They denounce high prices in Jalisco Park: "You have to go with 20 thousand pesos"

Cuban parents denounced the very high prices offered by the establishments at Jalisco Park, in El Vedado, reopened this weekend.

As revealed in several publications in the Facebook group "Cuban Mothers in Cuba and around the World", the gastronomic offers have very high prices and the attractions for children are not cheap either.

"I imagine that you have to go with 20 thousand pesos because between the devices that are 30 and 50 I go crazy, now even to sit on the wall of the boardwalk you have to carry a bench, then they say that the Cuban is non-conformist and not gentlemen is to put your feet on the ground and think and imagine that there are many parents who will not be able to take their children," wrote the internet user Lorlety Jimenez Echaniz.

In the offer letter, published by users on social networks, the cheapest are the glasses of juice, at 220 Cuban pesos.

A can of soda costs 250, a cheese pizza almost 700 pesos and a "mixed snack" 850 CUP.

Among the starters, the picadera stands out, and the offers in that section range between 350 and 450 pesos.

"I think there won't be many lines, or the children's decision-making capacity will increase in response to their progressive autonomy: Well, Juancito, you can choose between going to Jalisco Park tomorrow or spending the rest of the month without eating," he said ironically. he internet user Fidelito Valdes regarding prices.

Dozens of outraged people wondered if they could ever take their children to the venue with such prices.

"Believe me, this hurts me a lot, it is true that the famous Jalisco Park had to be renovated, its equipment was already very old, I played and enjoyed it here as a child and my son also enjoyed it a lot, but I think that someone has to stop and think in everything," commented one mother.

Dozens of Cuban families gathered this Saturday in front of Jalisco Park for the reopening of that facility, one of the few recreational options that children in the capital have.

The recreation center went from state management to private and it was scheduled to reopen on July 26 with 17 inflatable equipment and other spaces, but it was not possible to inaugurate it that day and the date was moved to this Saturday.