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...
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.
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...
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...
Sol Meliá's best property is the five-star Sol Cayo Largo, with its Greek-temple-like lobby and trickling Italianate fountains...
Prepare yourself: the vista from this pastel-pink colonial-style hotel is one of the best and most quintessential in 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...
When your casa comes with a luxurious Italianate swimming pool, you know you're onto something...
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...
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...
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...
At last Las Tunas gets a hotel that doesn't give you flashbacks to the Khrushchev and Brezhnev years...
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...
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...
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...
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...
If you want to splash out on one night of luxury in Havana, check out this highly lauded colonial gem...
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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