New Member Don Tomas – Cuba – Debbie's Carribean Reviews Forums

Well thanks again.

Sund0g: Sounds good. TA is not a place for humour, not a place for much else than politically correct disney-BS. I was banned there many a fun time, when I finally got the kick was when a Cuba Destination Expert asked on a thread: ‘Is it not true that there are two prices in Cuba? One for Cubans and one for tourists?’ and I replied, quite without any hint of a personal attack, if the guy should not consider not being on a forum with a destination expert label if he was asking such questions? That was it for me. And all the better. Thousands of posts spent adding content to a corrupt business that ranks hotels by which hotel pays most. Maybe the most corrupt and utterly useless travel website online. Now after that – believe it or not – everyone I know from whos houses and apartments I had ever connected to TA at, from my cell or whatever – all had their TA accounts deleted. My poor dad who had just discovered TA a few months back and was over the moon writing hotel reviews. Deleted. When he asked why he got no answer from TA. When he told me I said you’re not going to believe it, but I think it’s probably because I have connected from your house. A month after he got a reply that his account had been disabled for using multiple user names. Same happened with 3-4 family members and a couple of friends. Talk about nut-job moderators.

I was also involved with a business and every time someone would mention ir or write a review the posts would be deleted. I found it amazing how such a big website could have it in for a simple guy no longer there, not wanting to come back, leaving that website completely alone. Needless to say, I think TA, the forums and everything on it, is a complete joke. And a huge scam on top. But the latter is a different subject matter.

Eeeeee: Let me start by coming out: I spent a week at a Varadero resort in the summer of 2013. There you go. And I absolutely loved it. After 4-5 months in off the tourist trail Cuba living a normal down to earth life with all the rice, beans and dry chicken that goes along with that, a week at that buffet was amazing. I did hit the beach once or twice, and tried the pool as well, but mostly I was just sitting with my powder piña colada waiting for the buffet to open. Ate like a pig. Sat down with a powder colada and waited until the doors opened for lunch. Ate like an animal. Sat down with a piña and waited until the doors opened for dinner. Ate like a pig. Then sat down with a piña colada and waited for the evenign show to come on and fell asleep. Got up, hit the breakfast buffet, ate like a swine. Another drink, wait, eat, drink, wait, eat, drink, wait, eat, drink, wait, eat. A week later I was back in Havana and my nickname had changed to ‘El Gordo’. Put on 5 kilos in one week. of course I had lost 8-9 kilos in the months up to that, so…

Resort life rules.

(It’s just that, PERSONALLY, I find it so incredibly borring to talk about. Because I just did, and what else is there to say? Drink, wait, eat, drink, wait, eat. Throw in a dip in the ocean and a dive in the pool and what’s left to talk about for years and years on thousands of threads on a million forums? Except drink, wait, eat. Enlighten me someone if I am wrong.)

Oh, and finally – and I guess since the thread has my name on it I can get away with feeling up myself to the point where some might vomit – I have never been on any forum to insult anyone, I’m the same direct guy/a$$hole as in real life. I hate sugar-coating and I hate misinformation and yes, I do hate random gifting, and out of my numerous bans on TA all was for just speaking my opinion, I was never around for personal attacks. I don’t know why some people hate me (and why some would report ALL my posts on TA and get me a bunch of automatic bans by the ‘TA community’), but my luck in life is that I have figured out that even if half of the world hates you, there’s still 3 billion people left who don’t. And out of those you only need 10 or 20 to actually like you to have a pretty decent life. So I just wanted to get that out of the way if there are people around this forum thinking ‘oh no, not that a$$hole again’. And finally, since those TA days I am living about half the year in Havana with no time or bandwidth to be on online forums, so at least 50 percent of the time nobody has to listen to me.

Wish it was me