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Recommended Hotels
The accommodation options
featured in this guide – listed
by area and then by price –
have been selected across a
wide price range for their
unique appeal, location or
excellent facilities. They have
been divided into a number
of categories to help you make
the best choice for your trip.
Luxury hotels offer five-star
service and amenities. They
might not match the impeccable
standards you’d expect of a top
hotel in London or New York, but
they guarantee first-rate facilities
and an excellent level of comfort.
Private apartments in Havana Classy yet comfortable Casa Concordia, an apartment available to rent, Havana (see p257)
have become available to rent in
the last few years. Most have usually set in former palaces Beach resorts are found on
been furnished to a high standard and town houses built in the almost every stretch of Cuba’s
and offer stylish independent 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. coast. The majority of these are
living in the centre of the city Many feature period details all-inclusives offering a high
with breakfast service offered (at such as antique furniture and standard of accommodation.
an additional cost), if required. original floor tiles. The listings also feature smaller,
Cuba has thousands of B&Bs Modern hotels can also be more private boutique resorts in
in private homes known as casas. found throughout Cuba. stunningly beautiful locations.
You can find rooms in anything Though these places may lack When choosing the very best
from opulent former colonial character, they usually offer a accommodation for your stay,
mansions to dirt-cheap digs in wide range of facilities and look out for entries marked
breeze-block apartments. The great service. DK Choice in this guide. These
quality of accommodation in A small number of hotels are establishments have been
these places varies hugely, as found in the countryside in highlighted because they are
there are no cut-and-dried areas of outstanding natural outstanding in some way. They
standards, but the B&Bs listed beauty. The locations are not may be set in beautiful grounds,
in this guide are renowned for to be missed, but there may or in a historically significant
their charm, well-kept rooms be a limited choice of places to building. They might offer
and friendly, hospitable hosts. stay. The listings on the following exceptional value or a romantic
A large number of historic pages feature the best accom- ambience. Whatever the reason,
hotels can be found throughout modation available in these the DK Choice label guarantees
Cuba’s biggest cities. These are sometimes remote areas. an especially memorable stay.

DIRECTORY
Hotel Chains Tel 7204 6366. Islazul Specialist
∑ gran-caribe.cu Calle 19 no. 710, e/ Paseo Tourism
Cubanacán y A, Vedado, Havana
Calle 23 no. 156, e/ N y O, Habaguanex Tel 7832 0571. Caledonia
Tel (0131) 621 7721 (UK).
Vedado, Havana. Oficios 110, ∑ islazul.cu ∑ caledonian
Tel 7833 4090 ext. 251. e/ Lamparilla y Amargura, Meliã worldwide.com
∑ hotelescubanacan. Old Havana. Calle 2 no. 302, e/ 3 y 5,
com Playa, Havana.
Tel 7867 1039. Tel 7204 5577.
Gaviota ∑ habaguanex.ohc.cu ∑ meliacuba.com
Edificio de La Marina,
Avenida del Puerto 102, Iberostar Camping
Old Havana. Tel 7869 5774. Lonja del Comercio, Cubamar Viajes
∑ gaviota-grupo.com Plaza San Francisco, Calle 3, e/ 12 y Malécon,
Gran Caribe Old Havana. Vedado, Havana.
Tel 7833 2523.
Calle 7 no. 4210, e/ 42 y Tel 7866 6069. ∑ campismo
44, Miramar, Havana. ∑ iberostar.com popular.cu

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