Accommodation on the Tour

An image of travellers in Cuba with a Cuban family For our tours in Cuba we use a mixture of hotels and Bed & Breakfast style accommodation. These have been carefully selected over time taking into account our travellers' feedback.

Sharing Arrangements on our Tours

All accommodation on our tours in Cuba is based on a twin-share arrangement. This means two people to a room, and if you join the tour as an individual, you may be sharing a room of two beds, with another member of the same sex from the group. If there is no one to share with, and you end up with a room to yourself, you do not have to pay a single supplement. If you would like to guarantee yourself a single room throughout your tour, you can purchase the single supplement. The price for this can be found on each individual tour page.

If you do not purchase the single supplement but at some stage during the tour you decide you want to have a room to yourself, your guide may be able to arrange this for you at a cost of 20-50cuc/night (paid locally) depending on the type of accommodation. However, this is subject to availability.

Bed & Breakfasts in Cuba ("Casas Particulares")

An image of travellers in Cuba with a Cuban family For most people, the Bed & Breakfast accommodation ("casas particulares") is a major highlight of their visit to Cuba. The casas provide a great opportunity for travellers to interact with everyday Cubans. Guests are generally served meals separately to the family. While every family and every Bed & Breakfast is unique, with slightly different levels of comfort. The casas are consistently rated by our travellers, as more comfortable than 3 star hotels in Cuba. They provide a very different experience to staying in hotels. The rooms are basic but all very comfortable and clean, and the families will try to make you feel at home as much as possible.

Most Cubans are very friendly and love to talk to you. In some casas the family members speak quite good English, while in others they are practiced at communicating with their non-Spanish speaking guests simply by gesturing and smiling. Overcoming these communication challenges is seen by most as part of the fun! While on one of our tours in Cuba, in the towns where we have Bed & Breakfast accommodation, the group will split up into different homes, with between 1 and 4 group members in each casa.

An image of the bathroom for a tourist in a private house in Cuba. The Bed & Breakfast houses we use are much nicer than the average Cuban dwelling. This is a form of accommodation for foreigners in Cuba that is legal and formalised, and the rooms for guests are required to meet a certain standard of comfort for the house to obtain a rental licence. The fee that the owners of the houses pay to the government for this licence is quite substancial. The renting of rooms to foreigners is one of the few legalised privated businesses in Cuba, and the families are highly motivated to provide an excellent service, so that guests will recommend them to other travellers.

With our experience using casas particulares in Cuba since 2002, we have developed a network of houses with excellent levels of comfort and service. Most rooms have air-conditioning while a few just a fan. All the houses we use have a private bathroom for the guests with a hot water shower. Both towels and soap are provided.

Click here to see photos of homestay accommodation in Cuba.