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Friends of Partagas Dinner Week
Nov. 14th to 18th 2016
Trip From Nov. 14th to 20th (But you can leave earlier if need be)

I am posting this to see if there is enough interest to get a group from the board to go down and enjoy Havana and the event filled Partagas Dinners, all under an OFAC educational license of people to people cultural exchange. I discussed this with Wade a couple of weeks ago, and although work will prevent him from joining on this trip, he would like to see something like this become an annual excursion much like it is over at FoH.

I am cross posting this in the TSBC, but have it here so people can ask questions.

We would be touring the city and area during the days, visiting cigar store, factory tour, etc. There will also be many international cigar smokers visiting and at night, there is usually a meeting place (or 2) for smokers to get together and interact.

The activities for the Partagas Dinner are not mandatory, and all can be purchased separately. If you don’t want to do any dinners, that’s fine. Both dinners, great. One dinner…cool. The official schedule of activities is as follows:

-Day 1, Monday 14: Accreditation day at Partagas Shop. With cigars and
rum tasting. (Final day for payment).
-Day 2, Tuesday 15: Welcoming Dinner at Habana Cafe in Melia Cohiba
Hotel. Price 100.00 CUC.
-Day 3, Wnday 16: Beach Day in Club Habana. Price 75.00 CUC. Includes
Open Bar. Lunch and snacks, and great cigars to enjoy all day long.
-Day 4,Thur 17: Country Day. We will be visiting Hector Luis Tobacco
Farm in San Juan(P del Rio). Price 75.00 CUC. Includes tipical cuban
lunch, open bar, many cigars, horse ridding(optional), river
swimming(optional), and rolling cigars lessons.
-Day 5, Friday 18: Gala Dinner at Habana Libre Hotel (Salon de
Embajadores). Price 170.00 CUC. Includes great show, and Humidors
Auction.

(1 CUC= Appx. 1.163 USD cash)

First, I recommend leaving Sunday and staying and enjoying a Saturday in Havana.

Second, in the program I am listing below, I am including the beach day and Pinar del Rio trips into the cost. So scratch off $150 CUC there. The only thing different is that we should switch these days around and NOT go at the same time as the official group. We will do WAY more. Not only Hector’s farm in Pinar, but Salvador and Hirochi’s. I also am going to talk to Hirochi and see about getting us some face time and a smoke at his place. Lunch will be authentic criollo food with lobster, crab, and pork. Plus Miguel can get us cigars with better tobacco that the tobacco they are using for tourists. Plus getting to sample other great cigars from other places.

For a beach day, we should go to Playas del Este. If you want a “view” of anything more than water, Playas del Este is much better than Club Havana. Although this will not be open bar, I will make sure we have a good amount of beer and rum and some smokes for the afternoon.

Lodging will be in Casa Particulars, probably in Miramar maybe Vedado. Nice places with good beds. I need to secure these soon, as the more popular ones will go out fast. I was told last week that Rob’s group is up to 60 now, and his contact uses may of the same places I do. But no worries, I have others. But sooner the better for good quality.

Breakfast will be included and prepared at your casa each morning. Other meals and drinks are on you, except for lunch in Pinar del Rio which is included.

Good food will not be an issue. I will show you some amazing places.

Transportation will be included also. This is a big deal, especially if one is staying in Miramar….as you will learn quickly at night. We will have private drivers during the day up to dinner. In the evening, people will want to do different things, so at this time you would pay cab fare. Or I can get you a private driver for the evening. (But if you are going to 1 or 2 places only and staying over an hour in each place, splitting a cab will be cheaper)

Also, we will have our own private party night with beer, rum tasting, and cigars at one of the houses. This also is included.

Also included is a tour of Havana City in a beautifully restored classic car, and a tour of either Partagas or the La Corona factory.

For an idea of activates during the day, read the sample itinerary at [url=http://www.cubalegally.com/cuban-cigar-cultural-tour]http://www.cubalegally.com/cuban-cigar-cultural-tour[/url]

Price Breakdown:

OLH Package- includes room, airport transfers, transportation, breakfast, trip to Pinar del Rio, criollo lunch in Pinar, trip to Playas del Este with many beverages, Havana classic car tour, factory tour, private party, and week long guidance through the city:
$850

Partagas Dinner #1:
$116

Partagas Dinner #2:
$210

Charter Flight from Miami to Havana- including all taxes and Cuba departure tax:
$425

Cuban Visa:
$80-100


So total price without Partagas dinners: $1,375
Partaas Dinners add $116-326 based on your desire.

Only additional cost would be getting to Miami.

If you have an interest, LMK via email at [email protected] .I would like to get a group of at least 10 people to make all the numbers work out well. Details will then be given after we gauge if there is enough interest.  It is a little short notice as this is our first time trying this, but lets see what we can work out.

For details on how to travel legally to Cuba, read [url=http://www.cubalegally.com/how-to-go-legally]http://www.cubalegally.com/how-to-go-legally[/url]

This could be a fun time, and a great herf opportunity. I have grown to appreciate Friends of Partagas week more than the Habanos festival, imho.

The trip to Cuba would be amazing.
Hit me up for next year. I am definitely interested in going.
Thanks for the info.
Carl

Can't believe I missed this post.  Busy with boring things will do that.  If this comes around next year, I'm totally in, as in I'll send payment now if needed in. 

LOL. No, def no payment now. But I did talk to Wade last year and he liked the idea of doing an annual Partagas Week trip for the board....if there is interest. So it will be offered again, probably in June to give adequate time for planning.

BTW, we would be doing trips to Pinar privately on the days opposite of the official Partagas Group, so we will have private audiences with the farmers, more time to talk and learn, private tours, cigar samples, band, lobster dinner, etc which is much better than the official trip.

I'm totally in.

Will you be putting together a group for Friends of Partagas Dinner Week this year?

Yes. I already have 3 guys from Houston wanting to confirm last week, but I am trying to trim some costs so it is lower than my normal trip rate, but still accommodate a larger group. And do a couple cool things extra down there. I know the dinners will be pricey, so I am trying to help that out. Just working on finalizing the details. Should have something solid in the next week. We have to start getting reservations soon if we want the good casas.

And we still def have to do the Lobster dinner at Salvador's farm and not the pork chop at Hector's with the regular Partagas group. ;)

How's the permitting and pricing looking nowadays, with the new regulations? Seems pretty strict according to the new Treasury/OFAC guidelines.

Mark, can you clarify that question for me. What rpicing are you refering too? And by permits, I assume you mean licensing, which doesnt look to change except for the elimination of individual people to people educational exchange general licenses. So thw group tours will keep going, and anyone going individual will need to go like before Obama added the individual option.