HELP! ISOMS, Avoiding Fakes, Advice.

[jiaguy]

I have been told that you can buy cigars right out of the cigar factories in Cuba. Is this true.

I personally haven't been but I know of people who did. Just rent a bike and spend 1-2 hrs riding it to get there...they aren't in big towns. You can be assurred they are real if its a store they are in and it costs you a two nights at a resort to buy a box. Generally ask your tour guide if you are on a package and they'll point you to the legit places...usually. I actually found airport prices not to be that bad in Cuba. Price variations are very small between the local B&W there and the airport.

[420seth]

Ya man, buy them from the store in the hotel or an actual cigar store in havana or varadero. no junk off the bartenders, pool boys, lifeguards etc. they are all fakes, and poor ones at that.

[drew_goring]

Ya man, buy them from the store in the hotel or an actual cigar store in havana or varadero. no junk off the bartenders, pool boys, lifeguards etc. they are all fakes, and poor ones at that.

Lol! Good luck with that.

[mauied1101]

uh... don't buy anything that comes in a glass top box...

[Monk]

uh... don't buy anything that comes in a glass top box...

Damn! I was just looking at a nice glass top Cohiba box!

-W.

[420seth]

Lol! Good luck with that.

Hey dude, what is so funny? Have you even been to cuba? And no you cannot drive a neon there. LOL

[420seth]

Glass top box of cigars? What you numbskulls talking about? Cigars do not come in glass top boxes?

[mauied1101]

Glass top box of cigars? What you numbskulls talking about? Cigars do not come in glass top boxes?

Let's see... I bet you, 420seth, a box of Padron 64s that cigars can indeed com in glass top boxes. Ready to put your money where your mouth is? Tell me why I'm wrong. Hell, I'll even let you pick the size of the 64 to send me.

C'mon - I'm waiting...

[slcraiders]

Let's see... I bet you, 420seth, a box of Padron 64s that cigars can indeed com in glass top boxes. Ready to put your money where your mouth is? Tell me why I'm wrong. Hell, I'll even let you pick the size of the 64 to send me.

C'mon - I'm waiting...

What he said. Plus, read the recent threads. You still need to post an intro, Cheech.

[drew_goring]

Hey dude, what is so funny? Have you even been to cuba? And no you cannot drive a neon there. LOL

Hey dipshit. It is well known that the only place to reliably get authentic Cuban cigars are the Official Cuban Government stores. A lot of hotel shops sell fakes. Just like a lot of B&Ms up here in Canada sell fakes...(betcha didn't know that )

So where in BC are you from anyways? Feel free to post a proper intro.

[jiaguy]

It is well known that the only place to reliably get authentic Cuban cigars are the Official Cuban Government stores. A lot of hotel shops sell fakes.

Thats not quite true most restorts and hotels are government owned in Cuba looking at the hotel envelope hanging on my board right now... thus they do sell legit Cubans, they however, do it at the same price as stores. And there is a certain amount of bargaining you can do with the sales people. They like western stuff and corruption is pretty darn rampant... I managed to trade the shirt off my back for three Montecristo #4's in a Habanos store, but first I had to find the clerk who was drinking and playign cards elsewhere, drinking rum clearly pilfered from our hotel's open bar may I add.

[420seth]

Hey dipshit. It is well known that the only place to reliably get authentic Cuban cigars are the Official Cuban Government stores. A lot of hotel shops sell fakes. Just like a lot of B&Ms up here in Canada sell fakes...(betcha didn't know that )

So where in BC are you from anyways? Feel free to post a proper intro.

Dude, have you even been to Cuba? Doesn't sound like it by the way you talk. Anyways I did not come in here to fight with Neon drivers. Much below my level. Anyhow, I just did not like getting attached to the glass top box crap. I don't really care if they actually do come in a glass top box or not. I personally have never seen one, but like I say, who cares. Not me.

[drew_goring]

Dude, have you even been to Cuba? Doesn't sound like it by the way you talk. Anyways I did not come in here to fight with Neon drivers. Much below my level. Anyhow, I just did not like getting attached to the glass top box crap. I don't really care if they actually do come in a glass top box or not. I personally have never seen one, but like I say, who cares. Not me.

If you have never seen a glass top, you have obviously never been to Cuba yourself.

[mauied1101]

Ya man, buy them from the store in the hotel or an actual cigar store in havana or varadero. no junk off the bartenders, pool boys, lifeguards etc. they are all fakes, and poor ones at that.

ok... except 420seth - you can buy the glass top boxes - their very special limited edition. and make sure you put them right in with your other sticks to permeate the beetles... I mean the aroma...