Cuba Kitesurfing - Cayo Guillermo Travel Guide 

Nice work with this video. Your review captures the pros and cons quite nicely. This is a must for anyone considering Cuba.

VERY thorough and informative. Well done.

Hi Guy's for your information, the Grand Club Cayo Guillermo, (Cozumar) change the owner and the name last july, is now the StarFish Cayo Guillermo, we go there in october and the new owner (Canadian Cie) Upgrade the service, food and now work on upgrade the room, etc. Oh yes firebug, are very killing us, so bring stuff and put long pants by night. Aloha Stef :-)

Just watched the video over .. brings some memories from my trips … want to go back there again.

Great job on the video, you didn't miss a thing.

Great informative video, thanks a lot!

Thanks for the video guys!

you guys rock, such a great channel !

As always nice video, hello from Italy.

Great review, thanks!

Excellent ! Thanks so much ~

3 hours from Toronto... you Canadians are really lucky! I travelled to Guillermo in 2016 by Holguin and 6 hours in rental car. But it was worth the trip, so awesome! Playa Pilar is also stunning beautiful....

Been there when i wasnt a kitesurfer...cant wait to go now...

thank you very much...I really wanted to check it

Also a great place to learn, and or teach. I taught boy my boys how to kite here.

Best kite specific travel video I’ve seen. Now if you could just check out Turks and Caicos, Bonaire and Brazil, it would be appreciated!

Great review for this resort, bring some drama queens to keep things interesting haha

My first trip to Cuba, and had a great time with everyone! Didn't get to take any lessons. But, maybe next time. Which, I'm definitely looking forward to! #Badass60...

I’ve already been to Cayo Guillermo! And I agree with everything you said 👍 but we got the week where no wind was to be found so I wasn’t able to kite 🤷‍♂️

great vid and great place ... except those bugs when the wind stops blowing!

I just returned from GRAND muthu resort way more exclusive than SOL OR IBEROSTAR or MELIA . I visited them all . Muthu has great food , 3 pools lots of friendly staff and good entertainment and much less kites on the beach than other resorts . We did kite to other beaches but kiting there is like traffic on HWY 401 at 5pm ! Paid 750 per person, kids under 12 -Free!, heard that montreal guys paid $500 per person! We had only 5 people in resort kiting . Kited 5 out of 7 days winds 10-20 knots all day NOV 17-24 2019

Great practical and honest video rundown on Cayo Guillermo. Have been there only once but plan to be back soon. Kiting spot exceptional. I thought to food was great but I love fish which can be had fresh grilled every day. Cubano griiled Shrimp to die for. Staff are so friendly and helpful. Was that a Russian Billionaire?

Yes you're right once the kite school from Montreal arrived in January while I was there they really plugged up the launch/land area & the lagoon

thank you for a very informative video.... any kite board shops you recommend for lessons?

The video is really good and is all true, that’s make me happy. Am a Cuban kiter and I love cayo Guillermo but I prefer the habana. You need to make a video from habana ( I can help you with that) Congrats for this video, hope to see an other one from habana. Cheers 🍻

Hello there and thx for another great video. Do you know by any chance if cayo guillermo is worth traveling to if Iam already in varadero. Is it really very different ?Thx for you help

2:46 😱 skillz 😊

So, how just was it this time around? And what was the wind like?

At the begining i thought i was on your video riding a Neil pride.Was there last week! The club Cayo Guillermo change managing for a Canadian company. We saw a big difference in food and service. I go there twice a year for kitting great spot! Have you been to progreso Mexico?

Is there a discount travel site you would recommend using for all inclusive to Iberostar Daiquiri traveling from BC?

Great video! Just curious if you can comment on the snorkelling for the area?

For kite surfing , do we have to take our own kites or they also provide kites ?

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Thank you for great video. What can you say about Santa maria island for kitesurfing?

Hi great video. Do they do kite equipment rental? Thank you so much!!!

Gran Caribe (ex Sercotel) is the best spot, the food is quite eatable, the bar is good) You need to decrease the forecast with 2-3knots. Big size and Hydrofoil is a good option There's some wind is going to be next week ...

Just spent 5 days at the Melia... Do not go there for kiteboarding. Or for anything actually. The Melia fell short on everything for all four of us. Rooms weren't clean, no hot water, food wasn't great, etc... So far the best place I've been to in Cayo Guillermo is the Daiquiry. I was disappointed we missed you guys by a couple days. Happy kiting.

i have kited Cuba have a dozen times... been skunked once or twice, robbed once or twice. No beer no bread no butter last year otherwise the food is what it is - wife speaks very fluent spanish and has lived Costa Rica so we get along well. Last year 30-40 knots every day for 5 days last day 11m - felt sorry for beach goers who were not kiters. Get a room to windward to miss most of the pesticide drift... Spanish coffees still great!

Hi whats the closest Airport? Also are there kite rentals and how much roughly?

What do you mean by "Shallow water is expensive"?

You should try going to Ecuador Its an amazing destination

You should visit Varadero too, good wind and great for downwinders.

What kills me is that I have been going to the north shore of Jamaica in the Runaway Bay and Ocho Rios area for the last 14 summers scuba diving and the wind is always honking all day long side onshore and I have never seen any kiters. I hear they do it a bit further west from me but it amazes me that this is pretty much undiscovered.

just got back from the Iberostar Daiquiri, for the first time I was charged the 30CUC to get my kite bag on the shuttle bus, sucks, it was a complete money grab. also paid the 25CUC for kiting and then never saw those guys the rest of the week, it was blowing 20-25kts 4 of the 7 days. A couple of issues over the week, I was helping a guy who lost his board and was unable to body drag up wind, right in front of the pair, only to have him slam a kite on me after I had flip his board to him, tangle my lines and I had to ejected my kite, kite was saved by a guy on the beach thankfully. hardly got a sorry from this guy. Last day there while launching my kite, a guy behind me still standing in the water yells at me to wait while my kite is already in the air, instead if waiting 2 seconds for me to fly it over the other side out of his way, he slams his kite over mine on to the beach, thankfully the guy who launch my kite was still right there and I was able to land it safely. saw several other kites crossed over the week, total shit show. only good part was I was able to get my to sons up and riding, but did that way down the beach our in the sand bars where it was far more safe, when the school was not teaching there. Also heard that the Sol at the other end of the beach where I normally stay, was out of water, not showers no shitters. took a walk through and it seems to be far more run down then the years that I stayed there. First time at Daiquiri and it was really nice, got two rooms right by the pool close to the beach, just used the patio door and never worried about locking it up. was nice to be able to go in and out so quickly and be close to the pool, bars, beach. had drinks served right to us around the pool and even special coffees right to us on our patio. also ate at each restaurant and all the À la carte's really good food for Cuba. only thing was the pool bar snack bar was under renos and my boys didn't have anywhere to eat between hours when none of the restaurants were open. all in all it was good over all, a little cold the first day, but the temperatures came up as the week went a long. kited 6 out of 7 days.

cual playa u hotel es la mejor para practicar kite?

Oh yeah Canadians can travel to Cuba... I love Canada you guys cool with a few more citizens?

all looks amazing, too bad I'm from US

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Blimey it is Freezing here in Britain.. Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww

Good video. I wouldn’t agree that you’re expected to tip. I would tip when someone does a good service. If you tip for every single thing then they may expect you to tip and that’s when it becomes a problem. That’s what happened in the Dominican and people became assholes almost demanding tips.

Until you mentioned the poor quality food I was quite excited 😭😭😭

Very good and instructive video, thank you, but you should not speak so fast.

I’m guessing Americans cannot travel there?

My girlfriends shorty wetsuit got stolen off our deck railing at secrotel.....