Cuba Travel Budget Calculator

The room is the anchor line: $60 nightly in Havana, halved to $30 per person when shared, accumulating to $420 over a seven-night stay for two. Food follows at $27 per person per day in Cuba — three restaurant meals at $9 each — dropping toward $13.50 when breakfast comes from a market or the hotel spread.

Intercity hops are the wildcard: budget $30-$150 per leg for trains or domestic flights between Havana and secondary cities.

The style ladder in Cuba spans $46.20 (hostel dorm, market food, walking days) through $77 (3-star room shared, casual restaurants, paid sights) to $154+ (5-star, fine dining, private guides) per person per day. Prices thin out away from Havana: secondary cities and rural Caribbean routinely land 20-35% below the headline, so a $77 capital day becomes roughly $53.90 elsewhere. The $30 Cuba entry cost is typically settled online or at the border for most passport holders, a one-off outside the daily model.

Formalities rarely slow anyone down entering Cuba: $30, a passport photo, done. The calculator totals Cuba spend in USD only — CUP rates move daily, so convert at the rate your card or bank actually gives you rather than trusting a page-fixed figure. Cuba prices at 35 on the index — low enough that the constraint is rarely money: the $77 day already assumes sit-down meals and paid sights throughout.

Apartments and guesthouses undercut Havana hotels 25-40%, and weekly rates improve that again. The midday set menu is Cuba's quiet bargain: identical kitchens, about $6.30 against $9 at night. With English at 3/5 in Cuba, a translation app unlocks family-run guesthouses at $36-ish a night — rooms that never reach the booking sites.

Small print that costs money in Cuba: 110V / A/B/C/L plugs (adapters at the airport cost triple), and right-hand driving if you price a rental into the plan. The UV index touches 11 in Cuba — sunscreen bought at home costs a fraction of resort-prices bottles, and shade hours shape which sights you book midday. With right-side driving and rental desks in Havana from about $30 a day, a two-day loop out of the city is an easy add-on to any Cuba budget.