How to Cuba – Cuba, Prologue

For this grand voyage I was lucky to have two friends brave enough to travel with me. They’d both mentioned to me that they wanted to go to Cuba so we figured out a time we could all go (taking into consideration Cuba has a rainy season, a hurricane season, and a tourist season) and we booked our flights accordingly. It worked out that we could go Memorial Day weekend, thereby using one fewer vacation day. Nifty thrifty! I was also able to use miles and points to book the flights so I didn’t spend much at all, but my two travel buddies Daniel and Andrew both did not spend too much (less than $350) coming from Chicago and Newark, respectively. Plenty of airlines have routes into Cuba (Havana and other cities). Continue reading