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Best places to stay in Cuba
Havana 121 Downtown Havana 62 Santiago de Cuba Province 58 Matanzas Province 56 Sancti Spíritus Province 56 Pinar del Río Province 45 Northern Matanzas 44 Santiago de Cuba 43 Holguín Province 42 Guantánamo Province 38

Best places to stay in Cuba

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. In the budget price range, casas particulares are almost always better value than a hotel. In cheaper casas particulares (CUC$15 to CUC$20), you may have to share a bathroom and will have a fan instead of air-con. In the rock-bottom places (campismos mostly), you’ll be lucky if there are sheets and running water, though there are usually private bathrooms. The midrange category is a lottery, with some boutique colonial hotels and some awful places with spooky Soviet-like architecture and atmosphere. The most comfortable top-end hotels are usually partly foreign-owned and maintain international standards, with everything that a midrange hotel has, plus big, quality beds and linens; a minibar; international phone service; and perhaps a terrace or view. Havana has some real gems.

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Hotel Iberostar Parque Central

If you have a penchant for hanging out in expensive five-star hotel lobbies sipping mojitos, the Parque Central could fill a vacuum. Reserving a room is another (more expensive) matter...

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Hotel Las Yagrumas

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...

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Sol Cayo Largo

Sol Meliá's best property is the five-star Sol Cayo Largo, with its Greek-temple-like lobby and trickling Italianate fountains...

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Hotel Los Jazmines

Prepare yourself: the vista from this pastel-pink colonial-style hotel is one of the best and most quintessential in Cuba...

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Hostal Azul

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...

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Villa Lagarto – Maylin & Tony

When your casa comes with a luxurious Italianate swimming pool, you know you're onto something...

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Hostal Florida Center

The Florida gives the Museo de Artes Decorativas a run for its money on the antiques front and could probably steal the limelight from most of Cuba's botanical gardens with its lush central patio stuffed with rare orchids, ferns, birds and a tortois...

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Hostal Del Rijo

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...

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Alojamiento Maité

Plush facilities and sharp service are par for the course in what must be one of Cuba's most comfortable and professionally run casas particulares...

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Hotel Cadillac

At last Las Tunas gets a hotel that doesn't give you flashbacks to the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years...

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Paradisus Río De Oro

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...

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Villa Santo Domingo

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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Hostal San Basilio

Lovely eight-room San Basilio (named for the original name of the street in which it lies) is cozy, comfortable and refreshingly contemporary: with a romantic colonial setting...

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Villa Maguana

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...

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Hostal Conde De Villanueva

If you want to splash out on one night of luxury in Havana, check out this highly lauded colonial gem...

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Gran Hotel

This time-warped city center hotel classic dates from 1939. A haughty pre-revolutionary atmosphere stalks the 72 clean rooms reached by a marble staircase or ancient lift replete with cap-doffing attendants...

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