Taxi Prices across Cuba

Our aim was to rent a car which would get us around Cuba leaving us with loads of Flexibility. The first question was rent a car and drive it ourselves or rent one of the cars that has a driver. Well we heard a lot of stories, most of the Cubans that we talked to recommended to get a car with a driver as it is safer other tourists said they rented a car and had no issues with the road or anything. Well it is a matter of personal choice as of course for both options there were advantages and disadvantages. 

We were a group of 6 and after checking and checking the best (cheapest) option was to rent a car for 6+driver. We found the contact of Santiago (e-mail: santiago[email protected]) who seems to have a sort of a business that is arranging drivers. I would say he was one of the very few not good experiences we had in Cuba, so I don't recommend to contact him. Yet again, I left his e-mail in case you run out of any other possible option. 

The agreement was, to be picked up in Havana and have an american car for 140 CUC a day with driver at our disposal for 10 days leaving the car basically in Santiago de Cuba from where we had a flight back. 
Unfortunately after a good start the organization of the guy was very bad, we also lost 1/2 because of him and in the end we decided to continue the trip on our own.

The prices per route + contacts where available

Our first driver outside Havana was Reisel. He is 23 but very nice driver (a bit shy :) ) anyway we had him for 2 days. Picked us up in Havana, drove us to Vinales and next day to the Gran Caverna de Santo Tomas, from there to Playa Jutia and back to Vinales, the price was as agreed 140 CUC per day. His car in the picture above. 

Now if you book him outside the arrangement with Santiago it should be cheaper.

Contact details:
Name: Reisel
ph#: +5353220379
e-mail: [email protected]

Vinales to Cienfuegos, Santiago sent us a driver (Javier) under the same agreement but instead of arriving at 8:00 he arrived at 12:15 so we of course could not to follow our plan and had to drive directly to Cienfuegos.

Special Thanks to Nati for the picture

From Cienfuegos till Trinidad we had again another driver. He was subcontracted by the driver that was sent by Santiago to pick us up from Vinales (Javier). Normally this was supposed to fall under the same initially agreement which also happened after some discussions in the end but initially he asked us for 20 CUC extra for the trip to Rancho Luna which he suggested. The route was: Cienfuegos - Rancho Luna - El Nicho - Trinidad. 

Contact details:
Name: Luisito (not really his name but this is how he was called.
ph#: +5354572170

Trinidad - Moron is a semi hard piece to get a good price deal as it is not convenient for the driver to get to Moron as he would not come back with someone from there. Anyway we were in contact with a nice guy (don't know his name) not a very good car but anyway we had no issues in getting to Moron. ​We negotiated the price to 100 CUC

Contact details:
ph#+5353420998

To get from Moron to Cayo Coco you need to get a separate Taxi. An approximate price should be around 45 CUC.

Contact details:
Name: Ernesto
ph# +5358163813

but a more Cayo Coco to Camagüey we got an official taxi (not american but a modern car) for 140 CUC. No contact details available. 

By asking other taxi drivers on our way to Camagüey we knew that it was very expensive to book a taxi directly to Baracoa (our next night) so after still asking around and hearing prices between 300 - 400 CUC we decided to follow the advise we received and split the trip in Holguin. 

Camagüey to Holguin in a normal American car but where if you squeeze you can get 6 plus the driver for 100 CUC.  

In Holguin we negotiated and we found a very nice driver who we booked actually to driver us to Santiago de Cuba via Baracoa for 220 CUC + 30 CUC that we added for a detour we made for checking the Yumuri Canyon. This was one of the oldest cars we drove from '48 .. imagine! :)

Contact details:
Name: Erlin
ph#: +5353268444

Last Contact details I have of 2 guys that can help you around Havana.

Contact details:
Name: Raul
ph# +5354393697

Name: Michael
ph# +5353639739

Note:
if you are calling from a landline in Cuba you will need to drop of course the +53 and add a prefix depending from where you are calling. I would try with 01 or 05. Please just FYI if you call from landline to a mobile number, the mobile number is paying the cost, if the person you are calling does not have credit anymore you will receive a sort of number can't be located. Try calling from a mobile number in such a case.

Hope all this will be helpful for discovering as much as possible from Cuba.