DRESS
Light materials are recommended preferably cotton, for daytime as
well as at night. To attend places such as the Tropicana cabaret,
for example, something a little more formal is required. A light
jersey is appropriate for travelling in the air-conditioned omnibuses
and for during the months of our brief winter (December - March).
SHOPPING
Every hotel, village or airport has tax free shops in which you
can find articles from prestigious companies, including cigars,
rum, juices, conserves, handmade crafts, articles for personal use,
books, discs, cassettes, videos, postcards, maps, posters, T-shirts
and others. In addition, there are various networks of shops specialized
to satisfy whatever need or taste.
If you acquire lasting or valuable goods in any commercial center,
you should request the purchase receipt in order to facilitate its
exportation. In case you are interested in acquiring flora or fauna
specimens (live or dissected/stuffed) you should request from your
travel agency the information and assessment necessary to process
the operation legally.
ELECTRICITY
110-115V with 60 cycles and 220v is used. The electric sockets are
for flat pins
MIGRATORY REGULATIONS
All visitors should have a valid passport or travel document issued
in his name and the corresponding visa or tourist card. This could
be obtained in Cuban consulates, travelling agencies, airlines and
at the Jose Martí International Airport of Havana, on landing
in Cuba. There are two types of visas: for individual tourists or
for tourists that travel in groups. Businessmen, press reporters
for working purposes and Cuban born citizens not resident or whom
possess other nationality, should obtain their visa issued by a
Cuban consulate.
CUSTOMS REGULATIONS
Cuban customs permit the traveler to enter into the country all
personal effects that he might need for his period of stay.
Additionally he may enter 10kg of medicine tax free, and articles
as gifts, whose sum may not exceed the value of 50 USD.
The customs tax is 100% on gifts whose sum, declared by the traveler
is superior to 50USD and up to a maximum of 250 USD.
There does not exist a limit on the quantity of money in foreign
exchange entering the country.
The visitor is not obligated to declare the amount of money that
he enters into the country but if he wished at his departure to
extract a figure superior to five thousand USD, he should have registered
this sum previously with customs on entering.
Custom law prohibits the entry of pornography, narcotics, drugs,
live animals and firearms, although the last mentioned could be
authorized, if it refers to a hunting weapon, by the entity that
deals with this tourist modality.
Exportation is permitted of works of art, antiques, species of Cuban
flora and fauna and other cultural goods protected legally, with
the corresponding documentation of the competent institutions.
The maximum value of exportation of other articles is one thousand
dollars. Handmade crafts do not require documentation for its exportation.
For the exportation of tobacco (more than 50 cigars) the Habanos
S.A invoice should be presented, this would have to be claimed when
making the purchase in whatever shop in the country.
For more information you can visit http://ww.aduana.islagrande.cu
CURRENCY
The Cuban peso is equivalent to 100 cents. Bills circulating are
1, 3, 5, 10, 20 and 50 pesos and coins to the value of 1 and 3 pesos.
The fractionated coins are 1, 2, 5, 20 and 40 cents.
The importation or exportation of Cuban currency is prohibited.
Convertible peso circulates in bills equivalent to 1, 5, 10, 20
and 50 USdollars inside national territory.
FORMS OF PAYMENT
Travelers checks are permitted and the following credit cards, only
when not issued by USA banks: MasterCard, Visa International, JCB,
Access, Banamex, Bancomer, Carnet and Diners Club International.
In the tourist centers and service installations for international
tourism, United States and Canadian dollars; French, Swiss and Belgian
franks, pounds sterling, German and Finnish marks, Japanese yen,
Mexican peso, Spanish peseta, Italian lire, Swedish, Danish and
Norwegian crown, Austrian schilling, Dutch florin, Portuguese escudo
and the Euro (only currency for the EEC) are accepted.
Tourists and other visitors can import foreign exchange without
any limit and there are coins equivalent to fractionated currency
in 50, 25, 10, 5 and 1 cent(s).
The convertible peso and the coins in change, has free circulation
and legal course without limitation inside national territory. That
which is not used should be changed when departing the country in
banking agencies of ports and international airports in Cuba.
As the prices are set in United States dollars, transactions are
facilitated if paying with this
EXTENSIONS AND CHANGES TO THE MODALITY
OF TOURISM
In order to extend the stay in Cuba, the tourist should proceed
to the Bureau of Tourism at his/her hotel or villa. In this same
way if he/she desires to vary the modality by which he traveled
to the country, he can request at the bureau of tourism at his hotel
the change of services and effect the corresponding payment.
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