Insight Cuba Has Opened up More Cuban Travel Possibilities for 2012 and 2013

In a blog that I posted a couple of days ago, I wept over the scarce availability of air-and-land packages to Cuba, resulting from the limited hotel space in Havana. I based my view, in part, on the then-current website of Insight Cuba (tel. 800/450-2822; www.insightcuba.com ), probably the leading operator of such packages, which showed virtually every imminent date as sold out.

No sooner did that blog appear than Insight Cuba announced that it had added more than 70 additional departures to Cuba in 2012 and 2013, including departures as early as April and May, and many more in September, October, November and December of this year. In a move that has radically expanded the opportunities to that often-forbidden Caribbean destination, Insight Cuba has wholly changed the availability of tour packages there.

So I'm happy to post this correction. Though I based my earlier statement on a careful study of the Insight Cuba website (which at that time did not display the 70 additional departures), the almost simultaneous appearance of Insight Cuba's announcement requires that this new information be conveyed to our readers.