Why Choose ECC For Your Cuba Trip
ECC’s 3 Key Benefits For YOU!
Experience + Access
With two decades of Cuba travel expertise, Experience Cuban Culture has cultivated invaluable connections with top restaurants, hotels, tours, and local Cubans, ensuring you premier access to the very best of Cuban culture.
100% Legal Compliance
With a decade of experience bringing American groups to Cuba, Experience Cuban Culture's in-depth knowledge of US Treasury regulations guarantees fully compliant and legal trips. Your peace of mind means you can truly savor your Cuban experience.
Concierge Tour Leader
Experience Cuban Culture provides a concierge-level Tour Leader on every trip. Fluent in English, they are your go-to for information, assistance, and issue resolution, ensuring a seamless and enjoyable Cuban adventure.
Why Choose Experience Cuban Culture
ECC is very proud to be considered the premier provider of premium travel to Cuba for American visitors. The company began by hosting visitors to Cuba interested in culture and cigars and then continued to work for years to develop deep relationships with the best restaurants, chefs, event providers, hotels and owners of luxury rental housing. ECC’s guests enjoy the the best of Cuba thanks to more than a 20 years of relationship building.
From day one, ECC has focused on customer satisfaction. This has led ECC to develop the resources to provide everything from premium private lodging to mobile phones for our guests. Reach out to us today and let the team at ECC know how we could make your travel to Cuba an experience of a lifetime!
ECC provides premier access to the best of Cuban culture:
Music, art, dance, food, rum, architecture and the PEOPLE!
ECC Can Customize Your Cuba Itinerary
Cultural Immersion
Do you like world-class Jazz, fine art, fine cuisine, or aged rums? Cuba offers a tremendous amount of its own culture to visitors. Sometimes finding the best of what’s offered is a challenge, but ECC has you covered. We know the best spots for live music, art, food, rum, and much more. Our cultural trips are designed with a large cultural component and are filled with a sensory stimulating schedule of activities.
Plus, ECC trips will immerse you with our local contacts in Cuba and introduce you to the best Cuban chefs, artists, farmers, musicians, historians, and bring you face to face with its architecture, culture, people, and cuisine.
Cigar Exploration
The most famous tobacco farm and cigar factory in the world are waiting for you. Thanks to our long experience writing about and working inside the Cuban cigar industry, ECC has the unique ability to take you deep in to the world of the Cuban cigars. On our trips you will visit these fantastic sites but more interestingly you will engage with the people who grow the tobacco, roll the cigars, and promote them to the wider world. Of course you will also have many opportunities to taste the Cohibas, Montecristos, and others.
ECC’s relationships with the cigar makers and tobacco growers in the famous factories and farms are second to none. If you are interested in Cuban cigars, ECC can introduce you to the people responsible for creating these masterpieces.
Culinary Opportunities
What Cuban chefs do with limited ingredients and limited access to the outside world is incredible. ECC can arrange a trip to meet these chefs, enjoy their cuisine and even to cook with them. The traditional Cuban cuisine is best known for its slow cooked pork, mojo sauce, and sleeping black beans but it is being taken to new heights by the current group of chef entrepreneurs. Their success in difficult circumstances is a delicious inspiration to both chefs and enthusiastic diners.
Educational Resources
University groups who would like to arrange a trip to Cuba where students meet with people from various industries, regions, lifestyles, etc. are guided through the process with ease. Through ECC’s network of professionals, we set up meetings, activities, and logistics for groups seeking a robust educational experience.
Major American universities trust ECC to organize travel for their students and faculty. ECC began offering these trips with in-depth seminars with Cuban entrepreneurs, artists, doctors, scientists, professionals and practitioners. The mixture of seminars and cultural activities creates the ideal opportunity for cultural exchange, exposure and learning. Our experienced staff steward visitors through their full-time schedule.
Licensing Services
It is important to remember that any trip to Cuba must comply with Treasury Department regulations. So ECC can arrange a wide variety of activities for you and ensure that the itinerary complies with all regulations. This usually means that during activities, there will be a component of the activity that includes conversation between guests and Cubans about life in their respective countries and about how the activity compares in the two places.
Luxury Amenities
ECC has arranged for guests to yacht from Florida to Cuba in their own and chartered boats. We have done the same with jets. On the island, ECC has many lodging options that are not available to the public. These range from penthouse apartments with pools to private homes on the Caribbean. One of our guides can arrange the best food options possible and it can all be accessed through private transport if you desire. ECC provides complete trip customization and ensures that your schedule is compliant with Treasury Department regulations.
Group Sizes
Typically ECC groups have ranged from 10-25 people on average. In 2016 ECC expanded to offer our services for groups of people ranging from small (4 people) to large (several hundred people). Our largest group to date has been the highly successful administration of a group of 333 people participating in the Hemingway International Fishing Tournament. The smallest has been a family that wanted a licensed trip to learn about the culture of Cuba. No matter the size of your group, ECC is prepared to provide the best access to your interests.