and unless the seller has small bills (not likely), you will get virtually worthless pesos in change, making costs even higher than they already are.

HOW MUCH TO BRING
Below are costs for tow places in Cuba to compare a higher priced area to a lower priced area.
Casa Particular: $25 Cienfuegos, $35 Havana

Casas are the best way to go. See how truly wonderful Cuban people are as you share their house with them. They are always clean, comfortable, air-conditioned casas in very safe areas (which is just about anywhere in Cuba) that have attached full bathrooms with hot water. Food and ancillary services such as food and laundry are almost always available.
Of course, if you prefer, there are many world-class hotels that you can stay in in Havana and a couple of nice ones in Cienfuegos.

Food: $20 Cienfuegos, $25 – $30 Havana
Typical breakfast in casas consist of fresh fruit, Cuban coffee, an omelets with toast and fresh squeezed juice. Typically, it costs $4-$5 per person. Lunch can be had at any Paladar for about $4-$7 or at a number of fast food establishments (El Rapido, Rumbos) for about $2-$3. A typical Cuban dish of Chicken with Congri and fried Platanos is about $8-$10 in a Paladare.

Transportation: $10-$25 Cienfuegos and Havana
Taxis are cheap in Cuba, typically $1-$2 for short hops to $5 across town. The bus ride between Havana and Cienfuegos (one way) on a beautiful coach with A/C and movies is only $20. on Viazul. If you’d like a driver, with car, at your disposal for the day, they are available from $25-$35 a day.

Personal Expenses: $50 a day Havana and Cienfuegos
Now that you’ve got the basics covered, this would include anything from alcoholic beverages, entrance fees to events, shopping….whatever. Of course, it could be more (up to the per diem rate) or less depending on your spending habits.

Getting Laid: $20-$100 per day.

CASA PARTICULAR
A Casa Particular is Cuba’s equivalent to Bed & Breakfast. The plural of casa particular is Casas Particulares, not casa particulars. They are basically people’s homes and they rent out a portion or a section of their home, maybe even a separate guest house.
There are two kinds of houses: an official private house and non official. An official house the owner of it has to pay tasks (fees) to the state. In general these tasks are very high for the Cuban people, between 100 USD and 250 USD per month. It depends on the region. For instance, in Vedado (part of Havana) the tasks are of 250 USD per month, in Viñales (Pinar del Rio) the owners have to pay “only” 100 USD per month. Living in these houses you’ll not have problems with the state, neither with your own security, but the situation in the houses without license (no officials) is really different.

If you’re in doubt if a house is official or not, there’s a easy way to find it out. At every house which rents with a license you will find at the main port a sign (image). A blue one for people renting in USD, a red one (hard to find) for people which are allowed to rent in Cuban Pesos.

The prices for renting a house (a room) in Cuba are between 10 USD and 30 USD daily for each room. If you compare it with other countries you’ll see it’s rather expensive in Cuba. The reason is because of the tax that has to be given to the state. Many times people will come up to you and try to get you to rent a place that they know about that is a good deal. These people are working on a commission basis, which they will receive a lot of money. The problem is that the owner is not who has to pay the money, but you! I can give you an example. A house or a room in Trinidad normally costs 10 USD per day, but when the owner has to pay commissions it costs 15 USD, 5 USD for the person that showed you the house. He/she will receive it each day that you stay in the room. The same for the meal prices. They will cost also more, for each meal the hustler receive a commission.

The private houses in Cuba are as different as the Cuban people. There are houses where you feel as a “Member of the family”. These are very nice families and there are others where you are totally independent of the family. You’ll have your own key sometimes also your own entry, a room with air condition, television, refrigerator, etc. There are families interested in you, there are others only interested in your money. There are houses where the owners give you a big breakfast with fruits and a lot of other things, but in others in the same town, the owners say that is impossible to find fruits.

Comment:
You can quickly develop genuine Cuban relationships and become deeply involved in the culture. Before you know it you’ll be part of the family. If you are single, they’ll make every effort to match-make you with their most attractive friends. You’ll be made to feel very special.”

Casa Tip:
Always take a suitcase full of clothes and cosmetics and the like to give to the Cuban family who’s casa particular you stay with.

HOTELS
The hotels are not “SEX TRAVELER” friendly. I mean the hotels are bad for the single adult travel man. In each hotel you must pay the gateman at the entrance, if you want take a girl to your room. In some hotels you must register the girl. All girls ask if you stay in a hotel or a casa particular. Most girls offer you a private house for a few hours if you say you stay in a hotel. In which case, you will wind up paying a commission for the room she gets and her fee. It is better to stay in a casa particular (a private house). Then you have no problems when you want a girl for the entire night. The normal range for private houses are from 15$-35$ per night.

Prices for hotels:
Budget: US$15-25 Mid-range: US$25-100 Top-end: US$100 and upwards
Cuba is still reasonably affordable, though not cheap. A double room in a medium-priced beachside resort runs US$50, US$100 all-inclusive. The same room in a state-run hotel costs around US$35, and in a private residence US$15-25.
One Member wrote: Since this was my first visit and I wasn’t familiar with the “Casas Particulares,” I stayed in a hotel. This posed a problem when it came to bringing women back to the room; I spent twice as much money as necessary because I had to give the concierge a hefty tip to allow the women to come up. The rule in the tourist hotels in Havana, and elsewhere in Cuba, is the following: no women allowed in the room who aren’t registered at the front desk. When the manager was in, I couldn’t persuade the concierge to accept the “mordida.” In these cases I’d have to take the woman to a “casa particular” and pay $20 for an hour–along with her own rate.

LOCATIONS OF CASAS AND PLACES TO STAY
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Where to Stay In Vedado
Ave 26 e/ 45 y 47.# 1060. Nuevo Vedado. Phone: 537-81-16-70 $35 / night.
Owners name: Suzana speaks English
Ave. 26 Entre 45 y 47. #1002 (close to fist casa). Nuevo Vedado (Near Zoo).
swimming pool phone: 53.7.81.0101. $45 per night.
Owners name Gisela speaks English.
Calle 45 e/ Ave. 26 y Calle 36 # 1121 Nuevo Vedado
Phone: 537.81.7693 or 537.23.3428
$35 per night.. Spanish only.
Owners Name: Nuria Garcia Menendez

Where To Stay In Cienfuegos
House #1 off Malecón.
House #2 Nicest in city.
House #3 Quiet away city
House #4 Clean house
House #5 Private apartment
House #6 Italian cooking House #7 View of bay
House #8 By #7 Big groups OK
House #9 Colonial house in park
House #10 on Malecón
House #11 Beside Hotel Jagua House #12 Biggest bathroom
House #13 Professional cook
House #14 Divers Beach house
House #15 Isolated on beach

hostalsanmiguel Recommended Hostal, but does not allow girls.
Sra. Mireydis Ave. 44 # 3720 e/ 37 y 39 ph. #9608, from US 011-53-432-9608. In Cienfuegos

RESTAURANTS (A.K.A. Paladars)
Recommended by members.

HAVANA
Amor Restaurante: 23 No, 759 B y C 3rd Floor. Vedado, La Habano, Cuba. Phone: 3-8150.
Wonderful place with fantastic food. Grand dining room with beautiful antiques.
The flan is the best in town.

Capitolio:
Street 13 Entre16 y 18 Vedado, Havana. Popular in Vedado. Good dishes.

Don Dangrejo:
1 st Ave. 16 y 18. Miramar. Habana, Cuba. Very pricey restaurant “on the ocean”. Good selection of seafood.

El Ajibe:
Avenida 7ma e/24 y 26. Miramar, Cuba. Really great restaurant. Chicken is the house specialty. By N. American and UK standards a great bargain. The food is hot ( not spicy). French fries suck. Warning… be aware they will try to add to your bill with unordered side dishes. Very touristy.

El Floridita:
La Havana Vieja, Monserrate 557.Habana, Cuba. Phone: Tel: 63 10 60. Cuba’s most famous restaurant since the 1930s. Ernest Hemingway, and various Cuban presidents have been regulars here because of the excellent food well presented and well served. The prices, however, are high. Don’t leave the island without trying one of the daiquiris popularized by Hemingway.

El Helecho:
Calle 6e/ Linea and calle 11. Havana, Cuba. Clean, good variety and good value.

El Laurel Quinta
Avenida Santa Fe. 1 mile west of entrance to Marina Hemingway Open air. You can sit right next to the water across from the Customs Dock in the Marina.
Try the Chuleta with Moros and Maduros $5.00.

El Palenque:
17 y 190 Siboney. Miramar. Habana, Cuba. Phone: 21-81-67. Best pizza in Habana. Many other dishes at fantastic prices. Three of us has a full dinner for $12.
Highly recommend. Follow signs to Pabexpo.

El Patio
Pl. de la Catedral. La Habana Vieja, Phone: 33 81 46. This restaurant is in the courtyard of one of the finest palaces on the Plaza de la Catedral.

La Bodeguita del Medio
Cuba and San Ignacio. La Habana Vieja, Cuba. Phone: 62 44 98. One of Havana’s great hang outs. A superb Creole tavern. Its Mojitos are famous around the world. The restaurant is situated in one of the prettiest spots in the city. Especially recommended is the picadillo (finely chopped meat sautéed with onions, garlic, olives, and tomatoes), the tasajo, and the arroz congri (rice with spicy meat sauce). Try the chicharrones with a light beer. Also, try the upstairs, top floor, out door (well, sort of) kitchen. The prices are lower and the food is just as good. Better to get there earlier in the day, as the food is fresher.

La Casa de Quinta
Av. 5 and 16th. Miramar, Cuba. Phone: 29 40 47. This is a small, rustic ranch house located to the side of the Casa del Habano. It offers beautifully presented portions of well prepared food, seafood as well as fish and meat. The prices are reasonable.

La Guardia
Calle Concordia no. 418 e/Gervasio y Escoba central Havana. Good food. Also a hangout for Jack Nicholson, Danny Glover and other notables when in Havana. Reservations suggested.
They open at 7:00 pm for dinner. good wine selection.

La Torre del Mangia
Ave. 5, 40 y 42. Miramar, Cuba. Phone: 33 24 50. This is the restaurant for Italian cuisine. Its chefs are schooled at the best restaurants of Italy. The pasta dishes are always good. The parguitos entomatados del golfo (Gulf porgy with tomato) is quite popular.

Las Mercedes
Calle 18 No. 204 Habana, Cuba. Phone: 3-7512. Good prices. Best to go early or call. Excellent chicken and pork dishes, with all the sides. Large portions. Meals around $10 each.

Los Cactus
Ave. 33 #3405 Entre 34 y 36 Miramar, Cuba. Meals about $10. Highly recommended.

Paladar La Fuente
Calle 10#303, e/Avenida 3ra y 5ta. Miramar, La Habana. Phone: 29-2836. Inside an old mansion will lots of atmosphere, pasta from $3, fish meals from $7.
Large portions, tasty food.

Puerto Isabela
Calle 17 No. 609 % B y C, Vedado, Cuba. Phone: 32-1442.
Specializing in Spanish Creole and Seafood. Great rice and beans.

Restaurante-Paladar Torreson
Malecón no 27 entre Prado y Carcel. Ciudad Habana. tel. 61-7476
The only restaurant on the Malecón where you can see the sun going under in all its beauty.

Tocororo
Calle 18, No. 302, 3 y 5. Miramar, Cuba. Phone: 33 22 09. Maybe the best restaurant in Havana. Beautiful gardens, great service, wonderful food. The quality of the raw materials is excellent and the preparation is simple but delicious. The place is famous for its Pechitos de Camarones, the house hors d’oeuvre, and for its Creole dishes. All of the seafood is good, especially the grilled lobster. Expensive by Cuban standards, about $30 per meal.

Villa Babbi
Calle 27 No 965 e/6 y 8 in Vedado, Havana. Tel: 30-6373

VEDADO RESTAURANTS
The Paladar across the street from the Havana Libre called Monquito. Between $6 and $8.00 for dinners with a beer and coffee and dessert. Great place if you are in Vedado.

Overview
A lot of us have heard that Cuba is one of the hot spots for sex travelers. This is so, however Cuba has its ups and downs depending on the crackdowns it endures every so often. What may true about the sex scene today, can be different tomorrow. Its been a hit and miss lately. In the early 90’s it was said that you could get laid for an ice cube, a hair brush, or a bottle of shampoo. Now a days the reality of prices for sex can range from $15-45 and as much as $100, depending on the quality of the girl, your looks, age and how well you can speak Spanish.

“Age or looks are irrelevant here to the girls. Your heart (and sometimes your pocket book) is what counts. I dated two 18 year olds and they felt like real girlfriends (yes, I know this is fantasy island). Some girls just want some chocolates from the dollar stores, some wanted nada, some a friend in the U.S and some wanted $$ — you’ll will meet them all. A good girl (even though she sleeps with you in two hours of meeting you) will be insulted by money offers — take her shopping or buy her a real dinner or use your imagination. Sex is part of life in Cuba.

Women
Cuban women love sex and they do not get offended by overtures the way cold blooded American women do. The normal Cuban girl begins her sexually active life by the time she’s 12. A 16 year old girl has reached her prime and anything over 20 is already over the hill.
The typical Cuban girl with whom you might seek a relationship with will in all likelihood will be highly educated, such as a lawyer, doctor, optometrist.
The Cuban girls tend to have “dark” features. Their eyes are dark with thick eyebrows and thick bushes between their legs. They aren’t into shaving. Cuban girls tend to be tall and slender.

Cost
The prices are between $15 and $40. The difference in price depends on how well the girl likes you. In the Disco’s the price ranges from $35 to $70. The best Chica’s want up to $100. It helps if you have little gifts for her like shampoo, t-shirts, make-up, etc.

Legal
Prostitution is illegal but widespread. Customers are not prosecuted.
It is no problem for a 16 year old Cuban to fuck a 14 year old girl. Age of consent is 18 years old.

Mexico if you’re on the West Coast or in the Midwest, is the daily Cancun flight. This is an easy connection to make and you get there by 10PM that same day, the return flight gets you back late afternoon the same day.
West Coast flyers can also connect thru Mexico City, but most connections here will mean an overnight stay in Mexico City. But the service seems to be better on the Mexicana flights than the Aerocaribe flights. Even if flying from NYC the connection thru Cancun is still a relatively easy option.

Thought this information maybe helpful to some of you guys wanting to go to Cuba. Taino Tours has a charter that leaves from Tijuana every Saturday afternoon and does a turnaround when it gets to Havana. Last time I checked on the price it was around $695 round trip. The office is located 5 minutes away from the Border, near the Cultural
Center. I used this company last year and had good luck with them, the person I spoke to within the company was Saul Marquez.

Taino Tours
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9330-8, Zona Rio,
Tijuana, B.C.
From US dial
011 52 66-84-94-35
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Hours
Monday – Friday
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Canada to Cuba
To enter Cuba you will need a Cuban tourist card issued by your Tour operators or Air liners,
cost is $CAN 16. to $CAN 20. and a passport that has been valid for a full six months prior to your travel.
There are no additional visa or passport requirements for Canada or Mexico entering the United States from Canada or Mexico requires only a copy of your birth certificate and a valid photo ID. Take both, they’ll come in handy if you accidentally get a Cuba stamp in your passport. Since there is no U.S. Embassy in Cuba, we advise taking two photocopies of your passport. If you lose your passport while there, you can use the passport photocopies to exit the country.

I was in cuba for two weeks covering Xmas and new year, staying in Havana and Cienfuegos. I’ve been reading postings on this newsgroup for quite a while now, and obtained some valuable information, so I thought I’d return the favor and report on my recent trip to Cuba. There have been a couple of good postings about Cuba over the last few months, and I don’t want to repeat what they said, so I’ll try to cover the points they missed. The best place to meet “las chicas” is unquestionably the disco at the Hotel Comodoro. If you can’t get laid here then either you’re a complete loser, or you don’t look like a tourist. When you get the taxi to go there, don’t make the mistake I did and have it drop you off in front of the hotel lobby. I spent half an hour wandering around the hotel grounds listening for the sound of music. The disco has a completely different entrance, a road which runs down the west side of hotel. When you get there you may see a big line of people outside, don’t worry about this, these are the peso paying customers. If you are paying in dollars ($10) walk directly up to the booth and give them your money. You may be asked to escort a Cuban woman inside, she will probably offer to pay her own entry, they can’t get in unless escorted. I was overly cautious the first time this happened and refused. I was afraid that she may decide that I had become her property, and it would be a problem trying to get rid of her. The second time, I relented and the lady in question immediately disappeared into the crowd once inside. Something else you need to be aware of is that they give you a punch card at the entrance – don’t loose this!!! – this is how you buy your drinks inside. You hand the card to the bartender and he punches the appropriate holes and gives the card back to you. No money exchanges hands, you hand in your card on the way out and pay then. If you loose the card you have to pay $50. I suspect this system, which was in operation at a number of nightclubs I went to, was made deliberately confusing to scam unsuspecting tourists out of $50. Once thru the entrance you walk across a small open air courtyard to get into the disco itself. The dance music doesn’t really get going until midnight, before that they play “background” music. As has been said before, you don’t have to find the women, they will find you. In fact your biggest problem will be fending off women you don’t want, and believe me they can be very persistent. If you are sitting down try “Yo espero para mi amiga” (I’m waiting for my female friend), or if you are walking around try “Yo busco para mi amiga” (I’m looking for my female friend), although this may not always work. The disco is full of beautiful girls, so it shouldn’t be long before you find someone you want. Some of the girls speak a bit of English, but none spoke better English than my minimal Spanish. I tried to make some small talk, and even danced a bit with the girls I was with, but we got down to business fairly quickly. I paid $50-70 for the girl, plus $30 for the “casa”, plus the cost of taxi rides. I think I overpaid a little, and maybe could have negotiated down some more, but I’m fairly wealthy and these people are quite poor, so I figured I’d be generous, plus they were nice to me and I liked them. One strange phenomenon that occurred to me every single time I was about to leave with my new amiga, was that she would introduce me to a girlfriend who would tell me she was hungry and could I give her some money to buy food! I didn’t believe any of them, especially after the third time it happened, but I didn’t want to look like a miser in front of my ladyfriend, so I gave her buddy $5.

I also went to Pappa’s disco at the Marina Hemmingway a couple of times. This place got a terrific review last year in the WSG, unfortunately it was as dead as a doornail both times I went. The only people there were a few tourist couples. To add insult to injury, the second time I went I had to wait an hour and a half for a taxi to come and pick me up and take me back to my hotel. Another word of warning, if you decide to go there make sure you get a tourist taxi to take you and not a private taxi. The private taxis are afraid of the police (they’re not supposed to be taking you), so more often than not they will insist on dropping you off short of your destination. This can obviously be a problem, especially at Marina Hemmingway, where the front entrance is about a mile away from the disco. You will be facing a very long walk, even assuming you know where the disco is located. The marina is a huge maze of unsignposted roads. All this was unfortunate as Pappa’s was a nice place, right on the water’s edge, an open air disco, $5 to get in, and they even put on a mini “Tropicana” show for you. Ache, in the hotel Cohiba, which was supposed to be the most sophisticated/classiest disco in town, has gone out of business. It has been replaced by a Hard Rock Caf&eacute; lookalike, again filled with mainly tourist couples eating at tables. Tried to get into Club Turquino on the 25th floor of the hotel Habana Libre, and was told I had to buy my ticket down in the lobby. There was a big line for tickets so I decided to sit in an armchair for a while until the line died down. Sat there for about half an hour (this was round midnight), everyone going in seamed to be in couples (tourist men with Cuban women), didn’t see anyone I was attracted to, plus I had forgotten to bring any condoms with me, and I was feeling tired from all these late nights, so I wimped out and went back to my hotel. Went to the disco in the hotel Copacabana, much smaller than the one at hotel Comodorro. About 10 minutes after I went in the lights went on and they had a guy put on some kind of floor show which consisted of asking people where they from and handing out prizes, while his female assistant danced provocatively beside him. This seamed to go on forever so I left after about an hour. Drove past Club 1830 in a taxi numerous times, it looked fairly busy, but I never went in so I don’t know what it’s like. Spent a day at the Playas del Este, sitting on the sand in front of the hotel Tropicoco. It was strange, we were packed in like sardines, while about 50 yards down the beach in either direction it was virtually empty. Lots of chicas working the beach, almost exclusively black (sorry but I just don’t find black women attractive, although I’m obviously alone in this as there were huge numbers of white European and South American men with black Cuban women everywhere I went in Cuba). I think I saw lots of street hookers out and about in Havana, although as Cuban women tend to dress fairly provocatively, and hitchhiking is an accepted activity in Cuba, the spandex or mini skirted young woman standing on the street corner waving at passing cars may or may not be looking for clients. On the other hand the majority of hitchhikers did tend to be young women – a coincidence? 5th avenue in Miramar appeared to be the place with the most action, which is a bit surprising as this is where most of the embassies are located. I wasn’t interested in street hookers, but a friend I was with talked to some of them and told me they wanted $37 each, for what I don’t know!

Went to Cienfuegos for about four days, made the mistake of pre-booking a room at the hotel Jagua for the entire period. The best course of action would have been to book one day and then go find a casa particular. There were quite a few just a few blocks north of the hotel, or get some tout to find one for you. I was approached a number of times by guys offering to not only get accommodation for me but to provide me with chicas as well. I prefer to get my own women, but in this case I think it was about the only way I could have scored.

I visited Cuba about a year ago, for ten days. It was my first trip, but not my last!! I had, by far, the best sex of my life in Cuba, with some of the hottest girls I have ever seen. I’m 45 years old from Texas, and got to Cuba by going to Mexico and then flying from there to Cuba.

My first impression of the country was pretty bad. The country’s infrastructure is disintegrating, the buildings are in bad disrepair–and many of it’s people are on the verge of starving. Tourists who go there without any knowledge of Spanish–or without travel experience in Latin America–might be in for a surprise. Of course, one could go, as many do, straight to the tourist spots, such as Varadero, and avoid seeing the actual conditions of the country, or even average Cubans. I decided to stay in Havana–which worked out well in any case, since a week before I arrived there was a crackdown on prostitution at Varadero. I also wanted to see some of the sites in Havana, an incredible city with some of the best live music in the world–along with the most beautiful women in the Americas!!

Since this was my first visit and I wasn’t familiar with the “casas particulares,” I stayed in a hotel. This posed a problem when it came to bringing women back to the room; I spent twice as much money as necessary because I had to give the concierge a hefty tip to allow the women to come up. The rule in the tourist hotels in Havana, and elsewhere in Cuba, is the following: no women allowed in the room who aren’t registered at the front desk. When the manager was in, I couldn’t persuade the concierge to accept the “mordida.” In these cases I’d have to take the woman to a “casa particular” and pay $20 for an hour–along with her own rate.

I found that a reasonable price for a young (18-20 year old) hot prostitute is $25-30. A few at clubs tried to charge $80 or more. But I didn’t pay it! There are literally thousands of young ones that you can pick from who will accept $25-30, since this is a huge sum today in Cuba.

Since I prefer Latinas and brunettes, for me Cuba is the closest thing to paradise I think I’ll ever see. It’s truly heavenly because many of these young Cubanas are “available”–i.e., to men with hard currency/dollars. In ten days I met and entertained five women; four were 18-19 years old (one of these was trained as a gymnist at the University of Havana–and she had a body to prove it!) and the other was a 20-year-old who looked like she was 18. If I might add, this dark-skinned piece had nipples 3 to 4 inches in diameter. If these five young ladies were in the US, they would be ranked as “nines,” and two as “tens” for their beauty. There were other women I saw accompanying tourists who were even better–one was attractive enough to be a runway model.

During my stay I saw many older men (50 or over–most Spanish, Italian, Canadian, and German) with attractive, if not gorgeous, young Cubanas. I saw one lucky old tourist, at least 55, strolling down the street one evening with a stunning 20-22 year-old girl, whose magnificent protruding chest is still imprinted in my memory.

Anyways, I spent my evenings at either the Havana Club Discoteque at the Hotel Commodore or at Ache at the Hotel Melia Cohiba. I was so taken by the girls at these two clubs, I didn’t even think of going to see the many other clubs at other hotels in Havana–for example, those near the Prado (Paseo de Marti). During my next trip, I’ll plan to visit some of these other locations. There are perhaps two dozen spots of this type in Havana, all of which cater to tourist dollars and all filled with young girls in the business. And this is only Havana–other, more isolated, cities like Cienfuegos and Santiago, may offer even better opportunities since fewer tourist go there.

Well, if you want fantasy fulfillment consider this: you walk into a club which looks and feels and sounds like any other club in the US. It’s packed with people and especially young (18-21 years old), well-dressed, and attractive girls. Then you discover that almost any of those girls are “available” to you. You sit back and check out the wide array of beauties until you find the right one. Teen fantasy girls with huge tits, cuties with small tight asses, black girls with round butts, you name it. The most attractive women at these two clubs, however, will ask for a lot of money, especially if they suspect that you are new to Cuba and don’t know the ropes; after I told them I was from the US some tried to get $100 from me even though I speak good Spanish.

Nonetheless, after negotiation these young beauties usually brought the price down to $45-$50–still pretty expensive, though they were real beauties and I probably could have gotten the price down. One 19-year-old fantasy wore a short red skirt barely covering her firm round ass. Fifteen minutes after I first met her, I had her on her hands and knees at a rented room, with her skimpy skirt pulled up and resting on her back. It quite frankly was the best piece of ass I’ve ever had, She was incredibly tight and dripping wet!! She told me the youngest guy she had dated was 15 and the oldest was 74!–no doubt a tourist. I plowed her beautiful young ass the following day, which was even tighter than her snatch.

My jinetero friend told me I was overcharged even at the $45-$50 range. He said the going rate, even for a young and attractive jinetera, is $25-30 at the most. Later, he hooked me up with a pretty (another fantasy) 18-year-old mulatta for $25.

Or, how about this for wish fulfullment: you go to a beach (called Mar Azul, now also called Tropicoco, a half hour taxi ride east from central Havana) where there are hundreds of, yes, young and attractive thong-clad ladies basking in the sun and walking about the sand. I was there the first week of July, when many young women are on a break from high school and are in Havana, or other tourist spots, to earn money, so the average age of the girls was about 18. It looks like any other beach you have been to before–until you realize that most of the men there are foreigners and all of the women are young Cubanas. You discover that almost all of those bikini-clad girls are “available” to you. Again, you wait for the right one (pretty brunettes of every skincolor, including dark-skinned mulattas). I was taken aback by the sheer array of young beauties on this beach. I could have had two or three cute 18-yr-olds if I had wanted. One tanned young cutie, with the tightest ass and perkiest tits I have ever seen, strolled by me in the sand. I smiled at her, she immediately came and sat next to me. We negotiated a price ($30), and after a ten minute taxi ride I had the lovely girl bent over a couple of pillows with her bikini bottom at her ankles, while I pounded her for all she was worth, first up her snatch, and then finishing in her ass! Another unbelievable piece for the taking!

On this same beach, I saw a lot of older tourists scouting for babes–balding guys with pot bellies who were literally just waiting, and not for long, to plow teenage cuties–girls who, if they were in the US,would easily be candidates for Homecoming Queen, or at least a very popular cheerleader. At one of the clubs I went to I saw three old Spanish guys–between 55 and 65–each with a cute girl in the 18-21 age range. One of the girls was so beautiful I was hoping to run into her on another night. It was almost too much to believe. I don’t think I saw one unattractive girl on that beach. Too bad I discovered Mar Azul on the last day of my trip. But apparently most of the other tourist locales are similar. There is a surplus of young female flesh in Cuba today, and now that I know the ropes, when I return in a few months I’ll be able to explore more locales.

Though my trip was brief, during my stay in Cuba I banged the most gorgeous girls I’ve ever gotten in my life. And because the young ladies all have dreams of moving to the US, American tourists are the number one wish for a Cuban girl. As I see it, the next time I return I should be able to score some of the most beautiful ones on the island.

I’ve been to Cuba 6 times and could never get enough. The 1st time I went to Cuba was in July. A friend of mine had gone in March and said he had a blast. so I met him & 3 other friends in Havana. we stayed at a Casa Particular in Vedado, 2 blocks from the Cohiba. $25 a day, which includes dinner, I’m talking Lobster, fish, black beans, “the whole 9 yards”. when I first arrived at the house, I was alone, because I was traveling from the Dominican Republic. the family greeted me with open arms, a lobster dinner, a cold cervesa, and a air-coditioned room. I stayed with a young couple & her parents. that night, the young man took me to a disco called Johnny’s. he warned me that there was going to be alot of girls, but I could’nt believe my eyes. After a few hours of drinking and dancing, I went home with a cute Malata Girl (18). The next day my friends came and thats when the real party started. we went back to johnny’s and brought back alot of girls and have a party. the owners got a little mad, as they need to keep a lower profile with Girls and Tourists. The next day we head to the beach. You have never seen a beach with So Maney Girls, trust me on this one. my friends & I like to party, so before you know it, we have about 8 Beautiful girls joining us in our fiesta. we brought All the Girls back with us to the Casa, did alot of Fucking, about an hour of sleep, eat dinner and do it all over again.when you go in July, there is a Festival on the Malecon in Old Havana and it is a blast. you can meet Alot of Beautiful Girls there. When I went, (because of WSG), I brought alot of perfumes, clothes and candy and gum, they love gum. the girls at Johnny’s were asking about 30, but with a little sweet talk and some clothes, I usually gave them 10 bucks for a taxi. one night we went to the Habana Club Disco on the side of the Commodero Hotel in Miramar and seen some of the most Beautiful Girls I have seen in my life. a friend & I brought these two girls back to the Casa and gave them $50 each, that was the most ever, but believe me, Well Worth It. I went 3 months later by myself, I guess I could’nt get enough. we meet a guy that we took with us everywhere we went. he knew a little bit of everything which helped us Tremdously my first trip. I always brought him some nice clothes so he could look sharp when we went out. he knew all the good discos, people with cars, girls, you name it. e-mail me and I can hook something up. I went back in Jan of 99 and it was alot different. Johnny’s had been cloed down, along with alot of other discos. Fidel had come down hard on Prostition & Illegal Taxis. I did’nt see one at the airport when I arrived. but there was some discos open, like the El Morro disco. alot of Girls, even to this day. not too many girls at the beach,because of school & it was a little cold. But, all you have to do is go to old Havana to all the little cafes, and trust me, you will meet some Beautiful Girls. you will have no problem getting a girl 2 times a day, if you have the energy. I suggest to bring some Ginsing capsules, “They Help”. Back to my second trip, I had brought my Mountain Bike with me and use to cruise the Malecon and bring girls back with me. anothe place is the Riviera Hotel pool near Malecon & Paseo. I brought back a few girls from there. I leave my mountain bike with my Male friend and he takes care of it for me, plus it is a Chick Magnet for him. I also have a huge boom box that I leave with the Family that I stay with. everybody on the streets is Amazed with it, especialy the Girls. ~May, 2000 The last time I went to Havana, I only stayed a few days, then hired a guy to drive me and my Cuban friend to Cienfuegos. when we first arrived, we had no Idea where to stay. we went up & down a few streets near my Main strip and ran across a Casa Particular, 1 block away from the main strip. it was $20 a night per person. we each had our own room (ajoining)and a bathroom to share. dinner was $7, but Well worth it. the first night we had Lobster (our choice), the biggest piece of langusta I had ever seen. shortly after dinner, A few girls arrived at the house (how convienent), so we had a few beers with them, but did’nt want to be stuck with them, so we told them we would see them tomorrow. Cienfuegos is a small town, once you meet a girl, the chances of you seeing her again is very good. we went to a disco and it was pretty empty, but it was only 11pm. I got a bottle of Rum & a few cokes, found a table, and before you knew it the eyes were apon us. I walked around towards the front gate (outside disco)and spotted a few young cutties waiting for someone to bring them in. I paid the guy $4 and brought them back to our table. my friend had already found a few girls, so we all sat down and drank. everytime I took a walk around, I was getting hit on Left & Right. that night we went home with my two girls. the next day we went to the beach, but it was dead. we found out later that there was a festival out of town and everybody was there. that night we went a different disco wher there was a band and entertainment. we found a table and ordered a bottle of rum (expensive in this disco). we spotted these two Beautiful girls and told the waitress to buy the girls a drink, and they excepted. these girls were not prostitutes. the girls the night before probably were but I brought Alot of Nice clothes and the word money never came up, but we did give them $10 each for a taxi the next mourning. we danced and drank with these two cutties (18 & 21yo). then we got a taxi and gave them a ride home and set something up for the next day. right after we gave them a ride, we went back to the first disco, and seen most of the same girls plus more. I only seen about 3 other groups of Tourists, and we were the youngest and the most wild, so all the girls wanted us. there was one prostitute that wanted me bad, but I told her I did’nt like to pay. we took two different girls back with us and had a blast. the next day, we meet up with the other girls and took them to the beach. they knew of a secluded spot, hung out and went back to the house, had dinner with them and then fucked for a few hours. they went home and we went back to the disco. we started partying again, “hard”. the one prostitute that wants me told her friend that she did’nt want any money, just some dick. I had danced with her awhile ago and was rubbing on her. I guess she got too hot. I took her home and gave her what she wanted plus alot more, and more in the mourning. gave her $10, a few items of clothes, some candy & gum and she was on her way. that day we took a bus ($15 each) back to Havana. Cienfuegos is quit, but me and my Cuban Amigo had a Very Good Time There. I can’t wait to go back. When we arrived back in Havana, we went to that club “Johnny’s”,($5), seen some very Beautiful Girls there. never give in to there price, you will always be able to lower it, especialy if you have brought some clothes & stuff. I brought a 18yo cuttie home, had her All Night, and left back to the States the next day. I’ve been reading these reports 1998 and they help a lot. I’ve been to Cuba 6 times and could never get enough. The 1st time I went to Cuba was in July of 1998. a friend of mine had gone in March and said he had a blast. so I met him & 3 other friends in Havana. we stayed at a Casa Particular in Vedado, 2 blocks from the Cohiba. $25 a day, which includes dinner, I’m talking Lobster, fish, black beans, “the whole 9 yards”. when I first arrived at the house, I was alone, because I was traveling from the Dominican Republic. the family greeted me with open arms, a lobster dinner, a cold cervesa, and a air-conditioned room. I stayed with a young couple & her parents. that night, the young man took me to a disco called Johnny’s. he warned me that there was going to be a lot of girls, but I couldn’t believe my eyes. After a few hours of drinking and dancing, I went home with a cute Malata Girl (18).

The next day my friends came and that’s when the real party started. we went back to johnny’s and brought back a lot of girls and have a party. the owners got a little mad, as they need to keep a lower profile with Girls and Tourists. The next day we head to the beach. You have never seen a beach with So Many Girls, trust me on this one. my friends & I like to party, so before you know it, we have about 8 Beautiful girls joining us in our fiesta. we brought All the Girls back with us to the Casa, did a lot of Fucking, about an hour of sleep, eat dinner and do it all over again. when you go in July, there is a Festival on the Malecon in Old Havana and it is a blast. you can meet a lot of Beautiful Girls there. When I went, (because of WSG), I brought a lot of perfumes, clothes and candy and gum, they love gum. the girls at Johnny’s were asking about 30, but with a little sweet talk and some clothes, I usually gave them 10 bucks for a taxi.

One night we went to the Habana Club Disco on the side of the Commodero Hotel in Miramar and seen some of the most Beautiful Girls I have seen in my life. a friend & I brought these two girls back to the Casa and gave them $50 each, that was the most ever, but believe me, Well Worth It.

I went 3 months later by myself, I guess I couldn’t get enough. we meet a guy that we took with us everywhere we went. he knew a little bit of everything which helped us Tremendously my first trip. I always brought him some nice clothes so he could look sharp when we went out. he knew all the good discos, people with cars, girls, you name it. e-mail me and I can hook something up.

I went back in January and it was a lot different. Johnny’s had been closed down, along with a lot of other discos. Fidel had come down hard on Prostitution & Illegal Taxis. I didn’t see one at the airport when I arrived. but there was some discos open, like the El Morro disco. A lot of Girls, even to this day. not too many girls at the beach, because of school & it was a little cold. But, all you have to do is go to old Havana to all the little cafes, and trust me, you will meet some Beautiful Girls. you will have no problem getting a girl 2 times a day, if you have the energy. I suggest to bring some Ginsing capsules, “They Help”.

Back to my second trip, I had brought my Mountain Bike with me and use to cruise the Malecon and bring girls back with me. another place is the Riviera Hotel pool near Malecon & Paseo. I brought back a few girls from there. I leave my mountain bike with my Male friend and he takes care of it for me, plus it is a Chick Magnet for him. I also have a huge boom box that I leave with the Family that I stay with. everybody on the streets is Amazed with it, especially the Girls.

May The last time I went to Havana, I only stayed a few days, then hired a guy to drive me and my Cuban friend to Cienfuegos. when we first arrived, we had no Idea where to stay. we went up & down a few streets near my Main strip and ran across a Casa Particular, 1 block away from the main strip. it was $20 a night per person. we each had our own room (adjoining)and a bathroom to share. dinner was $7, but Well worth it. the first night we had Lobster (our choice), the biggest piece of langusta I had ever seen. shortly after dinner, A few girls arrived at the house (how convenient), so we had a few beers with them, but didn’t want to be stuck with them, so we told them we would see them tomorrow.

Cienfuegos is a small town, once you meet a girl, the chances of you seeing her again is very good. we went to a disco and it was pretty empty, but it was only 11pm. I got a bottle of Rum & a few cokes, found a table, and before you knew it the eyes were upon us. I walked around towards the front gate (outside disco)and spotted a few young cutties waiting for someone to bring them in. I paid the guy $4 and brought them back to our table. my friend had already found a few girls, so we all sat down and drank. Every time I took a walk around, I was getting hit on Left & Right. that night we went home with my two girls.

The next day we went to the beach, but it was dead. we found out later that there was a festival out of town and everybody was there. that night we went a different disco where there was a band and entertainment. we found a table and ordered a bottle of rum (expensive in this disco). we spotted these two Beautiful girls and told the waitress to buy the girls a drink, and they accepted. these girls were not prostitutes. the girls the night before probably were but I brought A lot of Nice clothes and the word money never came up, but we did give them $10 each for a taxi the next mourning. we danced and drank with these two cutties (18 & 21yo). then we got a taxi and gave them a ride home and set something up for the next day. right after we gave them a ride, we went back to the first disco, and seen most of the same girls plus more. I only seen about 3 other groups of Tourists, and we were the youngest and the most wild, so all the girls wanted us. there was one prostitute that wanted me bad, but I told her I didn’t like to pay. we took two different girls back with us and had a blast. the next day, we meet up with the other girls and took them to the beach. they knew of a secluded spot, hung out and went back to the house, had dinner with them and then fucked for a few hours. they went home and we went back to the disco. we started partying again, “hard”. the one prostitute that wants me told her friend that she didn’t want any money, just some dick. I had danced with her awhile ago and was rubbing on her. I guess she got too hot. I took her home and gave her what she wanted plus a lot more, and more in the mourning. gave her $10, a few items of clothes, some candy & gum and she was on her way. that day we took a bus ($15 each) back to Havana. Cienfuegos is quite, but me and my Cuban Amigo had a Very Good Time There. I can’t wait to go back.

When we arrived back in Havana, we went to that club “Johnny’s”,($5), seen some very Beautiful Girls there. never give in to there price, you will always be able to lower it, especially if you have brought some clothes & stuff. I brought a 18yo cuttie home, had her All Night, and left back to the States the next day.

I love Cuba and could never get enough. this July I will be going to Santiago for the festival.

I spent the last 10 days of 2000 in Havana and the beach town of Guanabo. It was my sixth trip to Cuba. The police have backed off of the previous harassment of Cuban girls with tourists but the girls still have to be careful. The police will never bother a tourist unless she is under 18. Check IDs! There is very little going on around the beaches of the East and more police harassment. Stick to Havana. The Rio Club[Rio clue] has the most girls and it’s only $5. to get in and the police are being paid off to stay away. The bar tender may try to rip you off. Beer is $2. and rum/coke $3. The girls will be $50. maximum possibly for all night depending on the girl and You. Also you can find girls day or night at a sidewalk cafe called Sofia on calle 23[La Rampa] about four blocks up from the ocean. You need to stay in a private house or apt. as the women are not allowed in the hotels. Most rooms are $25. a night. Go one block behind the Hotel Habana Libre to 27 and K. There are many houses in that two block area that have rooms for rent. Look for signs or ask anyone. If the first place has no rooms available the people will take you around to all their neighbors until you find one. Just be very respectful and the Cuban people will be very friendly and helpful. Avoid the street husslers around the tourists areas. They will come up and ask in English where you are from. Just say “La Luna”[the moon] and keep walking. Also treat the girls with respect. Most of them are just girls who can’t make it on the $7.-$19. a month that Cubans are paid. However, I keep anything I don’t want stolen in a locking hard side suitcase especially if I’m going to fall asleep with her in the room.

Despite last year’s crackdown of Cuban style of prostitution you can still find a lot of action in Havana, though discreet contact is mandatory for the girl`s/boys safety from police hassle. Many people have been arrested and sentenced or deported to their home region since then!

Speaking Spanish helps a lot, at least the basic vocabulary of what you want and knowledge plus eye contact will get you laid! Several times a day I could have fucked, just walking and around the city and watching for some girls. I don’t write for those who don’t mind paying 50 -100 $ for an hour for a professional, that can be found in Old Havana where the tourists abound. If you stay in a hotel (in which you are not allowed to take a girl) and you have to pay the professional girl and the casa additionally.

Instead of providing only addresses and prices I think its better to tell how I successfully managed to fuck. The first night, just 2 hours after getting to my casa particular (private accommodation) I came back with a black girl of 23 whom I met near the Museum of the Revolution. She was standing alone close to a street bar and I invited her to some drinks after settling the price (20 $ beginning with 30 $). After some mojito drinks of over-priced 3$ each we took a bicycle-riksha (3$, outrageous as well, as a normal taxi would have been 1,5$) back to my casa. She said that the policemen that are standing at every corner can’t stop the traffic! Quite good fucking with condom, no blow job as I didn’t ask for it but I was very satisfied for the first hours of being in Cuba. (I researched a lot about Cuban style of dollar making on the Internet beforehand though)

I prefer the amateur girl friend way of love making, so I recommend the less tourist areas of (more suburb like) Vedado barrio in Havana only with police surveillance on Malecon and la Rampa: but the walkway of upper (!) street 23 ( La Rampa) from Coppelia Park towards Avenida Presidentes. I changed to here (20 $,no breakfast, sorry cannot provide telephone number, though it is a licensed casa) the next day.

That same day at noon I met two black girls just in front of a shopping mall. When I asked what the one girl wanted, she said “Just some cigarettes and beer an so on”, the other girl decided to join us and we took a taxi home. The other girl went to buy some beer and cigarettes and we waited for her to come back. They asked me if I brought some clothes and I showed the stuff I brought. They choose several clothes and other small stuff that they saw.

Then we undressed and began to cuddle. The other girl came to the bed and she seemed to like participating. Both liked to suck and the first one asked for a condom. I fucked her but I didn’t come. In a pause I asked the other one to fuck with me but she wanted money and I declined as I didn’t want to ruin the girl friend atmosphere, they masturbated me until I came. When we left together the second girl asked me for her to come the next day and I paid for the taxi back. She really came the next day but I had to send her away as her friend stole some small artificial flowers from the apartment.

That same afternoon I was strolling around Coppelia park (it was Sunday afternoon and there were hundreds queuing for the two flavours of ice that day), when two young girls were looking and blinking at me very discreetly. I blinked back and went away looking back to see if they follow. I sat down at a bus queue and they joined. We quickly agreed that they follow discreetly, I entered the house after telling them how to get to my apartment alone. They wanted 30 $ each and I told them that it is too much for my budget and offered some cloth and 30 $ for both. They said okay and choose some stuff. Then the one began to undress and the other one watched when her friend began to give head, she was slowly undressing and sat close by. When the other put a condom on and began to ride on top of me, I saw the shy one rubbing discreetly her pussy. So I thought I could help her a bit and put my hand under the blanket to feel the wet gorgeous pussy and entered inside her carefully with two fingers. Oh what a great feeling of girlfriend sex. As I couldn’t come with a condom on (girls no. 4 and no. 5 -mambo!- within the first 20 hours) and as they didn’t want bare back fucking, both gave me blow and hand jobs until I came. Oh what a great sensual and sexual experience Cuba can offer!

This way I met several other girls even on the highly policed Malecon and the Avenida Rampa, some got 30 $ and others just wanted a night out in Restaurants and disco, as they didn’t consider themselves prostitutes. But we were not always discreet enough when talking on the street, some of the girls and boys I talked to, had to show their ID afterwards and some had to pay $ fines only for talking to me! So please be very cautious, if not, stay with the professionals that seem not to bother (or got some kind of agreement with) the police!

With the coming winter, a man’s thoughts turn to warm Caribbean beaches, and women. A travel agency in Tijuana now offers weekly charter flights to Havana, Cuba, with a single stop in Monterrey. The planes are new Boeing 757’s. Rates vary, with discounts available from a quoted price of about $530 round trip. Before I go any farther: it is illegal for Americans to travel to Cuba, so I offer this as information for Canadian and Mexican citizens ONLY! On the other hand, if you choose to go, be aware that the Cuban Govt. inserts a tourist card in your passport and collects it upon leaving. They do not stamp your passport.

As to safety
Havana is safer than any American or Latin city. The police are not even armed. The only arms you will see are the honor guards in front of a few Govt. buildings. Cuban citizens are allowed to rent bedrooms to tourists, and a bed and breakfast can be had for less than $10 US. Adequate hotels near the beach are $35 to $50 a night, but substantially cheaper rates can be found at non-tourist hotels.

There are two ways to pick up women in Havana. There will usually be a very good supply at poolside, or in the hotel bar, if you stay in a tourist hotel. Be aware, however, that they must give a substantial cut to the bell captain. At dusk, along the Malecon, the beachfront road, dozens of young and often beautiful women are available. You will need a taxi for this.  Very few of the women are professionals. The unemployment rate in Cuba is astronomically high, and even professional teachers, engineers, etc receive such low pay that everyone, it seems, moonlights at something.  Be VERY careful in selecting a woman, because she will probably want to stay not only the night, but every night of your stay. In other words, don’t get stuck with a dog!

As I said, if you are American, what I have described is illegal, though to the best of my knowledge no one has been prosecuted. When you cross back into the US, immigration has no way of knowing whether you were in Cancun or Havana. Just don’t try to bring Cuban cigars in or t-shirts with Fidel’s picture! If you choose to ignore my warnings, you will have a great time.

Just visited Havana. There are enough girls as previously reported who will be interested in being yoour companion for about 30-40 US$. There are pretty girls, but there weren’t that many pretty as they were made out from prior reports. Best area to find girls is in the old Havana section. Getting there from Nassau, Bahamas is about $200.00 to Havana. There is only one flight daily so traveling from your original or to your original destination effectively kill your day.

The city is extremely polluted and somewhat hard to breath without feeling it in your lungs. Virtually all the buildings are run down. It is however very very safe for tourists. There are police everywhere and on the tourists side. There are very good restaurants that are very inexpensive by US standards, but you have to know where to go. Recommend the Hotel National Buffet (breakfast, lunch or dinner). You could gain lots of weight in CUBA

I was in Havana The best place I have been. First night we went to Bar Oasis which is by in the Paseo de marti(Prado). Cheap prices, and mucho chicas. I looked for a while, and I got quite thin mulatto girl. I didn’t know much of the system and I didn’t speak Spanish but although it was easy. Girl took me to casa de particular quite near. I paid 20$ for the room. Let me tell you, chica was good. By the way if paid her also 20$, but later I noticed that i paid too much. 20 $ for the girl is ok, but don’t pay so much of the casa.

Second time we went just walking to the Prado. We went to sit there and soon beautiful brown girl came to ask my friend. He liked her, but we decided to wait that I have one. I didn’t take too much time, her sister came and the we went to casa. She put some soft music and danced for me a little while. Blow job and all was ok and we didn’t have pay for the casa so it was very cheap. We only paid 20$ girls!

Same night we went to cabaret. I was the place called Cabaret National. Its was very near the Hotel Inglaterra. There were mucho beautiful chicas. About all of them came to us ask if they could sit to our table. First I thought that I am not going to take a girl, but sometime after 10 mojitos, I realized that I was dancing with the black girl wearing a sexy white outfit (like she was going to gym, or something…) Not very stylish but she looked sexy. Then she took me to the casa. We had a little conversation with the owner of casa. She was asking 20 $ for the night, but finally we got it by paying ten dollars. Then I gave 20 for the girls, and she was quite good also.

Last time we went to see cabaret to cabaret Las Vegas. I don’t know where it is, we went there by taxi. Unbelievable night. I said to my friend that If we don’t have girls in ten minutes, let’s go to another place. Well…we got girls in ten minutes, very beautiful and sexy mulatta and black girl. And show was also quite good. And of course, the night ended somewhere in casa particular. Good experience. I paid 30$ because girl was very sweet.

One thing to remember! Don’t go to Varadero, that place really sucks, no chicas, only Canadian and German tourists

I have been in touch with my Havana contact and I have been told that all is well. The hurricane caused most of its damage in the country area. Havana is alive and well and hotels are in great shape. This not a paid advertisment.
The women are beautiful and plentiful. Old Havana( Viejo Habana) is the heart of the action it is safe and lively.Be sure to visit the Floridita and Zaragozana bars. The spot next to the Zaragozana is a great hang out spot 7 nights a week. Cenfigueos is another hot area. Once you arrive get going and enjoy. The larger night clubs/discos are great places to meet women. Be sure to verify the age of the woman you meet because if is against the law to be involved with a minor younger than 18.Although cubans are emancipated at the age of 16. Cuban jails are not fun .Be sure to carry sufficient cash because US credit cards are not accepted. It is best to stay at at a casa particular( siimlar to a bed and breakfast) because you are allowed to take your guest home with you, cuban women must be registered as a guest to enter most hotels
It is impossible not to get what you want, just be prepared to be generous because nothing in life is free.

I spent the last 10 days in Havana and the beach town of Guanabo. It was my sixth trip to Cuba. The police have backed off of the previous harassment of Cuban girls with tourists but the girls still have to be careful. The police will never bother a tourist unless she is under 18. Check IDs! There is very little going on around the beaches of the East and more police harassment. Stick to Havana. The Rio Club[Rio clue] has the most girls and it’s only $5. to get in and the police are being paid off to stay away. The bar tender may try to rip you off. Beer is $2. and rum/coke $3. The girls will be $50. maximum possibly for all night depending on the girl and You. Also you can find girls day or night at a sidewalk cafe called Sofia on calle 23[La Rampa] about four blocks up from the ocean. You need to stay in a private house or apt. as the women are not allowed in the hotels. Most rooms are $25. a night. Go one block behind the Hotel Habana Libre to 27 and K. There are many houses in that two block area that have rooms for rent. Look for signs or ask anyone. If the first place has no rooms available the people will take you around to all their neighbors until you find one. Just be very respectful and the Cuban people will be very friendly and helpful. Avoid the street husslers around the tourists areas. They will come up and ask in English where you are from. Just say “La Luna”[the moon] and keep walking. Also treat the girls with respect. Most of them are just girls who can’t make it on the $7.-$19. a month that Cubans are paid. However, I keep anything I don’t want stolen in a locking hard side suitcase especially if I’m going to fall asleep with her in the room.

I spent the last week of April in Havana. I don’t have much to add to the many posts regarding Cuba, but I thought I’d share my experiences as a way of paying back some of the valuable info I’ve gotten from this site. Perhaps this report will be most useful not only for a Newbie to Havana, but also someone new to the whole pay-for-sex scene. I must have had a sheltered life, but until I went to Cuba, I’ve never paid for sex. It’s certainly not because I’m getting all the sex I can handle, but you couldn’t pay me to have sex with the skanky, old, crack-whores who hustle at home. There are too many things to cover everything, but here’s my best shot.

As many have written, Cuba is like another planet, or a warped episode of Star Trek, where beautiful young girls are making eye contact and hitting on you for sex (in exchange for dollars). The girls range from sweet college girls trying to make some extra money to hardened pro’s, and all shades in between. You can have sex with a pretty 18-year-old that would be completely impossible back home. I guess this is what life is like for Brad Pitt, for the rest of us it’s a piece of heaven on earth.

I booked an air-and-hotel package from Toronto to Havana. As most have written, the best way to go is with a casa particular. However, getting through Customs in Cuba without a hotel voucher can be difficult. You will most likely be asked for proof that you’re staying in a legitimate hotel. Sometimes it’s nice to be have transfers and hotel taken care of when you arrive at 1:00 AM in a strange city. On my second trip I’ll spend at least some of the time in a private casa. The main advantage (and it’s a big one) of a casa is that you can bring a girl back to your room. This is impossible in a hotel unless you set something up with Security and pay a hefty bribe (certainly not guaranteed either).
I found the main zone to be the street “La Rampa” around the Havana Libre hotel. You will be constantly pestered by the many chulos offering to take you to the best disco with the most chicas. They are incredibly annoying. For the Newbie who doesn’t speak any Spanish they can also be useful. They can connect you with the girl of your choice, and fend of the other jineteros. On your second or third visit they are probably unnecessary, but a friendly “buddy” who knows the score is handy to have around. I checked out Tikoa. It’s a $5 cover and not to my taste. It’s a small, dingy room with 20 to 30 hard-looking girls looking you over. Another nearby club is Sheherezade ($5), which is in the basement of a tall building. While there are plenty of pros, there are definitely some amateur possibilities. Also, get some ice-cream at Coppelia, or a beer at the sidewalk café and make some eye-contact. The price for the girls is $40 (obviously varies on the girl and numerous other factors), and a nearby casa is $20.
Another disco we checked out was Macumba. It’s a large open-air disco in the middle of the city. The cover was $15 and it looks like any high-priced big city disco. It was full of absolutely beautiful and high-priced girls. There may be possibilities here, but it wasn’t for me. I’d rather seek the sweeter girls with less attitude elsewhere. It might work for others though, and the quality was amazing.
Walked on the Malecon, and Prado. There were not nearly the numbers of girls as I had read. Maybe the police keep these places in check, or it was simply the days we were there.
Other places we heard about but didn’t check out:
Turquino – top floor of the Habana Libre hotel ($10-$15), a big popular mainstream disco.
Palermo – small gritty club in Old Havana near the Inglaterra hotel
Havana Café – part of the Melia Cohiba hotel in Vedado, another Western-style club full of old men and beautiful, overpriced girls.
Johnnies Rio Club – in Miramar, somehow we never made it to what is probably the most famous disco in Havana.
Commodoro – I heard a lot about this place, but it was shut down due to drug problems.

I spent most days at Playa Santa Maria. There is a heavy police presence on the beach. They are constantly walking around and checking ID’s of the Cubans – as a tourist you won’t be bothered. It has cut the action down to almost nothing. Though I made some eye contact, the girls were generally too scared of the policia to talk.
Finally, a few words about prices. I found many things to be quite expensive, especially if you’re inexperienced or short on time. The first time I went to Playa Santa Maria the (government) taxi cost $17 each way. Later I learned to look around for a private taxi – that cost $20 for the round trip. The more patience you have, the more you can save. Even a meal in a paladar (private restaurant) will cost $8 to $10. Look around and find the places where you can eat for $3 to $5 (Chinatown for example).

I hope you’ve read this far, I can be long-winded, but I prefer detail to vague generalities. A trip to Cuba can fulfill many fantasies, most importantly great sex with some of the sweetest, youngest, and most beautiful girls in the world.

Havana is estimated to have more than 5,000 prostitutes. The situation here is somewhat different from Varadero. There are lots of streetwalkers and they are predominantly black girls aged around 21-23. Generally pros in Havana on the streets and in the discos are older than in Varadero.

The most notorious places to pick up a hooker are the 5th and 23rd Avenues in Vedado, the boulevard Prado in La Habana Vieja, and to a lesser extent the beach boulevard Malecon. Come here after sunset and girls will approach you. Prices are around $50 for the whole night.

There are some really good deals for short time however. One of us picked up a slim 16 y.o. black beauty along the boulevard Prado and she took him to a fuck house. A 30′ blow job cost him $9 plus the room for $8.

In Malecon you can find a few girls waiting for customers in front of the Habana Riviera and the Nacional hotels, and on brightly lit parts of the road on the way to the Comodore Hotel.

Similar quality pussies also hang around some 3-5 star hotels at nighttime. Sometimes they even manage to get inside and sit in the lobby’s bars. Try hotels Caribbean, Deauville, Habana Libre, Inglaterra, Lido, Nacional, Capri and Plaza (see addresses below).

In day time girls hang around Cafe (Cafeteria) Monseigneur at O, entre 23 y 25, which is near the hotels Nacional and Capri. Again they are mainly black girls.

For white and upmarket black girls go to one of the discos. Girls there often speak English.

Turquino at the Habana Libre Hotel is the most attractive disco in Havana. It is located on the 25th floor of the hotel and has great views over the city. Admission $10.

Havana Club at the Comodoro Hotel has very pretty girls. It is however about $8 by taxi from the centre of Havana (Deauville Hotel). Admission $10. Most girls arrive by 11-11:30 pm. They charge not less than $50 for 2-3 hrs. The best girls want $100. Drinks are exorbitantly priced at $8. There are about 30 girls on a week night, more on weekends. A private taxi from here to the Habana Libre Hotel costs $5.

Palacio de la Salsa at the Habana Riviera Hotel. Admission $10. It is very dark inside and all people sit at the tables. Not very convenient to move around. There are however some very good girls inside, you just have to spend some time to spot them in that darkness.

The floating disco El Galeon does not have available girls as the tickets are expensive. The disco at the Deauville hotel is no good in that regard either.

A few kilometers from Havana, at the Marina Hemingway there is a nightclub Papas. There are many girls here of various quality. Most girls arrive at around 11 pm. Standard asking price is $50 for a few hours.