Tropicana
Calle
72 # 4504
e/ 43 y 45, Marianao Havana, Cuba
Reservations Tel: 270110/279147 between 10:00-16:00.
21:00-02:00
Closed on Monday
You
can make a reservation for show with a 3 course dinner,
or for just the show and a quarter bottle of rum and
coke.
Since it opened in 1939, the world famous Tropicana
has become a shrine to tropical sexuality. Surviving
the post revolutionary culling of American neocolonialist
symbols of sin, it is now a big tourist attraction.
Two hundred dancing queens shake their tassles, ruffle
their feathers and let it all well and truly hang
out in this fleshy feast.
The heavily choreographed routine is performed to
tunes that run the gamut of Cuban musical genres.
With an open air setting, known as Paradise Under
the Stars, you get your money back if it rains.
There is a disco until the wee small hours. It is
best to take a tour, which includes transport, as
a taxi from La Habana Vieja costs about 15 CUC
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Salón
Rojo
Hotel Caprí
Address: Calle 21 y N, Havana Vedado, Cuba
Tel: 333747
This
is a Tropicana-style show with a disco afterwards
until 4:00 am; all drinks are included in the admission.
Synonymous with 1950s Mafia wheeling and dealing,
the Caprí was Meyer Lansky and Lucky Luciano's
turf and in the realms of fiction it was the stomping
ground of the mother of all mobsters, Don Corleone.
Scenes from the Godfather II were shot in the Caprí,
which is closed until the end of 2003 for renovation
work.
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