Cuban Resorts

Hi everyone, Well this was just a little of what our trip was like. We were greeted at the airport by Salsa Dancers and Cuban music, a very friendly and warm welcome!! Our Resort twas the Barcelo, it was great and the newest of all the Hotels on the ...

... and sip mojitos. Scattered about the place, we could see some graying foreign men with young pretty Cuban girls eagerly drinking their rum.   Tourist Resorts in Cuba We decided to venture to the coast for a day, and ended up going to ...

... 2/3 of the way down Varadero's 20km white line of sand, and the further east you go the more expensive and inclusive resorts become. That said, I'm a bit surprised by what isn't included. Internet access, at $4 per half-hour, is expensive even by Cuban ...

... (Villa Cabanas) that we were planning to stay at was full and was also possibly a brothel so the only other option was the resorts. What was even more ridiculous was that the hotels wouldn't give us a cheap rate at the desk so I sat in the hotel ...

... Cuba and a chance to catch up on 5 months of gossip and news, Breezes wasn`t quite as good as other all inclusive resorts I`d visited in the Caribbean.  The service was average, and although they had two other a la carte restaurants to supplement the ...

... the humidity was unbearable for me. In 1982, resorts were barely starting in Cuba, and they were not the fancy, extravagant 5 stars resorts of today. Tourism was just starting, and the little Spanish children would stare at me as if I was a rich ...

... reserves certain hospitals, facilities and areas - generally the most beautiful and containing the most exclusive resorts - for foreigners. No Cubans allowed. Clearly the implementation of Communist philosophy has been conveniently overlooked ...

... ; - most of the tourists come here on all-inclusive package holidays and are duly herded into expensive hotel complexes in gringo resorts like Veradero. Due to the absence of hostels, the only other option is to stay in casas particulars. These are like ...

... is the Little-America for Big-Americans of Mexico. Most people only ever see the hotel-strip: 25 km of beach-front mega-resorts. Most tourists never actually leave the resort they are staying in. They simply walk (waddle) out to their little strip of ...

... aspects of the wall. Isn't it interesting how the wall will not be constructed through golf courses and upper-middle class resorts and those well connected to position, power or wealth. Additionally, a variety of films were shown, Movement, a hip hop ...

... of many people we have met. I still feel it was far better to see the country from this perspective than to hide in holiday resorts. We have walked the streets of LA, San Diego, Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and now Cuba at night and during the day, and ...

... , I wanted to reach Banes following the coast. Pity enough, I stuck before the night fall in Guardalavaca, a fully built tourists resorts looking like Varadero... I went a few km out of the tourist area and put my tent on a scenic white beach... On ...

... little outdoor bars, and the most beautiful palm tree white sand, blue sea beach. Further away up the peninsula are huge ugly resorts but the town itself was picturesque. We stayed in town with another Maria in another casa particular. The house was very ...

... water (albeit a wee bit chilly) and the "Twelve Apostles" in the background made this place one of the most spectacular beach resorts I've ever had the pleasure of visiting. I had a late lunch at one of the numerous cafes along the beachfront and then ...

... we boarded an open topped bus and toured the main drag of Varadero from the old town to the long string of all-inclusive resorts to the East. We stopped at an archeological dig on the way where bones of the Pre Columbian natives were found in natural ...

... that we hadn't actually booked a package and weren't therefore eligible for free transport ;) !!! Varadero is a strip of land with resorts and beaches running along the north side. On arrival at our 5 star (by cuban standards) resort, we were tagged and ...

... an entire plane with tourists going to Santa Clara - how could they be unprepared? Well, all those tourists were going to the resorts. And I can honestly say ALL of them because when we got to the airport and asked for a taxi, the information booth ...

... is actually quite touristy, but in some sense you dont really notice the tourists so much because they usually return to their resorts on the sea edge after nightfall. Nights were spent in numerous bars enjoying the live bands, some playing originals and ...