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CTyankee

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2. The good and bad is I saw a spokesperson from TravelAdvisor on TV today

Reply to cbayer (Reply #1)

Sat Dec 27, 2014, 11:56 AM

Dec 2014

saying that services/hotels there were super cheap...a good thing for tourists but I would sure hate to exploit the poor people there. However, if they have better lives as a result of our changed policy toward them, I am happy to go there and spend money. I still have travel money so I could easily get down there...and it's warm there now!

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Anybody here planning a trip to Cuba? [View all] CTyankee Dec 2014 OP

I would love to go and would particularly like to go before it gets too cbayer Dec 2014 #1

The good and bad is I saw a spokesperson from TravelAdvisor on TV today CTyankee Dec 2014 #2

I think there are also lots of opportunities to stay in private homes cbayer Dec 2014 #3

But Cuba is a socialist country and Mexico isn't. Most of their economic woes have been CTyankee Dec 2014 #4

While true to an extent, I think that many of Mexico's economic woes have also cbayer Dec 2014 #5

Not exactly planning, yank, elleng Dec 2014 #6

Just FYI, ellen, I'm rethinking that little hop over the pond to London for the Tates... CTyankee Dec 2014 #9

Just saw Mr. Turner, elleng Jan 2015 #12

Good luck with the surgery. Let us all know here at DU how it went...thinking of you... CTyankee Jan 2015 #13

Thanks. Will surely let DUers know how things go/went. elleng Jan 2015 #14

Maybe in a few years, IF relation normalizations go well. . . DinahMoeHum Dec 2014 #7

now that's a trip! Sounds fabulous! CTyankee Dec 2014 #8

If you were there as a child, you are probably old enough for an Elderhostel trip Lydia Leftcoast Dec 2014 #10

I have been on five of their trips! I love Road Scholar! CTyankee Dec 2014 #11