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Example itinerary: Family travel holiday West Cuba, 15 days with rental car, minimum of 2 persons, can be tailor made in all aspects.

The accommodation is based on Cuban hotels, all selected for a spectacular view or a specific setting and atmosphere. In Trinidad you stay in the best beach resort there is: Trinidad Hotel Brisas del Mar with lots of activities for the children. If you prefer to stay in carefully selected "casas particulares" (homestays of Cuban families - B&B) and wish to have an interesting mixture of both hotels & private houses, we can also arrange all your reservations.

Other options:
Roundtrip West Cuba by bus
Roundtrip 21 days West & East Cuba with rental car, all accommodations based on Cuban hotels, with private excursions & domestic flight Santiago-Havana, excludes car rental, excludes international flight. Private houses can be included as part of a tailor made arrangement.

When you decide to book for a travel with rental car, we offer car rentals for the prices that are given by Havana to travel agents. This are prices that are competitive to the prices you find on the internet. See: Cuban car rentals.

Roundtrip 21 days West & East Cuba by bus.
Roundtrip to Trinidad (8-10 days or more) by bus or rental car (min. of 2 persons).
Roundtrip East Cuba (8-10 days or more) by rental car/bus, starting & ending in Havana, Holguin or Santiago (min. of 2 persons).
Horseback rides in Valle Ingenios, Trinidad Beachlife, snorkelling & diving on Paradise Island - Cayo Levisa, Cayo las Brujas or other Cayos (min. of 2 persons) ex flights. Hiking in the tropical mountains of Sierra Escambray (1-3 days, min. 2 persons) full board including transfers, ex flights.
Bird watching with English speaking ornithologists in Soroa & Peninsula Zapata (1-4 days), with overnight beach resort hotel. Catamaran excursions to Cayo Blanco or Cayo Leguano of 1 day, or catamaran excursions of more days.
Ask for (customized) programs and/or quotations.

For organized groups we offer our guiding services, traveling through Cuba from West to East with a tailor made grouptravel, including daywalks, excursions, local guides, cultural highlights & all transfers by private bus and national flight. You will be accompanied by a Tourmanager & expert on Cuba. Ask for a quotation.

Sample Itinerary
Family, Kids & Teens travel holiday West Cuba, 15 days with rental car (nb: holidays by bus are arranged too)

Day 1: Arrival Havana, meeting of host, transfer in to Hotel Sevilla (nice, colonial 4 star boutique hotel in Old Havana with swimming pool)

Day 2: Walking tour of 3 hours special for children through the old city with a local guide, and a 2 hour tour in American classical cabriolet through Havana including a visit to the Plaza de Revolucion, best icecreams of Havana in Coppelia, photo shooting by the children at beautiful places with big fig trees or overlooking the Atlantic ocean with the cars on the background, can be designed as the children like.

Evening excursion to fort of Havana for ritual of firing of canon (canoņazo) over the bay of Havana at 21:00 hrs, with transfers by taxi.

Day 3: Pick up of rental car with your host. Drive to Viņales. Hotel Ermita with a beautiful,view over the valley & swimming. Free afternoon for play & relaxation.

Day 4: Small hike of 3 to 4 hours with local private guide through the valley, visit farmer families and see something of the tabaco culture. In the afternoon time to bicycle or to visit the most beautiful cave of Cuba open for public, Cueva San Thomas. Is an adventurous walk through the cave, lovely for the children.

Day 5: Early morning departure to arrive on time for boat at 10:00 hrs to the tropical island Cayo Levisa. Full day for beachtime and possibility to embark for a snorkel or diving excursion. Departure boat from island at 5 pm, return to hotel in Vinales.

Day 6: Drive to the special tropical surroundings of Soroa, check in hotel Soroa (or at hotel la Moka at las Terrazas), both have swimming pool.

Day 7: Free day at Soroa or las Terrazas. Time to visit orchid garden, waterfall and viewpoint of Soroa from which you can see the Caribbean sea, and visit a small cigar factory.

Day 8: Full day private guided walk, off the beaten path through the tropical hills and forests around Soroa, you will visit a small mountain school, you may bring some donations with you if you wish, and have a lunch prepared at a farmers house in the middle of the forest.

Day 9: Drive to Trinidad over Pigs Bay, with a stop to swim & snorkel in the bay and the Fishes cave. You stay in an all inclusive beach resort Costa Sur 3 stars, west on the Ancon beach and close to the coral reefs. Note that you can also stay half of the time in homestays at Trinidad village with Cuban families and half of the time in a beach resort at Ancon beach. We can ask for homestays with families with children of the same age.

Day 10: Free day to enjoy swimming & snorkeling on the beach of Ancon and with activities for the children.

Day 11: Mountain excursion Sierra Escambray, to hacienda Gallega with the Tarzan waterprogram. You drive to Topes Collantes and pick your private guide up in the mountains. Depart by truck from Topes further into mountains to hacienda Gallega. Walk of 1-2 hours to a high waterfall from where the children start descending with your private guide along the river through tropical surroundings by swimming, gliding and walking up to Deer lagoon in about one hour. Afterwards walk back in one hour to the hacienda where a lunch will be waiting for all of you. And in midday back to Trinidad again, first by truck to Topes Collantes, then by our own car to Trinidad.

Day 12: Full day Catamaran excursion to tropical island Cayo LEGUANO with huge leguanos and tree rodents, including snorkeling along coral reef, beachlife, time for exploration island with mangrove forest and fish lunch. An easy day for complete relaxation for the parents, at least on the boat !

Day 13: Drive to Valle Ingenios with visit to slave bell tower Iznaga, followed by horseriding at a remote countryside hacienda for 2-4 hrs, including lunch in a restaurant or in the open field. They have smaller and tame mules for the children that can be specially requested. You can walk or ride or both. Free afternoon at beach.

Day 14: Travel back to Havana over Cienfuegos, Santa Clara or the Pigs bay again. Drop off rental car, check in Hotel Sevilla (nice, colonial 4 star boutique hotel in Old Havana with swimming pool).

Day 15: Free morning Havana. Time to visit cigar factory Partagas, see the periscope of Camera Obscura or go shopping for souvenirs on handicraft market. Transfer out for international flight.