Cuba Trip Report

[Beau & Digna 5]

We recently spent 3 weeks together in Cuba...It was great as usual. I've been there 12-13 times in the last 3 years. My (K-1) wife has her "green card" now, and we are married in USA. I'm only writing this to say AVOID PHOENIX. PHOENIX airport sucks, however we might move there...ja ja. PHOENIX sucks for immigration, and they are RUDE, and disrespectful. We got taken into "the room" at immigration, I had an "agent" way too close to me asking questions when I just wanted too pee. I told them of the "general license" to travel to Cuba for family visitations. They told me that there was no such thing as a "general license". After we got out of custody, a heafty american lady searched our luggage, and the heafty american lady verbally confirmed that there is no such thing as a "general license" because she "looked it up". She told me to fill out a certain form...Question #1 was "Are you traveling under a GENERAL LICENSE or a specific license. I spoke up about the GENERAL LICENSE on the form, but she said "There is no such thing". I completed the form, and the heafty lady said "go". We ran, and our connection flight was waiting for us...DELAYED waiting.

[Gricel Y Arturo 0]

We recently spent 3 weeks together in Cuba...It was great as usual. I've been there 12-13 times in the last 3 years. My (K-1) wife has her "green card" now, and we are married in USA. I'm only writing this to say AVOID PHOENIX. PHOENIX airport sucks, however we might move there...ja ja. PHOENIX sucks for immigration, and they are RUDE, and disrespectful. We got taken into "the room" at immigration, I had an "agent" way too close to me asking questions when I just wanted too pee. I told them of the "general license" to travel to Cuba for family visitations. They told me that there was no such thing as a "general license". After we got out of custody, a heafty american lady searched our luggage, and the heafty american lady verbally confirmed that there is no such thing as a "general license" because she "looked it up". She told me to fill out a certain form...Question #1 was "Are you traveling under a GENERAL LICENSE or a specific license. I spoke up about the GENERAL LICENSE on the form, but she said "There is no such thing". I completed the form, and the heafty lady said "go". We ran, and our connection flight was waiting for us...DELAYED waiting.

What a bunch of dummies.

OH and did Cuba stamp your passports in and out? They recently started doing that and I found out first hand........not just the tourist card anymore.

Edited April 19, 2013 by Gricel Y Arturo

[Beau & Digna 5]

What a bunch of dummies.

OH and did Cuba stamp your passports in and out? They recently started doing that and I found out first hand........not just the tourist card anymore.

Really?...Did you arrive in Havana? I have a US passport, and my wife has a Cuban passport. No stamps for us 3/18-4/8 in Havana...We took Cubana from Cancun...New planes for Cubana by the way...modern...not the OOOOOLD YAK's...Downside is that I can't get my mandatory shot of rum on the plane anymore...ja ja.

Edited April 20, 2013 by Beau & Digna

[Gricel Y Arturo 0]

Yes, Habana this time but usually Santiago......they stamped me in and out and I was so very not happy about that as they just do it, BAM!

Yes, the Yak's sucked, loved it when the A/C got turned on and it looked like a night club full of smoke!!!

[Beau & Digna 5]

Yes, Habana this time but usually Santiago......they stamped me in and out and I was so very not happy about that as they just do it, BAM!

Yes, the Yak's sucked, loved it when the A/C got turned on and it looked like a night club full of smoke!!!

ja ja...I liked the night club. When did you go, and from where?

[Gricel Y Arturo 0]

ja ja...I liked the night club. When did you go, and from where?

Miami/Habana direct through a charter......that plane sucked also!

february

[Beau & Digna 5]

Miami/Habana direct through a charter......that plane sucked also!

february

Hmmmm...Charters may be different, but you really shouldn't worry about anything (stamp)...Afterall you were licensed in some sort of way to be on that flight.

[Gricel Y Arturo 0]

It was no worry at all because it was a direct trip but they were very sneaky about it and I didnt even realize until I got back that they had done it, out it in the middle of a bunch of other stamps......

[Beau & Digna 5]

It was no worry at all because it was a direct trip but they were very sneaky about it and I didnt even realize until I got back that they had done it, out it in the middle of a bunch of other stamps......

Honestly...I'd LOVE a couple Cuba stamps in my passport, now that I'm legal to travel there.

[J and Y 5]

Honestly...I'd LOVE a couple Cuba stamps in my passport, now that I'm legal to travel there.

Honestly I have 22 stamps from Cuba and never had a problem yet if you are there legally you are fine it only bolsters your case. All stamps withing 17 months

[Beau & Digna 5]

Honestly I have 22 stamps from Cuba and never had a problem yet if you are there legally you are fine it only bolsters your case. All stamps withing 17 months

I assume the stamps came from licensed "charter travel"? I've never been stamped in/out of Cuba with my wife (via Mexico)...We just go that route, because it's cheaper from where we live, but it is the "american" route.

Cuba Isn't dumb...It's just crazy and stupid.

[J and Y 5]

I assume the stamps came from licensed "charter travel"? I've never been stamped in/out of Cuba with my wife (via Mexico)...We just go that route, because it's cheaper from where we live, but it is the "american" route.

Cuba Isn't dumb...It's just crazy and stupid.

Yes all through charter travel and licensed