Havana Nightlife & Beach Tour (Sample
program only)
Please note that Cuba Select Travel arranges all tours on an exclusive individual basis as well as for private groups
6 day / 5 night tour to experience the best of Havana’s sights and sounds and the beauty of the island.
Day 1.
You will be met and assisted by your personal driver/guide upon arrival at Havana International Airport. Special VIP service fast tracking you through immigrations and Customs and then enjoy a cocktail in the VIP lounge while your baggage is brought to you by a valet. Transfer to a colonial style hotel in Old Havana.
Day 2.
This morning, experience the old and historical sites of Old Havana on a walking tour with your personal guide. Some of the highlights will be the second oldest fortress in America, Cathedral Square and the Revolutionary Museum. We follow the Hemingway trail and see the room at the Ambos Mundos Hotel where he wrote the book 'For Whom the Bells Toll', and then onto the La Bodeguita Bar where he used to frequent for his Mojito cocktails For lunch we go to El Patio restaurant.
Later we take a nostalgic trip in a classical American car visiting the Revolutionary Square, the Colon Cemetery and ending with a Daiquiri cocktail at the Floridita Bar. Return to the Raquel Hotel u other. In the evening we step out to experience one of Havana 's nightclubs. Overnight at a colonial style hotel in Old Havana.
Day 3
Following breakfast you will have the chance to chill-out and enjoy a day at one of Havana’s local beaches. After the beach we go back to the hotel to prepare for a night out at a Havana cabaret. Return to a colonial style hotel in old Havana.
Day 4
An early departure to the beautiful ecological tourist complex of Las Terrazas mountain resort to enjoy its flora and fauna. The area is one of the best places in Cuba for bird watching and is the habitat of the national bird, the Tocororo. We visit the Las Terrazas Village Community and enjoy the magnificent Cuban coffee at Maria's house, especially good as she roasts the coffee beans on charcoal which gives it its unique flavour. We go to Cafetal Buenavista, which preserves the ruins of an 18th century French coffee plantation. On a good day you can see the Gulf of Mexico to the north and the Caribbean Sea to the south. We have lunch at El Cafetal Restaurant, located in the original house of the French plantation owners. In the afternoon relax and enjoy the sulfuric mountain spring waters of the San Juan River, it is said the waters will make you younger. Free evening. Overnight at La Moka Hotel.
Day 5
In the morning we travel to the beautiful Vinales Valley to enjoy its limestone hill formations, the mogotes, unique only to Cuba and China . Visit the Indian Cave where the rocks have been formed both naturally as well as sculptured by hand, with shapes and forms resembling figures like an Indian smoking, the three ships used by Christopher Columbus, and others you will be able to see and also imagine. Lunch will be a lo Guajiro (farmers lunch), in the restaurant by the Prehistorically Mural, where you will taste typical Cuban-style crillo food. We continue onto to visit the Robaina house and tobacco plantation and maybe meet with legendary Alejandro Robaina with a talk on the processes of tobacco. We then visit the Francisco Donatien cigar factory to see how cigars are made. Then we go to the Guayabita del Pinar rum factory, the exclusivity of the place is given due to the fact it is the only region where the small fruit grows. Here you will be able to taste the Cuban rum and liqueurs. Return to the Raquel Hotel . Later we go to the El Turquino nightclub. Overnight at a colonial style hotel in Old
Havana.
Day 6
You can extend your stay in Cuba (by pre-arrangement) by taking one of our other tours to different places in the island such as Cayo Ensenachos, Cayo Las Brujas, Cayo Guillermo or Varadero\beach resorts. Or transfer to the airport for your outbound flight.
Please note that Cuba Select Travel arranges all tours on an exclusive individual basis as well as for private groups
Please contact us with your brief and include proposed dates, number of persons and a short profile of type of group so we can send you a proposal.