January 29, 2007
Canadians just want to have fun
They are not worried about fidels health, and you can bet they're not worried about this, or this either.
From the Toronto Sun:
Toronto travel agents say winter-weary Canadians are flocking to Cuba in record numbers for fun in the sun without any concern about the health of fidel castro.There is a huge demand for Cuba," Cathy Phoenix, of Gerrard Travel, said. "There has been no comment on the politics by our customers."
Phoenix, and others in the travel industry, said vacationers aren't asking if Castro is alive or what will happen to Cubans when he dies.
The agents said no one has cancelled trips to the island due to political incertainity.
"People want to go and have fun under the sun," she said.
Posted by Ziva at January 29, 2007 08:44 AM
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I once met a Canadian woman who had visited Cuba several times and told me with a smile on her face that they have beaches in Varadero where "you don't have to see any Cubans."
Posted by: omar ![[TypeKey Profile Page]](http://www.babalublog.com/nav-commenters.gif)
at January 29, 2007 09:32 AM
Gosh, omar, what an twit that woman was. Makes me angry. I'd like to visit Cuba too, but not while her people are still enslaved by castro & his goons. :(
Posted by: FL Mom at January 29, 2007 10:01 AM
So were the hotel workers Martians?????
Posted by: mavi at January 29, 2007 11:02 AM
Ziva:
If my countrymen want to have fun under the sun why not go to Costa Rica, Dominican republic, Puerto Rico, the Carribean, etc etc?
I won't go to Cuba while the Castro camerilla is still in power. It,s a matter of principle. It's quite possible I'll never visit Cuba in my lifetime. I hope not as I'd love to visit the island and see the place where my maternal great-great granddad made his fortune bfeore returning to Spain.
xavier
Posted by: xavier at January 29, 2007 11:12 AM
I once met a Canadian woman who had visited Cuba several times and told me with a smile on her face that they have beaches in Varadero where "you don't have to see any Cubans."
Posted by: omar
eh?
Posted by: daniel_in_garanhuns at January 29, 2007 11:24 AM
I don't doubt Omar's story: the tourists don't want to be surrounded by blacks and the regime happily obliges them. This is the reason that all the waiters and other personnel who actually come in contact with the tourists are white. Blacks, even menials, are not permitted to come near the tourists.
Posted by: Manuel A. Tellechea at January 29, 2007 11:30 AM
One of the guys I work with is Canadian and he's been to Cuba twice. He says that "one of the biggest selling points of Cuba is that it's all Europeans and Canadians, no Americans."
Posted by: Amy at January 29, 2007 11:58 AM
That's why I have NEVER travelled to Canada. Too many Canadians.
Posted by: Firefly at January 29, 2007 03:20 PM
LOL!
I think he meant that you won't find a Burger King or Starbucks on every corner. That "the culture isn't lost to American-ization."
I then asked him if he'd ever been to Miami (he hadn't), so I decided to walk away before I told him what I really thought of him and his ideas of Cuba. Tonto.
Posted by: Amy at January 29, 2007 03:55 PM
My boyfriend is Canadian, and when his father was contemplating going to Cuba for a winter break from the horrendous cold (not unlike Miami these past two days...), he told his son he was going to Cuba.
Due to my influence, though, my boyfriend was able to convince his dad to go to the Dominican, instead.
I told him, thank you for doing that.
"More money, but at least it's not like having a vacation in prison."
Cheers,
Victoria
Posted by: vbspurs at January 30, 2007 04:47 PM
That's why I have NEVER travelled to Canada. Too many Canadians.
Heh. Well I know this was tongue-in-cheek or a reaction to the "no Americans" comment above, Firefly, but I hope people here know that Canadians are actually very conservative.
Just the ones in the eastern seaboard, are not. But anything past Ottawa, watch out. Calgarians are more conservative than even Texans.
Cheers,
Victoria
Posted by: vbspurs at January 30, 2007 04:50 PM
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