Marta Vitorte
Marta has lived in this sinuous apartment on Av de los Presidentes since the 1960s...
Cuban accommodations run the gamut from CUC$10 beach cabins to five-star resorts. Solo travelers are penalized price-wise, paying 75% of the price of a double room.
Marta has lived in this sinuous apartment on Av de los Presidentes since the 1960s...
This wonderfully rustic but comfortable resort on a 42-sq-km island at the entrance to the Bahía de Nipe is small, remote and more upmarket than the price suggests...
This attractive casa, full of clever workmanship (double-glazed windows) and weeping plants, would stand out in any city, let alone Manzanillo. The position, on the terracotta staircase that leads to the Celia Sánchez monument, obviously helps...
Once Cuba's biggest hotel, Playa Pesquero had its mantle stolen in 2007 by the precocious Sirenis la Salina in Varadero, but who cares? With 933 rooms, the Pesquero is no slouch and no ugly duckling either...
If you want to splash out on one night of luxury in Havana, check out this highly lauded colonial gem...
Not staying here? Worry not – Cuba's greatest beach also has an excellent bar and restaurant with fresh lobster and boneless chicken fillets as spectacular as the view.
Elegant and environmentally conscious (a tough combination), this 292-room resort has five-star written all over it, and is often touted as the best resort in Cuba...
Cuba’s only real eco-hotel might not qualify for the four stars it advertises, but who’s arguing? With its trickling fountains, blooming flower garden and resident tree growing through the lobby, Moka would be a catch in any country...
Julio is an accomplished published photographer who runs workshops and courses out of his stunning colonial home on documentary photography, religion and life in Cuba's new economic reality (see the website for details)...
Julio Roque is a pediatrician who, along with his wife Elsa, has expanded his former two-room casa particular into a growing web of accommodations...
One in a duo of classic Gaviota Holguín hideaways – Cayo Saetía is the other – Pinares del Mayarí stands at 600m elevation between the Altiplanicie de Nipe and Sierra del Cristal, 30km south of Mayarí on a rough dirt road...
Prepare yourself: the vista from this pastel-pink colonial-style hotel is one of the best and most quintessential in Cuba...
Good enough to be listed as a town highlight, Las Yagrumas is situated 3km north of San Antonio de los Baños, overlooking the picturesque but polluted Río Ariguanabo...
Melting in with the colonial ambience of Parque Céspedes, the Royalton is Bayamo's best hotel – and best bargain...
Atop a small, relatively untamed headland crowned by a statue of a bruja (witch), Villa las Brujas has the air of a tropical Wuthering Heights when a cold front blows in...
Loads of space and an improvised Jacuzzi in the backyard. Not surprisingly José is a Pinar stalwart and his two rooms and lovely communal living spaces are perennially popular.
Plenty of shade, a lily pond, and a curtain of water cascading in front of the pool bar add up to make the Daiquirí the pick of the bunch in Guillermo...
Knocking the socks off any Cuban all-inclusive is this delightful place, 22km north of Baracoa, consisting of four rustic wooden villas housing 16 rooms in total...
It's not Cayo Coco, but it barely seems to matter here. In fact, Marea's all-round functionalism and lack of big-resort pretension seem to work well in this traditional corner of Cuba...
This is the type of fine colonial house that once made Matanzas a cultural tour de force, with three vast, muy azul (very blue) rooms...
Even committed casa particular fans will have trouble resisting this meticulously restored 1818 mansion situated on quiet (until the Casa de la Trova opens) Plaza Honorato...
Nilson's a real gent who keeps one of the cleanest houses in Cuba. This fantastic self-contained apartment has a huge bathroom, kitchen access and roof terrace with sea views...
You could recline like a colonial-era conquistador in this historic place housed in the hilltop Castillo de Seboruco, except that conquistadors didn't have access to swimming pools, satellite TV or a room maid who folds towels into ships, swans and ...
This is one of Cubamar's most luxurious campismos. The 51 attractive cabins with their idyllic seaside setting have facilities matching most three-star hotels, acting as a nexus for scuba divers...
The cheap alternative to Playa Pesquero's 'big four,' Don Lino's 36 single-story cabañas (bungalows) are planted right on its own diminutive white beach, and make for a romantic retreat...
This villa, 24km south of Bartolomé Masó, sits at the gateway to Gran Parque Nacional Sierra Maestra. There are 20 separate cabins next to the Río Yara and the setting, among cascading mountains and campesino huts, is idyllic...
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