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This non-mandatory logo shows the casa has the official government permit.
Arrendatarios - Licensed Renters
All casas on this not-for-profit site are legal.
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Since May 15, 1997 — through Decree 171 — Cuban homeowners are allowed to greet tourists in dozens of cities and towns by renting rooms using the established formula known as "Bed & Breakfast". In Cuba, these are called "Casas particulares", simply because they are located in private (particular) homes (casas). The difference being that in Cuba, breakfast is not included in room rates.
These casas are the property of Cubans (80% of Cubans are homeowners) who may be teachers, lawyers, architects, doctors, regular homemakers, single moms or retired couples. All have to abide by stringent cleaniness, hygiene and basic comfort standards imposed by the "Vivienda".
Amenities can greatly vary from one home to another, some offering a private bathroom (all have a hot water shower, otherwise they would not have a rental permit; most do NOT have hot water on tap in washbasins), air conditioning (in 95% of bedrooms), a terrace, a balcony or the use of the family patio, sometimes in a typically Spanish colonial setting with high ceilings and period furniture. Other homes are considered modern, dating from the 50's or 60's where a warm and cosy atmosphere compensate for the intimacy and exiguity of the house or apartment.
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FORMALITIES • RATES • PAYMENT • BEDDING • CURRENT
Safety, peace of mind, cleanliness (rental permits require it; there are impromptu inspections) and genuine hospitality are part of a non-overbearing atmosphere : you feel truly welcome. When you first come into a casa you have reserved, the owner will ask for your passport and will write down the information on a government form which he/she will ask you to sign like a hotel registration card.
This information has to be reported to the local Cuban Immigration office within 24 hours, same as hotels and resorts do. The only other form you will have to sign is a receipt in the amount your lodging costs. Tell the owner then and there how many nights you wish to stay and if you wish to eat dinner and breakfast. Casas almost never serve lunches. But you can always ask, ahead preferably.
From there, it's up to you to start a conversation with the owners or just be left alone to the activities of a well-meaning visitor. Rates do not include meals and vary from 15cuc to 45cuc and more for one or two persons sharing a bedroom (exchange rates on a daily basis from Cuba's Banco Metropolitano here) depending on the location, season and city. Visitors get to use the living room and patio of course and, sometimes the kitchen.
Legal bedroom capacity is limited to 2 adults. No more. Except for children 12-17 and under travelling with their parent(s), in which case most owners will provide an additional bed. There are no taxes payable by visitors on room rentals. All services are payable in cash Cuban Pesos Convertibles only. Rates can be higher in Havana. Mileage may vary, caveat emptor, carpe diem, batteries not included.
Electric current is 110 volts, the same as in the US and Canada but using only the two-prong, 50's and 60's era plug, not the three-prong including the round, ground prong. Buy an adaptor before leaving, especially if you're bringing a laptop or an appliance that only has the three-prong. If you forget the adaptor, do like we did recently : some Cuban hardware stores sell, for 5cuc, a "powerbar" with four ground plugs. Ask the store attendant to cut off the end ground prong and you're in business.
Europeans who do not have a (or have forgotten their) 110/220 adaptor are glad to know they can, in a bind, plug their 220V appliance (computer, hairdryer, whatever) into the wall plug used for the air-conditioning unit, which, in most Cuban casas, runs on 220. They may sweat a little but their appliance gets charged. ; )
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Breakfast for two at Gustavo's in Trinidad.
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Dinner for one at Ana Marti's in Bayamo.
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MEALS & OTHER SERVICES
Most casa owners offer breakfast for about 3-5cuc and some will serve a full-course dinner (chicken, fish, seafood, pork, (rarely beef) with salad (tomatoes, cabbage, carrots, cucumber) and rice or black beans, a Cuban staple) for 7 to 15cuc. Owners who offer full-course meals have to pay an additional monthly tax. Most owners can prepare (very well, thank you) the illegal (because reserved for export) but quite tolerated sea fare : fish (pescado), shrimp (camarones), lobsters (langostas).
Some will go as far as to offer turtle (bariay) or crocodile (crocodilo) but these last two are even illegal-er than the preceding (because on the brink of extinction in most countries except Cuba whose waters are relatively underfished). Caveat emptor.
Most are willing to serve meals because they make a good margin on food. Owners will wash your clothes and may charge one or two cuc for that service. Most are ready and able to help you with tourist information, a bike rental, information about a restaurant, bar or show : things that you would do in your own home for your friends and relatives.
Have a look at other sites listing Cuban casas on the web - Our list here.
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Casas which have the official government permit normally post the above sign : Licensed Renter, Arrendador Inscripto. Divisa means payable in Cuban Pesos Convertibles. A similar sign in red means the casa is rented only to Cubans and payable in Moneda Nacional, but those are quite rare.
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RESERVATIONS - BOOKINGS
• Send an e-mail by clicking on our logo (shown below). This should open your e-mail application with the address being shown in the "To:" box. You will note that the actual address has been added to something like (if you mouseover) "mailto:Particuba_thecity_casaname_". This is to show the Cuban recipient that the message has gone through our site so that he/she will pay more attention to its content. We do not collect commissions from owners, our sites are strictly non-profit.
About 200 of the casas we list have access to an e-mail address. Be patient for the reply, as most casa owners do not check their e-mail on a daily basis. Only a handful have an in-home connection. [We do not show e-mail addresses directly on our lists to avoid Cubans from getting spam produced by so-called "robots" which collect addresses. We don't have to explain further as you are surely aware of this practice.]
• Or phone the owners directly from your country : international phone rates to Cuba may seem dear to some, but it should not take you more than two minutes — consult our very own Spanish lexicon here or type in your phrase using Google translate here — to call direct to Cuba and have sufficient time to book by human voice. Old-fashioned maybe, but so worry-free. The Cuban phone network is quite efficient, you'll be gladly surprised to know.
Dialing from Canada or the USA 011 53 (add city code and phone number).
Dialing from Europe, UK and Mexico 00 53 (add city code and phone number).
RATES SHOWN ON OUR LISTINGS
ie 20-25cuc or 35-40cuc are according to Low or High Seasons.
The 5 months of High Season : December, January, February, July and August
These rates are given to us by the owners. Remember we do not get a centavo of commission from the bookings you make through this site. So, just because the casas we recommend are colonial or modern and well-furnished, air-conditioned and so on, does not mean you are paying more (as you would if you went through a site that makes credit card bookings) by using our information. You pay the owner, we have nothing to do with that.
Remember there are thousands of legal casas in Cuba. In Havana alone, maybe 3,000, including 550 in Centro, more than a thousand in Vedado and so on. So, if you are travellers at heart (and not tourists), you just know you will find some casa to your liking from our lists. If you've heard of a great casa not on our lists, ask us about it [webmaster_at_cubacasas.net]. We will do some research for you and report what we know or tell you on which web site it is listed and ... see it for ourself next time we go to Cuba, if we feel it's worth it.
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PLAN TO TRAVEL AROUND THE ISLAND ?
• Print our listings from each city page;
• Browse other web sites listing casas (some here);
• Consult the most recent editions of travel guides in bookform, and settle on 2 or 3 casas per town, then plan an itinerary from there.
Hence, you don't absolutely need an advanced reservation for every single night of your stay (unless it's over Xmas and New Year's or in Summer months). What you need on arrival is to tell Cuban Immigration where you plan to stay, for at least your first night in the country. Pick an address from our lists and write it on the form on arrival at the airport. That's all. From that casa, or whatever other you settled on, make all necessary phone calls. To another casa in the same city or to your first choice on the list of each city on your itinerary.
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LIMITATIONS • TRAVEL GUIDEBOOKS
Since May 2003, the Cuban government imposes a limit of two bedrooms for rent in each casa and no more than two adults per bedroom. The overwhelming majority (95%) have private phone lines and will call a taxi or can recommend a local restaurant (called "paladar") or a casa in a friend's or cousin's town on your itinerary.
In this last case, remember that the casa owner has most probably not seen the casa in a long while (if at all) so it is better to rely on our lists and your own research on the Internet and in guidebooks.
In spite of what publishers may claim, guidebooks can never be as up-to-date as cubacasas.net. By a long shot because they're only updated (in spite of the year for which they are published) every 2nd year at best. We are still seeing erratas or casas not renting anymore as listed in the most famous guidebooks. We update listings on a weekly basis. As a matter of fact, a lot of researchers for guidebooks browse through this site and copy listings : there are ways for us to know this. But then, imitation is the best form of flattery.
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TAXES • PUBLIC FUNDS • BENEFITS • EMBARGO
For the thousands of Cuban families who take up the challenge (it is a lot of work, trust us!), this relatively new form of hosting means they can join the tourist boom while trying to balance their budget. Their revenues, less a monthly tax on each tourist-assigned room (rented or not) goes back, it is assumed, to the población through social services.
The casa owners are not only taxed for each bedroom on a monthly basis (ie, a two-bedroom Vedado casa which also offers meal service has to pay about 650cuc per month before expenses). In January of each year, casa owners are also audited for what is called the "13th month", an income tax based on the previous year's gross rental revenues.
Obviously, renting casas is the cheapest way of collecting foreign currency for the government. Cuba has this regular income from monthly casa taxes (something like 12 million convertible pesos a year, we figure) without having to invest a single tourist dollar. The government does not have to deal with foreign investors or make large investments.
Contrary to what it invests in hotels and resorts, the government does not have to risk any public funds for renovations (lumber, cement, paint, labor) or staff (cooking, cleaning, paperwork, immigration forms, monthly and yearly income reports) or upkeep (water, electricity, phone, tv, air-conditioning, paper, towels, soap, etc). The government's part is in fact quite basic : local inspectors and office staff of the Vivienda who are paid in Cuban pesos. Each city or town has a Vivienda office which runs all rental casas.
This (seemingly) easy money partly explains why the government can have the population benefit from the highest literacy rate, the highest life expectancy, the largest number of free doctors per capita and the widest free education network in Latin America and most countries on the majority of continents. On this planet. In this galaxy. Read more on this page.
The ex-president of American Express, the IMF and the World Bank, James Wolfensohn said in April 2001 : " I have no hesitation in recognizing Cuba has done a good job in the fields of education and health and I am not the least embarassed in admitting it. Although we have presently nothing to do with Cuba, we should congratulate Cubans for what they have accomplished."
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EMBARGO • THE USUAL SUSPECTS
"On October 29, 2008 for the 17th year in a row, the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted a non-binding resolution by a vote of 185 countries to 3 (183 in 2007, 179 in 2003, 173 in 2002, 167 in 2001, 59 in 1992) asking all countries to refuse to apply the American embargo against Cuba as it "violates other states' sovereignty" and "the legitimate interests of entities or persons under their jurisdiction and the freedom of trade and navigation".
The usual suspects : the United States of Agression, Palau and ... the war-mongering Israeli government voted against. In a statement, France declared : "The European Union cannot accept that the unilateral measures imposed by the US on specific countries limit the EU's economic and commercial relations with third countries, in this case Cuba," said French delegate Jean-Pierre Lacroix. Micronesia and the Marshall Islands abstained.
Felipe Perez Roque, the Cuban foreign minister, has blamed the sanctions for damaging the island's economy by $93 billion over the decades.
RESPECT CUBA'S SOVEREIGNTY
Ex-Canadian Senator Jacques Hébert (1923-2007) who lived part of the year in Cuba, commenting on the long-term imprisonment of dozens of Cubans accused of treason, said in March 2004 : "How can you keep up an embargo for over 40 years ? (ie, any ship that lands in Cuba has to wait 6 months before going to the US). Persisting for that long with laws like the Helms-Burton and all those dirty tricks just to crush a small country goes beyond limits. (...) We tend to forget that Cubans feel threatened. Anyone would, by just listening to what Bush and the American extreme-right claim. It's total agressivity."
"If I were Cuban, I would feel threatened. So if the Cuban authorities feel threatened, they have a right to take actions they would not normally take outside of that context. There are things about Cuba I like less than others but I like more things about the country than I dislike. And that's why I am here." AFAWK, in the US, treason is punishable by life imprisonment, in France, it's 25 years.
STRANGE DICTATORSHIP
"Strange dictatorship which sends its doctors and teachers to shantytowns of Soweto, of Port-au-Prince, of Quito, of Bogota or Caracas. Which, instead of brutally firing — using the so-called democratic ways of our very democratic countries — 100,000 sugar industry workers, bothers to consult them, modify its plans and then restructure its primary industry without any social upheaval or human drama." Authors Danielle Bleitrach and Viktor Dedaj, in Cuba est une île (Cuba is an island) Publisher : Le Temps des Cerises, Paris, November 2004.
Strange dictator — In December 2002, after visiting a synagogue and attending the Cuban premiere of his film Minority Report in Havana, US director and producer Steven Spielberg was invited to meet Fidel Castro. As he came out, he said to journalists that he had just spent the most important eight hours of his life.
Someone once said : "Everything that's ever been said about the U.S. is true." Perhaps the contrary applies to Cuba...when emanating from the US government.
Strange society — In Cuba, there are no firearms in homes (50% of US homes have at least one; 18% in Canada; 23% in Québec; 30 firearms per 100 persons in France) nor are there soldiers on the street to make sure there are no homeless (care for family and neighbours is not a law), there is no pornography nor child prostitution (women and children are treated as human beings), there is no advertising on television, newspapers, radio nor on any of its 10,000 web sites : a country where citizens are not con(ned)sumers.
There are no casinos; Cuba has chosen to get revenues in a dignified manner, not through addiction; 65% of health and education professionals are women. During elections held every five years (at national, provincial or municipal levels), candidates do not represent any party hence no party line and they owe financing to no one as budgets are outlawed so they represent their ideas only. And ballot boxes are watched by children. Whoa, strange indeed.
Cuba lives in peace and health through education without the help of organized crime. Far from paradise for sure, with huge problems for sure. But, hey, it's a beginning.
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SIZE & POPULARITY
La Isla Grande is a large country, 1,100 kilometers long. With its 42,804 square miles, its territory surpasses in size Austria, Belgium, Hungary, the Netherlands or Portugal. Travelling by train from the capital to the second largest city, 867 km away, Santiago de Cuba, takes close to 15 hours (albeit slowly, but safely). Casa-hopping is the best way to discover the true nature of the largest Caribbean island. Something the large, all-inclusive impersonal resorts or hotel complexes cannot offer.
In 2007, Canada, eh? with 660,384 visitors, Great Britain with 208,122 Italy with 134,289, España with 133,149 visitors and Germany with 103,054 were Cuba's 5 most important sources followed by France (92,304) and Mexico (92,120), then the USA (40,521), Argentina (37,922) and the Netherlands (33,605), Venezuela (33,593), and Russia (29,077).
Countries with the largest increases in 2007 were Argentina (24%), Colombia (15%), Brasil (13%), Canada (8%) and Russia (6.5%). The largest decreases came from Spain (30%) and Venezuela (63%). All together, there have been at least 2 million visitors per year to Cuba for four consecutive years. In 2008, preliminary figures show that 2,3 million visitors have come to Cuba.*
Some 93 airlines, use Cuba's 10 international airports from 40 cities worldwide. Hurry up and heed Fiona Tomlinson's advice (see Home Page).
IT FIGURES
Nowadays, those US citizens who do make it to Cuba have to break the law, traveling through Mexico, the Bahamas or Canada, totally stressed-out when they make it back home, hoping US immigration officers don't spot their "deviance" and slap them with a huge fine. A fine from the government of a so-called democratic country for visiting a sovereign country.
OUR PART
We have been travelling to Cuba for many years and regularly tour the country. In the past 40 months, we've racked up over 12,000 km touring La Isla Grande (most recently in January and June 2005 and February-March 2006 and October-November 2006 and November-December 2007), meeting casa owners and taking pictures of their humble cuartos or outstanding coloniales, and churning out videos of la naturaleza, the pueblos, the poblacion and the ciudades.
We augment the lists by exchanging information with travellers and some of the 550 true visitors — on average per day to our sites — from around the globe. At home in Canada, we spend most of our time in front of a computer, answering e-mails, giving advice, researching, planning our next trip, feeding the cats and trying to make this site and its French-language version, www.particuba.net, as up-to-date as possible.
Unfortunately, we have to fight copyright infringements of our texts and photos. We're up to the 7th web site stealing our photos and posting them on commercial for profit sites.
Were we to print the whole sites on 8.5x11 paper, we would have at least 5,000 pages.
*2007 figures based on extrapolation from Jan-Nov 2007 stats published by www.one.cu. Cuba's Ministry of Tourism says some 77,000 US citizens visited the island in 2002. The hardening of US policies in May 2004 on travel by Cuban relatives living in the US diminished that figure to 40,521 in 2007. It was an election year and the Bush Brothers needed the Latino hardliner votes from Florida. Even the hardest hardliners, anti-Castro gusanos (worms) protested publicly against that totally-ridiculous fascist-like measure.
To share discoveries, comments, suggestions or to signal anomalies :
webmaster @ cubacasas.net
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31.12.08 - Fixed bugs in main page menu — just before opening the Champagne. Happy New Year !
04.12.08 - New casa in Amancio
25.11.08 - New photos of casa Luis Izquierdo in Trinidad
18.11.08 - New casa Goicochea in Habana Vedado
28.10.08 - New casas in Playa Siboney
01.10.08 - Updated Cardenas with phone numbers
23.09.08 - Updated Matanzas — Casa Marilyn
12.09.08 - Added front-page links to Hurricanes Gustav and Ike's damages
03.09.08 - Updated Cienfuegos — Casas in sequence
02.09.08 - Updated Zapata Peninsula — Playa Larga / Barrio Caleton
01.09.08 - Updated Soroa links
26.08.08 - Updated Viñales : 5cuc scam commission by jiniteros. See "Noteworthy"
16.08.08 - Updated Pinar del Rio, added Handy Santalla casa
24.07.08 - Updated Habana Vieja's 6-zone map with all restaurants, hotels and our casas
22.07.08 - Listed our Top 20 Casas in the country's capital, La Habana
15.07.08 - Updated Moron with festival info, Playa Pilar photos
14.07.08 - Updated Habana Vieja — Casa Juanita y Ernesto
10.07.08 - Updated Playa Giron with photos of Hostal Luis
08.07.08 - Meeting in Quebec City, UNESCO'S World Heritage Committee's 32nd session, added new sites to its List, including Camaguey's Historic Centre. Description here.
23.06.08 - Updated Santiago de Cuba — Casa Gabriel Jardines
21.06.08 - Updated Habana Vieja — Casa Picayo
08.04.08 - Updated Bayamo with new casas (Alina, Marta)
01.04.08 - Updated Trinidad with new casa (Rodolfo Bravo)
19.02.08 - Updated Remedios with new info on excursions, etc
11.02.08 - Updated Pinar del Rio : new casas (Gonzales, Madera), new photos (Una casa colonial, Marti 51) and new city map with casas.
08.02.08 - Updated Moron page : new casas and new photos and new city map with casas.
31.01.08 - Exclusive photos of great waterfront casas in Punta Gorda we visited last November : Angel y isabel, Maria Antonia y Napoles, Villa Ana Maria, La Casita de Oshun (Alejandra Lopez), Eduardo & Zunilda, Villa Las Estancias (Miriam y Keyla), Los Delfines (Magalis y Eduardo), Villa Lagarto (Tony y Maylin) and Hostal Mandy y Olga in Cienfuegos a new casa in centre of town (Bella Perla).
25.01.08 - New casa in Caibarien (Yayo)
24.01.08 - New casas in Santiago de Cuba (Casa Nivia and Casa Nancy Santos).
23.01.08 - Updated Moron (new casas, new photos & infos)
22.01.08 - Updated Guanabo (Casa Nelvy Rodriguez)
18.01.08 - Updated Habana Vedado (12 casas eliminated)
16.01.08 - Updated Trinidad (new photos, new casas, 13 casas eliminated)
14.01.08 - In 2007, Canada with 630,965 visitors, Great Britain with 209,515 and España with 134,081 visitors were the three most important tourist providers to Cuba, followed by Italia, Deutschland, la France, Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela and the Netherlands.
08.01.08 - New Habana Playa/Miramar map with some casas; new casas in Playa/Miramar (Cecilia Ruiz), Habana Vedado (Carmen Suarez Fosalba)
04.01.08 - 3 new casas and new casa photos in Viñales
02.01.08 - 14 new casas and new casa photos in Soroa
27.12.07 - 12 new casas and new casa photos in Remedios
15.12.07 - Back from a one-month circuit including Habana Vedado, Soroa, Las Terrazas, Pinar del Rio, Viñales, Cayo Levisa, Soroa, Ciego Montero, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, La Boca, Yaguajay, San Jose del Lago, Elguea, Remedios, Caibarien, Cayo Las Brujas, San Miguel de los Baños, Matanzas and Guanabo
18.11.07 - New casa, Tomasa in Viñales
14.11.07 - New page - 50 small hotels outside Havana here. (To be fully translated.)
15.10.07 - New page - Our two top choices in each city or town. See here
05.10.07 - New page - Soroa (with Las Terrazas)
25.09.07 - New casas in Cienfuegos (Hostal La Terraza), Jaguey Grande (Casa Cari and Casa Bertha), Habana Vedado (Elvira Gomez, Michel Sanz), Matanzas (Villa Encanto), Pinar del Rio (Reinaldo Camejo), Santa Clara (Adalberto y Mayra), Soroa (Jesus y Aliuska) and Santiago de Cuba (Casa Tania, Odalis Rodriguez) for your enjoyment and pleasure. Yada, yada, yada.
10.09.07 - PDF's are back. We are just beginning to create newsletter-style pages of each city and town in Cuba, starting with Banes. [To view PDF-type documents, your computer must have the free Adobe Reader software which can be downloaded here.] Each of our 33 cities/listings should eventually have its own PDF. Tell your friends : they're so easy to print and carry with you during your trip ! Make a PDF party, collect them, exchange them : hmmmm, hours of pleasure ahead.
09.04.07 - Trinidad now has 6-digit phone numbers. Changing from what was, ie, (419) 6381 to (41) 99-6381
15.01.07 - New page - Lil' lexicon for casa-dwellers here
12.01.07 - New casa (Ariel & Mitzy) in Santa Clara.
10.01.07 - New map of town including old and modern street names, new casas (Yirina & Chichi and Rosario & Pedro) and new photos of Hostal Mercedes Cano in Trinidad.
11.12.06 - You can now browse all Habana Vedado casas in sequence.
30.11.06 - Altogether, 50 new casas added during the last three months.
30.11.06 - Old photos of La Habana added in Galerie 1900-1949
29.11.06 - New photos of town & surroundings, new photos of casa Miriam y Julia Esther and new casa (Villa Serena) in Cienfuegos
28.11.06 New photos of town, photos of casas La Foster & Ramon Revé Durand and new casa (Manuel y Tatica) in Guantanamo
27.11.06 Major update of Santiago de Cuba with new photos, maps, info with new casas (Lourdes, Villa Maja) and new photos of Casa Nenita, Leonardo y Rosa and Casa Mundo (Raimundo y Bertha).
22.11.06 New casas and new photos in Trinidad (Casa Tamargo, Casa Font, "El Cocodrilo", Hostal Colina; new e-mail for Casa Santana)
18.11.06 New info, new maps, new photos, new casas in Baracoa (Gustavo y Yalina, Anaelbis Torres Lobaina, Isabel Castro Vilato, Marilyn Noa Hernandez, Casa Tropical, Casa Elvira, Casa de Darisley, Daniel Salomon Pajan, El Mirador-Iliana Sotolongo, Casa Abigail y Alda, Casa Colonial Lucy)
15.11.06 New casas in Habana Vedado (Casa Lily, Pedro Gil Gonzalez, Madeleine Silva; update to Casa Ponce-Pavon, Sra Ivon)
08.11.06 Back from a short tour of La Habana, Cienfuegos, Trinidad, Santiago, Guantanamo and Baracoa : 1,200 photos, 2 hours of HD Video. Updated info, new photos and new casas forthcoming.
12.10.06 New photo gallery of Trinidad on Galleries Page - Requires Flash
11.08.06 Second photo gallery Cariñas Caras (Part II) on Galleries Page
11.10.06 Updated La Isla - Full page on a great dive area : Punta Francés
10.10.06 Updated Car Rental page
08.10.06 38 new casas added in the past two months
08.10.06 Updated Santa Clara - New casas (Hostal Fabien, Hostal Adelaida)
07.10.06 Updated Santiago 15 new casas - Now with four casa areas.
25.09.06 New casa in Viñales (El Cafetal)
22.09.06 Updated Baracoa 4 new casas (Rafael y Adis, Elvira, Tropical, Guilarte)
21.09.06 Updated Camaguey (intro, photos)
20.09.06 Statistics of our sites : 1,285 pages, 1,686 photos, 326 maps with exactly 4,213,047 hits and 455,044 pages seen since January 1, 2006
19.09.06 Started changing our 326 maps for new, larger and more detailed route locators including mileage and small towns. Our first changes cover areas around Banes, Caibarien, Gibara, Guàimaro, Holguin, La Habana, Las Tunas, Pinar del Rio, Puerto Padre, Remedios, Santa Clara and Viñales. More on the way.
18.09.06 New casa (Casa Verde) and regional map in Guaimaro
16.09.06 Updated Gibara (Excursions, photos, new casas : Villa Betina)
15.09.06 New casas in Santa Clara (Hostal Adelaida), Nuevitas (Daisy Jimenez)
13.09.06 New casa in Habana Vedado (Prisca y Raul)
10.09.06 Updated Cienfuegos (intro, maps, photos, links) and new casa (Berta y Cortes)
29.08.06 New casa in Viñales (Claudina)
28.08.06 New casas in Habana Vedado (Bofill and Maribel) and Habana Centro (Blanca).
21.08.06 New page Campismos & Caravaning
20.08.06 New casas in Gibara (Boqueron, Las Brisas)
18.08.06 If you respect Cuba's Sovereignty, add your name here
11.08.06 New photo gallery Cariñas Caras (Dear Faces)
21.07.06 New casas in Habana Centro (Maritza, Blanca Margarita), Holguin (Angulo) and updated info for Gibara (Local banks don't do cash advances), La Habana (shows and yoga) and Viñales (Hernan)
28.06.06 - Updated Santiago de Cuba
06.05.06 - Updated Cubacasas logo to reflect new official rental symbol
03.04.06 - Updated Baracoa, Bayamo, Caibarien, Ciego de Avila, Guanabo, Las Tunas
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