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Hotel Nacional de Cuba and it's not for me
L original options as a package including two days in Cuba Havana at the Hotel Tryp Habana Libre, but as I finished putting together my taste, I changed one day and in another hotel. It could be the Meliá Cohiba, Sevilla or Nacional de Cuba. At first I dismissed because it was very similar to Varadero, and between Sevilla and the National, I liked the most historic.
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is considered historical monument, there are hosted presidents and celebrities in the world who visit the country, and is more aristocratic than I've ever seen. It has a luxurious but conservative end, the furniture is hand-carved ebony, shiny leather chairs and all the marble floors. From the entrance gate to gate is 50 meters. When we got out of the van asked me what I was doing there.
is one of those places where you can not be in sneakers, jeans or faded like mine. The ladies ride with Tiffany jewelry and chihuahua puppies with bright collars. I arrived in shorts and cotton shirt.
Construction is 1930, has stunning gardens where you can see the bay, and a gallery of towering columns that surround the building.
is the only place in all that I saw in Cuba where Cubans do not seem to Cubans. From the concierge to the bartender are inattentive and not cool (I thought it was just me, but I looked after in Internet references, and most felt the same). When we went up the bags we gave 1 CUC tip the trunk and almost got kicked. 1 CUC for them it's like here to give us $ 100 (acalaro, to see that I was not stingy). Then we sent the master of security to enable the box (to be paid separately), because the only advice they gave us before going and during our stay was that we could not care to leave anything other than passports and airline tickets. He taught us to put the key and left without saying goodbye.
I was too happy to get angry about such things, so I fired a fangulo going and we went sightseeing.
The Revolution Square
H ay certain things you can not stop doing if you visit Havana, coco taxi ride, past the Plaza of the Revolution, have a daiquiri at La Floridita, a mojito in La Bodeguita del Medio and see the museum.
We did not have much time, the idea was to do too much at once, and so we went walking to find a coconut that leads to the square. These are not mere means of transport. The coco taxi will make a tour of the city and used exclusively tourists. We ended up fixing in 15 CUC and the driver (a young boy the age of my son) was telling us the history of the places we passed. He tore through the most conchetísima, some houses that would be the envy of those who live in Barrio Parque. There is medical school in the midst of a vast land, and continue down a long avenue and well maintained up to the Revolution Square, where the monument to Che, Jose Marti and the entrance to the institutions of government. I do not know what idea I have, but it was not what I expected. Let's see, the place is beautiful, but I imagined a place with plants, flowers, stairs. It is a bare cement giant site that gives the Ministry of Interior, whose walls is the image of Ernesto Guevara outlined in iron. This is where politicians do all acts and meets people where there are demonstrations. I looked from one side, otherwise, I took several photos and it was enough. We climbed again Coconut and went to another grand avenue in the "new area" of Havana, with buildings more than 50 years, built by the Americans in the fashion of that time, half psychedelic and quite ugly, poor, to end at the Plaza Central and that yes, begin the tour of the beautiful Old Havana.
La Feria, the Morro and please stop spending money!
F ent to the Central Plaza is the Capitol, which is very like the United States and also to us, and at the next corner Theater Alicia Alonso, who seems built by Gaudí. Has the style that reminded me of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona but not as church and other more theater. Here we present the Ballet of Cuba almost every night, and is very inexpensive for the Cubans but inaccessible to foreigners. We continue our journey to the craft fair. We left our loving guide (who insisted on us more time because you were paying a full tour and he had failed) to walk through the stands. The fair is equal to the entire world, but I was fascinated by Cuban painters. The paintings on display for sale are wonderful. The rest is local crafts, and to the despair of my husband, I chose: "This led him to Julia, that Gonzalo, that Diana, this Mary ...". The cries reminded me that 1 CUC = 1 euro and I had spent 189. It is a cortamambo that type.
front of the fair is the nose, which are a lot of hills with different names. On the tip is the one with the lighthouse, where Halle Berry is pulled in one of James Bond, and the side is a kind of strength (like a castle) all this built by the English back in 1500. The latter is where Che settled with his group of people when they took the city of Havana. In fact, we met the next morning inside because to get there, go through a tunnel, the only way, so continue on these streets like San Telmo, but much more picturesque, to appear in La Floridita to take a daiquiri with Hemingway.
continues tomorrow. On Friday it was ending, I swear.
Hotel Nacional de Cuba and it's not for me
L original options as a package including two days in Cuba Havana at the Hotel Tryp Habana Libre, but as I finished putting together my taste, I changed one day and in another hotel. It could be the Meliá Cohiba, Sevilla or Nacional de Cuba. At first I dismissed because it was very similar to Varadero, and between Sevilla and the National, I liked the most historic.
The Hotel Nacional de Cuba is considered historical monument, there are hosted presidents and celebrities in the world who visit the country, and is more aristocratic than I've ever seen. It has a luxurious but conservative end, the furniture is hand-carved ebony, shiny leather chairs and all the marble floors. From the entrance gate to gate is 50 meters. When we got out of the van asked me what I was doing there.
is one of those places where you can not be in sneakers, jeans or faded like mine. The ladies ride with Tiffany jewelry and chihuahua puppies with bright collars. I arrived in shorts and cotton shirt.
Construction is 1930, has stunning gardens where you can see the bay, and a gallery of towering columns that surround the building.
is the only place in all that I saw in Cuba where Cubans do not seem to Cubans. From the concierge to the bartender are inattentive and not cool (I thought it was just me, but I looked after in Internet references, and most felt the same). When we went up the bags we gave 1 CUC tip the trunk and almost got kicked. 1 CUC for them it's like here to give us $ 100 (acalaro, to see that I was not stingy). Then we sent the master of security to enable the box (to be paid separately), because the only advice they gave us before going and during our stay was that we could not care to leave anything other than passports and airline tickets. He taught us to put the key and left without saying goodbye.
I was too happy to get angry about such things, so I fired a fangulo going and we went sightseeing.
The Revolution Square
H ay certain things you can not stop doing if you visit Havana, coco taxi ride, past the Plaza of the Revolution, have a daiquiri at La Floridita, a mojito in La Bodeguita del Medio and see the museum.
We did not have much time, the idea was to do too much at once, and so we went walking to find a coconut that leads to the square. These are not mere means of transport. The coco taxi will make a tour of the city and used exclusively tourists. We ended up fixing in 15 CUC and the driver (a young boy the age of my son) was telling us the history of the places we passed. He tore through the most conchetísima, some houses that would be the envy of those who live in Barrio Parque. There is medical school in the midst of a vast land, and continue down a long avenue and well maintained up to the Revolution Square, where the monument to Che, Jose Marti and the entrance to the institutions of government. I do not know what idea I have, but it was not what I expected. Let's see, the place is beautiful, but I imagined a place with plants, flowers, stairs. It is a bare cement giant site that gives the Ministry of Interior, whose walls is the image of Ernesto Guevara outlined in iron. This is where politicians do all acts and meets people where there are demonstrations. I looked from one side, otherwise, I took several photos and it was enough. We climbed again Coconut and went to another grand avenue in the "new area" of Havana, with buildings more than 50 years, built by the Americans in the fashion of that time, half psychedelic and quite ugly, poor, to end at the Plaza Central and that yes, begin the tour of the beautiful Old Havana.
La Feria, the Morro and please stop spending money!
F ent to the Central Plaza is the Capitol, which is very like the United States and also to us, and at the next corner Theater Alicia Alonso, who seems built by Gaudí. Has the style that reminded me of La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona but not as church and other more theater. Here we present the Ballet of Cuba almost every night, and is very inexpensive for the Cubans but inaccessible to foreigners. We continue our journey to the craft fair. We left our loving guide (who insisted on us more time because you were paying a full tour and he had failed) to walk through the stands. The fair is equal to the entire world, but I was fascinated by Cuban painters. The paintings on display for sale are wonderful. The rest is local crafts, and to the despair of my husband, I chose: "This led him to Julia, that Gonzalo, that Diana, this Mary ...". The cries reminded me that 1 CUC = 1 euro and I had spent 189. It is a cortamambo that type.
front of the fair is the nose, which are a lot of hills with different names. On the tip is the one with the lighthouse, where Halle Berry is pulled in one of James Bond, and the side is a kind of strength (like a castle) all this built by the English back in 1500. The latter is where Che settled with his group of people when they took the city of Havana. In fact, we met the next morning inside because to get there, go through a tunnel, the only way, so continue on these streets like San Telmo, but much more picturesque, to appear in La Floridita to take a daiquiri with Hemingway.
continues tomorrow. On Friday it was ending, I swear.
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