Where to travel to?
Passport: First get the application at a Post Office. Fill it out, pictures, signatures, birth certificate, etc.
Second, and fastest way to get one that I know is to bring it to a Passport Office, closest one to me is London. Certainly Edm, Cgy, would have them. Maybe some of the smaller cities too. Check your phone book or gov.ca to find your nearest. At the office you'll go over it with someone, and then it takes ~10days to get it in the mail. My work buddy got his in one week.
I don't know of any one day turn around on getting one, unless you're at the embassy in Togoland and got ripped for it.
If you mail it in then it's kind of a 6-8 week wait.
Second, and fastest way to get one that I know is to bring it to a Passport Office, closest one to me is London. Certainly Edm, Cgy, would have them. Maybe some of the smaller cities too. Check your phone book or gov.ca to find your nearest. At the office you'll go over it with someone, and then it takes ~10days to get it in the mail. My work buddy got his in one week.
I don't know of any one day turn around on getting one, unless you're at the embassy in Togoland and got ripped for it.
If you mail it in then it's kind of a 6-8 week wait.
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Cuba Cuba Cuba! We've been to DomRep too, and Cuba is much cleaner and friendlier. Also they looove Canadians!
Holguin is nice, also check out Cayo Coco. El Senador is cdn owned. We went to the Melia CC, and it was 70% canadians staying there!
This is the only place we go now for last minute deals: http://www.sunholidays.ca/
Mark
Holguin is nice, also check out Cayo Coco. El Senador is cdn owned. We went to the Melia CC, and it was 70% canadians staying there!
This is the only place we go now for last minute deals: http://www.sunholidays.ca/
Mark
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well ces is nice, but anyone who has been there will tell you its tiring, I mean business all day and gambling/touring all night. you just don't have time to sleep.
I'm only doing 2 days this year, no rest for the wicked
I'm only doing 2 days this year, no rest for the wicked
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Originally posted by Lando:
I read somewhere today that Cuba is no longer accepting USD .. not sure if this is true or not, but something to consider.
I read somewhere today that Cuba is no longer accepting USD .. not sure if this is true or not, but something to consider.
Hey, the way the value of our CDN buck is going they'll have to switch to our money!
Mark
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HAVANA · More than a decade after legalizing the use of
U.S. dollars on the island in an effort to capture hard
currency, the Cuban government announced on Monday that the
dollar will no longer be valid in stores, hotels and other
businesses as of Nov. 8.
With his fractured arm in a sling, President Fidel Castro
joined Cuba's Central Bank president and several
high-ranking members of government to announce the decision
during a three-hour television program Monday night.
Castro broke his arm and shattered his knee when he tripped
and fell last week, but said Monday's announcement was too
important to let the accident keep him away.
U.S. dollars will not become illegal, as they were before
1993. But beginning Nov. 8, Cubans and foreigners will have
to change dollars into a currency known as the convertible
Cuban peso. After that date, a 10 percent commission will
be charged at banks or changing houses.
The government said the measure was necessary to protect
its economy after stepped-up measures by the United States
to punish banks that ship dollars to Cuba.
Monday's announcement stirred anxiety among those who
depend on dollar remittances sent by relatives abroad to
supplement their monthly $10 salaries or minuscule
retirement checks. "The Cuban government is saying from now
on, whether you like it or not ... we are going to require
you to show faith and confidence in our peso, our
currency," said John Kavulich, president of New York-based
U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council.
Kavulich predicted there would be a temporary dip in
remittances to Cuba "as families in [the United States]
want to express their outrage, but that will be short-term
because we are getting into the holidays," he said.
The Central Bank statement said Cubans who receive cash
remittances from abroad should urge their families to send
Canadian dollars, British pounds, Euros or other
currencies, which will not be charged a commission when
changed into Cuban convertible pesos.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this
report.
Copyright © 2004, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
U.S. dollars on the island in an effort to capture hard
currency, the Cuban government announced on Monday that the
dollar will no longer be valid in stores, hotels and other
businesses as of Nov. 8.
With his fractured arm in a sling, President Fidel Castro
joined Cuba's Central Bank president and several
high-ranking members of government to announce the decision
during a three-hour television program Monday night.
Castro broke his arm and shattered his knee when he tripped
and fell last week, but said Monday's announcement was too
important to let the accident keep him away.
U.S. dollars will not become illegal, as they were before
1993. But beginning Nov. 8, Cubans and foreigners will have
to change dollars into a currency known as the convertible
Cuban peso. After that date, a 10 percent commission will
be charged at banks or changing houses.
The government said the measure was necessary to protect
its economy after stepped-up measures by the United States
to punish banks that ship dollars to Cuba.
Monday's announcement stirred anxiety among those who
depend on dollar remittances sent by relatives abroad to
supplement their monthly $10 salaries or minuscule
retirement checks. "The Cuban government is saying from now
on, whether you like it or not ... we are going to require
you to show faith and confidence in our peso, our
currency," said John Kavulich, president of New York-based
U.S.-Cuba Trade and Economic Council.
Kavulich predicted there would be a temporary dip in
remittances to Cuba "as families in [the United States]
want to express their outrage, but that will be short-term
because we are getting into the holidays," he said.
The Central Bank statement said Cubans who receive cash
remittances from abroad should urge their families to send
Canadian dollars, British pounds, Euros or other
currencies, which will not be charged a commission when
changed into Cuban convertible pesos.
Information from The Associated Press was used in this
report.
Copyright © 2004, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
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