Cuba Iberostar

... Cespedes (the site of today´s Marti celebrations) has its own slower, more typically Cuban pace. Even with the newly renovated Iberostar Grand Hotel along its north side, the place is nicely lacking in tourists like me. Several times over the week, ...

... to my expectations for excess. This is a good thing. Perhaps the drunken hooligans are at other resorts. The Iberostar Tainos, named by a Spanish conglomerate (apparently without irony) after the original inhabitants of Cuba whom the Spaniards effectively ...

... had a good look around the town, which was pretty picture-postcard in places.  Our first night there, we ate at our hotel - the Iberostar - which was OK but nothing special.  The next day, we spent some time in the sunshine at a bar off the town ...

... guests in the theatre for the daily show. Tonight was a 'couples' competition with various games involving the partners getting intimate with each other's clothed bodies. The evening ended with a 'cubata' (cuba libre with dark rum) in the lobby bar. ...

... least budget traveller come intrepid adventurer thing you could imagine, 10 days all inclusive stay at the wonderful five-star Iberostar Varadero beach resort located on almost 20kms of unbroken golden tropical beach two hours drive east of Havana. We ...

Today we leave for Varadero at 1 pm Cuban time; that could mean anywhere from 1 to 2 or later. We have to check out by noon so well be staying close to the Hotel today. After breakfast we decided to go shopping. Dave ended up buying a pair of Brazilian ...