The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)

The Rough Guide to Cuba (Rough Guide Travel Guides)
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.

Customer Review: A Rough Guide not quite up to usual standard
This guide book is not as reliable as others in this normally excellent series. It tends to over-rate some of the sights - such as the comically old-fashioned Camilo-Che room in the Museum of the Revolution, and the restaurant recommendations are often wayward. The text often contradicts itself, and among the unmissable recommendations at the beginning of the book there are sights which are hardly remarkable.
This being said it is the most thorough guide book for Cuba, and is awash with listings.

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