I know Canadians who have gone there.
They say don’t bother. It’s the crappiest place in the Caribbean by quite a wide margin.
It is a shit hole but it does have a unique decrepit charm. And the brief time I was there in Havana and suburbs, I never felt I was in any danger. There were no street hustlers or beggars. The young people who took us on a tour out to Hemingway’s rancher and the beach town where he wrote were extremely nice and eager to please. They also exuded an innocence I found rather charming. The female tour guide must have been in her early 20’s and you could tell she had studied her English hard and was always trying to get the syntax right and pick up some idioms. Their ambition was to get an apartment and move out of the parents’ homes. The young man drove a ‘56 Pontiac Chieftan convertible. Red with new white naugahyde interior that was done pretty well. About a $200 Tijuana job in the ‘60’s. Of course it had been repowered with a four cylinder diesel of Chinese manufacture but the original Powerglide had been mated ingeniously with an adapter plate and the big boat ran well and floated over the back roads like they did when I was a kid. I have faith in the young Cubans that as time passes, they will demand economic reform and get it and, though I doubt I will live to see it, western investment will come and there will be a detente and the island will become a pleasant bargain vacation destination.
“It’s the crappiest place in the Caribbean by quite a wide margin.”
and that’s SAYING a lot given how crappy so much of the popular Carib tourist destinations like Jamaica are ...