Cuba? Would love to go to Cuba, but i understand the only way to get there is through a political affiliation, a religious group or an educational perhaps college group. I've been...

Fabulous1too

Would love to go to Cuba, but i understand the only way to get there is through a political affiliation, a religious group or an educational perhaps college group. I've been checking with online flights {i.e. Expedia} and found that there are no flights going there from California, and if i really, really want to go i'd have to either fly to Mexico or Canada, then hop the flight to Cuba, is this the only alternative? Who has gone to Cuba? How? Thank you in advance.

chase4 Loc: Punta Corona, California

I've been to Cuba and went/came back through the Bahamas
and/or the Dominican Republic with no problems. Interesting and fun place to visit.

mwalsh Loc: Houston

It's an easy hopper flight from Cancun.

jlefebvre Loc: Toronto, Ontario

I now live in Canada and have not yet traveled to Cuba, but I have heard that the beaches there are amazing and the cost of travel there is very inexpensive. Hoping to make it there next year to check it out.

tradio Loc: Oxford, Ohio

I have seen several photo safaris to Cuba advertised recently and I don't recall any problems with the flight. I thought that they flew out of Miami. I never read into the details though.

boydimages Loc: California

Road Scholar has many trips to Cuba each year. If not familar with Road Scholar the former name was Elderhostel. Looks like 3 of the 4 photo trips in 2016 are sold out except for May. Fly out of Miami. Once you get to Miami all cost would be included. You will have a guide very familiar with photographing in Cuba and another person called a group leader. There may be more than one instructor and group leader. Cost is not cheap, about $4300 for 8 days. Again this would include round trip air fair from Miami to Cuba, hotels, transportation and meals while on the trip. More information is available at this link. Once on the page look on the left side for complete program details: http://www.roadscholar.org/n/program/summary.aspx?id=1-7DGHZW&MC=

Fabulous1too wrote:

Would love to go to Cuba, but i understand the only way to get there is through a political affiliation, a religious group or an educational perhaps college group. I've been checking with online flights {i.e. Expedia} and found that there are no flights going there from California, and if i really, really want to go i'd have to either fly to Mexico or Canada, then hop the flight to Cuba, is this the only alternative? Who has gone to Cuba? How? Thank you in advance.

boydimages Loc: California

Also, check out Sante Fe Workshops. https://www.santafeworkshops.com/

Fabulous1too wrote:

Would love to go to Cuba, but i understand the only way to get there is through a political affiliation, a religious group or an educational perhaps college group. I've been checking with online flights {i.e. Expedia} and found that there are no flights going there from California, and if i really, really want to go i'd have to either fly to Mexico or Canada, then hop the flight to Cuba, is this the only alternative? Who has gone to Cuba? How? Thank you in advance.

John_F Loc: Minneapolis, MN

Rent a fishing boat and putt putt over. Can score some grub on the way and get some shark pics.

silver-rail Loc: harrisburg, pa

take a vacation to Jamaica. easy to get to cuba from there

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Things are changing. You can now travel legally and I know they will be starting flights from Orlando - I think in January. A number of different organizations continue to offer educational travel to Cuba.

See one: http://cuba2.roadscholaradventures.org/?so=PEY-I-CUBA-BNG

floridatraveler

Check out the cultural exchange trips offered by Grand Circle and Insight Cuba.

Duggy

While you are there have someone explain how we have had embargo's for decades, Cuba has been off limits to US citizens, and been communist according to MSM and yet The US taxpayer has been paying millions, if not billions to rent Guntanimo and base . Sounds very fishy to me.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Duggy wrote:

While you are there have someone explain how we have had embargo's for decades, Cuba has been off limits to US citizens, and been communist according to MSM and yet The US taxpayer has been paying millions, if not billions to rent Guntanimo and base . Sounds very fishy to me.

Did you learn this from watching Fox TV? A very quick online search finds that we imposed our lease of this land on Cuba after the 1903 war. The Cubans at that time accepted that because they wanted no US military presence elsewhere on the island. Our current rent (since 1938!) for 45 acres with a sheltered bay is a mere $4,000 per month - made out to a Cuban government that no longer exists, and these checks have not been cashed since the 1959 revolution. This is a humiliation to Cuba and they have consistently asked/demanded that we leave.

sb Loc: Florida's East Coast

Duggy wrote:

While you are there have someone explain how we have had embargo's for decades, Cuba has been off limits to US citizens, and been communist according to MSM and yet The US taxpayer has been paying millions, if not billions to rent Guntanimo and base . Sounds very fishy to me.

Also - WHY would they ask "while they are there"? You are referring to US policies, not Cuban policy. How could they explain our policies? Cubans have never had a problem with Americans visiting their nation (although in 1979 I witnessed the police harassing some young men after they spoke with us in the Central Park in Havana). We claim to have a free society with few government restrictions, but it has been OUR government that has restricted us from travel to Cuba - while not restricting our travel to Iran, Vietnam, or anywhere else, regardless of their governments.

Hal81 Loc: Bucks County, Pa.

The tin can I was on was based in Gittmo back in the early 50s. I do know the base employes a lot of Cubans and it would not be good for their economy if we left.