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Cuba is one of the safest and most exciting countries on the planet to explore. Accommodation, walking tours, dance classes, other activities and transportation, arranged at your request!
For an authentic adventure travel experience to explore Cuba with meaningful and fun interactions with local people, stay in family owned Casa Particulares and explore with your own local guide. We will help you develop a customised itinerary to maximise your time in Cuba without having to join a group tour.
We also arrange airport transfers, transportation between most destinations and activities including personalised walking tours to help you discover Cuba.
Bed & Breakfast in a Casa Particulare
Casa Particulares are government licenced ‘private homestay’ accommodation whereby Cubans are permitted to rent out one or two bedrooms in their home to paying guests. All rooms have air conditioning and en suite/private bathrooms.
We work with a network of Casa’s around the country including Habana, Viñales, Trinidad, Varadero, Santa Clara, Cienfuegos, Santiago de Cuba and Baracoa. All have been inspected by our team and selected for cleanliness, central location and friendliness of your hosts.
Price per room per night (includes breakfast) – single $47.50, double/twin $55, triple $67.50
Cuban breakfast is a generous affair and includes coffee or tea, fresh fruit juice, eggs, ham, cheese, bread or toast, assorted fresh fruits and honey/preserves.
As well as private taxi airport transfers we also arrange cross country transfers in air conditioned bus OR colectivo (shared) taxi, as follows;
Habana-Vinales $27
Vinales-Trinidad $53
Trinidad-Habana $40
Prices are each way, per person, either direction and subject to change!
Airport transfer (up to 3 pax) – each way $40
Walking Tours – daytime & nighttime
Airport Transfer to your Casa
On arrival Habana International Airport we will have a taxi waiting to take you direct to your Casa Particulare in the heart of Old Habana ($35). Why not start your first morning with a walking tour of Old Habana – your personal guide will show you the sights as well as indicating services such as money change, internet and other practical information to help you settle into your new surroundings (per person $10 1/2 day / $18 full day). Your guide is also available for a nighttime tour to explore Habana’s legendary clubs and nightlife (per person $15).
Take a salsa class at a local dance school. Professional one-to-one tuition for all levels (per person $18).
There is so much to explore and enjoy in Old Habana – to explore other parts of the city we recommend a one hour convertible/classic car tour; can be integrated into your walking tour or taken separately ($80 for up to 4 persons). For more ideas, see; Discover Havana – 4 days in the heart of Habana Vieja
Horseback exploration of Viñales valley
What better way to explore Viñales valley than on horseback. We pass through tobacco plantations stopping in a drying house to learn about the art of cigar production and finally emerge at Mirador to enjoy spectacular views across this UNESCO World Heritage destination ($25 per person – walking option also available).
Take a horse and buggy ride through the valley, stop at ‘Prehistory’ wall paintings and then continue by taxi to Cueva del Indio; one of many subterranean caves that were once home to runaway slaves and can now be explored by boat (park entry fee $5 not included) ($25 per person). For more ideas to explore Cuba, see; Exploration of Viñales Valley on Foot, Horse & Bicycle – 4 days
Walking Tour
Cubanito Waterfall tour
Horseback trek through the cobbled streets of Trinidad and into the rolling countryside arriving at Cubanito Natural Park. Park the horses and enjoy a 30 minute walk along the scenic river with lots of opportunities for spotting birds and flora along the way. Arrive at a beautiful grotto and waterfall where you can jump into the fresh clean waters of a deep pool surrounded by high rock walls. Bring a picnic or snack lunch and then return to the horses for scenic ride back to your Casa Particulare (taxi/walking option also available) ($45 per person).
Take a salsa class and learn about ‘salsa casino’! Professional one-to-one tuition for all levels (per person $18).
Walking tour to explore cobblestone streets in this perfectly preserved Spanish colonial settlement, replete with leather-faced guajiros (country folk), snorting donkeys and melodic troubadours. Huge sugar fortunes amassed in the nearby Valle de los Ingenios during the early 19th century created the illustrious colonial-style mansions bedecked with Italian frescoes, Wedgwood china and French chandeliers (per person $18).
For more ideas to discover Cuba, see; Discover Cuba – Habana, Viñales & Trinidad in 8 days
Che Guevara Mausoleum
Santa Clara is Cuba’s most revolutionary city – and not just because of its historical obsession with Argentine doctor turned guerrillero Che Guevara. Smack bang in the geographic center of Cuba, this is a city of new trends and edgy youth culture has been testing the boundaries of Cuba’s censorship police for years. Unique Santa Clara offerings include Cuba’s only official drag show, a graphic artists’ collective that produces satirical political cartoons, and the best rock festival in the country: Ciudad Metal.
The city’s fiery personality has been shaped over time by the presence of the nation’s most prestigious university outside Havana, and a long association with Che Guevara, whose liberation of Santa Clara in December 1958 marked the end of the Batista regime. Little cultural revolutions have been erupting here ever since (walking tours per person $10 1/2 day / $18 full day).
For more ideas to explore Cuba, see; Discover Cuba – Habana, Viñales, Trinidad, Santa Clara, Varadero & Habana in 12 days
