Restaurant Hostal del Rijo, Cuba

Cuba... Caribbean with a Difference.

Advantages: Tropical Paradise, Havana, All inclusive hotels.
Disadvantages: Scary Customs.

to go from Canada, Mexico or a Caribbean Island. Hepatitis A&B and Diphtheria vaccinations are recommended though we did not have them due to the last minute booking. If you do not have them be careful in local restaurants stick away from anything like salads washed and left to stand in local water and obviously drink bottled water vaccinations or not. Cuba (History and Geography) = Cuba has a rich colonial history, it swung between Spanish and British possession before gaining its independence in 1902. Much of the colonial architecture still exists. For a while it looked like it might become part of the USA but in 1959 Fidel Castro and Che Guevara landed with 300 rebels and seized control of the Island. Communism was instituted and close ties with Russia initiated. There followed an aborted attempt to take ...

hero164 24.10.2007 · Read full review
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Review of Varadero (Cuba)

Fun And Games At The OK Hostal

Advantages: Centrally located, and cheap
Disadvantages: Budget, and it shows

Feeling like another holiday, and deciding that 5 days before my uni exams was *the* best time to go, I easyjetted off to Barcelona for a short break. I wanted to go to Rome, but boyfriend at the time decided to tag along and wanted somewhere served by a budget airline so Barcelona it was. That is why boyfriend at the time is boyfriend no longer, and why new boyfriend handily works in travel and thinks nothing of suggesting exotic long haul destinations as places to holiday, but that's another op. We decided to go about a month before departure, so I crawled the net for a week or so and came up with the Hostal del Mar (Hotel of the Sea). It seemed reasonably priced, centrally enough located and not too scruffy. The hostal is part of a converted palace which results in some interesting areas inside, like the fact that there are ...

zoe_page 10.04.2003 · Read full review
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Review of Hesperia Del Mar, Barcelona

Form an orderly Cu-ba!

Advantages: Varied destinations, great people
Disadvantages: Can be hard work at times

service and the high risk of being robbed but what is Cuba really like? Having safely returned, I can now debunk some of the myths surrounding this beautiful jewel of the Caribbean and shed some light on the enigma that is Cuba. In the 1940s and 1950s Cuba - and in particular Havana - was a mecca for American tourists. In fact the first time Cuba stuck in my mind was when Marlon Brando whisked Salvation Army babe Jean Simmons for a night of cocktails and cha cha cha at the Tropicana in "Guys and Dolls". Of course the revolution changed all that. After several years of hiding out in the Sierra Maestra and Sierra del Escambray regions of the country Fidel Castro and his guerillas finally took the city of Santa Clara late in 1958. Days later President Batista, little more than an American-operated puppet, fled the country leave Castro ...

fizzytom 07.12.2004 · Read full review
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Review of General: Cuba