Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelCopacabana Hotel Havana
City of Hustlers
Havana is a city of hustlers. With an average monthly salary of $20 USD Habaneros have to hustle. A walk down one of the narrow streets will find you passing stalls with fried spam sandwiches for sale, young jineteras with their much older sugar daddies, windows offering a sip of guarapa, brightly costumed "original" Habaneros charging one peso per …
We made it........
.....through Cuban customs without a passport stamp...very important(neither one of us can afford the $10,000 fine)...then, to our home for the next few days, the Copacabana. As we drove to our Hotel I think we had a lot of mixed emotions...we weren't sure what to expect....once we got to the hotel we didn't know if we wanted to grab a drink at the …
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Cuban Adventures
... encounter makes me feel so alone. With seemingly blind waitresses, streams of noisy and intrusive street hustlers, taxi-drivers who wheedle and yell and women who look at you as if you are dirt there doesn’t seem to be a lot of scope for positive interactions with Cubans here. If it wasn’t for my Casa Particulare I would feel so isolated. Clarita and Orlando are lovely, they’ve accepted me into their home and treat me so kindly. I had a hard time finding ...
La Isla Bonita
... of the many other tubs of vanilla, because you're ******* lucky to live in a country where food is plentiful, so stop whinging.
When people are starving, you can safely say that something has failed and here it's communism. A select few people drive nicer cars and have more money, which totally defeats the whole idea of all men being equal. Trying to make everything equal will never work. There will always be someone who knows someone who can earn a bit of money on ...
Cuba (the country of no hay)
... aptly name la cueva). We were expecting some music in a small cave but you walk down loads of steps into a massive cave with the DJ up above. There was an interesting selection of music but we really enjoyed it and it's definitely worth a visit. Lot's of the Cuban guys want to salsa with you as well so it's good if you want to practice.
During the day we hired bikes and cycled out to Playa Ancon. I thought I was going to die on the cycle home (rum plus uphill ...


