Hey everyone we're here in Varadero Cuba and today we're gonna share with you our
top tips and experiences for our stay here in town.
Okay so the top thing to do, the top experience is of course the beautiful
beach. The beach runs all along the town right out to the resorts any part of it
that you go to it's gorgeous. The swimming is amazing, the water is beautiful
the, sand fantastic. This is the most fun that I have ever had on a beach, and the
beach is easily accessible from pretty much anywhere in Varadero town. And don't
forget to take a walk along the beach in the evening it's a great place to check
out the sunset and it's just a gorgeous walk to have. Varadero definitely has an
emerging cocktail scene I would say, so where we would recommend you go or we
had the best cocktails was at Factoria 43, their daiquiris were unbelievable and
we're not really frozen daiquiri types. No never I kind of scoffed at it at first
but it really liked it was unbelievably amazing and we went back a second time.
Right beside Factoria is Casa de la Musica, and they also serve great
cocktails we had a couple of mojitos in there and they were fantastic as well.
And it's a really great location because it's right across the street from the
beach so it's an excellent place to just pop up from the beach and have a quick
drink. Interestingly I did notice that Cubans themselves mostly drink cervesas
it seemed that way it's mostly tourists who seem like they're drinking mojitos
and daiquiris, like us! No regrets. We found a couple of awesome
places to go for our coffee our two favorites were Dona Neli and there you
can get a cafe con leche for one peso. The other great coffee that we had was
at El Golfito which was really close to the place that we were staying it was
a dollar fifty or one peso fifty and again cafe con leche and they were
amazing We drank those coffees like I would drink six of them.
They're practically across the street from each other
Dona Neli is at 43rd and El Golfito is at 42nd 41st 43rd the other side of the
street, right 42nd yes.... For an authentic
Cuban dining experience here in Varadero our recommendation would be Sabor Cubano
they have just a couple of dishes, it's ropa vieja or bistek and you can
have it with rice and yuca and then they seem to have a new juice every day, their
daily fresh juice. When we were in there by far the locals were sort of the prime
people there. A few practical tips the first being getting around Varadero, so the easiest
way by far is to actually walk. You can walk along the beach you can walk
along Avenida Primera but the next best way is to take a taxi. There are plenty
of types of taxis from the old classic cars to the modern taxis to
horse-and-cart, all sorts of ways to get around. And all you have to do is go
stand out on the Main Street Avenida Primera and you will be honked
at or whistled at or bells will be rung towards you, somebody wants to take
you. The main tip we have around that is to ensure you a negotiate a price before
you hop in. In terms of getting to and from Varadero there's a bus station here
with the Viazul buses and it's at 36th so it's right in the center of Varadero
easy to get to.Again if it's too far to walk you just hop in a cab for a couple
of pesos you're there and getting on a bus and on your way to la Habana, or
wherever else you want to go. One of the things that we were concerned about when
we were on our way here was whether it would be easy to find a place to go for
water or some of the little essentials and necessities that come up and we
discovered it was no problem at all. There are quite a few little tiendas or
shops some of them are literally holes in the wall with people working and they
have everything that you need. If you're staying in Varadero town and you need to
pull out a little bit of extra cash the best way to do it is to find yourself an
ATM and they can be found at any bank here in the town or you can go to the
centro comercial where they have a couple of ATMs. Just remember though they
do not accept American bank cards. So using the internet in Cuba is very
interesting experience, and we are actually going to publish a separate video all about that
so be sure to check it out, but if you're staying in Varadero town one of the
things that you will need in order to be able to use the internet is an Etecsa
shop where you can pop in and buy cards for various amounts of time access to
the internet. One of the things we've noticed though is that being a little
bit disconnected has been really fun, it's liberating and it feels really
good. So maybe you don't want to go buy an Internet card or maybe you just want
to buy a 30 minute - trienta minuto - and get a little bit of time in
there and then spend the rest of your days at the beach having a drink and
getting some food, etc. Well that's it for this video thank you so much for
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