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Getting Around Cuba

Getting Around Cuba




The main one access road to Cuba is the aerial route. Cuba is connected directly and by means of regular flights with around 50 cities in the world: the main cities of Europe, America and Asia have regular flights through 28 air lines.

12 international airports located in the main cities and tourist destinies of the country exist, in addition to 9 national airports that connect all the national territory.

The access by sea also is possible (to the aim it is that Cuba is an archipelago) and this can be made through the following navy and terminals of cruises:

• Marina Hemingway, City of Havana
• Cubanco,Terminal de Cruceros, City of Havana
• Puertosol Tarará, Havana of the East, City of Havana
• Puertosol Dársena de Varadero, en Varadero
• Chapelín, en Varadero
• Gaviota Varadero, en Varadero
• Puertosol Cayo Coco-Cayo Guillermo, province of Avila
• The marine International Port of Vita, in Holguín
• Center the International of Puertosol, Pine of the River
• Gull Island of Youth,in Island of Pines
• Puertosol Cayo Largo del Sur, Island of Pines
• Puertosol Cienfuegos, in Cienfuegos
• Punta Gorda, in Santiago de Cuba
• Terminal de Cruceros, in Santiago de Cuba

Cuba has a good infrastructure of transport, as much automotive as aerial and railway that makes possible the connection between all the points of the country in term of hours. As in almost all the services it is necessary to make distinction between the means of transportation that are paid in dollars (of very good quality) and those that pay in weights (the national currency) that are in general of mediocre quality, the tourist means, obvious, will use like rule the paid transport services in dollars

Aereo:
recomendable para moverse de un extremo a otro de la isla o a cayos como Cayo Largo del Sur que no tienen acceso por tierra. Todos los destinos turísticos y principales ciudades tienen aeropuerto y enlace aéreo con La Habana. Además está disponible el servicio de taxi aéreo en casi todo el país.

Marine:
basically in the transfers to the Island of Pines, there is service of ferrys (includes transfer of cars) and of speedboats, an pleasant trip without doubts.

Omnibus:
but it is used in Cuba, exist several lines of omnibus but but the recommendable one is Via Blue (the terminal is in street 26, in New Private preserve, City of Havana), that connects all the tourist destinies with the capital with exact schedules, acceptable comfort and economic prices. Other companies to trips by omnibus and microbus like Veracuba or Astros exist in addition. Stars are the main company of interprovincial omnibus and give service as much Cuban as to foreign tourists, she is but economic but with less fulfillment in the itineraries (the terminal of Stars is the National Terminal of Omnibus and is in the Bird Farm Cowherds, near the Seat of the Revolution)

Cars:
several companies exist that rent cars to tourists to prices that begin in 30 dolares the day, without including the fuel (the price of the fuel is of around 1,00 dollar the liter of gasoline and 0,80 dollars the liter of diesel engine). The companies of rent of known cars but are: Havanautos, Transautos, Panautos, Micar, Veracuba, Cubacar, Transtur, etc, that generally has agencies in all the tourist destinies, airports and hotels of the country. With the exception of some keys like Long Key of the South, the Gardens of Reina and Cayo Levisa all the other sites of tourist interest of the island have access by highway. This is good way to know island and his people because in general Cuba it has a road network asphalted in acceptable state and that it communicates all the main cities, tourist towns and destinies to each other and with the capital, nevertheless in the rural highways it is necessary to have much taken care of with the cyclists who even circulate at night and often without lights, also is necessary to carry far precautions with domestic animals (mainly cattle and horses) that possibly is in the environs of highways and ways loose.

Taxis:
a good service of taxis in all the tourist destinies exists and main cities to quite economic prices, the tariffs begin in 0.50 dollars km in dependency of the company (Panataxi is perhaps but the economic one) but in long trips can be decided the price with the driver previously to obtain a reduction of the cost. Also private taxis exist that possibly can be but economic in exchange for sacrificing a little the comfort, but is generally necessary to decide the price previously. Against the majority opinion it does not seem to me that in short trips within a city they are but economic that the taxis of companies state, but if but uncomfortable almost always.

Railroad:
Although the country counts on an ample railway network in general the routes and the park has not been modernized and they do not respond to the European standards or norteaméricanos, the trains have little comfort and is frequent the breach of the itineraries. It is good means of transport mainly in the long distances yet, but recommendable the Habana-Santiago of Cuba is the special train (51 dollars the passage), other the single one recommends the tourists who have spirit of adventure and good patience (good, it is necessary to indicate that lately she has improved enough the fulfillment of the schedules and itineraries). In Cuba all the trains single have seats, do not count on cars beds nor cars restaurants.




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