The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
Customer Review: Important errandum
I have yet to test this book in Cuba, although thus far it seems to be as thorough as any other rough guide I have used.
That said, on p63, the book claims $1 CUC is worth roughly ?1.80 GDP. The Cuban CUC is currently worth around ?0.53 and has been (more or less) for the past year. Perhaps the author converted the currencies the wrong way. This lead me to believe that everything in the book cost 4 times what it actually does. And almost made me consider changing my entire plans.
I always use Rough Guides, so this schoolboy error is rather disappointing. I’ll reserve judgement until I return from Cuba.
Customer Review: Not perfect - but as good as you’re likely to get
I’ve just used this book to help me in my travels round Cuba and while it’s not perfect, it was invaluable. The potted histories and local insights are all as well written as you would expect from the Rough Guides.
The book’s usefulness is, admittedly, limited by the rapidly changing nature of much of Cuba. Paladars (the privately run restaurants) open and close all the time, musicians spring up here and there and then vanish again apparently without warning. And such seems to be the way of things in Cuba at the moment - all part of the charm. You just have to go with the flow and sometimes you strike gold, other times you find that the gold has moved on.
This guide contains accurate maps (better than many tourist maps available in Cuba - one good reason to buy it) and fair assessments of the more stable attractions such as museums, hotels etc, and that’s about as good as you can hope for in a rapidly changing country.
To my knowledge the Rough Guide is currently a more recent edition than offered by its main competitors which in my opinion is a big selling point, given the changing nature of Cuba. If you’re going, I recommend it. Don’t rely solely on local maps and guidebooks which aren’t plentiful and also tend to be slanted to emphasise what the Cubans think we tourists want to see and what they want to show off.
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