Cheap Cuban Cigars in Morocco: From 15 to 110 DH per Stick

A Cuban cigar in Morocco does not have to cost 150 DH. The official list of April 2026 approves twenty-one Havanas under 110 DH per stick, and the cheapest of the whole tariff, the Quintero Puritos, costs 15 DH at the counter. Four brands share this bottom of the list: Quintero, José L. Piedra, Guantanamera and Vegueros, all rolled in Cuba, all sold under the Habanos band, at the same administered prices as the Cohibas. Here is what they are worth, what they cost vitola by vitola, and which one to choose for a first Havana.

What “cheap” means on the list

In Morocco, the price of a cigar is set by decree, published by customs circular and identical across the official channel. The four brands in this guide occupy the bottom of that list, between 15 and 110 DH, where cigar prices in Morocco begin. Two things to know before comparing. First, these prices are per stick, even for vitolas sold in boxes of 25: the counter will sell you a single one if you ask. Second, the wave of increases of 1 April 2026 did not treat the four houses the same way: Quintero and José L. Piedra went up by 7 to 17%, Guantanamera and Vegueros did not move.

What “cheap” does not mean: counterfeit. These cigars are imported by the exclusive distributor of Havanas in Morocco, and a Quintero at 35 DH is as authentic as a Behike at 2,800 DH. The difference lies in the making, not in the origin.

Quintero: 15 to 85 DH, the way into Habanos

Quintero was born in 1924 in Cienfuegos, far from Havana, and has remained the entry brand of the Cuban catalogue: hand-rolled short-filler cigars with a frank, simple flavour, meant for every day. It is the house with the most references in this guide, eight cigars and one cigarillo:

Vitola	Format	Per stick	Before April 2026	Box
Puritos	small, 20 min	15 DH	14 DH	25
Petit Quinteros	short	35 DH	30 DH	25
Nationales	short corona	35 DH	30 DH	25
Panetelas	short panetela	35 DH	30 DH	25
Brevas	corona	40 DH	35 DH	25
Londres Extra	corona	45 DH	40 DH	25
Favoritos	robusto	75 DH	70 DH	25
Favoritos (tube)	robusto, tubed	85 DH	80 DH	15

The Puritos at 15 DH is the cheapest cigar on the Moroccan list, all brands included, but it is a very small vitola. The real heart of the brand sits at 35 DH with the Panetelas, Nationales and Petit Quinteros trio, then the Brevas at 40 DH. The Favoritos, a short robusto, is the only Quintero that lasts an hour; in a tube, it gains 10 DH and the protection that goes with it. The brand also has its cigarillo, the Quintero Mini at 51 DH for a packet of ten, described in our guide to cigarillos.

José L. Piedra: 32 to 34 DH, the no-frills Havana

José L. Piedra is a brand from Holguín, in the east of the island, bought by Habanos in the 1990s and deliberately kept rustic: a slightly rough wrapper, short filler, hand rolling, and a flavour of earth and wood that does not seek refinement. It is the everyday Havana in Cuba itself. Three vitolas on the list, all in boxes of 25:

Vitola	Format	Per stick	Before April 2026
Brevas	short corona	32 DH	30 DH
Conservas	corona	32 DH	30 DH
Cazadores	long corona	34 DH	32 DH

At 32 DH, the Brevas is probably the best ratio between a proper cigar format and the lowest price on the list. The Cazadores, longer, is the most generous of the three for 2 DH more. A box of 25 Brevas comes to 800 DH, less than a single Cohiba Robustos.

Guantanamera: 18 to 35 DH, the machine-made cigar that carries the band

Guantanamera is the youngest of the four, launched in 2002, and the only one that is entirely machine-made: Cuban leaves, but machine rolling, hence tight prices and an evenness of burn that hand-rolled short fillers do not always have. Four vitolas, sold in small packs:

Vitola	Format	Per stick	Box or pack
Minutos	small, 20 min	18 DH	5 or 25
Puritos	small	20 DH	50
Decimos	short	25 DH	25
Cristales	corona, glass tube	35 DH	10

The Minutos, also sold in packs of five at 90 DH, is the pocket Havana par excellence. The Cristales, delivered in a glass tube, is the brand’s curiosity: the same price as a Quintero Panetelas, with travel protection thrown in. The brand did not move by a single dirham in April, which makes it today the cheapest on the list for a given format.

Vegueros: 90 to 110 DH, the long filler from Pinar del Río

Vegueros stands apart in this guide. Relaunched by Habanos in 2013 and rolled in Pinar del Río, in the heart of the Vuelta Abajo, it is an entirely hand-made long-filler brand, like a Montecristo, sold in metal boxes of sixteen, the “canisters”. Four vitolas, none of which moved in April:

Vitola	Format	Per stick	Box of 16
Tapados	short corona	90 DH	1,440 DH
Centrogordos	short robusto	100 DH	1,600 DH
Entretiempos	thick corona	100 DH	1,600 DH
Centrofinos	slim corona	110 DH	1,760 DH

For anyone who wants to know what a real long filler brings, a Vegueros Centrogordos at 100 DH is the cheapest trial on the list: full-bodied, well rolled, a clean burn, at a third of the price of a Cohiba Siglo I.

From cheapest to dearest

The twenty-one vitolas, per stick, in list order:

Price	Vitola	Brand
15 DH	Puritos	Quintero
18 DH	Minutos	Guantanamera
20 DH	Puritos	Guantanamera
25 DH	Decimos	Guantanamera
32 DH	Brevas, Conservas	José L. Piedra
34 DH	Cazadores	José L. Piedra
35 DH	Panetelas, Nationales, Petit Quinteros	Quintero
35 DH	Cristales	Guantanamera
40 DH	Brevas	Quintero
45 DH	Londres Extra	Quintero
75 DH	Favoritos	Quintero
85 DH	Favoritos (tube)	Quintero
90 DH	Tapados	Vegueros
100 DH	Centrogordos, Entretiempos	Vegueros
110 DH	Centrofinos	Vegueros

Above 110 DH begins the heart of the market, between 100 and 300 DH, with Montecristo, Romeo y Julieta and Partagas, each of which has its own price list on this site.

Which one to start with

The right cheap Havana depends on how much time you have and what you want to learn.

• Twenty minutes, no commitment: Guantanamera Minutos at 18 DH or Quintero Puritos at 15 DH. This is a break-time cigar, not an evening.
• A first proper cigar: Quintero Panetelas at 35 DH, mild and short, or José L. Piedra Brevas at 32 DH, more rustic but fuller. Our guide to the first cigar explains how to smoke it.
• A full hour: Quintero Favoritos at 75 DH, or its tubed cousin at 85 DH to slip into a pocket.
• Understanding the difference between short and long filler: a Vegueros Centrogordos at 100 DH, smoked after a Quintero Brevas, tells the whole story in two evenings.
• A gift that cannot go wrong: three José L. Piedra or a pack of five Guantanamera Minutos at 90 DH, as our guide to gifts for cigar lovers suggests.

One last piece of advice holds for all four brands: these cigars cope badly with dryness. At 35 DH, a vitola that crumbles is no great loss, but a box of 25 left in a drawer is. A Boveda pack and a case or a small humidor are enough.

Where to find them, and the fakes

The four brands are on the list, so they are in the channel: the five official La Casa del Habano shops, two in Casablanca, one in Rabat, two in Marrakech, and the approved retailers, who sell them by the stick or by the box. Quintero and José L. Piedra are the most common; Vegueros and Guantanamera sometimes have to be asked for at the counter. Our guide to where to buy covers the channel city by city.

The paradox of cheap Havanas is that they are copied more often than you would think: a fake Quintero earns little, but sells easily. The rule is the same as at the top of the list: at the official price, at the official counter. A José L. Piedra “on offer” at 20 DH, a Quintero sold online with home delivery, have no legal existence in Morocco.