Cuba Travel: Offline Guide

Cuba has no WiFi. This guide doesn't need it. Every paladar, beach, museum, ATM, hospital, tourist police station, and 24h pharmacy in this app is pinned to a fully offline map. Pull it out anywhere — Habana Vieja, Viñales, the road to Trinidad, a casa particular with no signal — and it works. — WHAT'S INSIDE — - Fair prices, so you don't get ripped off. See what an airport taxi, a casa or a paladar meal should cost before anyone quotes you. Pro adds prices by city (Havana, Trinidad, Viñales, Varadero), fair fares between cities, an overcharge checker and haggling cards in Spanish. - 185+ places, each one written about honestly. If a paladar is a tourist trap, the app says so. If the mojito at La Bodeguita is overpriced and you'd do better three blocks away, the app says so. - Offline maps for the whole island, plus 21 city centers at street-level detail (Habana, Trinidad, Santiago, Viñales, Varadero, Cienfuegos, Camagüey, and more). - 380+ ETECSA office locations and 40+ emergency points: international tourist clinics, hospitals, tourist police, Cadeca exchanges, 24h pharmacies. - Currency calculator with the informal-market rate — the rate Cubans actually use, not the fictional Cadeca rate that's 4× worse. $100 USD ≈ 53,000 CUP at the street, 12,000 at the bank. - 100+ phrases in Spanish with English, Français, Русский, Deutsch, and Italiano translations, plus tap-to-hear audio. - Cubanismos soundboard — distinctly Cuban slang you won't hear in any other guide: ¿Qué bolá? · Asere · ¡Dale! · ¡Qué bárbaro! · Coger botella · La jaba · ¡Chao, pescao! - SOS section with offline emergency phrases ("Estoy perdido. ¿Puede mostrarme dónde estamos?") and step-by-step instructions for power cuts, lost passports, medical emergencies, ATM failures, getting scammed, and getting lost. - GPS locate-me — no servers, no accounts, no tracking. - Photo gallery sourced from Wikimedia Commons, with credits. — BUILT BY A CUBAN — Most travel apps for Cuba are scraped, machine-translated, or written by someone who spent two weeks in Habana and called it research. This one isn't. I'm Pablo. I grew up there. Every editorial description was written for this app, with the bias of someone who's actually been to the place — and where I disagree with conventional travel-blog wisdom, I say so. Most Cuba guides haven't been updated in years. This one gets updated all the time. — SIX LANGUAGES — English · Español · Français · Русский · Deutsch · Italiano. Every place description is original prose, not machine-translated. Section headers, phrases, and the entire UI translate properly across all six. — NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS. NO TRACKING. — You don't sign in. The app doesn't talk to any server I run. Your location stays on your phone. The map, places and phrases are free. One optional one-time purchase unlocks the full Prices section. There is no advertising. The privacy policy is short for a reason: there's almost nothing to disclose. — WHO IT'S FOR — - First-time Cuba travelers who don't want to get scammed or stranded. - Returning travelers who already know the basics and want honest picks. - Spanish-speakers, Russian-speakers, French / German / Italian travelers who default to apps that don't bother translating. - Anyone who's heard "no es fácil" and understood why it matters. — SOURCES SHOW. OPINIONS ARE MINE. — Map data and ETECSA offices: OpenStreetMap. Photos: Wikimedia Commons. Currency rates: ElToque. Editorial voice: a Cuban with skin in the game. If something is wrong or out of date, there's a one-tap "Help us improve" button inside the Tips tab. Opens your email app with diagnostics pre-filled. I read every one. ¿Qué bolá, asere? Dale. — Pablo