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Hotel Terral : Cigar Friendly Hotels

The Hotel Terral is the first hotel from the Compañía Habaguanex S.A located at the Malecón, the famous Havana’s coast-line avenue. In front of the so-called “city’s porch”, the installation owes its name to its privileged location, which facilitates the building receiving the nocturnal air currents blowing from land, in Spanish called “terral”. One can describe it as an urban hotel, of modern and avant-garde design. The building’s decoration has been the work of a group of Cuban craftsmen, who have used black wood as the primary and prevailing element. The ambiences, recreated with motifs of nature and movement, light boxes with images of mangrove swamps, river beds as well as lamps adorned with fishes, make of the lobby a singular space. It offers 14 rooms: 12 of them standard ones, decorated with photos and colors of the sea-bottom, and 2 junior suites, at the building’s top floor. The exclusiveness of its private terraces, and the ambience recreated in its interiors, of Nature’s land, with colors and images reminding fauna and vegetation, provide these spaces with their own identity. Minimalist, and undoubtedly elegant, the Hotel Terral stands as a show-case to the Caribbean Sea and a compulsory stopover at the city’s littoral.

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Located at the Malecón, the famous Havana’s coast-line avenue Hotel Terral owes its name to its privileged location, which facilitates the building receiving the nocturnal air currents blowing from land, in Spanish called “terral” Address: Malecón, esquina a Lealtad, Centro Habana Telephone: (53)7860 2100 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel Park View

The Hotel Park View, built in 1928, used to be one of the most exclusive in Havana. Featured by the American style of the time, its modernity and economic prices. It benefited from the periodical arrival of middle-class American tourists. Its bar, Cocktail Lounge, and the Roof Garden qualified among the friendliest of that epoch. With the arrival of the twenty-first century, the Ho- tel Park View reopens its doors, currently showing a renovated image. Good service and accessible prices distinguish the installation, adjacent to the Paseo del Prado, one of the capital’s main ave- nues. After hectic journeys, the visitor has available 55 rooms, designed for intimacy and quietness. The Prado restaurant, located at the seventh floor of the installation and decorated with photos of Havana, offers dishes from the Cuban and international cuisine as well as an amazing view of the sea and the El Morro and La Cabaña fortresses. The Park View location is highly privileged, as it is very near from the Museo Nacional de Be- llas Artes and the former Palacio Presidencial, nowadays the Museo de la Revolución.

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Located in a privileged place of the city, next to Paseo del Prado which is one of the main arteries of the capital. Hotel Park View is located very close to the National Museum of Fine Arts and the former Presidential Palace, now the Museum of Revolution. Address: Calle Colón, esquina a Morro, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7861 3293 Fax: (53)7863 6036 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel Raquel: Cigar Friendly Hotels

Originally built in 1905 for offices, fabric’s storage and deposit purposes, the building the hotel currently occupies reached three years later its current appearance, and by 1912 their dwellers had consolidated as a fabrics-importing company. Inspired in the art noveau style, Hotel Raquel seduces by its combination of beauty and sensuality typical of this ambience. Its biblical name and some of its spaces makes one remind of the Hebrew culture, present in several details of the decoration. The painstaking design highlights in all corners of the 25 rooms hotel, decorated with pictures from prestigious Cuban artists. An impressive skylight ceiling provides a special touch to this stopover, located near the Old and San Francisco squares. The restaurant Jardín del Edén offers dishes performed according to the traditional Hebrew culture, something that makes it unique in the country for this specialty. Adjacent to the restaurant is the lobby bar Lejaim, a Hebrew word alluding to a toast to life. Elements from the Hebrew tradition, such as de David stars and the Menorah, the sacred 7 arms candelabra, feature the Jardín del Edén decoration, where blue color prevails, thematic in the Hebrew culture

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The Raquel Hotel is located close to the squares Vieja and San Francisco The Raquel Hotel is perfect to learn about the Hebrew culture that is present in the Hotel decoration. Address: Calle Amargura, esquina a San Ignacio, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7860 8280 Fax:(53)7860 8275 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel del Tejadillo

Hotel del Tejadillo Cigar Friendly Hotel in Cuba: occupies a building with a peculiar layout, the result of the fusion of three mansions from the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth century. Located in a place crucial for the social and religious works of the epoch, these buildings sheltered two religious schools belonging respectively to the orders of Sagrado Corazón (1888 to 1950) and Hijas de María Auxiliadora (1945 to 1961). Behind the regal front doors of the Hotel del Tejadillo, the visitor discovers an actual colonial-style boarding house. Paintings inspired in the city, ceramic works and copper travelers feature this stopover’s decoration. The lobby resembles the living room of a Havana residence at the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, giving way to the Catedral breakfast bar. The hotel has two inner patios: La Arcada and La Yagruma; the former exhibits a mural reminding the city’s facades and galleries, while the latter aims at quietness and contemplation. Just a few meters away from the Plaza de la Catedral, the hotel’s location enjoys a Havana’s privileged area, where the París restaurant, the Museo de Arte Colonial and the Taller Experimental de Gráfica de La Habana, among other spaces, converge.

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With Plaza de la Catedral a few meters away, Hotel del Tejadillo is located in a privileged area of Havana. Its location coincides with the confluence of the restaurant París, the Museum of Colonial Art and the Experimental Workshop of Graphic of Havana, among other spaces. Address: Calle Tejadillo esquina a San Ignacio, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7863 7283 Fax: (53)7863 8830 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel Ambos Mundos: Cigar Friendly Hotel in Cuba:

Ernest Hemingway had many reasons when he said that the Hotel Ambos Mundos is a good place for writing. It was here that he finished his book “Death in the Afternoon” (1932), and started his novels “New Green Hills of Africa” (1935) and “To have and have not” (1937). The room No. 511, where the Nobel Prize in Literature stayed during the thirties of the past century, is nowadays a small museum treasuring several of his belongings. Hemingway’s memory remains in this hotel also by the offers clients receive of the North American writer’s favorite dishes, prepared in the Plaza de Armas restaurant. On the other hand, the Roof Garden, located at the top of the building, offers its exquisite grill, and there the visitor can enjoy one of the best views of the city’s Historic Center. Ambos Mundos is not only one of the best stopovers of the Centro Histórico, but also a place preferred by many, who come to the spacious lobby to feel the pulse of the busy life of this ancient part of the city. Art exhibitions and the occasional presence of jazz- bands and other musical groups playing at the piano bar, enhance the cultural life of the hotel, which also has the Del Monte Hall, able to hold up to 120 guests. The latter, which has also become an art gallery, is a convenient site for performing conferences, events, ceremonies like the signature of commercial agreements, products launching, receptions and banquets.

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Located in old havana, with one of the best views of the city´s historic center. The Ambos Mundos Hotel is the perfect place to write and enjoy cultural activities. The room of the renowned Ernest Hemingway is a small museum that you can visit. Address: Calle Obispo esquina a Mercaderes, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7860 9530 Fax: (53)7860 9532 E-mail: [email protected]

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City Tours Havana (no lunch) Hotel pick-up in air-conditioned bus according to schedule. Panoramic tour of city attractions, including the Historic District, declared Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO, as well as modern Havana. Attractions: Presidential Palace, Central Park, Capitolio, Floridita bar-restaurant, La Bodeguita del Medio bar-restaurant, Plaza de la Catedral, Plaza de Armas, Malecón, Havana University and Plaza de la Revolución. Stop for photos and videos. Visit to the viewpoint at the Great Historic Military Park Morro-Cabaña, outdoor area. Valle de Viñales Hotel pick-up in air-conditioned bus according to schedule. Brief stop at Las Barrigonas ranch, surrounded by typical peasant farmer houses and tobacco plantations. View of tobacco production during tour. Walk through the Valle de Viñales National Park, declared Protected Cultural Landscape by UNESCO and National Natural Monument. Highlights include the beauty of its mogote-mountains with rounded peaks and numerous interesting caves. Visit to the Mural of Prehistory, 120 meters of art on the wall of a mogote named Pita, with 12 works showing the evolution of men and animals in the Sierra de los Órganos. Visit to a viewpoint for jasmine plants in the Valle de Viñales. Creole lunch in a local restaurant accompanied by traditional local music. Transfer to the Indio Cave and boat ride along the underground river. Return to hotels in Havana. Frequency: Tuesday and Thursday (Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Minimum: 10 people) Net rates (USD per person) Tours Days available Adults Children Valle de Viñales Tuesday and Thursday 48 36 City Tours Havana (no lunch) Daily 16 12   TOUR MIRAMAR OLD HAVANA City Tours Havana 9:00/14:00 9:30/14:30 Valle de Viñales 8:00 7:30  

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Hotel Santa Isabel: Cigar friendly  hotel in Cuba

La Habana villa stands, in all its splendor, the Hotel Santa Isabel, a place keeping the traces of ship-owners, artists, businessmen and illustrious travelers. Turned into a hotel since 1867, the former mansion of the Santovenia Counts remains one of the preferred places for those who decide admiring the city from its history. Famous visitors to the villa, such as the North American Samuel Hazard, who came to Havana in the decade of the nineteenth century’s sixties, have left records of the Santa Isabel qualities. In his work “Cuha with pen and pencil”, Hazard stated that this was a true first-class American hotel, with wide and ventilated rooms, good food and bilingual maids ready to help the ladies, something new in the country at the time. With the distinction and comfort of the old days, after its reopening in March 1997, the hotel with a De-lux category, exhibits great part of the original architectonic elements, surrounded by the ambience of a typical colonial house. Rooms decorated at the nineteenth-century style, an elegant restaurant and a friendly central patio, reveal themselves as attractions of the Santa Isabel, which in addition boasts of its magnificent roof garden bathed by the breeze of the Havana bay.

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Located in a privileged place surrounded by history The Hotel Santa Isabel is located in the founding square of the town of San Cristobal de La Habana, which preserves the footsteps of ship owners, artists, merchants and illustrious travelers. Address: Calle Baratillo núm. 9,entre Obispo y Narciso López, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7801 1201 Fax: (53)7860 8391 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel Los Frailes

Hotels Los Frailes Cigars Friendly Hotels in Cuba: As if it was a space for contemplation, the Hotel Los Frailes translates the visitor to the ambience of an abbey of the medieval era. Monks represented in copper sculptures, religious altarpieces, as well as other details, comprise the decoration of this site convenient for resting. A lobby bar with art-works and stained-glass windows and a peaceful inner patio with a fountain and a well, turns the hotel into one of the most beautiful of the Centro Histórico. The hotel employees, dressed in customs inspired in the clothes of the Franciscan monks, invite the guests to a singular ceremony. Every Friday at six o’clock, with the sweet melody of the Ave Maria, they offer a glass of wine to the clients, as a sign of joy and hope, surrounded by the incense, then the sound of a bell indicates the urge to wake up from the “dream” and to venture into living something new. The guest will remember that he is not only “another one” but someone unique, coming home in search of quietness.

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Delight yourself in one of the most beautiful hotels in the Historic Center. The hotel Los Frailes will set you in an environment of an abbey of the middle ages surrounded by franciscan monks and religious altarpieces. Address: Calle Teniente Rey, entre Oficios y Mercaderes, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7862 9383, 7862 9510 Fax: (53)7862 9718 E-mail: [email protected]

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Hotel El Mesón de la Flota

Hotel El Mesón de la Flota Cigar Friendly Hotel in Cuba: Similar to those inns from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this one at the Centro Histórico, resembles those taverns where the sailors travelling aboard the Galleons Fleet used to gather during their stay at the Havana port. Located at Mercaderes Street, this hostel keeps memories of the feelings of a city that revealed itself as a site of maritime transit confluence. With a sea decoration, El Mesón has 5 comfortable rooms, a restaurant showing a Spanish tavern style offering snacks and selected wines and a Tablao flamenco, for entertaining the Havana nights. El Mesón de la Flota features by its Flamenco music, many times blended with the hurly.

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With a touch of flamenco music, the Mesón de la Flota is located in Mercaderes street and a few meters from Plaza Vieja. With a marine environment, its location remembers to the one that in previous times was of high maritime transit. Address: Calle Mercaderes núm. 257, entre Amargura y Teniente Rey, La Habana Vieja Phone: (53)7863 3838 Fax: (53)7862 9281 E-mail: [email protected]

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