Post #298619 by bigbrotiki on Thu, Apr 12, 2007 10:02 AM

I am, and I know people are waiting, but I have to wrap my head around the experience for a while, it turned my world upside down. I love patina and old decaying architecture, and I never thought there could be too much of it for me. But here it has turned from charming to alarming.
And how does it make one feel when the for us all enticing motto "Rum, Rumba and Cigars" is obviously used to mask up the fu%*ed up-ness of of a place, a sad and shocking state, which I had always believed to be reactionary Cuban exile rhetoric? What would one think if tourist buses would line up in front of the Tiki Ti, like they do in front of the La Floridita, for the masses to gobble up sloppily poured Daiquiris? I cry for you Havana, and I mean that.

Let's just say the Havana Trader Vic is alive and well (though weakened) in the form of the Polynesio, here are two teaser pics:

I am planning to write an article for Tiki Magazine about this trip, and will do a separate post here on TC about it, too, but I want it to be right, so I am waiting for it to sink in some more.