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Just a brief summary of my trip. Yalls tips and info here on the forum were very helpful for planning my weekend trip to Havana and making optimal purchases so thank you. I flew in to Havana on a Friday evening and headed straight for the LCDH at 5th and 16th in Miramar. I wanted to get there before it closed at 8 pm since I had brought no cigars with me. They had massive inventory of boxes, 3 packs and 5 packs. I mostly saw regular production stuff along with the common LCDH exclusives like Epicure De Luxe, RA Superiores, H. Upmann Royal Robustos etc. I picked up a box of 10 RA Superiores, a HdM Petit Robusto and a BBF. I insisted on a factura but the lady there said it was only for 20+ boxes and wouldn’t give me one. Then I headed to Habana Vieja, checked in to my airbnb and headed to NAO bar for dinner. Had the HdM Petit Robusto with dinner - exceptional cigar. The food was quite good at NAO. Traditional cuban dishes like black beans and quimbombo were great. Just avoid the cuban sandwiches - theyre on white grocery store bread and the ham is like one of those processed Oscar Mayer slices. Went back to my airbnb balcony and smoked the BBF. Great flavors but it was pretty moist and burn wasn’t great. The next day I walked around town and stopped by Conde de Villanueva. Reynaldo was a great host. Cool guy to talk to. He rolled me a cigar for free and then I picked up some of his custom churchills. I smoked one of the claro wrapper robustos they had at the cash register counter. It was constructed perfectly. Gorgeous burn but a little light for my taste. He said the other ones he had in the chest of drawers were stronger so those are what I bought. I then walked over to Vedado for a cooking class with a family that runs a B&B. That was a fun experience and fresh homemade Cuban food can’t be beat. I walked over to Habana Libre and they had a huge selection of singles including harder to find ones. I got some Montecristo EL Dantes, Trinidad fundies, Genios, and other random singles. Not sure if the more limited edition singles were real or not based on what I’ve read here about them having fake Behike singles. I was just so excited to see so many singles on offer that I just decided to take the risk. After that I walked over to the Hotel Nacional. Milagro was the torceadora outside of the LCDH there. A wonderfully nice lady who was very fun to talk to. I bought one of her torpedoes to smoke out on the terrace. Loved the cigar and the smoking location was incredible - right above the Malecon with nice outdoor seating and bar service. I went back and bought a pack of her Churchills. I felt like the tobacco she was working with was of exceptional quality. That torpedo was one of the best cigars of my trip. For my last day I headed back to Conde de Villanueva and smoked one of Reynaldo’s fuller bodied robustos. Definitely a notch above the one I had had the previous day. Wonderfully serene courtyard smoking experience with that cigar. I bought about 10 more customs of various sizes including some of the ridiculously fat vitolas. I walked around and bought some Partagas maduro and Upmann Añejado singles from the LCDH on Mercaderes right by Conde de Villanueva. I then headed to the airport. The duty free had most of the better selling marcas and vitolas in tubes and 3-5 packs. Seems more geared towards people looking for a souvenier to take home. Not sure what kind of quality considerations are in place so I didn’t risk it. The duty free had a large humidor with boxes and I asked to buy a 10 box of RA Superiores but the lady said they are not for sale (they had like 50 boxes of them). I asked why they weren’t for sale and she said “because they’re not for sale”. I don’t know what is up with that. That was about it. A very nice little weekend trip. Takeaways: - Customs are the way to go (for the experience of buying direct from the torceador and the uniqueness) - RA Superiores were an exceptional buy and widely available at all the LCDH’s ($58 box of 10) - a beautifully rich smoke - Trinidad Fundies, H Upmann Añejados, and Partagas Maduro boxes were available at most of the LCDH’s. Didn’t see any Trovas or QdO.