Havana Guest House

... but ended up being all OK, today was going to be perfect, I just had a feeling.  The other guests in the guest house were a young American couple Jaron and Ryann who had arrive in from Cancun a few hours before me.  Unfortunately their ...

... had made it to Cuba! Next step was to get in a cab and make our way to where we were staying (Martha’s Guest House in Havana). With Brad’s failed attempt to haggle the price down on our cab and instead making our cab lady extremely cranky we ...

... bit of bribery by our taxi driver for the police officer across the road and we were off. So this is Cuba! We were taken to a nice guest house in the centre of town. The lady there was lovely. Her name was Ana, and we wanted to stay there as ...

... us with a "Blomerus" poster on the airport. I still get goose-bumps thinking of that taxi ride from the airport to our guest house. We were on a tropical island with palm trees everywhere in the city. The air was humid and although it was winter, we did ...

... . She contacts someone to see if it's running and is told it is not - our last chance to see anything of Cuba, outside Havana, is gone. Oh well - frustrating or what? We decide to have a relaxing day in our room, especially as we have both not been ...

... for a quick beer, then my tea was ready, some goooooood chicken, so the next morning i got the bus to trinidad, via havana (compulsary, not my favourite place) trinidad was real nice though, very colonial, near the beach, met some dutch lad on the bus so ...

... the most enriched and contented people I had encountered so far on my trip. I had booked one night at a Casa Familiare, basically a guest house – the Cubans have to apply to the Government and pay a fee to let rooms out in their homes, because ...

... have learnt from people and research, the best options for a reasonably cheap and good accommodation is a ‘Casa Particular’ or Guest House. We also learnt that in many cases, your booking isn’t honoured by the casa owner, unless they ...

... folks back in Blighty know all about that at the moment), so I didn't see much as my taxi splashed towards the Casa Particular (guest house) I'd booked into for the week. The taxi pulled up at a large tower block in the Vedado district of Havana, I jumped ...