Dating from 1909 Hotel Plaza is considered a gem among Havana’s hotels due to its triangular shaped design, its magnificent neoclassical facade and its lobby bar, featuring a lovely fountain, abundant vegetation, Mudejar tiles on walls and original floors plus Art Nouveau stained-glass windows that filter the tropical light creating a very special atmosphere.

It is a shame that El Plaza has...

Hotel Inglaterra opened its doors in 1875 and was declared National Monument in 1981. The oldest Cuban hotel that still stands, it is located on one of the busiest corners of Havana, very near the Opera, the Capitol Building and facing the Parque Central, in a perfect spot to explore the city.

Its beautiful neoclassical façade contrasts with its interior decor, featuring beautiful...

The modern and luxurious Hotel Iberostar Parque Central is located in the very heart of the old city, across the street from Havana's Central Park, surrounded by famous buildings such as the "Gran Teatro de La Habana", the Capitol Building, the Museum of Fine Arts, and within walking distance from The Cathedral, The Malecón (the emblematic seaside promenade), the gorgeous Paseo del Prado (where...

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,...

Hotel Tejadillo is very centrally placed in the very heart of old Havana facing the Cathedral Square, just around the corner from the famous Bodeguita del Medio and 10 minute walk away from the Malecón.

The Tejadillo also has its very own history as it is formed by 3 houses built back in the 18th and 19th centuries. It is decorated with paintings that show the reigning eclecticism in Havana,...

Built in 1888 and once regarded as the best hotel in town and one of the top ten in Latin America, Hotel Telégrafo was reopened in 2002 after a total restoration that melds some of its classical elements with a contemporary vogue.

In the inner courtyard the exposed brickwork of the arches contrasts with the modern design of the building, highlighting the combination of colonial and modern...

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...

Ambos Mundos is a 5 floor, 52 room hotel built with an eclectic set of characteristics of 20th-century style architecture.

Besides its privileged location and lively ambience, the hotel takes pride in having hosted Ernest Hemingway, who found it "a good place to write", and thus wrote here (room 511) the first chapters of his novel "For Whom the Bells Toll" which he started on March 1, 1939....

Very near Paseo del Prado (one of Havana’s most important and beautiful avenues) stands Hotel Park View.

The building, from 1928, was totally restored and reopened in 2002. It features 55 rooms which are simple, nothing fancy about them, but are nicely furnished and the ones on the upper floors that face the ocean have a very nice view.

Breakfast isn’t great and doesn’t offer many options,...

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...

From its privileged location on the edge of the old town, with a great view of the Capitol building, El Parque de la Fraternidad, Cuba’s most important opera and ballet house (the gorgeous Gran Teatro de la Habana), and right across from the famous Partagás cigar factory, stands the elegant XIX Century Hotel Saratoga, revealing the city life in all its decaying, bustling and musical...

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...

El Comendador is a small and charismatic hotel located in the very heart of the historical center of Old Havana, very near Plaza San Francisco de Asís and Plaza de Armas, but on a quiet street.

The property, that belonged during the XIX century to the family of Don Pedro Regalado Pedroso y Zayas, "Comendador de la Orden de Isabel La Católica", was erected in the XVIII and XIX centuries and was...

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...

Hostal Valencia is one of the first buildings in Old Havana to have been restored and turned into a guesthouse by the Office of the City Historian.

Also known as “The house of Valencia in Havana” due to its cult of the Valentian traditions and specifically to its paellas, awarded in national and international contests, it was originally the mansion of Governor Sotolongo and dates from the...

Hotel Mesón de la Flota has the looks of a Spanish Tavern, or better, of the inns of yore where sailors that traveled aboard the legendary Galleons Fleet gathered during their stays in the port of Havana.

Being so close to Havana’s harbor, one of the most important of the Americas in the 18th and 19th century, there’s a big chance that ship’s crews stayed here or in similar inns in this...

Located on the picturesque promenade Paseo del Prado, just a few steps away from all the cultural treasures of Old Havana, Hotel Mercure Sevilla is one of the four grand historical hotels (together with the Inglaterra, the Plaza and the Saratoga) near Havana’s Central Park.

Built in 1908 with marked Moorish influence in its architecture, the Sevilla is a classic hotel steeped in history,...

Hotel Caribbean is located on the Paseo del Prado, very near to Havana’s Historical Center and within walking distance to most attractions.

It is a basic hotel featuring simple rooms which are mostly interior (no windows or views in many of them) and the ones that do have windows are kind of noisy, since the glass windows offer poor isolation, and Paseo del Prado is a truly busy...

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...

Opening in June 2017, the Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana is a brand-new hotel located in the very heart of Old Havana and enjoys great views of the Capitol of Havana and the Havana Great Theatre.

Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana is the first real luxury inn in the old city and counts with 246 spacious rooms and suites, high ceilings and French windows overlooking the beautiful Old Havana....