Cuba Travel Tips

Cuba Travel Visas

Cuba travel is easy, Visitors should hold a valid passport and the corresponding visa or Tourist Card, excepting those countries that Cuba maintains Free Visa agreements with. Tourist Cards can be requested at the Cuban consulates airlines or from your travel agency and is your visa to enter Cuba.
Tourist Cards are for individual tourists or tourists that travel in groups and for businessmen and journalists should get a visa from a Cuban consulate before travelling to Cuba.

Cuba Travel Sanitary Regulations

There are almost no restriction for Cuba travel only sanitary ones for visitors that travel from countries where yellow fever and endemic cholera exist or have been declared infection areas by the World Health Organization. In such cases, an International Vaccination Certificate is demanded.
Products of animal and vegetable origin have entry restrictions. Animals may be imported with the appropriate certificate.

Cuba Travel Currency

Hotels and all other cuba travel services prices are set in Cuban Convertible Pesos (CUC) currency that currently is valued 8% higher than the USD.
In some tourist areas you can also pay in euros. Credit cards except those issued by US banks or their branches in other countries are accepted. Visa and MasterCard are widely accepted.
The Cuban convertible pesos currency can be changed upon departure at bank offices at international airports and ports in Cuba. Traveler's checks, including those issued by US banks, are accepted.
The national currency is the Cuban Peso but it is not recommended to change any money into the Cuban peso since it has a very limited value and is supposed to be used only by locals.

Cuba Customs Regulations
For Customs purposes, the term "Tourist" applies to persons not permanently residing in the country, who travel to Cuba for purposes of pleasure, business, health, pilgrimage, sports, etc., for a period of over 24 hours and under 6 months.
Tourists are entitled to import as personal belongings items described as such in the text. These items must be taken back on departure of the tourist. Among these articles are: video, film and cameras, hair dryers, electric shavers, portable radios and tape recorders. They may also temporally import portable personal computers (laptops) and cell phones.


Import and export of the following items is prohibited:

* Drugs and Explosives.
* Objects, Photographs, Literature and / or any other Pornographic Article or Items
* Any Item including Literature attempting against the security and internal order of the country
* Animals and Plants listed as Endangered And Protected Species

You should consult your travel agent for other items that may also be prohibited before you travel to Cuba.