Guantánamo updates fares for rail services
The trip to Holguín costs 800 pesos, while students and people over 65 retain a 50 percent discount.
Prices for local and interprovincial trains in Guantánamo increased September 28. Service to Holguín costs 800 pesos, while travel to Santiago de Cuba is priced at 600.
Routes to Holguín depart Tuesdays and Saturdays, and Santiago services run Mondays and Fridays. Caimanera retains two daily trips for 40 pesos and Boquerón two for 70. Services to Honduras, Cuneira and La Luisa cost 100, 150 and 100 pesos, respectively. The urban trip to 17 Sur costs 30 pesos.
Students and people over 65 retain a 50 percent discount upon presenting identification. Pedro Durruthy Martínez, deputy director of the Cuban Railways Union in Guantánamo, linked the adjustment to fuel and lubricant costs and said prices could change if the company purchases fuel from the private sector.
The source adds that national fares did not increase and that four trips were announced for October, two of them special services. It also says accompanied freight of up to six tons will be allowed at 13,906 pesos per ton.