Other songs include "Big Rig" written by Coral Reefer Greg "Fingers" Taylor and "This Hotel Room" by Steve Goodman (who also co-wrote "Woman Goin' Crazy on Caroline Street" with Buffett).

William Ruhlmann of Allmusic wrote that "By the time of... Havana Daydreamin', Jimmy Buffett seemed to have established a pattern for what a collection of his songs would be".

[4] Peter Reilly of Stereo Review found the album appealing, saying "I confess that I find it hard to resist anyone who spends so little time trying to impress me".

Reilly found the title track perhaps the best, calling it "an ambiguous trip into B. Traven (you remember him – The Treasure of Sierra Madre, Death Ship) territory".

[8] In 2012, Jeff Vrabel of The Florida Times-Union listed the track as one of Buffett's "lost treasures", describing it as "a humid, drifting tale of boats, wine and late-night stories, all wrapped in circumstances that seem darker and more criminal".