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Havana Travel Guides
Fiesta! Welcome to Havana. An explosion of music, smiles, crumbling buildings – that sums up Cuba’s capital. Havana is split into two areas: La Habana Vieja (Old Havana) and Vedado.
Most of the tourist attractions, such as Museo de la Revolución, Capitolio, and the many plazas, are situated in Old Havana, but there are a few modern restaurants in Vedado which are worth a visit.
Take a vintage car ride to Hotel Nacional, where the local mafia used to hatch plans over mojitos!
Trinidad Travel Guides
Take a stroll down Cuba’s famous colourful streets of Trinidad.
Drink rum, listen to jazz, and cycle, or take the bus to paradise, aka Playa Ancon *rubs eyes* yes, this exists!
Viñales Travel Guide
Found in western Cuba, the lush countryside of Viñales is a welcomed rest for the buzz of Havana. The town is surrounded by unusual-looking hills called mogotes!
Viñales is cigar land; there are plenty of farms which you can tour around.
Cuba Travel Guides
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Hola ! Thanks for all the useful tips, I’m going to Cuba this July for 2 weeks and lots of your tips are really helpful.
But my question is : can people in Cuba speak English? My Spanish skills are limited so I was wondering if you guys could speak fluently while in Cuba and if not, do people speak English? I really want to talk and share with the owners of the casas particulares I’ll be staying in, but that might be difficult if we don’t have a common language…
Muchas gracias 🙂
Hola Cassie!
We can speak very limited survival but we were travelling with a Brit who lives in Mexico and is fluent so she pretty much did all of the talking. Download the app Spanishdict! and try to learn a bit of pleasantries. Some speak English, more so in Havana and Trinidad where there are lots of tourists. You’re more open to being ripped off that’s the main issue I would say. Are you travelling solo? What’s your itinerary? We met the ex pat Brit in Viñales and travelled with her all the way through to Trinidad so it’s possibly you’ll meet fellow backpackers too!
Hallo 🙂
Thanks for sharing all your good advices about Cuba. My boyfriend and I are going to Cuba for 18 days in march as ending on our 7,5 month travel. We are thinking about ending our Cuba travel at Varadero – relaxing and beachtime – before going home ‘to the real life’ 🙂 Where did you stay with all-inklusive and would you recommend it?
How fun. We stayed at Brisas del Caribe. It was alright but as the week went on and the rooms filled up more the (friendly) staff couldn’t handle the numbers. You had to queue for food (the clientele are pretty gross, be prepared to watch mountains of food to go to waste). They also ran out of large towels so we were drying ourselves with hand towels. Not really an issue for us but may be for others. I hope real life doesn’t hurt too much! You’ll be planning your next trip before you know it.
Hola! We stayed at the Brisas del Caribe. It was alright. They ran out of large towels by the end of the week (which didn’t bother us but may bother others) and also struggled to manage the hotel at full capacity (queuing at meal times). Staff were friendly and the hotel was clean though. Drinks were decent too! Hope reality doesn’t hurt to much, you’ll be planning your next trip before you know it!
Thanks! Yeah that was the plan but then thought I’d be super organised and try on here first. Any tips on a two week trip so I spend less? Can you get boats to Cancun?
Wish the pound hadn’t nose dived! Think it’ll go up or fall when article 51 is triggered?
Who knows. Well we spent one week in an all-inclusive so the two weeks we spent travelling is where I’d still recommend. Have fun!
Hi everyone!
I’m thinking of going to Cuba in feb and would love to go with someone! I’ve discovered that the casa rooms are booked for the room not per person so if we get a crew, it’ll be cheaper! AnYone keen? Send me an email [email protected] (I assume it’s ok to leave this?) and then we can give these wonderful people some info when we’re done!
Hi Lewis! I hope you find someone. My advice is to do a few nights in a hostel in Havana as opposed to a casas to meet some peeps and then you’ll be grand. We met fellow travellers at each stop, we became a wee family.
This is a great vacation guide for Cuba! The pictures you posted here are great, and you give some good advice to follow for first-timers. Awesome post! Thanks for sharing!
Thank you Morgan!