Is It Possible to Visit Cuba Legally? Yes, If...
Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel, June, 1999 by Luis Garcia
Say the word "Cuba," and most people think Fidel Castro, Ricky Ricardo, and great cigars. What many don't know is that it's also an island of green mountains, crystal seas, and picture-perfect colonial towns, a time-warped country where a horse-drawn cart and a '56 Chevy will pull up alongside a Nissan at a traffic light. Add to that a warm and friendly people, a growing tourism infrastructure, and some of the lowest prices in the hemisphere (a week at the lovely Hotel Inglaterra in Old Havana starts at a stunning $451, including airfare from Nassau!) and you've got a holiday that can give the best of the Caribbean a run for its money.
The bad news? It's mostly Canadians and Europeans (more than a million a year at last count) who are enjoying all this, thanks to Washington's ...