boat to Cuba, mexico or anywhere

mike-mike · #1 07-09-2003, 07:39 PM

Hello everyone,

I would like to go from DR to Cuba, Mexico, Honduras (or anywhere I could scubadive). But plane are VERY expensive. so maybe i could find boats or sailboats which do the trips.
Do you have any tips?
second question, do you know if it is possible and easy to find a
job in Cuba?

Thanks for your answers.
Mike

XanaduRanch · #2 07-09-2003, 08:31 PM

A job in Cuba. How good at you are hitting folks about the head with a baseball bat? THEY HAVE NO MONEY. What would they pay you with, Cigars?

Seriously, I don't know what you're accustomed to earning, but if you have access to a computer for sure it's more than you could earn in Cuba. Or here for that matter without some serious connections.

As to the boat, "Chris" on this board tells me that there is a cruise to Cuba that leaves once a week from Puerto Plata for a few hundred US$. Anyone have any more info on that one? She's been trying to get me to go for a month but I begged off after the last cruise stalled half-way there and had to have some Dominican sailor/engineer (ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!) get them back to port by stretching some plastic tubes together with a blow-torch.

:: sigh ::

Tom

Chris · #3 07-10-2003, 10:40 AM

Yeah! but they got good food while they were bobbing in the ocean somewhere with no airconditioning and serious mechanical problems. And on returning to the DR (not having seen Cuba or Jamaica), they all got free tickets for another trip. My friends, who took this cruise, tell me that they are not going to use their free tickets! Wonder Why!

So, Xanadu, we have free tickets if we want them for a five day cruise that hopefully puts in to Cuba and Jamaica, or, manages to get a few miles offshore and bobs around there for four of the five days...

Larry · #4 07-10-2003, 10:48 AM

second question, do you know if it is possible and easy to find a
job in Cuba?

Thanks for your answers.
Mike [/B][/QUOTE]

Line from a Cheech and chong movie:

Chong : heyyyy mannnn, why dont you go and get a job?

Cheech: a job? You mean like a blowjob?

Mike-Mike, what makes you think you are going to go to Cuba and get a job? LOL

Larry

Tony C · #5 07-10-2003, 12:10 PM

Mike-Mike,

Are you from the US. You do realize that travel by Americans to Cuba is restricted right?

And considering that Cuba is a Communist state that would mean that you would be emplyed by the Cuban Gov. in any job you might find.

I am sure that the US State department would not look too kindly at an American being employed by the Cuban gov.

I will not even go into the moral implications of your actions because you obviously have none

joseíto · #6 07-10-2003, 01:07 PM

It IS possible to get a job in CUBA. I know of several Dominicans that work there, and get to come home on vacations. THERE IS NOTHING inmoral about working in Cuba.

-Joseito

goatfarmnga · #7 07-10-2003, 01:26 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Tony C
Mike-Mike,

I will not even go into the moral implications of your actions because you obviously have none

You see what I was saying Tony C..May a big aggressive dog find you walking alone in the dark and Mike-Mike scuba his way to Cuba if he wants to live there..Different strokes Tony C..Very Different strokes when it comes to you..Maybe we will meet in the DR one day and you will be priveleged enough to pet my dogs...

All in fun OK? PAM

Tony C · #8 07-10-2003, 01:55 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by joseíto
It IS possible to get a job in CUBA. I know of several Dominicans that work there, and get to come home on vacations. THERE IS NOTHING inmoral about working in Cuba.

-Joseito

Are you serious?

Hmmm I wonder how you would feel about that if you were Cuban and was thrown in jail for writing about Cuba the same way you write about Dominican Politics here on DR1

GoatFarmnga,

Different strokes? Sure! I personally have no desire to help prop up a murderous dictator! If you want to be my guest. I have a conscience!
I'll be more than happy to pet your dog. Only if it si properly restrained in an enclosed space or on a leash.
I have worked with pit-bulls. Some of the Dumbest most traiterous dogs on the planet!

ClippedWing · #9 07-10-2003, 02:26 PM

Why on God's earth would you want to work in Cuba? I mean Doctors make $20 a month. The higher paying jobs are in professions where you can get tips like Waiters, Tour guides, Taxi Drivers, bell hops etc. While I was there, I asked a couple of my taxi drivers what their "real" professions where and I heard everything from Engineers to Surgeons... but they gave it up to drive a taxi because it was more money.

Are you American? If so, there's no way I could see an American working happily in Cuba unless employed by an American firm and you're sent there to research or something and then there's a bunch of legal issues with that.

But as far as traveling to cuba from DR... try www.cubalinda.com

Escott · #10 07-10-2003, 02:43 PM

I think that the boat from Puerto Plata to Cuba is no longer running.