Monday, December 21, 2009

Cheap Cuba Holidays

By Jose Garces

In this post I want to introduce you to an alternative to safe money for your Cuba holidays. You have probably been looking around already and maybe you have some quotes from few agents. I bet you find them expensive.

One element that increases the cost of a holiday package is definitely the transportation. When you want to visit few locations cause you want to get to know the real Cuba. Most travel agents out there will use taxi transfers in their quotes and when you hear the price then you start thinking maybe is best if I stick to 1 or 2 places to make it cheap.

My advice is to just ask for flights and accommodation from your agent and you will see what I mean. That will knock down few hundreds from your quotes including taxi transfers to/from each location in your itinerary. Now is time to introduce you to VIAZUL.

So that you have an idea of how much money you can safe let's take for instance a taxi transfer from Havana to Trinidad. This journey takes about 5 hours and it will cost you around 250 CUC if you travel by taxi. Instead with viazul a ticket will cost you just 25 CUC.

I guess you can see what I mean here. The difference in price is huge. If you are looking to visit various locations in Cuba using taxis could cost you from 300 CUC to 800 CUC depending on the distances you want to cover. Travelling from one end of Cuba to the other end will cost you around 100 CUC in total.

Viazul has an excellent service. Their coaches are new and very comfortable. They come with WC, air conditioning and catering for long journeys.

Most people willing to travel to Cuba don't know how large this island really is. Cuba stretches for over 1200 Km from East to West. Journeys like Havana to Trinidad take around 5 hours none stop by taxi.

Of course a taxi is more comfortable and if you decide to go for this option then you will just have to wait at the lobby of your hotel to be taken to the next one. But be ready to fork out a good lump of money for your holidays

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