Cuban Guayaberas In South Africa

Our guayaberas are famous world wide! Last month we shipped three beautiful linen Guayabera shirts to a customer in Africa. The gentleman was worry about getting the shirts in South Africa since he had not order from us before.

We took the order details via email and send him a PayPal money request to pay for his guayaberas shirts. We got the payment and the shirts were shipped via priority mail international. Two weeks later his Guayabera shirts arrived in South Africa and here is the email he sent to us:

“Hi Alexis,

You may wonder why I come back to you so soon. Today I went to check with the post office and found my shirts there waiting for collection. Anyway, that’s not important. I was very much pleased with the quality and the neat work that is shown in the product.

I wish to say that the shirts are suitable for my daily life in many ways. Firstly they are formal enough for attending official gatherings in my work situation. Secondly, as a Durbanite they will make life easier because the place has warm to mild climate. In brief, the shirts are very good in terms of quality and standard. They are just a cut above the rest. Thank you very much for this product.

Mr. Mthembu, PhD”

Here are the guayabera shirts we shipped to Mr. Mthembu:

C0MGY0712
C0MGY0705
2SZ1267LT

We are happy to serve customers like Mr. Mthembu in South Africa were he can enjoy these hard to get Guayabera shirt and Cuban shirts.

Everybody knows calling Cuba is an expensive Endeavour, charges of $1.00 per minute are common for people calling Cuba from the US, Canada and Europe.

The voice over IP revolution have not arrived to Cuba yet and the phone calls are expensive. When calling Cuba you have to realize, people in Cuba have only one phone company owned and controlled by the Cuban government so your call to Cuba  prices are regulated by the Cuban government so its not uncommon for a call from us to Cuba cost more than calling India or even China.

Even if you are not in the US calling Cuba is very expensive, one of our customers called from Canada and reported rates of up to $1.25 per minute! I added this blog to help those of you looking to save some money calling Cuba, my recomendation is a company I use my self when calling my own family in Havana and Matanzas, it works great! Now days a calling card does not work!

  Calling codes to Cuba from the US:

1. Dial the exit code for international call: 011
2. Dial the Cuba country code 53
3. Dial the number in Area code in Cuba 1 to 4 numbers
4. Dial the actual phone number in Cuba 4 to 7 numbers

List of area codes in Cuba:
Bayamo 23
Guantanamo Bay 99
Matanzas 45
Camaguey 322
Havana 7
Pinar del Río 82
Ciego de Avila 33
Holguín 24
Santa Clara 42
Cienfuegos 432
Las Tunas 31
Santiago de Cuba 226
Guantanamo 21
Manzanillo 23
Sancti Spiritus 41

So let’s say you will be calling Pinar del Rio you will dial 0115382???????

If you need to call a mobile number in Cuba the code should be:

011 + 53 + 5 ??? ????

Cuban calling cards.
I still remember that not long ago the only option for calling Cuba was thru calling cards, using a calling card to call Cuba was disastrous, your call will disconnect and you loose money just by trying to call.

Voice over Ip to Cuba (VOIP)
Now days there is a better way to call Cuba inexpressibly (to Cuban call  standards) there are a few Voice over Ip offering great deals in minutes to Cuba, my favorite one is called Rebtel. With Rebtel you will save lots of money calling Cuba and better yet if the call quality is bad you can close it and come back later it wont steal your money as a calling card would do.  They offer reliable service and ways to call via their web applications and mobile applications. Many times you can make the call using a local phone number that you will assign to your family in Cuba and you will call it like if they live on the same city using the minutes and money on your rebtel account.

Click here to learn more about Rebtel.

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Imagine for a second you live in front of the police station and making pizza as a business is illegal. Welcome to the day to day live of a Cuban business man.

Note: This story is from the time this was an illegal business now days I heard these type of business are allowed although they do have to pay hefty prices for their licenses.

I can’t tell you his name, he is a good friend and he makes pizza for living lets just call him Alberto. He creates around 200 pizza pies per day and with that he takes care of his family of three. Alberto wakes up really early to pick up an order of home made cheese for his pizzas; he comes home and starts to work on his pizza production.

Alberto does not own an oven, its too risky to have a big fixed structure for his business, instead he has a gas range with two front burners and two electric burners he uses to make his homemade pizzas. He starts by placing the dough he previously created and let rise in these pizza making molds, (they are like sauté pans without a handle). After that he spread his home made sauce and some of the cheese and places the pizza pans in the stove top at very low heat.

Today in Cuba everyone have a business legal or illegal and there is no wholesale market in place to provide those businesses with the goods they need. Businessmen like Alberto have to deal in the black market by buying a few supplies on the government stores so that way they have receive to show for and the bulk of what they need is bought in the black market. The black market is feed by the administrators and government workers so many times you will find a item in a goberment store for $5 dollars and in the black market you will buy it for less.

When the pizza is done is packed and carried around town in his bicycle where his customers are waiting to buy the pizza from him.  Alberto dreams of emigrating or like he said “go some where but here” his frustrations are a reflexion of the many necessities Cubans have to endure to make ends meet.

cuban electric meter

On my last visit to Cuba I took this picture of an electric meter inside a house in Havana, the owner of the house confesed to me that due to the high energy prices the goverment charges they have to create these “inventions” to steal electricity from the goverment.

So they hire the same goverment workers who come to your house to read the electric meter and pay them hard currency to trickout the connection so the equipment wont register all the electrity they consume.

In Cuban as you may know all these mayor services are provided by the goverment and their bourocratic aparatus is unable to catch on this type of behaivor, people feel they are rob by the goverment with the miserable salires they receive and they see it fine to do the same to them. They have a saying “Ladron que roba a ladron tiene 100 años de perdon” (That one who steels from the robber is forgiven for the next 100 years)

We have put together a list of sites that offer these beautiful mother of the bride dresses, many of our customers had requested this information and we have compile a few of the sites we think are worth checking out. At mycubanstore.com we do not carry mother of the bride dresses however any of the sites bellow will offer you great for any wedding from beach or destination wedding mother of the bride dresses to a more formal mother of the bride dress.

 Every year we bring new linen shirts, pants and guayaberas with the MyCubanStore.com brand. This year our linen shirts are better than ever, true to size and better quality linen. Each style and color is selected from what our customers had requested in the past and with the same traditional easy going look our brand is known for.

The guayaberas are beautifully designed and detailed with elegance in mind, these are based on the traditional Cuban design with pin-tucks up and down the front and back, the fit on the shirt is right on, “fits like a glove” one customer told me a few days ago when I show him one of the production samples. These guayaberas are more flattering than ever, the straight look on the shirt tailors a man body to give a slim and elegant appearance. The guayaberas are the quintessential shirt of choice in any tropical weather or outdoor event.

The true elegance like no other tropical shirt, they are also known to be use in lieu of a suit in a special event or tropical wedding. Our customers know this very well that is why a high percentage of sales of guayaberas are used to be worn at beach or destination weddings. The linen fabric has no match in beating the heat; this natural fabric is made from the flax plant and all natural fabric with heat repelling characteristics known to men since ancient times.

Enjoy them at a discounted price for a limited time now.

I was driving through Miami at lunch time yesterday and I counted more than four different restaurants claiming they have the best Cuban steak sandwich in the area.  I looked them up on my i-phone and none of them are even rated in yelp or on any of the other local rating sites online.

I truly think those business owners are making a big mistake.  Don’t ever try to fool customers with self proclaimed titles!

When it comes to businesses this day and age only customers can tell you who you are.  If you are not good enough for a customer to recommend to their friends or to comment on your product maybe it’s better to use your time to figure out what is going on instead of coming up with unsustainable claims.

Just as we can measure time, speed and distance, customer satisfaction is measurable by simply asking your customers for their opinions.  I know you may get customers with antagonistic or ill intentioned attitudes but still if you deliver a good product or service your true colors will come out and you will have no need to claim you are the “best, the best, the greatest, largest, the longest or the biggest”

If you want to see how mycubanstore.com is rated or want to give your opinion about our business, visit the links provided below:

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Leather Guayabera Jacket 5 star review

Just in…

Our leather guayabera jacket gets a five star review from one of our customers:

              Pros:

Construction

Leather

Pockets

• Best Uses:

Casual or more Formal

Cool Weather

very dressy

This new leather guayabera is absolutely beautiful. Well constructed, without the slightest flaw. Fabric lined for “easy on” and comfortable wear. Lots of pockets, in classic guayabera style, plus hidden “handwarmer” pockets behind the waist pockets. There are also two small inside vest pockets. Leather is of the highest quality. Looks great!

 http://www.mycubanstore.com/brown-leather-guayabera-jacket#ReviewHeader

Guayaberas by El "Made in Ecuador"

The Guayabera is often thought of as a tropical shirt worn in the Caribbean but after being in business as long as we have, we learned that this concept of the Guayabera has changed quite a bit.  Once worn as a comfort garment, the Guayabera gained an appeal of luxury, convenience, and style. 

Wearing a guayabera can make you look distinguished, unique and fashionable.  This says a lot for a shirt that can also be simply casual and comfortable; many our customers even like them just because they have four functional pockets. 

MyCubanStore.com is now featuring two new Guayabera products that prove just how far the Guayabera has come. 

I have a good friend in Ecuador that manufactures fine linen garments, I recently approached him about producing Guayaberas for MyCubanStore and little did I know Guayaberas were already at the top of his product list.  It is wonderful to see how popular the Guayabera is in Ecuador and all of South America.  In South America, these shirts are a symbol of quality and sophistication.  You will be impressed with the high standard of manufacturing that the “EL” brand upholds.

Harlista Guayabera Leather Jacket

The other featured product I mentioned earlier is one of our most innovative garments yet.  Over the last few years we have been asked by our customers up north to cater to them in a special way by creating a style that will bring a hint of Guayabera flavor to the cold fall and winter seasons.  As usual, after many requests we gave our customers what they want; that is why we designed the Leather Guayabera.  Simply put, this garment is a leather jacket designed with the unique features of the Guayabera.  It maintains a stylish elegant look and has the convenient four pockets that many of you love. 

As a bonus, we discovered a new friend in the motorcyclist and Harlista community.  Our Guayabera tradition is reaching new cultures and growing within; we could not be more proud.  I invite you to see these innovations for yourself: