Decent by any standards, superlative by Cuban standards.
Clean rooms and common areas. Pretty hard beds with bizarre cylindrical pillows. Nice breakfast buffet with omelette station. Helpful, friendly staff. 24-hour food at the bar. Pretty thin walls -- I could overhear my next-door neighbor's phone conversation perfectly.
WiFi is in the lobby only, not the rooms and not by the pool. Costs about $5 for one hour. Works fine.
Big pool and outside seating area. Not much to see in the immediate vicinity, and a 20-30 minute cab ride (12-15 CUC, with 1 CUC roughly equallng $1) into Old Havana or to many music venues. Quiet, nicely planted grounds. In-room safes.Six hangars per closet.
DO NOT put used toilet paper into the toilet. Use the little wastebasket. (Put NOTHING in the toilet that hasn't passed through your body.) This is gross to us but normal everywhere in Cuba. You will suffer and be embarrassed if you forget this rule (which no one ever tells you and is never posted anywhere). Bidets in the bathrooms, and perfectly adequate showers.
Biting bugs outside (early March 2018), so you might want to keep the windows closed at night and/or use insect repellent.
A word of advice: try to get a new car as a taxi to and from the hotel. The old ones are charming deathtraps, with horrendous exhaust fumes, no seat belts, no safety glass in the windshields and crappy doors that...Decent by any standards, superlative by Cuban standards.
Clean rooms and common areas. Pretty hard beds with bizarre cylindrical pillows. Nice breakfast buffet with omelette station. Helpful, friendly staff. 24-hour food at the bar. Pretty thin walls -- I could overhear my next-door neighbor's phone conversation perfectly.
WiFi is in the lobby only, not the rooms and not by the pool. Costs about $5 for one hour. Works fine.
Big pool and outside seating area. Not much to see in the immediate vicinity, and a 20-30 minute cab ride (12-15 CUC, with 1 CUC roughly equallng $1) into Old Havana or to many music venues. Quiet, nicely planted grounds. In-room safes.Six hangars per closet.
DO NOT put used toilet paper into the toilet. Use the little wastebasket. (Put NOTHING in the toilet that hasn't passed through your body.) This is gross to us but normal everywhere in Cuba. You will suffer and be embarrassed if you forget this rule (which no one ever tells you and is never posted anywhere). Bidets in the bathrooms, and perfectly adequate showers.
Biting bugs outside (early March 2018), so you might want to keep the windows closed at night and/or use insect repellent.
A word of advice: try to get a new car as a taxi to and from the hotel. The old ones are charming deathtraps, with horrendous exhaust fumes, no seat belts, no safety glass in the windshields and crappy doors that don't open from inside but would probably pop open in a crash. And prepare to breathe more exhaust in a day than you should in a year. Ugh.
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