Example itinerary: Roundtrip West Cuba, 15 days with rental car, minimum of 2 persons.

The accommodation is based on Cuban hotels, all selected for a spectacular view or a specific setting and atmosphere. If you prefer to stay in carefully selected "casas particulares" (private homes of Cuban families) and have an interesting mixture of both hotels & private houses, we can arrange all your reservations.

Other options:

Roundtrip West Cuba by bus, starting from €675 per person (14 days).
Roundtrip 21 days West & East Cuba with rental car, starting from €1100 per person (min. 2 persons), all accommodations based on Cuban hotels, with private excursions & domestic flight Santiago-Havana, excludes car rental, excludes international flight. Private houses can be included as part of a tailor made arrangement.

When you decide to book for a travel with rental car, we offer car rentals for the prices that are given by Havana to travel agents. This are prices that are competitive to the prices you find on the internet.

Roundtrip 21 days West & East Cuba by bus.
Roundtrip to Trinidad (8-10 days or more) by bus or rental car (min. of 2 persons).
Roundtrip East Cuba (8-10 days or more) by rental car/bus, starting & ending in Havana, Holguin or Santiago (min. of 2 persons).
Horseback rides in Valle Ingenios, Trinidad Beachlife, snorkelling & diving on Paradise Island - Cayo Levisa, Cayo las Brujas or other Cayos (min. of 2 persons) ex flights.
Hiking in the tropical mountains of Sierra Escambray (1-3 days, min. 2 persons) full board including transfers, ex flights.
Bird watching with English speaking ornithologists in Soroa & Peninsula Zapata (1-4 days), with overnight beach resort hotel.
Catamaran excursions to Cayo Blanco or Cayo Leguano of 1 day, or catamaran excursions of more days.
Ask for (customized) programs and/or quotations.

For small pre-organized groups we offer our guiding services, travelling through Cuba from West to East with a tailor made grouptravel, including daywalks, excursions, local guides, cultural highlights & all transfers by private bus and national flight.
You will be accompanied by a Tourmanager & expert on Cuba.
Ask for a quotation.

Sample Itinerary
Roundtrip West Cuba, 15 days with rental car
(roundtrips by bus are arranged too)

Day 1: You will be met by our agent on arrival on the airport and brought to your hotel in Havana. Your hotel Park View (or a comparable hotel of the same level & atmosphere) is situated in the cosy centre of Havana near the Museum of the Revolution.

Day 2-3: These two days you can use to visit fascinating Old Havana, which has been adopted as Heritage of Mankind, stroll through the streets, go on shopping for hand made clothes, visit colonial houses with large patios, the famous places of Ernest Hemmingway, the Museum of Revolution, the handicraft market and much more. You can also use one day to go to the beach a little further away from the old centre. A local English speaking guide and/or driver can be arranged for one or two days.

Day 4: In the morning you pick up your car in Havana and then drive to Pinar del Rio from where you continue to the spectacular landscape of Viñales. Your hotel La Ermita is situated on a hill & has a spectacular view over the valley of the “mogotes”. These are calcareous rock formations full of caves & hidden streams.

Day 5-7: You will have one guided day through the valley of Viñales and experience the life of the tobacco farmers, the cultivation of tobacco, and see the “mogotes” , their caves and their peculiar ecosystems from near. You can use your days for bicycling, for a visit to the cave of San Thomas, for the optional crossing of a “mogote” by La Cueva del Cable (only for small groups) and/or visit another part of the valley, visit a tobacco warehouse where the leaves are prepared, or go to the tropical beach of the island Cayo Levisa.

Day 8: Today you drive to Soroa. You can visit a tobacco factory in Pinar del Rio, where the tobacco leaves are made into cigars. The province of Pinar del Rio is world famous for the quality of the tobacco. The hotel of Soroa is surrounded by tropical vegetation, has a large swimming pool and as soon as the night falls you hear the cosy sounds of beetles and glass frogs.

Day 9: You take a botanical walk with a local guide through the bio reservate of Sierra del Rosario. You can watch birds, visit the ruins of an old French coffee plantation, and take a stroll through the orchid garden or take a dive in the waterfall of Soroa at the end of the day.

Day 10: You drive from Soroa to Trinidad and if you want you can make a detour along the Bahio Cochinos or famous Pigs Bay. You can take a dive in the sea and discover all kind of fishes in an enchanting seacave while the lunch is prepared. At the end of the midday you will arrive in Trinidad, one of the most beautiful colonial villages in Latin America. In the evening you can enjoy your dinner in a paladar and immerse yourself in the nightlife and salsa feeling of Trinidad. You stay in one of the hotels downtown, near the village of Trinidad, at the beach of Playa Ancon, or with a Cuban family downtown Trinidad according to your choice.

Day 11-13: Trinidad and its surroundings have great things to offer to complete your holiday. You drive into the steep mountains of Sierra Escambray and meet your guide to make a botanical walk through the tropical green mountains. You visit a botanical garden, the cave La Batata from where you can make a swimming excursion through the river flowing through an open cave, you visit a coffee hacienda and a hacienda where you will have lunch. From here you continue to an orchid garden, a walk through a cave with bats and a spectacular view on Trinidad and the Caribbean coastline. The other days you can arrange an excursion to go on horseback riding to the waterfalls & cave of Trinidad, go to the beach of Ancona or book with us for a full day excursion by catamaran to Cayo Blanco or Leguano, snorkel around the coral reefs and enjoy the tropical beaches & mangrove forests.

Day 14: Your return travel to Havana where you deliver your car. You will stay again hotel Park View (or a comparable hotel of the same level & ambiance).

Day 15: You will be picked up at your hotel and be brought to the airport for your international flight.