CLICK > Other CubaCasas in these locations HOME - FRONT PAGE PROVINCES - ALL 16 Amancio Baconao Banes Baracoa Bayamo Cabo San Antonio Caibarien Camaguey Cardenas Casilda (Trinidad) Cayo Jutias Cayo Levisa Ciego de Avila Cienfuegos Cojimar Florida Gibara Guaimaro Guanabo (Playas del Este) Guanahacabibes Guantanamo Guardalavaca Habana del Este (Guanabo) Holguin Isle of Youth (La Isla) Jaguey Grande La Boca Playa (Trinidad) LA HABANA • INTRO • La Habana Centro • La Habana Miramar • La Habana Vedado • La Habana Vieja La Isla Las Terrazas Las Tunas Manzanillo Matanzas Milpas Moron Nueva Gerona (La Isla) Nuevitas Pasacaballo-Milpas Pinar del Rio Playa Giron (Zapata) Playa Larga (Zapata) Playa Las Bocas Playa La Herradura Playa Siboney Playas del Este Puerto Esperanza Puerto Guayabal Puerto Padre Remedios Sagua La Grande Sancti Spiritus Sandino San Diego de los Baños Santa Clara Santa Cruz del Norte Santa Cruz del Sur Santa Lucia Soroa SANTIAGO • INTRO ::: Centro Ciudad ::: Vista Alegre ::: Reparto Sueño ::: Otras Casas T R I N I D A D Viñales Varadero Zapata (Cienaga de) • TOP 100+ CASAS • Other towns (one-ofs) ITINERARIES ::: Centro ITINERARIES ::: Oeste ITINERARIES ::: Oriente

¡He, compañeros
La ciudad nos espera con sus palacios, tenues como panales de abejas silvestres;
sus calles están secas como los rios cuando no llueve en la montaña,
y sus casas nos miran con los ojos pávidos de las ventanas.
Llegada, Nicolas Guillen

::::: WHAT'S ON ::: WHERE ::: WHEN :::::

::: Cubarte web magazine - What's On > Here

::: Artists' Agenda - Havana Cultura > Here

::: Cuban recording artists on stage > Egrem

::: Performances of the month > Canalcubano

::: Cultural events in the capital > La Jiribilla

::: Stage & other shows > Cniae

::: Movies Popular - Main venues > Cartelera

::: Conventions & exhibitions > cuba.cu Link

::: Night Clubs 95 Havana Spots > CubadeNoche

::: What's On from cuba-absolutely > Here

Watching over the hardware : a Hawker Sea Fury FAR-542 from 1961 piloted by Enrique Carreras Rojas during the Bay of Pigs counter attack — at Museo de la Revolucion © bitboy, flickr •|• A view from the balcony of the Museo de la Revolucion © bitboy, flickr

Castrobama by New York artist Padraig Tarrant at the 10th Havana Biennal. - The next edition is in April 2012 •|• Linda cocotaxista © sogestour

The Nacional : was built and run by Meyer Lansky and the US mafia, supported by Hollywood and yet-to-be President Richard Nixon; today, it's Havana's landmark hotel © sogestour •|• El Malecon : the long and winding seaside boulevard runs from the port in Habana Vieja all along Centro and Vedado and ends at the Almendares river where a tunnel crosses to Miramar and Playa burroughs (with the embassies and the Convention Centre) © Maxime Felder, wikimedia commons

Painters' Prado Saturday where artists exhibit and sell their art and where impromptu tango is danced : join in !© sogestour •|• Los angeles over Habana are watching over Parque Central from atop the Gran Teatro © sogestour

Tell me (Cuenta Me) how you've been doing, if you've been happy in Miami. While you're sad and lonely, I'm dancing and having fun in Havana, says the song by Charanga Habanera

We're happy here, contrary to what negationists would have you believe. Check the Pulitzer Center's Tracey Eaton page here. " The U.S. government spends millions of dollars every year to boost Cuba's "pro-wallstreet-walmart" movement. Is the money having any impact? " photo © unk

"Bus travel in Havana is generally a bitch, but for visitors who speak Spanish, I suggest taking at least one to eavesdrop: there is probably no more effective way to take the pulse of the population than to listen to a busload of Habaneros quibble and kvetch." Click for large bus route map. Conner Gorry, Here is Havana blog

Friends of the Carnaval — post card reminder that Habaneros sure knew how to carpe diem a century ago, amigo.

Carravagio en La Habana at the national gallery — Museo de Bellas Artes © Roberto Suarez

A dozen times per day, a Viazul bus (a.k.a. guagua) goes from Havana to towns and cities all over the island — Link to viazul.com site on click.

Chico and Rita is an animated feature-length film by Oscar-winning director Fernando Trueba and designer Javier Mariscal.

The story of Chico and Rita is set against backdrops of Havana, New York, Las Vegas, Hollywood and Paris in the late 1940s and early '50s.

Released Feb 2011 in Spain and July 2011 in France; Nov. 2011 in the US; nominated for Best Feature Animation, Oscars 2012.

TRIP TIP # 3 — MONEDA NACIONAL ::: PRIVATE TAXIS ::: JALOPIES "Get around in private taxis. 6,000 choferes in Havana have applied for the freelance license; 2,000 have been granted. For 10 pesos cubanos (about 0.40 USD), you can hail endearing jalopies (Pontiacs, Capone-era Dodges and other ‘Yank tanks’) between Playa and Vedado or Habana Vieja, out to Miramar or Marianao. "Longer routes – from Habana Vieja out to the Playas del Este (Guanabo) beaches for example – will run double (0.80 USD). To grab one, just stick out your arm parallel to the ground and ask the driver if he’s going to where you need to be. "It helps to be on the right thoroughfare : 23 or Línea in Vedado, San Lázaro or Neptuno in Centro Habana, Avenida 31 or 41 in Playa, Calle 51 in Marianao, or 3ra Avenida in Miramar." "Now they can subcontract driving duties. Drivers are now young, restless, and reckless. I’m not the only one who lets these wild child choferes continue on their way, opting to wait for an older, more seasoned driver who cares at least for his car, if not his clients."

Trip Tips by Conner Gorry — Here is Havana - Aqui

Eight international Nobel Prize laureates have written to the U.S. Attorney General calling for freedom for the Cuban Five Comments and discoveries

BURBS & BARRIOS El Rincón (16-18 Dec, San Lazaro pilgrimage, 26 San Francisco de Paula (Museo Hemingway), 13 Guanabacoa (Museo, Jewish Cemetery), 6 Santa Maria del Rosario (Catedral de los Campos, Casa de la Cultura, Manuel Mendive mural), 19 San Antonio de Los Baños (Museo del Humor, Galeria Abela, Film & TV School EICTV "one of best in the world", Hotel Las Yagrumas, 34 PROVINCIAL CAPITALS Artemisa, 60 Bayamo, 754 Camaguey, 544 Ciego de Avila, 439 Cienfuegos, 244 Guantanamo, 946 Holguin, 749 Las Tunas, 673 Matanzas, 102 Pinar del Rio, 172 Sancti Spiritus, 364 San José de las Lajas, 35 Santa Clara, 278 Santiago, 887 Trinidad, 335 Vinales, 205 Varadero, 140 Habana Radio Live in English

Nelson Ponce, Yo y Amy

Lonely Planet's Top Dozen Things To Do, See & Taste — out of a list of 412
shamelessly copy-pasted [albeit with direct links] from the LP web site here.

BLANCA MARGARITA (7) 866-7113
LUNASS (7) 879-0019
IHOVANNA y GERARDO (7) 863-6005
YOYI ALVAREZ (7) 863-5533
ROSA VILLAMIL ALLENDE (7) 873-6746
JORGE LEON (7) 870-7723
VIKY (7) 863-8923
ZEILA (7) 862-5492
MARIA ELENA (7) 863-0119
MARTA (7) 878-5038
M'ALOJA (7) 879-1784
ALINA y VICENTE (7) 863-6257

HEED THE HINTS IN THIS FINE PRINT
::: Make sure that in your first email or phone call you specify that you want to book a room in that particular casa and that you will reconfirm your booking on arrival in Cuba. Unless you only want a room in any house which may be of the same quality, not the specific casa you booked through photos on these websites ::: So as to not abandon expecting owners with empty rooms, reconfirm (or call ahead to cancel) your booking by phone as soon as you can after arriving in Cuba ::: Please write or phone a casa owner to cancel a booking. As late as it may seem, it allows them a chance to rebook. ::: Children under the age of 16 may share a bedroom with adults for free. Specify the child's age when booking. ::: Since October 2010, maximum bedroom capacity is not limited to two adults ::: Also, large casas are not limited to renting only two bedrooms per night. ::: At the end of the casa name, the V signals the casa was suggested by travelers or owners but not verified by the website staff. If you try it and like it, write us about it. ::: Unless otherwise mentioned, the average room rates and service prices are : 20-25cuc per bedroom per night [up to 40+ for 4 in a room]; breakfasts 3-5cuc, dinners 7-10cuc. ::: Note : monthly taxes have increased 15-50% for owners; this may be reflected on the aforementioned rates. ::: Any casa particular anywhere in Cuba must have a hot water shower, otherwise it cannot have a permit to rent.

::: On certain occasions in the past year, overbooking may have inadvertently hurt some travellers, some casa owners and some webmasters more than would appear and this prompted this webmaster to overreact by generalizing about individual realities; having hurt most casa owners, this webmaestro's self-righteous attitude [all action, no talk] was uncalled for. Lo siento mucho I am truly sorry and apologies given, Marcos 070112 ::: Please share your Complaints, comments & suggestions webmaster [@]cubacasas.net

244 km / 151 miles

10 km / 6 mi.

25 km / 15 mi.

102 km / 63 mi.

65 km / 40 mi.

335 km / 208 mi.

140 km / 87 mi.

Unsollicited and shamefully un-capitalistic propaganda — A Cubacasas.net suggestion

Unsollicited advertising — Conner Gorry moved to Cuba from the USA in 2002; she blogs from La Habana.

Unsollicited advertising — A Cubacasas.net suggestion

Es Cuba is a poignant and passionate travel memoir about falling in love with a country and with one of its compañeros.

A seasoned traveler and a discerning observer, the author Lea Aschkenas never strays from her acute awareness that there is no way to separate her foreignness (intensified by U.S.-Cuba relations) from the complex mix of emotions—devotion and rejection, enrapture and apprehension—that she develops toward the country and its people.

This is conveyed through her relationship with Cuba, her access into the inner lives of the women she meets, and her budding love affair with a young Cuban named Alfredo. As her story unfolds, readers are taken on an unforgettable journey filled with beautifully woven descriptions of Cuba and the customs and habits of its people.