The Hotel Terral’s main virtue is undoubtedly its location facing The Malecón (Havana’s beautiful and very lively seaside drive and promenade).

Standing in the belly of a U formed by Havana’s curving coastline, the hotel offers unique views stretching from the Hotel Riviera (Vedado neighborhood) on the west to the Morro Castle on the east. If you are ever bored while inside the hotel, you...

Hotel Encanto San Basilio has a privileged location on the street of the same name, just minutes away from Parque Céspedes, Santiago's main square and the city's heart, and therefore within walking distance to most of the city’s attractions.

The mansion that houses the hotel dates from the second decade of the 20th century and stands out for its facade, ample windows and fine ironwork. It has...

Hotel Ordoño is housed in a gorgeous building from 1927 located in Gibara, a small yet lovely port town in the outskirts of the city of Holguin which was founded in 1817 and declared National Monument in 2003.

Gibara, also known as “The White Town”, offers a beautifully restored colonial center, a nice malecón (seaside promenade), the most friendly people, and excellent food.

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Located in Gibara, a small but very picturesque port town in the province of Holguín, Hotel Encanto Arsenita is housed in a gorgeous mansion from the beginning of the 20th century that has been wonderfully restored and tastefully decorated to open its doors as a boutique hotel in year 2015.

In fact the word “Encanto” (which means “charm” in Spanish) is a fairly new brand of Cuban hotel chains...

Hotel Encanto Caballeriza is a brand new boutique hotel of only 21 rooms located in Holguín’s historical center which occupies a house from 1810 that has been beautifully restored and tastefully furnished and decorated.

As a typical colonial house of the upper classes of the XIX century, there’s an inner courtyard, lovely and perfect for enjoying a drink or delicious Cuban coffee, and most...

Hotel Camino de Hierro is nestled in a beautifully restored old building that stands in Camagüey’s most central square “Plaza del Gallo”. Its central location, in fact, is probably its best and also its worst feature because, while perfect to explore the city, is also on the busiest square downtown.

Thus, if you are a light sleeper, this is not the right hotel for you. If you like to be in...

La Avellaneda is a small and beautiful hotel in the heart of Camagüey, new (opened in 2014) but nestled in a typical colonial house, ie, of only one floor and built around a courtyard.

Its name pays tribute to Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, a Cuban female poet born in 1814 in Santa María de Puerto Príncipe, as the city was called before, recognized as one of the most prominent writers of...

Santa Maria is one of the recently opened hotels in the historic center of the city of Camaguey, the 5th of the 7 villas founded under the name of Santa María del Puerto del Principe, by the Spaniards in Cuba. To mark its 500th anniversary (2014) the city started an amazing work of restoration and beautification that included the 1920’s building now housing Hotel Santa Maria, among many...

Hotel E. El Marqués is one of the recently opened hotels in the city. The E.stands for Encanto, meaning charm, which it truly radiates through its stylishly decorated halls and guest rooms, only six in total.

The building, from 1920, has been totally renovated and decorated with taste. Its vintage furniture, high colonial doors and beautiful tile floor combined with modern facilities such as...

Hotel E. La Sevillana occupies a gorgeous house from 1920 that is perfectly situated to explore the beautiful city of Camagüey, since it’s only 100 meters from its main square “Parque Agramonte”, the city’s cathedral, some important galleries, cafés, restaurants, and other hotels.

La Sevillana is in fact across the street from El Marqués, another boutique hotel from the same brand...

Hotel El Colonial is the most recent hotel of the brand Encanto that has opened in Camagüey.

Small and charming is also ideally located on one of the main streets, less than 100m from one the most centric corners of the city, Plaza del Gallo or Plaza de la Soledad.

In the very heart of the city of Cienfuegos, hotel La Union is housed in a marvelously restored colonial mansion located on a boulevard, just a block away from the José Martí park, the core of the city.

It's a small hotel featuring only 49 rooms, a nice colonial feel, helpful-friendly staff and a fantastic pool located in an interior courtyard, with tiled bottom, columns and a bar; an...

The Hotel Iberostar Heritage Grand Trinidad is, beyond doubt, the best place to stay in Trinidad.

It is an adults only (15 +) boutique-hotel built on a converted colonial mansion, a very well achieved architectural integration into its environment with the best facilities available. Modern, but boasting all its grandeur from the past.

Its fantastic location facing a park and within walking...

Hotel La Popa is a cozy five-star facility located on top of Cerro de La Popa ( Cerro is the Spanish word for Hill), which looks out from the Villa de la Santísima Trinidad, thus offering a magnificent panoramic view.

This hotel is located on the ruins of the old military hospital and barracks of the colonial army of the town. Although it is a new construction, the existing facade of the old...

Reopened as a boutique hotel in 2016, the Castillo de las nubes was formerly a castle built by a farmer named Antonio Arturo Bustamante in 1940. It is located 1.5 km up a rather rough road beyond the Orchidarium of Soroa.

The small boutique hotel counts with only six luxurious rooms, a bar – restaurant, a small pool and, its best, majestic views in every direction you look of the mountains in...

Hotel Central Viñales is a nice looking hotel which has been recently built in the heart of the town of Viñales, right on its main street, overlooking its lovely plaza and church.

It's part of the Cuban hotel brand E, or Encanto, which means "charm" in Spanish and is the equivalent of "boutique hotel". Most of these Encanto hotels honor their names, being "charmingly" furnished and decorated....

Hotel Encanto Mascotte is a small boutique hotel located in San Juan de los Remedios- the 8th villa founded by the Spaniards in Cuba-, province of Villa Clara, relatively close to the popular keys of Villa Clara (Cayo Las Brujas, Ensenachos and Santa María) and famous for its “parrandas” (traditional parties).

Remedios has the simple charm of a place that has barely changed in many many years....

Inaugurated in 2012 but housed in a typical colonial mansion Hotel Encanto Barcelona is located in San Juan de los Remedios, the 8th villa founded in Cuba by the Spaniards (1578), and famous for its “parrandas”- probably the oldest and better known traditional Cuban party-.

The hotel stands facing Remedios’ Plaza Mayor, the only plaza in Cuba featuring two churches; one of them- la Parroquial...

Hotel Encanto Camino del Príncipe is located in Remedios, the 8th villa founded by the Spaniards in Cuba and a lovely city in the province of Villa Clara (central part of Cuba).

Remedios is relatively close to the popular keys of Villa Clara, Cayo Las Brujas, Ensenachos and Santa María, is famous for its “parrandas” (probably Cuba’s biggest and oldest traditional party) and offers the simple...

Encanto Plaza of Sancti Spíritus is a beautiful, charming, small hotel of only 27 rooms located in the old town, on the recently reconstructed main square (Parque Serafín Sánchez); one block from the pedestrian shopping street and within walking distance to almost everything.

Built in the late 19th century as family mansion it had several other uses from 1914 to 1996, when it was totally...

Hotel Encanto Rijo is set in a gorgeous colonial house from mid 19th century which used to belong to the distinguished doctor Rudesindo García Rijo. Beautifully renovated it is now a boutique hotel of only 16 rooms with a truly nice atmosphere and very good service.

The property is built around an open central courtyard which has a fountain, many tropical plants, tables and chairs. It...

Hotel Encanto Don Florencio is housed in a beautiful colonial mansion which was restored and turned into a hotel, among others, to commemorate the 500th anniversary of the founding of the city of Sancti Spíritus, the capital of the province of the same name.

The word Encanto (charm in Spanish) is one brand of hotel chain Islazul which features mostly small hotels- once residences of important...

Santa Isabel hotel is located just a few meters from where the town of San Cristóbal de la Habana was founded, back in the 16th century, on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas, the city's first and most beautiful square.

Built in the 18th century, the magnificent mansion belonged to the Counts of Santovenia, but on 1867 it became a very elegant hotel, the favorite Havana hotel for artists,...

Right on one corner of the Port Avenue, facing the Havana harbor and on edge of the historic center stands the hotel Armadores de Santander with its magnificent façade, tall colums, marble stairways, massive doors and windows.

Its architectural motifs and decor evoke the beautiful and maritime Spanish region of Santander.

The hotel comprises three adjoining buildings and features 32...

The 4* Hotel Florida is a magnificent building from the beginning of the 19th century that was originally the mansion of a Count. In 1885 it was turned into a hotel, promptly becoming one of the finest of the capital. Afterwards it served as bank, law offices, stores...until the Office of the Historian of the City finally rescued it in 1994, carefully restoring it and re-opening it as Hotel...

Only a block away from Plaza Vieja and very close to Plaza San Francisco de Asís, the elegant Hotel Raquel captivates guests and visitors with its sublime architecture, the beauty and sensuality of its romantic ambiance and its many intriguing Jewish references: A star of David at the entrance, mezuzahs on each doorframe, Hebrew biblical names for each room, and paintings with biblical themes on...

Palacio O’Farril is one of the Old Havana hotels managed by the office of the City Historian. A gorgeous palatial building which was once the house of Don José Ricardo O’Farrill and O’Daly, an irish immigrant who made a fortune on sugar in Cuba and who founded here one of the wealthiest families of the nobility in the colonial times.

Completely and elegantly renovated, the hotel features 38...

Los Frailes is a small and nice looking hotel located in a narrow, busy street of the old city, only a few steps away from beautiful "Plaza Vieja" (Old Square), the majestic St. Francis of Assisi's Basilica and the similarly named square "Plaza San Francisco de Asís".

The hotel building was once the mansion of Marquis Pedro Claudio Duquesne, Captain of the French Navy, and was at the time...

The Conde de Villanueva hotel was designed especially for the joy and delight of cigar smokers and it hosts probably the best cigar shop in town, hidden in the hotel’s mezzanine.

Here, the passionate cigar aficionados can even rent their personal humidor, something along the line of a personal vault in a Swiss bank. However, you don’t have to be a smoker to enjoy the colonial patio with its...

Hostal San Miguel is housed in a splendid colonial mansion from the 19th century which used to belong to Antonio San Miguel y Segalá, a Spanish journalist, politician and business man, who arrived in Cuba in 1869.

Completely and beautifully restored by the Office of the City Historian, San Miguel is today a cozy intimate boutique hotel of only 10 rooms, with a great location in Old Havana...

Hotel in the Historic Center operated by the Office of the City Historian.

In 1732, Don Gabriel Beltrán de Santa Cruz contracted the building of a house in the Old Square, to be home to the Counts of Jaruco, but passed away during the early stages of the work. His widow, Doña Antonia Aranda y Avellaneda, daughter of the Governor of the San Salvador de la Punta Fortress, expanded the project...

The Marques de Prado Ameno hotel is a colonial mansion built in the first decade of the 18th century, the typical Cuban aristocratic mansion of that time.

The famous black poet Juan Francisco Manzano served as slave to the Marquises of Prado Ameno, and gained his freedom thanks to the efforts of Domingo Del Monte and other prominent personalities of the time.

Today, the hotel features 15...

The Palacio de San Felipe y Santiago de Bejucal is a charming boutique hotel which enjoys a privileged location on Plaza San Francisco de Asís, the second square ever built in Havana, just a few steps from The basilica and the monastery of San Francisco de Asis (which houses one of the most renowned concert halls in the city) and facing Havana's Chamber of Commerce.

The other three more...

Residencia Habana 612 is Habaguanex's (tourist company belonging to the Office of the Historian of Havana) newest hotel.

Open since December 2014 it’s nestled in an exquisitely renovated colonial building, located in the very heart of Old Havana, near one of its most beautiful squares: Plaza Vieja.

It’s a small (only 12 rooms distributed among 3 floors), intimate and stylishly decorated...