Visiting Cuba - Suggestions for holidays, trains, itineraries, day-trips, and sightseeing from someone who has lived and traveled extensively in Cuba
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If you’re going through Mexico City or Cancun to Havana, you can usually find good flights on Mexicana and Cubana. I don’t quite recommend Cubana, but they have a pretty good safety record for the volume of flights they do.
Typically you’ll pay $300-500 for a roundtrip from Havana-Mexico City or a little less from Cancun. You can see and price flights at mexicana.com.
There is little competition on these routes, so don’t expect fares to go on sale much or at all.
