{UAH} AND HERE IS TODAY'S OFFICIAL I TOLD YOU SO

Friends

 

I spent literally weeks in this forum, warning  my dear friends how opening up Cuba is a beginning of  its destruction, well those of you that attacked me in all the postings I made in this forum, this is the number one in my I told you so. Many times when some of us take particular stands on some aspects, it is because we have seen them in countries after countries, there is absolutely nothing that has ever came out of any country becoming opened up to Americans. It is very sad that we have opened up the gates of losing what has made Cuba a special country in the world, this is just the very beginning of a journey to take us right in the middle of a Kentucky Fried Chicken store in Varadero.

 

Everything worked out so well until when Obama had nothing to do that one day and his fingers started to itch and Walla Sam One into Havana.

 

Cuba's first luxury hotel opens in Havana

AFPMay 22, 2017

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Cubans walk near the Manzana Kempinski Hotel, the first ultra luxury hotel in Cuba, on May 22, 2017 (AFP Photo/YAMIL LAGE)

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Havana (AFP) - Cuba's first ultra luxury hotel opened its doors Monday in Havana, with guests paying up to $2,500 a night to stay in five-star comfort on the Communist island.

The "Gran Hotel Manzana," part of the Swiss group Kempinski Hotels, is situated in the heart of the Cuban capital in front of the verdant gardens of Parque Central and the grand Alicia Alonso theater, home to the Cuban National Ballet.

Guests in each of the hotel's 246 rooms, 50 of which are suites, have the pick of four bars and two restaurants and can take a swim in the rooftop infinity pool.

The European-style building first opened in 1917, before undergoing a complete renovation.

In order to deliver the project in time, the Cuban government was forced to accept the builders bringing hundreds of qualified workers from India, a rare move in a country that usually requires that only underpaid -- and undermotivated -- Cuban workers.

Now the hotel, jointly owned by Kempinski and the military-controlled Cuban tour operator Gaviota, charges between $440 and $2,485 a night.

"We appreciate hidden gems and this matches our philosophy," Kempinski director Xavier Destribats told Cuban state television.

On the ground floor of the hotel, a shopping mall filled with high-end boutiques such as Versace, Lacoste and Montblanc sparked curiosity in a country where luxury was long ago banned under the iron-fisted rule of revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

"The hotel is really beautiful, but here everything is terribly expensive. It's not for the Cubans," said Lidia Martinez, a 29-year-old housewife.

Leonardo Padilla, a salesman at Montblanc, admitted he had difficulty selling watches ranging from $1,775 to $4,500 in a country where the average wage is no more than $30.

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