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I SAW IN THEIR EYES SOMETHING I WAS TO SEE OVER AND OVER IN EVERY PART OF THE NATION - A BURNING DESIRE TO GO, TO MOVE, TO GET UNDERWAY, ANYPLACE, AWAY FROM ANY HERE. THEY SPOKE QUIETLY OF HOW THEY WANTED TO GO SOMEDAY, TO MOVE ABOUT, FREE AND UNANCHORED, NOT TOWARD SOMETHING BUT AWAY FROM SOMETHING.

John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley

BASEBALL TOURS

Let our team of Cuba experts help plan your trip

At Cuba Travel Adventure Group we've been connected for many years with Cuban youth and college level baseball teams, coaches and programs both formally and informally at academies and on community fields throughout the country. CTA groups have enjoyed playing our countries’ shared national pastime during the day, and getting to know our opponents at team dinners and one-to-one interaction at night.  Teams and adult groups can play or watch baseball in Havana and outlying provinces with the option to connect for more intensive baseball competition to the Dominican Republic by special arrangements in conjunction with our D.R. baseball camp associates.

We plan every CTA Group baseball trip with government officials and academy coaches and programs throughout the Cuban island.  We invite college athletic directors, coaches and families at schools throughout the U.S. to consider planning their once-in-a-lifetime Cuba baseball travel experience with us.

 

Community Service is a vital component of every CTA baseball experience, encouraging participants to collect donations of specified baseball gear, medicines and other donations that will improve the lives of Cubans and Dominicans. In 2014 CTA collected 1510 items of baseball gear and 50 pounds of medicines and following baseball workshops, demos and workshops personally delivered donated items through coaches to youngsters, families and through medical doctors in Cuba's small communities.  

 

During 2015 we planned and provided all infrastructure support, programs, experience and community service opportunities for an international service tour of Cuba involving 29 high-school age teens and four youth leaders from throughout the United States in Havana and the Provinces.

 

During 2016 we planned and provided Cuba baseball and community service and cultural travel for 26 Philadelphia area baseball players and their families. Please consider contributing to their future fundraising efforts for a subsequent youth baseball trip to Cuba.  Here is their website: http://www.PhillyCubaBaseball.com.

 

During 2016 we planned and provided baseball and community service and cultural travel for 35 Bay Area youth baseball players and their families in Havana and the provinces.  Photos from their travels can be found here:  http://www.cubatraveladventuresgroup.com/cuba-yes-trip-2016

Baseball & Community Service

1200# breaks the record for donated baseball gear
 
http://www.phillycubabaseball.com

TESTIMONIALS

Everyone at Cuba Travel Adventures made our first trip to Cuba, absolutely perfect, from start to finish!! Our guide Aylin was incredible! She was so smart, and a history major to boot! We felt she was like our daughter, we cared so much and were so grateful to all the wonderful places and people we met.  We utilized Cuba travel adventures at the last minute, about a week before we left, and everythingwas perfectly coordinated, from the moment we landed till the end. 
Thank you for the trip of a lifetime. We love Cuba, and can't wait to go back!!  - Kelly Martinez

 

 

This trip was the most amazing experience I think of my life. - Z.C.

 

To our baseball coaches, managers, and investors: My son looked bedraggled coming through customs, but with a very big smile on his face. Yes, like many of you, we got him home, nudged him into the shower, feed him a dozen hamburgers and tucked him into bed. Monday morning, he bounded out the door proudly wearing his grey Baseball Tour shirt. We promptly got into our hazmat suits and attacked his luggage and baseball bag eagerly awaiting the stories he promised to regale us with that evening. Well, it was worth the wait…they were wonderful, heartwarming, educational, action packed and downright exciting. We laughed, we shed a tear and we smiled too! - Team Parent

 

I never knew how lucky we are to have what we have and now I know.  Giving Cuban kids what we were able to give them made me so happy.  The joy on the faces of kids when I gave them baseball cards and when we gave out our gear and equipment I won't ever forget - Z.K.

 

My highlight was giving the medicines that Cubans can't get or have to pay more for than their salary and seeing how desperate is the need for medicines that we can get pretty easy and take for granted.  Beating the Cuban older team and the Academy team in the D.R. 1-0 was probably my best sports experience I'll remember - ever! - B.R.

 

Thanks for giving these kids this amazing experience! - M.G.

ALL CTA GROUP CUBA ADVENTURES FEATURE

 

• Inclusive round-trip flights saving thousands of dollars

• Personalized group & individual trip planning drawing on decades of combined Cuba experience

• Travel with college-educated U.S. guides and English-speaking Cuban experts

• Air-conditioned buses and vans provide safe, comfortable transportation

• Travel Affidavits as required by the U.S. Treasury Department  

• Opportunities for charitable “giving back” at community centers and churches

• Friends, family "affinity group" and specialized youth sports group travel

ITINERARY SAMPLE | 2014 HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL TOUR 

DAY 1

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  • Arrive in Havana

  • Walking tour of Old Havana

  • Dinner at hotel

 

DAY 2

 

  • Breakfast at hotel

  • Transfer for baseball practice to stadium and deliver donations with team  

  • Game #1 with Cuban team at stadium; cultural exchange following game

  • Restaurant for pizza

  • Visit optical tower,Old Havana model//chocolate museum//Old Havana church

  • Free time

  • Dinner at Paladar (private home restaurant)

 

DAY 3

 

  • Breakfast at hotel

  • Transfer to stadium for game #2

  • Lunch in Callejon de Hammel

  • Tour Callejon neighborhood; in-house visit

  • Enjoy Sunday folklorico dances at Callejon

  • Tour Parque Jose Marti and interact with youth players 

  • Free time (swim)

  • Dinner at hotel  

 

DAY 4

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  • Breakfast at hotel

  • Transfer to Stadium for Game #3

  • Transfer to Old Havana and box lunch  

  • Walk the malecon and visit plazas of Old Havana; Chocolate museum

  • Transfer to Patronato//deliver donations; learn of Cuba's medical challenges and about religious practices            

  • Walk to Parque Jose Marti – Take part in youth baseball practices; donations

  • Transfer to Hotel/Snacks and free time/swim

  • Transfer to “La Cabana Fortress”

  • Watch cannon ceremony from the Morro-Cabana Castle

  • Dinner at a local paladar

  • Transfer back to Hotel 

 

DAY 5

 

  • Breakfast at hotel

  • Transfer and Tour Modern Havana with visits that include: meeting at Literacy Museum//Visit Casa del Nino y La Nina//Visit Havana University main campus and schools 

  • Lunch at a local paladar 

  • Transfer to Cojimar//visit Hemingway statue and haunts

  • Game #4 at Stadium

  • Deliver donations to youth teams

  • Transfer back to hotel//free time (swim)

  • Dinner at hotel / MAP

 

DAY 6

 

  • Breakfast at hotel

  • Transfer to stadium for Game #5

  • Game #5 (Clinic/Exhibition) at stadium//delivery of donations, gifts at the end of game//time with athletes and coaches

  • Transfer to A. Fuster artist community and Lunch

  • Tour artist’s neighborhood

  • Transfer to Old Havana

  • Crafts market, shopping//chat with locales in Parque Centrale//Hotel Nacionale and Museum of Revolution

  • Transfer to Hotel and free time

  • Transfer to Casa de La Amistad for farewell evening of music and banquet with Cuban athletes

 

DAY 7

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  • 08:30  breakfast at hotel, pack up & check out 

  • 10:30  transfer to Havana International Airport 

ITINERARY| 2016 CUBA, YES!  BASEBALL & CULTURAL TOUR

DAY 1 -HAVANA

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  • Arrive in Havana

  • Walking tour of with college Professor and guide of Old Havana and its four main Plazas:

  • Parque Central’s “baseball debates” Ernest Hemingway haunts of Old Havana at Hotel Ambos Mundos (Room #511), rooftop terrace, and Bar Floridita; Plaza Vieja, Camara Oscura, a birds-eye view of the massive restoration projects happening everywhere in Old Havana; Plaza de las Armas, Plaza Catedral, Graphic artists’ workshop and gallery in Callejon Chorro; Plaza San Francisco (Plaza de las Palomas)

  • Walk the Malecon to Hotel Nacional, HQ of the Cuban revolution; browse the Nacional lobby with photos to the “roaring 50’s” in Havana

  • Transfer to Hotel for swim, free time

  • Family salsa dance lesson at studio

  • Musical evening

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DAY 2 - HAVANA

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  • breakfast at hotel

  • Baseball games 

  • Visit Callejon de Hamel and take part in the Sunday celebration of the Santeria faith

  • Visit studio of famous photographer and learn of his fabulous work teaching kids and families about how to save Havana beaches and protect the environment, through community projects and photography

  • Classic American car tour of Greater Havana

  • Salsa band and dance under the stars

 

DAY 3 - CARDENAS  (Matanzas Province)

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  • Baseball games

  • Lunch with teams and families

  • Free time at the beachCultural activities

  • Evening activities

 

DAY 4

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  • Visit ceramics studio 

  • Community service projects – beautify community buildings

  • Visit disabled and orphanage, old folks’ home, interact with residence

  • Evening activities

 

DAY 5

 

  • Baseball games

  • Community service – complete projects

  • Interact with opposing baseball players and families

  • Afternoon at the beach

  • Musical evening

 

DAY 6 - HAVANA

 

  • Visit Vivero Alamar community project in East Havana:  organic communal living and entrepreneurship, a unique blend of Cuban socialism and capitalism

  • Lunch at Alamar

  • Walk through the Old Havana community of Belen (Bethlehem) where community services benefit hundreds of elderly and youth

  • Visit Cemetery of Colon in Havana

  • Visit “Fusterlandia,” home and neighborhood of “the Picasso of Cuba,” Jose Fuster

  • Dinner 

  • Free time & swim at hotel

  • Musical evening on the streets of Old Havana

 

DAY 7 -HAVANA

 

  • Deliver gifts to the MLK Center in Pogolote, Marianao neighborhood of Havana and walk neighborhood streets; visit park for photo ops with local kids and give baseball cards

  • Transfer to Cojimar where Hemingway kept his boat “Pilar,” for tour of Finca Jesus, self-sustaining organic farm providing produce to Ajiaco, one of Cuba’s first and best private restaurants

  • Lunch at Ajiaco

  • Tour Museum of the Revolution

  • Visit Havana Club rum factory

  • Visit Partagas Cigar factory

  • Visit Cohiba official government storeFarewell Cuba! Banquet

  • Evening of jazz at jazz club; optional Tropicana Nightclub show

© 2015 by Cuba Travel Adventures Group

Cuba Travel Adventures Group

1550-G Tiburon Blvd. Ste. 345

Tiburon, CA 94920

P (415) 789-9398

F (415) 435-1762 

CubaTravelGroup@gmail.com

CTAG tours have been conducted in the past under U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) “People to People” License No. CT-2013-304351-1

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CTAG is a registered travel service provider with the State of California pursuant to CST#2122898-40

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