Hotel Nacional ashtray legitness?

[Nino]

  On 3/31/2021 at 12:22 AM, Monterey said:

This happened to me.  I had no idea if I should check or carry it.  Long story short, I found myself in the men's bathroom being shaken down for my last 13 dollars in my wallet.   I've never really been shaken down before in my life and I was not comfortable with being in the bathroom with 2 agents looking into my wallet.  My Spanish was so so.  I picked up that "it could be a weapon and I must confiscate"  But apparently if I empty my wallet then it wasn't a weapon?  Never again will I bring a stupid ashtray thru Cuban Customs.

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Yep - that was their argument, that it could be a weapon.
They didn't like my laughing at them for that either.
Considering your payment I guess it came cheap as I had them busy for an hour and in the end they checked in my carry on for me ... 🙂