The best stores to buy cuban cigars
in Cuba are the follow:
La
Casa del Habano Vueltabajo Calle Maceo No. 157
e/ Galiano y Tarafa. Pinar del Río
Telephones: (53 82) 3424 Open: 09:00 - 19:00 hrs |
| Casa
del Habano 5ta. Ave. No. 1407 esq. a 16, Miramar.
Ciudad de La Habana Telephones: (53 7) 204-1185 ·
208-7972 Open: Mon-Sat 10:30 - 18:30 hrs |
| Casa
del Habano Calle Mercaderes e/ Obispo y Obrapía.
Ciudad de La Habana |
| Casa
del Tabaco Hostal Valencia. Ciudad de La Habana
Telephones: (53 7) 867-1037 · 861-6423 Open:
09:00 - 17:00 hrs |
| La
Casa del Habano Hotel Conde de Villanueva. Ciudad
de La Habana Telephones: (53 7) 862-9293 · 862-9294
Open: 10:00 - 19:00 hrs |
| La
Casa del Habano Hotel Nacional Hotel Nacional de Cuba.
Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Habano Palacio de la Artesanía
Calle Cuba No. 64. Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Tabaco 23 y P Calle 23 esq. a P, Vedado.
Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Sevilla Hotel Sevilla.
Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Tryp Habana Libre Hotel
Tryp Habana Libre. Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Tabaco y del Ron Calle Obispo e/ Bernaza
y Monserrate. Ciudad de La Habana |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Sol Pelícano Hotel
Sol Pelícano. Isla de la Juventud |
| La
Casa del Habano Calle 63 e/ 1ra. y 3ra.. Matanzas
Telephones: (53 45) 66-7186 Open: 9:00 - 19:00 hrs |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Puntarena Hotel SuperClubs
Puntarena. Matanzas |
| La
Casa del Tabaco El Fundador Ave. 54 esq. a 29.
Cienfuegos |
La
Casa del Tabaco Trinidad Calle Francisco J. Zerquera
No. 304 esq. a Maceo. Sancti Spiritus
Open: 09:00 - 19:00 hrs |
| La
Casa del Habano Meliá Cayo Guillermo Hotel
Meliá Cayo Guillermo. Ciego de Avila |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Daiquirí Hotel Daiquirí.
Ciego de Avila |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Sol Cayo Coco Hotel Sol Cayo
Coco. Ciego de Avila |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Tryp Cayo Coco Hotel Tryp Cayo
Coco. Ciego de Avila |
| La
Casa del Tabaco El Artesano Calle Hermanos Agüero
No. 262 e/ Carmen y Honda. amagüey |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Covarrubias Villa Covarrubias.
Las Tunas |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Guardalavaca Playa Guardalavaca.
Holguín |
| La
Casa del Tabaco Hotel Casa Granda Hotel Casa
Granda. Santiago de Cuba |
For pricing, it's not possible to give you all of the
prices. You'll find some ratings for common cigars so you
can extrapolate for the others. Prices may vary from one
boutique to another and also depend on availability but
the variation is never more than 20 USD
Bolivar Coronas Gigantes SBN
25-------------------------$250
Cohiba Esplendidos Var 25----------------------------------$490
Hoyo des Dieux Cabinet 25----------------------------------$155
Partagas Serie D N'4 SBN 25-------------------------------$190
Punch Punch SBN 25------------------------------------------$170
Hoyo Double Coronas-----------------------------------------$154
Punch Churchill-------------------------------------------------
$143
Hoyo Epicure Nº1 (SLB)---------------------------------------$109
Cohiba Siglo III---------------------------------------------------$167
R y J Exhibición Nº4-------------------------------------------
$90
Montecristo EspecialNº2-------------------------------------$120
Juan Lopez Selectos Nº2-------------------------------------$118
The combination of economic crisis, the
influx of tourists, and the fact that it is now legal for
Cubans to possess dollars has created what you might expect.
People are hungry for dollars, and one way to get them is
to sell illegal cigars to tourists. Many try to do so. They
even hang out in front of legitimate stores in Havana, to
tell you they can sell to you for much cheaper than what
you will pay inside. It’s not only on the street;
some times you can’t sit in an outdoor café,
or even at a hotel bar without being approached. They are
extremely persistent, and almost always begin by you offering
Cohibas. say a curt "no" it seemed rude but they
will understand that you don't want cigars or anything else.
If you want to buy cigars and you
cannot afford the store prices we recommend you to ask to
the owner of the casa particular where you are staying.
For Sure you can find good cigars for reasonable prices
but the person that sales the cigars should be recommended
by someone you know well. The 95% of the sellers will tell
you that his brother, sister, etc. "works in the factory"
and they take of the cigars from there but that is the biggest
lay in the world, because the cigars factory's has an extremely
hard to bit security system and is almost impossible to
take away cigars boxes. The most common thing is that they
build the boxes in small private factories and they buy
the seals and stamps from the factory that are much more
easy to take off .According the quality of the small private
factory is the quality of the cigars they will sell you.
the new customs regulation stablishes
that
1- It
shall be possible to to export an amount of up to 23 (twenty
three) units of rolled cigars, in individual units, without
producing any relevant purchase document.
2-
If you exceed that amount, you will be obliged to claim
the official purchace receipt and a copy of it at the shop,
and hand a copy in at the Customs Office at the exit point
where you'll be leaving with the cigars, wich must be contained
in the original cases with all official seals, incluiding
the new holographic seal
Now days the customs authorities
are not taking this rule to the extremes but if you want
to be sure to take the cigars boxes out of the country you
can take 2 cigars from each box and put them in your shirt's
pocket, and put the cigars boxes in different baggages for
example 1 in the hand luggage and other in the main baggage
so the boxes will have only 23 cigars and you dont need
to show any receipt 
