Should I holiday in Cuba in hurricane season?

Simon Calder answers your questions on the Caribbean climate in late August, your rights when lost baggage spoils a holiday, and the world’s best railway journeys

Hot, hot, hot: Cuba and the Caribbean are great destinations all year round but autumn may be preferable (EPA)

Q I wondered if you would go to Cuba at the end of August for two weeks, bearing in mind it’s the hurricane season? Would I be safer to just travel to Europe or Turkey? I just don’t want to pay a lot and travel far for it to rain all the time.

Faye D

A One facet of travel I find constantly intriguing is the appetite of British holidaymakers to head for tropical and sub-tropical locations regardless of the climate. While I have travelled to Cuba and its near neighbours, Mexico and Florida, in July and August, they were all for what I would loosely term work assignments.