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Wilfred and his family share their sweet art deco villa for a very affordable price and it's just a stroll or taxi away from the jazz clubs, the Malecon and central Havana shopping and night life. They also recommended to us other Cuban families to stay with in other towns which worked out well as the local government hotels aren't so great and cost about five times the price!]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/20259 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8439 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8439 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8376 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/8376 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6770
When we were in Havana in December we went to see one of the early games of the National League. Industriales is Havana's big and very popular team. Their match schedule was available online and also in the daily paper. We asked our concierge how easy it was to get tickets, and he reckoned that it was only really a problem towards the end of the season.

All Cubans can get in for free, but we had to go to the foreigners' door and pay 3CUC each. This gave us seats in an enclosure guarded by a stern looking lady. The stadium is huge, and has the usual vendors climbing around offering food and drink.

One word of warning. There were NO taxis anywhere. We had to wait 30 minutes in a fairly deserted area of town. I got, probably needlessly, quite scared. I wished we'd asked our cab driver to pick us up.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/6770 http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5703
You then wait with all the locals until your pizza is lowered down to you in a basket attached to a Heath Robinson style pulley system. You then swap pizza for money and the basket goes back up. If you need change then the basket is lowered back down and money is distributed fairly under the command of the man on the roof pointing at you and shouting “Seven pesos!' The pizza is good too, if a little oily.]]> http://www.ivebeenthere.co.uk/tips/5703