If not Cuba, then where? | Debbie's Caribbean Resort Reviews Forums

	So if for some reason you could not go to Cuba on vacation, what would be your other choices?

DR. The kids there really need help and our airlines, when asked, will give extra baggage allowances for humanitarian aid.

Better yet, there’s no hassle at the airport when bringing in a duffel full of scribblers and school supplies and Crocs.

If you decide to go to Dominican Republic, PM me for a letter from Beyond the Beach Children’s Foundation for free extra baggage and other details. Thanks in advance

So, I’ve changed my mind on a replacement for Cuba. After checking out the cost of going to Anguilla, from Vancouver, realized, again, that living out here has it’s drawbacks when trying to travel to the Caribbean. No direct access = long travel times, multiple connections = $$$. Since we aren’t interested in Mexico or Hawaii, which have direct access, I think we’d go back to cruising.
So, for sun destinations, I hope we don’t loose Cuba

If I wanted the same weather, I would go back to Mayan Riviera anytime the price was a few hundred higher than Cuba for a 4* or better. The food is so much better, service so much better and we felt perfectly safe at all times, even on the collectivo (local transportation). Other areas in Cuba, or even Cancun, not so much. Only downside is that resorts are huge but you tend to find your own smaller areas anyway, so it’s a bonus to have a dozen choices of places to eat.

We chose to go to Italy for 2 weeks instead of Cuba this year. Need to cross off a few things on my bucket list. If the prices in Cuba are really cheap in Jan.,, we may get there for a week but it will be last minute based on cheap, cheap, cheap.

	Heading out to Montego Bay, Jamaica in January/2013. After going to Cuba for the last four years in a row, decided on a change after a great package deal came up. I will definitely miss not going to Cuba.

	Turks & Caicos is super if you like to snorkel and scuba dive, and it has wonderful beaches. But absolutely no match for Cuba as far as the people, music and atmosphere go.

I’d go back to my first "love" – Puerto Vallarta Mexico. But unfortunately my partner refuses to go anywhere near Mexico "sigh".

If I could afford it – St. John in the USVI, or Tortola.

	back to the gran ventana in puerto plata after twice in cuba… good but not great

	I enjoyed Akumal Beach Resort in the Mayan Riviera, and would return there. I am also interested in Roatan, for the snorkelling, and Huatulco is another place I wouldn’t mind trying.

	Heyyyyyyy how come nobody’s mentioned New Brunswick beaches, er um in August? ;D

Global warming has raised the temperature of the Bay of Fundy from 51F to 64F average in 5 years, a huge change. Great White sharks now stay year round around Grand Manan and Deer Island.

Lobsters moult 3 times per season now instead of once, resulting in a 6 to 1 ratio of landed weight to available meat.

Fishermen throw back most of their catch because it’s undersized. Something that never happened before. Now all the predators of juvianal lobsters have been fished out; All of the dogfish have been converted to fish and chips.
..And NB Beaches were fantastic this summer.

Thanks for asking.

Summer was glorious e-v-e-r-ywhere this year, and my favourite New Bee beach was the best ever, not only because of the weather but because we had the cottage 2 full weeks this year.

That adds up to a heckofalot of mojitos and martoonies

Global warming has raised the temperature of the Bay of Fundy from 51F to 64F average in 5 years, a huge change. Great White sharks now stay year round around Grand Manan and Deer Island.

Heaven on earth….having Great Whites stay all year round is such a precious claim to be able to make, just wonderful….it should be ;D, not Spunky !

Lucky, lucky you !

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