The Cuba Tourist Office in London is located within the Cuban Embassy at 167 High Holborn, London, WC1V 6PA. Their website contains plenty of general information regards travel to Cuba as well as a helpful list of all the UK tour operators that offer holidays to Cuba.
There are now reckoned to be at least 600 casa particulares in Havana so sorting the wheat from the chaff is never easy; Casa Zaiden certainly falls into the ‘wheat’ category and is one of our favourite options in the capital.
My mojito in La Bodeguita, my daiquiri in El Floridita – so said Havana’s most famous literary resident and full-time bon-viveur, Ernest Hemingway.
Cuba’s wine industry, if we can call it that, began in the 1990s as a joint venture between the Cuban government and a group of Italian winemakers.
Officially titled Avenida de Maceo, the Malecon is a 5-mile seawall, promenade and road that runs from Old Havana in the east to Vedado in the west.
It seems that there is always another new airline about to launch services to Cuba and this time it’s Austrian Airlines who are launching flights from Vienna to Havana.
For UK citizens, all that is required is a Cuba Tourist Card (currently £15) and a UK passport that is valid for 6 months from the date of return to the UK.
With travel to Cuba positively booming, many in the travel trade have been left wondering quite why there are still no British Airways flights to Havana.
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Whichever of our featured countries you wish to visit, we've been there several times. So, if you're after something beyond the ordinary to Cuba, Nicaragua, Guatemala or the Yucatan Peninsula of Mexico, we'd love to hear from you.
