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BOATING TO CUBA FROM U.S.
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Soon after Trump’s policy was announced, New York Citybased
Bespoke Custom Cuba Travel began providing clients
a set of documents to have on hand when they re-enter the
U.S. It includes their full itinerary, travel affidavit and more.
“As soon as the announcement was made, the public at large
thought this would be immediate and did not realize that there is
always a lag,” said president Myriam Castillo. “To ease our clients
fears, we said ‘OK we are going to give you this, you can show
them this, that legitimately lays out you are not doing anything
that is against the current policy, or whatever the future policy may
be.’”
About 45 percent of their business focuses on art and architecture,
Castillo said. The rest is a mixture of travelers interested in
dance, music, history and more. They have infrastructure in Cuba,
relying on their own drivers and guides. Trips are broken down
into the focus categories of history, music/art, and museums; they
have also provided tours for foodies, and for private schools in
New York City.
Bespoke is now booking clients who want to travel to Cuba
in the late fall and end of the year. They organize entire itineraries
and prepare all documents or visas required to travel to Cuba. They
can also organize the use of commercial airlines, private jets, or
chartered yachts.
Depending on time of year and length of time, trips that average
four to five nights cost $3,500 to $4,300, with all services, docs
and visas included.
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Carlson Maritime has been around since 2009, and as a boutique
travel agency, it specializes in Cuba, Greece, and the
Mediterranean. “Most agencies just do Cuba,” says CEO
Suzanne Carlson. “But we do the world as well.”
Like their name suggests, Carlson Maritime specializes in
waterborne journeys to Cuba, namely trips taken by yachts into
Cuban waters and marinas.
“Or maritime packages for all types of vessels include the
components required for safe and legal maritime travel to Cuba,”
says Carlson. These services include all documentation for entering
Cuban territorial waters, securing marina slips, and U.S. re-entry
information. Once these arrangements have been secured, clients
are handed over to Havana Tours, with which Carlson has a direct
contract.
The aim, says Carlson, is to ensure that her clients experience
the real Cuba. “They have done ‘shiny and pretty,’ and they want
authentic. They want to do homestays, they want to go to a rooftop
to get lessons in making mojitos in someone’s home.”
Carlson cut her teeth on Cuba sea travel in 2010, when she
got an OFAC license to set up a terminal on the Miami River for a
commercial ferry service to Cuba. That proved to be an uphill battle,
but what she learned “worked quite well for sending yachts to
Cuba,” she says. Prices depend on the budget and taste of the client.
“For a variety of reasons, boating to Cuba is different from
any other Caribbean island and requires a significant amount of
planning,” says Carlson. “That’s what we do.”
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