Cuba travel | Claire Boobbyer

My new guide to Havana – Havana Pocket Precincts

May 14, 2020 · by claireboobbyer

My guide to Havana with lots of my colourful pics – Havana Pocket Precincts – is published today by Hardie Grant. It’s a curated guide to Havana’s best sights, eating, drinking, shopping, music haunts & more https://www.waterstones.com/book/havana-pocket-precincts/claire-boobbyer//9781741176636

This guide is a result of my love affair with Havana. It’s a celebration, too, of all those hard-working, energetic new business owners who’ve revived Havana, in particular, these last few years. When I think what Havana was like 10 years ago or more with the tumbleweed rolling through the lacklustre state restaurants, the city is transformed. Here’s to the chefs, restauranteurs, waiters, bars, mixologists, cafés, designers, tastemakers and the legion of brilliant B&Bs of this wonderful city. Let’s hope we can travel to Cuba soon. 🇨🇺 🍾 🇨🇺

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My tips for Lonely Planet’s new Secret City

May 13, 2020 · by claireboobbyer

Kicking off a week of book promotions: my Old Havana tips feature in Lonely Planet‘s new Secret City – the insider’s guide to the world’s coolest cities.

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https://shop.lonelyplanet.com/products/secret-city-1

Havana Nights for WestJet magazine

January 29, 2020 · by claireboobbyer

How to do Cuba for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine

July 18, 2019 · by claireboobbyer

DSCF2037 My How to do Cuba for the Sunday Times Travel Magazine:

STTM How to do Cuba

How to do Cuba

Telegraph Travel Cienfuegos port guide

September 26, 2018 · by claireboobbyer

Heading to Cienfuegos on a cruise? Take my Telegraph Travel cruise port guide to this beautiful Cuban city: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/cruises/port-guides/cienfuegos-cruise-port-guide/

Wild camping, e-bikes & motorhomes in a post-Castro Cuba

May 24, 2018 · by claireboobbyer

Go now for the new adventures. My piece for Adventure.com:

https://adventure.com/cuba-adventure-travel-2018/

On the rails in Cuba article for Wanderlust

May 11, 2018 · by claireboobbyer

I took the train across Cuba exploring off-the-beaten track parts of the island for Wanderlust Magazine:

https://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/cuba-rail-off-the-beaten-track/

Cruising Havana in a classic car

February 14, 2018 · by claireboobbyer

My post for Weather2Travel.com on cruising the Cuban capital in a vintage American car: https://www.weather2travel.com/blog/see-havana-in-style-with-classic-car-tour.php?r=home

My 25 Cuba Adventures for Wanderlust magazine

August 14, 2017 · by claireboobbyer

http://www.wanderlust.co.uk/planatrip/inspire-me/lists/25-cuba-adventures

Tourist card (visa) guide for Brits flying US to Cuba direct

February 20, 2017 · by claireboobbyer

Once you’ve bought your airline ticket for a direct flight from the US to Cuba, and ticked one of the 12 categories of permitted travel to Cuba for US citizens and all other foreigners (authorised by the US Treasury’s OFAC office) , you need to get a tourist card (sometimes, erroneously, called a visa) to enter Cuba. This card needs to be presented at the check-in desk before leaving the US.

However, uncertainty has emerged over the Tourist Card needed to enter Cuba from the US. If you are flying from the UK or a European departure airport, the UK’s Cubaism sells the card for £23 including P&P – the cheapest I have found for UK travellers. You can also buy it from the Cuban consulate in London, but less hassle is an online purchase from an authorised provider.

Over in the US, American Airlines charges US$85 through Cuba Travel Services, which has a desk at Miami International Airport, and Delta charges US$50. You would need to check on the Cuba advisories on each airline’s website on their charges.

The big thing to note, though, is that tourist cards bought in the UK are ineligible on US-Cuba flights. Washington DC Cuban Consulate-issued pink tourist cards – bought direct from the consulate in the US, or via the airlines, are the only valid Tourist Cards for US-Cuba flights, the Cuban Consul General in Washington DC, Alejandro Padrón Corral, confirms.

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