Been a couple of times, food was great, tasted like food used to taste before modern processing techniques we now have.
Go to Havanna, check out the Museum of the revolution, see what those nice CIA types were up to.
I was concerned about water sports so spent a fair amount of time up at Varedero, the touristy area, it’s changed a lot already, but the first time remarkable in the lack of ramshackle poverty or coke billboards and the fun, laughter and music everywhere.
It’s imv an island where communism has succeeded as best it may in the face of a total capitalist blockade, there is a rumour doing the rounds in the city that they’re close to a cure for cancer, such is the level of their medical prowess.
Definitely a place that is going to change for the worse very shortly once the yanks decide they want back in which is likely once Castro finally checks out, so go now, before it’s too late.