Example itinerary: Scuba diving holiday West Cuba, 15 days with rental car, minimum of 2 persons, can be tailor made in all aspects.

Price includes all hotel accommodations with breakfast, diving sessions mentioned in program (see below), host services, private excursions, booking of casa particulares, excludes car rental, international flights and homestays, which are paid directly to the local house owners (for 2009: 25-35 USD per night per room). Ask for a customized trip & quotation for a Cuba holiday by bus or rental car. When you decide to book for a travel with rental car, we offer car rentals for special prices. These are the best possible prices you will be able to find and your host accompanies you to the car rental agency on the day of pick up.

The accommodation is based on boutique hotels mixed with carefully selected casas particulares (B&B with Cuban families). In Trinidad you stay in a casa particular according to this sample itinerary, but you could also stay in the best hotel there is: Trinidad Iberostar Grand Hotel (4 star boutique, colonial style hotel downtown, with the ambiance of 5 stars). We design tailor made travels according to your wishes !

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. See: Cuban car rentals.

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 organized groups we offer our guiding services, traveling 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
Diving holiday & roundtrip West Cuba, 15 days with rental car (nb: diving holidays by bus are arranged too)

Day 1: Arrival Havana, reception by host, transfer with taxi to Hotel Sevilla (4 * boutique, colonial hotel in the middle of Habana Vieja with swimming pool).

Day 2: In the morning private guided tour on foot through the old city center of Havana. In the midday optional excursion of 2 hrs with classic American cabriolet through the city visiting the Faro (lighthouse), Malecon, the Embassy quarter (Miramar), Plaza de Revolucion, with a Coppelia icecream in Vedado in the end.

Day 3: Pick up rental car & drive to your casa particular / homestay with a Cuban family in Viñales. Optional extension half or full day guided walk through the valley of Viñales and experience the tabacco culture.

Day 4: By car to Maria La Gorda, the best international scuba diving center of Cuba, and the best 4th diving center of Latin America. You stay in a room with seaview, hotel Maria la Gorda.

Day 5, 6, 7: Three days full for diving sessions & beachlife. Included in price are 2 diving sessions during the day & one night session pp (total of 7 sessions pp. on basis of 2 diving persons)

Day 8: By car to Soroa, Las Terrazas, and stay at the boutique hotel la Moka ( 4 * with swimming pool), beautifully integrated with nature and considered as the most beautiful hotel of West Cuba.

Day 9: Explore the mountains of Soroa, a full day private guided excursion through the tropical mountains of Soroa with lunch at a farmers place in the middle of the tropical forest, visit to a small school in the mountains included, Hotel la Moka.

Day 10: By car to Playa Giron, off the main route to Cienfuegos & Trinidad, with a dive in Pigs Bay, Zapata Peninsula. You have a stopover at Cueva de los Pesces where you have one dive included in the Bahia Cochinos (Pigs Bay) or in the cave near the rstaurant. Time to lunch afterwards. Overnight in casa particular / homestay with a Cuban family.

Day 11: One full day for diving sessions & beachlife at Caleta Buena, Playa Giron. Included are 2 diving sessions during the day pp. (optional is to take one night session pp extra). Playa Giron homestay.

Day 12: Drive to Trinidad, free midday. In this program you stay in a casa particular / homestay with a Cuban family in Trinidad. One of the beach resorts at playa Ancon with room with sea view or bungalow at the beach, and boutique 4 * Iberostar Grand hotel in downtown Trinidad are also options.

Day 13: Excursion into the tropical mountains of Sierra Escambray.
Transfer into mountains to Hacienda Codina, first with your own car, pick up private guide at Topes Collantes, and then on foot deep into mountains to Hacienda Codina. On the hacienda you will have a typical lunch on the hacienda. And after lunch you make an easy roundwalk through the orchid garden, visit a batcave, viewpoint & bamboo garden. Very nice place to be. And in late midday back to Trinidad again by truck out of the mountains, and later on with your own car.

Alternatives, or for extra days:
1) Full day Catamaran group excursion to tropical island Cayo LEGUANO with snorkeling, beachlife, time for exploration island and fishlunch. An easy day for complete relaxation ! Or 2): a horseback excursion of 2-6 hours, or even several days (as you wish) in Valle Ingenios, Sugarmill Valley with Cuban guajiros.

Day 14: Drive back to Havana, eg through the Sierra Escambvray to Santa Clara and visit the Che memorial, drop off the car. Hotel Sevilla (4 * boutique, colonial hotel in the middle of Habana Vieja with swimming pool).

Day 15: Free morning Havana, transfer out in midday to international airport, depending on flight schedule.