Going to Varadero late November and we really wanted to extend to two weeks so we could skip over to Negril for the week. There were direct flights but only into Santiago de Cuba and Montego Bay - quite a distance from Varadero - so by the time we looked at the total cost we decided to leave it to one week Cuba (friends special event) - we'll just be patient and wait for our 3 weeks in Feb to Negril.

Very hard to find a direct flight - they want you to go through Panama
Did a lot of research on this when we came back last Feb since we already know we would be going to Cuba in the fall
then found this but only flies into Santiago de Cuba on a direct flight - Thursdays and Sundays -

http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/2...ews/news6.html

in the end we decided not to do it - and now that I do further research I see that they have suspended this service

http://www.travelweekly.com/Caribbea...ds-operations/

so back to flying through Panama or something similar.