So, let’s start with the Tropicana.
Well, I haven’t used the wow word for a while so I will, as the show really deserved it. The Rough Guide calls it ‘probably the most spectacular cabaret show in the world’ and it certainly was a wow. 
The colour, the costumes, the spectacle, the dancing and the music. Absolutely brilliant. The Tropicana was the cabaret show from the days when the ‘mob’ ruled Havana, pre-revolution, pre-Las Vegas and Miami and it’s where all the big stars of the 40s and 50s played. Apart from the cars and buildings, it is probably the only thing that is still the same in Havana today. 
The Tropicana club is in the Miramar district that I’ve mentioned before (presumably because that’s were all the prosperous and mob used to live) and it is an outdoor cabaret, but you only realise that when you look up and see the stars in the sky. You can book just for the cabaret or for dinner as well and we’d been told to get dinner nearby as it’s better, so we did. 
But whatever you book, you sit at long tables and get a champagne welcome, then a quarter bottle of rum and cola (not Coca Cola or Pepsi, of course) for each person. We’d booked the mid price tickets (80CUCs) and the seats were, fantastic, right in the middle near the front but on a raised area – apparently you get better seats if you just turn up and book as we did, rather than booking through the hotel or as part of a tour group – presumably because it’s easy to slot in two people. So, I’m posting a lot of photos, simply because it was all so spectacular that it’s impossible for me to choose – but they probably don’t look that brilliant to you, so you’ll have to imagine the music, the noise, the speed of the show.
A great night.
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