In Cuba everybody seems to have a side hustle and what I mean by that is, most people in Cuba are trying to make more money on top of their employment wages. Who can blame them when they have such low incomes. In our resort Be Live Turquesa, almost all of the employees we met offered us either cigars or a tour to Havana and when they made the offer they would always try to be very low key. The reason for the secretive behavior that I learned speaking with locals, is that one of the main principals of Communism is, everybody is supposed to be equal and no one person should hold great amounts of wealth. It sounds like it could be a good concept, but as all governments do it has it’s fair share of problems. That brings me to my next point, I suggest using the resort workers offers to your advantage and barter with them a bit. Doing this will help you get the best deal possible and you will also be helping them out, as I’m sure they get a cut of every deal they make. We were looking to go to Havana and through the resort we had the option of going on a tour bus full of people, which would be fine, but we would’ve had to wait for everybody and it seemed maybe a little too hectic for us. One of our waiters had offered us a private trip to Havana in an old classic car with our own tour guide, for much cheaper than the resort wanted to charge. So we opted to take the tour and it turned out to be a great idea. Our tour guide was fantastic and very well educated in the history of Havana and spoke very good English as well.