Living in Private House in Cuba
The Lonely Planet says there is 3000 Casas Particulares in Havana. Everyone with an extra room wants to rent it to a tourist, I see more rooms than tourist, but it feels as if there are price controls, whether real or agreed upon, everyone appears to ask 25-35 CUC per night.
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well, I am from Germany but even I am amazed of this stupidity these tourist bring along with them while travelling. Mostly dumb young people who got no idea of travelling anyway. Thank god Americans not allowed to come. There are overpaying the entire world while travelling. They are known to pay the highest prices for everything as they are they dumbest nation in this world.
Well, thank god only Europeans and Canadians, you would otherwise pay more. Just tell them straight in the face that they shouldn't be so inresponsible to the rest of the world and stop overpaying
wannaby from 
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I also hate paying too much and yes people seem to take offence and become indignant if you try to barter .....but lots of time you have no choice like arriving late at night or just need a good nites sleep specially me when i travel as my significant other is handycapped. so this makes it a bit hard .But I still do try it.Den
Your suppose to be a HOBO. Now please change your $$ and use the local money to shop in the farmers markets and local restaurants . See to movies for a dime. Have a Ice cream for a nickel. Have a Pizza for 20 cents. See a baseball game for a quarter. Share a cabin that are free for cubans vacationing. That sort of stuff They say Cubans only make $ 20 a month ? yes it is true Because They are subsudized at X 25
so that 20 will buy ruffly 500 dollars worth of goods in real Cuban places. Andy would have figured out the plot by now. And your Spanish so should be really easy for you but you seem hopeless.
If I'm ever stuck in Colombia I would rather have Andy guiding me than you.
Asiabill from 
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Why do beggars exist? Easy because like you reported, people give them sympathy and money. I rarely almost never give money to street beggarsmy response to beggars here in Manila or anywhere in the Philippines is, "para hindi libre" ( money is not free ). Or ikaw Badjao? Are you from Badjao Island in the Sulu Islands southwest of Mindanao where hundreds of locals are brought to Manila to beg for their bosses. Habana sounds like many other places in the less developed world. It would be interesting to hear about their health care system or what kind of scene and local people live on the beaches or coastal fishing villages. The few Cubans you have shown pictures of seem very dark and of mostly African origin is that your opinion also or are there also many lighter skinned Latino / Hispanic local people also?
Hey Germany It seems this post was about NORWEGIANS overpaying NOT Americans. I would think that your world-wise NORWEGIANS of the great Europe, would be so much more savvy as to not overpay and get ripped off like a STUPID, IGNORANT American??
I realize how cosmopolitan you are, living in Germany, that you know everything about the American culture. After all, unlike the vast majority of Americans, you have months of government sanctioned time to travel and in the sardine-like packed quarters of Europe, a different country and culture is only a stone's throw away.
Where I live, in the Heartland of the "Ignorant" United States, people are busy keeping their noses to the grindstone all year long and if they are lucky, they will give themselves the guilty-pleasure of a week off, at most, during the year. That is if they can afford it.
I am lucky to be able to afford to travel, despite lack of time. I have been a number of exotic, backwater places along with ritzy, glamorous ones. I have seen some Ugly American's, but I've also had the pleasure of seeing plently of loud, rude, ignorant, Europeans, Asians, South Americans and so forth. It always warms my heart. In fact, I find a lot foreigners visiting my country to be arrogant, rude, belligerant, know-it-all's. We have also had bus loads of foreigners visiting my parent's business. Mostly, they were on their best behaviour, but it goes both ways darlin'. Don't act like your "caca" don't stink.
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