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I forgot the name of the city we are at, this was 3 or 4 years ago

But it should be safe everywhere. There is a police guy standing at every corner throughout the whole country and taking notes - literally.

If you are into adventures, I'd just book a flight to havanna, and for the first night there a private room through internet

Once there, you can find your way into a better place in Havanna by just asking other tourists on the streets downtown. There are nice clean large rooms in huge old private villas downtown, ran by foreigners i.e. argentinians, for rent for about $30 (for 2 people combined, not each)

After a few days we went to a small town a 40 min bus ride from Havanna, at the coast. A favorite vacation area for the locals, I need to ask my GF about the name later

We had the half of a very clean double-villa with garden there, about 300 feet from the ocean. It was the most luxury house in that city as far as I could see. If only I could remember the bus line #. You could see the house when leaving the bus at the bus stop.

The owners were kinda priviledged I guess with that kind of house. They had one half and we the other half of the house, with half of the garden, a bedroom, a kitchen with everything, a living room.


They are allowed to privately rent out rooms and to run restaurants with up to 12 places or so, since about 4-5 years. You'll have no problem finding a place to stay. For $30 you can get very nice places and shitty ones. The food in those private restaurants isn't very good imho