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Cuba on a (serious) budget

Replies: 35 - Last Post: Feb 27, 2013 5:37 PM Last Post By: greslogo

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Rickie_01

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Feb 25, 2013 7:23 AM
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Anything is possible in Cuba. I share a room and the taxis with someone but somehow I get struck with the tab.

frominsideCuba

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Feb 27, 2013 12:36 PM
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If you are Cuban you can live on 0.50 cuc daily; if you can call that a Life.

As a foreign visitor you could also travel and stay for 50 cuc daily; if you call that traveling at all.

Rickie_01

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Feb 27, 2013 1:04 PM
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Funny how Cubans like to live like a tourist in a 5* all-inclusive hotel/resort and how tourists like to live like a Cuban in the campo.

Jorge -- my friend is Cuban and she lives in a small town and she can't live on 0.50cuc a day.

greslogo

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Feb 27, 2013 5:15 PM
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If all you eat is rice and, maybe, some beans...you can live on about 12 CUP/day and have money left over. No, it is not a life,

Rickie_01

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Feb 27, 2013 5:20 PM
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greslogo -- correction. If all SHE eats is rice and maybe some beans. I will eat at Los Nardos with the other Cubans with family or relatives in Miami footing the tab.

greslogo

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Feb 27, 2013 5:37 PM
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There you go.....jeje

That is worthy of a very lengthy response but I think it would get pulled so I won't bother. It, for some reason, reminds me of a phrase I have seen more than once on travel forums.... those happy and friendly Cubans....... I snicker when I read those.
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