Anyone know the intel on US citizens traveling to cuba now that we are renewing our relations with their govt? I am aware you can do charter tours but I want to get there, stay in one hotel and kite everyday, not tour the countryside.
Any info regarding how to book a flight and hotel (I know where I want to stay, just don't know how to book it) is greatly appreciated.
US citizens traveling to cuba?
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
Travel to Canada, get on a plane go...
If you are lucky they will not stamp your passport when you arrive.. they typically don't but they have stamped my on occasion.
If you are lucky they will not stamp your passport when you arrive.. they typically don't but they have stamped my on occasion.
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
right now there are criteria. If you go through Canada, your US flight and you Canada Cuba flights have to be distinct... Air canada for instance will not fly you from Chicago to Toronto or Montreal and transfer you to a flight to Varadero or Cayo coco... They need to be two stand alone flights
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
I believe you'll find since 9/11 that US dept of homeland security require all flights through their airspace supply a manifest of names and passport details. From eastern Canda to Cuba flights usually go through us airspace ... 
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
It'll be awhile before US citizens can travel to Cuba like you're suggesting. Currently it's opened up for Cuban-Americans and those on culture/medical/religious tours. The fly thru another country option used by thousands of Americans over the decades is currently your only (yet sketchy) way to kite Cuba.
Good luck
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
I've been doing research as well. It's come up as cheaper to book two separate flights. The first flight to either Cancun or Nassau from the US. The second flight on a Cuban airlines to Havana. You should directly book the Cuba flight from the Cuban airlines page.
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
trying to make sense of this... why would anyone fly from Cancun to Cuba?
As a Canadian I have been to Cuba more times then I can count on both hands... but not because of the 4.5 Cuba star resorts.. (2.5 star in the rest of the world) or the bland food (learn how to hack the buffet real quick) or the light winds....
We go there because it is cheap, and we have a chance to go kiting in the middle of winter for under 1g per person All in...
Flying to Cancun then to Cuba seems to defeat the purpose unless you can find a smokin deal... may as well stay in Cancun no?
Cancun is by far a nicer place with better wind options.
As a Canadian I have been to Cuba more times then I can count on both hands... but not because of the 4.5 Cuba star resorts.. (2.5 star in the rest of the world) or the bland food (learn how to hack the buffet real quick) or the light winds....
We go there because it is cheap, and we have a chance to go kiting in the middle of winter for under 1g per person All in...
Flying to Cancun then to Cuba seems to defeat the purpose unless you can find a smokin deal... may as well stay in Cancun no?
Cancun is by far a nicer place with better wind options.
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
...for most Americans (self included) it is the ol' "Forbidden Fruit" theory.
I'm sure my desire to go to Cuba will subside once it has opened up.
Crazy, isn't it?
I'm sure my desire to go to Cuba will subside once it has opened up.
Crazy, isn't it?
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Re: US citizens traveling to cuba?
Crazy Ameeeerrricans
I complain about it, and rightfully so.... but for some reason we keep going back...
I look around at all these Brits (50% of tourists are Brits in Cuba... they are almost as bad as Ameeerican tourists) just there for sun and drinks and I have to wonder... wtf are they doing flying across the ocean to come here... they don't even kite... I certainly would not be spending the kind of money they spend to go to Cuba just to sit by a pool and drink shitty water downed Cuban beer, among crumbling infrastructure, everything is in disrepair... toilets leak, air cons work sometimes and leave a puddle, you can't lock patio doors... even if you could actually muster the strength to open one, tiles are missing, chrome off the taps and such is long gone, Roofs leak in every room if there is a heavy rain... garbage around the perimeter of the resort, beach chairs are old and saggy... I could go on and on and on... but the water is turquoise blue and the sand is white and the wind if it comes in is warm and steady.
I've been there when there was so many kiters on the water I vowed I'd never go back... then the next visit my wife and I were the only kiters there... it was magical 6 days of 7 warm and windy... Next visit... there are 12 Hungarians, a German based school and no wind... it was a shit show.
I have never seen such disregard for other peoples safety...EVER The school did what they could but these Hungarians... they were f'n crazy
I complain about it, and rightfully so.... but for some reason we keep going back...
I look around at all these Brits (50% of tourists are Brits in Cuba... they are almost as bad as Ameeerican tourists) just there for sun and drinks and I have to wonder... wtf are they doing flying across the ocean to come here... they don't even kite... I certainly would not be spending the kind of money they spend to go to Cuba just to sit by a pool and drink shitty water downed Cuban beer, among crumbling infrastructure, everything is in disrepair... toilets leak, air cons work sometimes and leave a puddle, you can't lock patio doors... even if you could actually muster the strength to open one, tiles are missing, chrome off the taps and such is long gone, Roofs leak in every room if there is a heavy rain... garbage around the perimeter of the resort, beach chairs are old and saggy... I could go on and on and on... but the water is turquoise blue and the sand is white and the wind if it comes in is warm and steady.
I've been there when there was so many kiters on the water I vowed I'd never go back... then the next visit my wife and I were the only kiters there... it was magical 6 days of 7 warm and windy... Next visit... there are 12 Hungarians, a German based school and no wind... it was a shit show.
I have never seen such disregard for other peoples safety...EVER The school did what they could but these Hungarians... they were f'n crazy
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