Just got back from a nine day trip to Cuba. Since I got some good info from this board, I thought that I would contribute my share so at least my observations can hopefully help others.
Flight arrived in Havana and customs went through better than expected (especially after hearing from a fellow passenger about how one can get delayed with them going through your luggage). I was pretty well waved through.
Taxi out of airport was $20 CUC as expected. Local currency was easy enough to get right at airport. Had booked a casa through Cuba Junky website in advance. When I got there, some guy came up to me at the building door and claimed he worked there. He then asked me for $1 for milk for his baby. When I gave him $1 and some change, he then took off. That's when I realized I just got duped. Oh well, a good lesson for me.
The casa owner finally showed up and told me through an interpreter that my reservation was bumped since she found another person who was willing to stay a longer term than me. But fortunately, she didn't leave me hanging as she introduced me to her neighbor down the hall who was willing to rent me a room. This room actually turned out to be an entire apartment for even less than the price of my original reservation. The optional cooked meals were also less too so I was happy.
This new casa owner then confirmed with me that it was okay to bring back a girl but I had to register her. When I asked what if I came back in the middle of the night, she said it was okay to wake her up as the registration of any girl was for the mutual protection of both the casa and me.
I walked all along the Malecon and all the way from Vedado where my casa was, to old Havana and back. Didn't get any local girls approaching me at all. I opted not to visit any nightclub so early in my trip yet since I still wanted to see if it was possible to meet local non-pros on the street or at a cafe. I never did see much action at any of the cafes I went to and the Vista Allegre that I was advised to check out seemed to be under renovations.
After two nights at the casa, I went out of town for a couple of days for diving where there was no chance of any girl action because of this location's remoteness. I won't get into details of this diving place but did make it back into Havana for an event where I got complimentary rooms paid for at the Melia Cohiba hotel.
Again, no action from local non-pro girls at all, at least for me. Only thing was that I got one guy outside the hotel who wanted to set me up with girls but I never felt comfortable with this method. He did say that it wasn't a problem with hotel security if I paid his 'friend' $40.
I later checked independently with one of the doormen afterwards and was confirmed that it was indeed possible to arrange for a girl to get to my hotel room if they arranged it. Didn't discuss a bribe fee though.
On my final evening, I decided to go to Salon Rojo which was suggested by this board for weeknights and this was confirmed by the hotel doorman I talked to as well as a good choice (although the doorman did say he could arrange girls too). I liked the idea of seeing all the choices directly at once at a club so I went to Rojo. Got there for 10 pm on a Wednesday night and it was dead. Paid a $10 cover and the band wasn't to go on until 1 am. But by about 10:30 pm, the girls started to pour in.
To my surprise, the majority of the girls were blondes (fake blondes that is). A few of them approached me and gave me the quotes. Some said that my hotel would be a problem while others said all I had to do was pay the hotel security $50. None wanted to register at the hotel saying that it was too expensive an option for me (at about $100 extra for the hotel). I think they didn't want their names to appear on the hotel registration. Anyway, I did find it strange that some girls were reassuring me about the hotel security bribing option while others claimed that hotels would be impossible for chicas.
All girls offered a casa as an alternative for $30, taxi for $10 and starting price for them at $100. When I told them $100 was too much, pretty well all of them left for other possible customers. But pretty soon, the bar seemed like there were about a 2 to 1 ratio for girls to customers and I didn't see any guys leave with any of the girls.
I spotted one black haired girl I liked so one of my new male bar mates waved her over for me. Her name was something like Yanella or Yanello or something. She quoted the same figures and said the hotel was a problem but offered a casa that was within walking distance to the Cohiba. I told her that I was willing to do this option in broken Spanish if she was willing to take $60 - she didn't speak any English. I told her that we could leave right away. I added that if she doesn't accept $60, I am sorry that we could not do a deal. She agreed to my offer!
She called her taxi since she said that the use of a private car was the only way to avoid police harassment - not sure if this was true or not. I asked her if it was an amigo and she said yes but reassured me that it would be safe. About ten minutes later, it was time to go.
She instructed me to walk outside the club first and move along towards the corner to the Hotel National. We were not to take any of the licensed taxis outside. Moments later, a car pulled up in front of me and the back door opened. My ride had arrived and she was already sitting in front. When I got in, she blabbered something and reached back for my hand to again reassure me that things were okay.
When we got to the casa which was a highrise apartment, I paid her driver friend the agreed $10. An older man unlocked the building main door while a younger man waited in the lobby to take us up. She told me to give the $30 to this younger guy while we were in the elevator.
The casa was a very small apartment that seemed to consist of a hallway, a small narrow kitchen that we had to go through and then to a bedroom. The bathroom was not even there as it was outside on the floor's hallway - since I asked to use it. Got to see real high-rise Cuban living I suppose.
Inside the bedroom, she asked me to start disrobing (I'm guessing all this since she was saying everything in Spanish) while she did too. Once in bra and panties, she wanted the $60 payment. Since I was in her turf, I was okay with this. Then she wanted another $10 for a taxi. I assume it was for her to get back to the Rojo. At this point, I thought what the hell, I'm okay with this just so we can get the transaction going since I already had taken her down from $100 to $60 even though I thought that this was not too cool since it wasn't mentioned before.
After I paid her the extra $10, she started to blow me while I was still standing. After several minutes, this 21 year old motioned me to lie on the bed. She then climbed on and kissed me all over including the lips while she rode me (with a condom on of course).
After some nice moments, I motioned her to switch and lie down so we could do mish position. This position was nice too and I finished with this. She had some nice moaning and kissing throughout so I guess it was sort of GFE. Don't know what the Cuban standard was since this chick would be my only experience during my trip.
After we got dressed, she led me to the elevator. She stayed up on the floor while I was the only one who went into the elevator when it arrived. The older man unlocked the main building door and asked for $1. I was okay with this as I asked for the direction towards my hotel.
All in all, it was a good experience with a hottie. I knew from past reports that the pros at the Salon Rojo would be hard core so I wasn't expecting a type of semi-relationship experience that one would get with a non-pro over a few days. I didn't have the time left on my trip nor the Spanish skills to pull it off. I just wanted to get at least one decent lay with hot looking chick without going through a costly bad experience or having something from my hotel room stolen from me. So things worked out well even though I would have liked 1-2 more encounters with other girls during my trip.
I don't plan to return to Cuba anytime soon as there are other places in the world to visit. Although culturally interesting, I hated the fumes, the heat, the food and the broken sidewalks of Havana. I'm glad that I went and experienced Cuba as well as this one Salon Rojo girl but time to move on. It was a decent experience, maybe even a bit above average as a monger but so far for me, the best single one for me was still in Montreal. Cuba, like most other countries, didn't offer me quite enough to want to go back in the future. Hope this report is useful.
Flight arrived in Havana and customs went through better than expected (especially after hearing from a fellow passenger about how one can get delayed with them going through your luggage). I was pretty well waved through.
Taxi out of airport was $20 CUC as expected. Local currency was easy enough to get right at airport. Had booked a casa through Cuba Junky website in advance. When I got there, some guy came up to me at the building door and claimed he worked there. He then asked me for $1 for milk for his baby. When I gave him $1 and some change, he then took off. That's when I realized I just got duped. Oh well, a good lesson for me.
The casa owner finally showed up and told me through an interpreter that my reservation was bumped since she found another person who was willing to stay a longer term than me. But fortunately, she didn't leave me hanging as she introduced me to her neighbor down the hall who was willing to rent me a room. This room actually turned out to be an entire apartment for even less than the price of my original reservation. The optional cooked meals were also less too so I was happy.
This new casa owner then confirmed with me that it was okay to bring back a girl but I had to register her. When I asked what if I came back in the middle of the night, she said it was okay to wake her up as the registration of any girl was for the mutual protection of both the casa and me.
I walked all along the Malecon and all the way from Vedado where my casa was, to old Havana and back. Didn't get any local girls approaching me at all. I opted not to visit any nightclub so early in my trip yet since I still wanted to see if it was possible to meet local non-pros on the street or at a cafe. I never did see much action at any of the cafes I went to and the Vista Allegre that I was advised to check out seemed to be under renovations.
After two nights at the casa, I went out of town for a couple of days for diving where there was no chance of any girl action because of this location's remoteness. I won't get into details of this diving place but did make it back into Havana for an event where I got complimentary rooms paid for at the Melia Cohiba hotel.
Again, no action from local non-pro girls at all, at least for me. Only thing was that I got one guy outside the hotel who wanted to set me up with girls but I never felt comfortable with this method. He did say that it wasn't a problem with hotel security if I paid his 'friend' $40.
I later checked independently with one of the doormen afterwards and was confirmed that it was indeed possible to arrange for a girl to get to my hotel room if they arranged it. Didn't discuss a bribe fee though.
On my final evening, I decided to go to Salon Rojo which was suggested by this board for weeknights and this was confirmed by the hotel doorman I talked to as well as a good choice (although the doorman did say he could arrange girls too). I liked the idea of seeing all the choices directly at once at a club so I went to Rojo. Got there for 10 pm on a Wednesday night and it was dead. Paid a $10 cover and the band wasn't to go on until 1 am. But by about 10:30 pm, the girls started to pour in.
To my surprise, the majority of the girls were blondes (fake blondes that is). A few of them approached me and gave me the quotes. Some said that my hotel would be a problem while others said all I had to do was pay the hotel security $50. None wanted to register at the hotel saying that it was too expensive an option for me (at about $100 extra for the hotel). I think they didn't want their names to appear on the hotel registration. Anyway, I did find it strange that some girls were reassuring me about the hotel security bribing option while others claimed that hotels would be impossible for chicas.
All girls offered a casa as an alternative for $30, taxi for $10 and starting price for them at $100. When I told them $100 was too much, pretty well all of them left for other possible customers. But pretty soon, the bar seemed like there were about a 2 to 1 ratio for girls to customers and I didn't see any guys leave with any of the girls.
I spotted one black haired girl I liked so one of my new male bar mates waved her over for me. Her name was something like Yanella or Yanello or something. She quoted the same figures and said the hotel was a problem but offered a casa that was within walking distance to the Cohiba. I told her that I was willing to do this option in broken Spanish if she was willing to take $60 - she didn't speak any English. I told her that we could leave right away. I added that if she doesn't accept $60, I am sorry that we could not do a deal. She agreed to my offer!
She called her taxi since she said that the use of a private car was the only way to avoid police harassment - not sure if this was true or not. I asked her if it was an amigo and she said yes but reassured me that it would be safe. About ten minutes later, it was time to go.
She instructed me to walk outside the club first and move along towards the corner to the Hotel National. We were not to take any of the licensed taxis outside. Moments later, a car pulled up in front of me and the back door opened. My ride had arrived and she was already sitting in front. When I got in, she blabbered something and reached back for my hand to again reassure me that things were okay.
When we got to the casa which was a highrise apartment, I paid her driver friend the agreed $10. An older man unlocked the building main door while a younger man waited in the lobby to take us up. She told me to give the $30 to this younger guy while we were in the elevator.
The casa was a very small apartment that seemed to consist of a hallway, a small narrow kitchen that we had to go through and then to a bedroom. The bathroom was not even there as it was outside on the floor's hallway - since I asked to use it. Got to see real high-rise Cuban living I suppose.
Inside the bedroom, she asked me to start disrobing (I'm guessing all this since she was saying everything in Spanish) while she did too. Once in bra and panties, she wanted the $60 payment. Since I was in her turf, I was okay with this. Then she wanted another $10 for a taxi. I assume it was for her to get back to the Rojo. At this point, I thought what the hell, I'm okay with this just so we can get the transaction going since I already had taken her down from $100 to $60 even though I thought that this was not too cool since it wasn't mentioned before.
After I paid her the extra $10, she started to blow me while I was still standing. After several minutes, this 21 year old motioned me to lie on the bed. She then climbed on and kissed me all over including the lips while she rode me (with a condom on of course).
After some nice moments, I motioned her to switch and lie down so we could do mish position. This position was nice too and I finished with this. She had some nice moaning and kissing throughout so I guess it was sort of GFE. Don't know what the Cuban standard was since this chick would be my only experience during my trip.
After we got dressed, she led me to the elevator. She stayed up on the floor while I was the only one who went into the elevator when it arrived. The older man unlocked the main building door and asked for $1. I was okay with this as I asked for the direction towards my hotel.
All in all, it was a good experience with a hottie. I knew from past reports that the pros at the Salon Rojo would be hard core so I wasn't expecting a type of semi-relationship experience that one would get with a non-pro over a few days. I didn't have the time left on my trip nor the Spanish skills to pull it off. I just wanted to get at least one decent lay with hot looking chick without going through a costly bad experience or having something from my hotel room stolen from me. So things worked out well even though I would have liked 1-2 more encounters with other girls during my trip.
I don't plan to return to Cuba anytime soon as there are other places in the world to visit. Although culturally interesting, I hated the fumes, the heat, the food and the broken sidewalks of Havana. I'm glad that I went and experienced Cuba as well as this one Salon Rojo girl but time to move on. It was a decent experience, maybe even a bit above average as a monger but so far for me, the best single one for me was still in Montreal. Cuba, like most other countries, didn't offer me quite enough to want to go back in the future. Hope this report is useful.
