This place is one of the many cigar stores in calle ocho (8th street) Only reason i gave them 2 stars is for their friendly Attitude, and they have a Couple of Good Brand Name Cigars.
When me and my friend walked in we were greeted nicely by two gentleman Playing Dominos. Im pretty sure one was the owner, We Walked around and notice the place was kind of a tight spot. A Long Store but Really Narrow, They Had Tables and chairs in the middle and Paintings laying around the floor. It Felt cluttered and like if you had to walk around carefully hoping you dont knock anything down. It didnt seem to ... to ... how can i say it .....Cozy enough to sit down and smoke a cigar. The clutterness made me just want to run out of the store.
As a cigar store i would expect them to actually take care of their cigars much better. What i mean by this is that, they have all their cigars in their original boxes on shelves all around the store. Their Humification system seemed a little homemade which doesnt seem to quite work right if its trying to produce humidity for a Whole Store. Also they will allow you to smoke cigars in the store which is cool, but not cool when the cigars they are selling is actually in the wide open and exposed to other people's burning cigar smoke. They can fix this issue if they had some type of Air Purifier's running threw out the stores, which i didnt happen to see in there. So there only ventilation would be their A/C and the front door opening and closing which also would make the store loose humidity, Not like if they had much humidity in there anyways!
Another thing that threw me off gaurd was when the gentleman started showing us the stores homemade cigar. He was explaing how the cigars where infused with rum and i noticed they had a really nice smell to them. He follows by telling us that when you smoke it, it doesnt taste like anything .... i was like umm ok then that Sucks! why would i want to smoke a cigar just to puff out smoke, for that i just rather stop an ice cream truck and ask him for the candy cigarettes! Thats not the part that threw me off, what threw me off was the Ridiculous Price for something that has no taste ..... $10's a Stick!!!!!!!! HELL NO! For that i rather get a Premium Brand Name Cigar that will have a nice taste and would be worth my money .... WOW, i looked around and saw all their cigars where really Pricey, so that's when i notice it was my queue on walking out.
If A fellow Yelper was To Question me about this Store, I think this is how it would Go.
Yelper: Would you Try one of their Homemade Cigars
Larry L.: No
Yelper: Do you like the atmosphere?
Larry L.: No
Yelper: Would you recommend it to a friend?
Larry L.: No
Yelper: Would you go back?
Larry L.: yeeeea-NO!!!
Sorry if i'm being a little mean but it's the truth. read more