Havana!
I'm not sure what I expected Havana to look like. It wasn't this huge city.
Beautiful day!
The Captain made an announcement that the front of the ship would be open as we pulled in to Havana. We went up there to take pictures as we pulled in to port! It looked like it was going to be a beautiful day!
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Turns
We took a zig zag course coming in to Havana. The distance from Key West and Havana is so short, even going as slowly as we could the Captain said we couldn't go slow enough so we took turns to waste time.
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Day 9 - Havana!
So excited to go to Cuba today. Also, my birthday! You can see our route on the screen. It's just crazy!
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Cuba tomorrow!
When we got back to our room we had these waiting for us. Tomorrow is our first day in Cuba, We were on Holland's inaugural cruise to Cuba. They gave us these Cuban flags and pins to wear and wave when we pulled in to port in the morning.
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Cuba information
We were still a bit unclear on how going ashore in Cuba was going to work so we went to the talk about Cuba that morning to get more info.
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Christmas Cruise to Cuba
We were searching for a good cruise for Christmas. When we found this cruise, we couldn't pass it up! It was the inaugural cruise to Cienfuegos for Holland. It was such a big deal our cruise was on the news!