Hotels in Havana - Prices and Reviews

The land of rum, sugar, old American cars and communism. No, it´s not dead it´s alive and well in Cuba. But that´s not all it has to offer. Salsa in the streets, gorgeous Colonial architecture and beautiful beaches.
Several years ago, the government allowed people to open their homes to tourists, called casa particulares. I stayed in one eve...

We´d been looking forward to Cuba for some time and were excited as we checked in for our flight to Havana. The plane was a taste of things to come, it was an old Russian "hand me down" and they had adjusted the seating to squeeze in as many infidel capitalists (and their sorely needed hard currency) as possible. Our seats were right at the back...

Oh how to write about Cuba! Where do you start? I shall begin at the beginning and see where that takes me. The door to the Cuban consulate in London has one peculiar feature. The Yale lock fitting has been inserted upside down. Predictably I am now going to use this staggeringly inane fact as a metaphor for my time in Cuba. However fatuous that...

"Hey Chino - como estas?" A cuban cliche sticks his head out the window of a massive bus resembling optimus prime. His cigar stretches kilometres. From the shadows of the splendour of Havan's Capitolio building, I look up at Optimus in stunned amazement, Mr Cliche suddenly crushed up against the window by the 300 optimus occupants. "Un peso chin...

City Tour with excellent guide in mini-van. Shared with Family from York and Sheena from Scotland. Saw lots of monuments, squares and cigar/rum shop. Excellent lunch and some mojitos. Tropicana club in the evening, awesome show, drank a lot of rum and ate in the restaurant beforehand.