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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dortmundbirder" data-source="post: 3517668" data-attributes="member: 86325">Dont pressure yourself too much. Without experience in American birds, even the Hotelground will have so much to see and so much to ID. My first trip outside of Europe was interstingly Cuba as well. We stayed at Guardalavaca in the East and we got a good bunch of endemics just on the hotel grounds ( well it had magrove swamp on it) and in the adjactent rural areas with some patches of dry coastal scrub remaining. In addition lots of wintering New World Warblers.We hired a car+driver for one day (around 40€ at this point) who took us to a trip to Santiago de Cuba (was not a birding holiday) and made some stops on the way back to bird a little. Of course we didnt get the harder endemics but  e.g. Lizard Cuckoo, Tody, and Pygmy Owl were doable without much effort and we had a great time.</blockquote>