Cuba: See it like a native

A British couple enjoying an otherwise blissfully ignorant vacation in Cuba's Cayo Coco, got a firsthand look at what life is like for Cubans outside the confines of all-inclusive resorts. While Hurricane Ike barreled its way to Cuba, the resort management neglected to inform their guests that a killer storm was on its way. Oblivious to the impending arrival of a hurricane, the couple continued to enjoy their Mojitos and lobster dinners until the night before the storm hit when management finally informed its guests, via a note slid under their room door, that they should stay in their rooms and ride out the hurricane.

That was their first taste of life in Cuba where the totalitarian regime treats the citizens like mushrooms: they feed them shit and keep them in the dark. But it was in the aftermath of the Hurricane Ike where this British couple really got a good illustration of what life is like in Cuba.

A COUPLE from Knutsford were barricaded in a Cuban hotel restaurant for nine hours after a hurricane hit their holiday resort.

Nic Casey and Paul Dootson also had to manage on food rations and without running water as the island of Cayo Coco was cut off from the mainland in the aftermath of Hurricane Ike last week.

For four days she was unable to contact her family to let them know she was safe.

She described how she had caught snippets about an imminent hurricane on Spanish-speaking news channels before official word came from the hotel. “We’d been out on the beach and we came back to the room to get ready for dinner and a computer print-out had been put under the door saying a hurricane was coming,” she said.

“It said we should go to dinner as normal and not have anything to drink and then to go back to our rooms.”

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“We were not happy with the way they treated us,” said Nic, who landed at Manchester Airport on Sunday.

It seems there is at least a couple of tourists that have joined the ranks of 11-million Cubans that are also not happy with the way they are treated.

You can read the whole account of their real experience with Cuba, HERE.

Posted by Alberto de la Cruz at September 19, 2008 07:00 AM

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