Upcoming trip: Cuba’s LGBT Pride week!
NOTE: We run a Cuba Pride trip every May! If you’re interested in the trip for this coming May, check our recent blog posts or drop us a line.
I just got word that Havana’s LGBT Pride Week will be May 4 – 10, 2015! So I’m organizing a trip from the 1st to the 11th to coincide.
They don’t call it Pride Week. It’s officially Havana’s celebration of the Cuban Day against Homophobia and Transphobia. But it’s a week of events, culminating in a big march/conga… so in English, I just say Pride.
To learn more or book the trip, just get in touch!
Details
Beginning May 1 and ending May 11 in Miami, Florida.
Here are a few highlights of this People-to-People trip:
- All the obligatory stops. I mean, we’re not skipping Old Havana, Revolution Square, the Malecón, etc.
- Encounters with Cuban nationals – from scholars to performance artists to random friends of mine
- Pride march/conga, visits to LGBT community spaces, and other queer activities
- Pilgrimage to La Guarida, a restaurant based in the apartment where Strawberry and Chocolate was filmed
Like all my trips, this will be a small group – 12 people maximum – to keep things personal.
Pricing
Upscale hotel – $3900 double (i.e. two to a hotel room), $4500 single
Private B&B – $3600 double, $3900 single.
(Which hotels/B&Bs will depend on availability, but they’ll be among Cuba’s best.)
Includes:
- Lodging in Miami (1 night), Havana (5 nights), Santa Clara (1 night), Cienfuegos (1 night), Playa Larga (2 nights)
- Flights between Miami and Cuba
- Full program of activities featuring encounters with Cuban nationals
(at least 6-8 hours of programming per day, in compliance with U.S. regulations) - Me as the U.S. trip leader (also in compliance with U.S. regulations)
- A Cuban expert guide co-leading the trip with me
- Transportation for group activities
- Healthy compensation and tips for everyone involved in our program
- 9 breakfasts, 5 lunches, and 5 dinners
- Cuban health insurance
- Cuban visa
Not included:
- Your travel from your home to Miami
- The food and activities you enjoy on your own time
- Cuban departure tax of about $30
- Tips for hotel housekeeping
- If someone rocks your world, and you want to supplement whatever I’m paying/tipping them, that’s at your discretion.
Just for fun
Here’s a video produced for last year’s Jornada, calling for love, respect, and inclusion:
Legalese
Disclaimer: Please treat our planned activities as subject to change due to weather or other circumstances beyond our control.
Detour Travel has been issued a license by the Department of the Treasury, Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) authorizing us to organize and operate People to People programs to Cuba.
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