Vila Gale Cayo Santa Maria: Everything you need is there

Everything you need ito have a very pleasant vacation is there. Nice beach, beautiful oceanfront, clean rooms, satisfying food and most of all, very kind service and friendly atmosphere. Cuba has it's supply limitations and various shortages but package price definitely reflects that. You will not get similar vacation value for your money in other carabean islands for sure.

Melia Marina Varadero: Good

Everything was great except for the food and mosquitoes. Food in the restaurants was the same as in the buffet with less options to choose. Line to get to the buffet was an bummer in the heat. Also, they might think about more entertainment options.

Playa Cayo Santa Maria: Amazing Resort..!!

It is a highly recommended hotel.I must highlight the excellent quality of service by very professional people. Top quality food. I am a very satisfied customer for the stay that I enjoy my vacation 100%.

Iberostar Origin Bella Vista Varadero: Resort is beautiful, people are friendly happy smile kind polite

Hotel is good, rooms are clean and new, some area in one of building had dirty stairs, was disappointed last day I saw in kitchen counter cockroache oh that made me very upset, couldn’t eat after I saw, they need to watch that They are trying to keep clean, employees always warmly welcome but this things made hotel star lower , Security and beach is perfect Charlie, entertainment man is very nice, making people happy, I loved dancing on the beach , around the pool and evening in concert  [... read more]hall parties, music dancing makes completely relax your mind , I loved dancing and motivated others Overall I enjoyed it

Memories Jibacoa: WoW et WoW

Nous sommes allés Moi et ma femme couple 45 ans la semaine du 9 juin 2023 Nous avons adoré apportez vos épices apporter de l’argent canadien beaucoup de cinq dollar et échanger la monnaie contre cinq dollar papier, Car il ne peuvent pas déposer de la monnaie Nous y retournerons à cet endroit c’est certain Nous nous sommes fait tatoués à Varadero et nous sommes aussi allés à la havane l’hôtel est prêt de tous Nous avons adorés, c’est calme on se sent accueillis

Memories Flamenco Beach Resort: a Great vacay

no problems from the reservation to the shuttle to anything at all ,this was my fourth or fifth time with Trip Central and for the same price i would leave another week right now! great beach ,okay food

Hotel Atlantico: Atlantico Resort

Great location over the beach, very friendly service. Unfortunately, positives were offset by the lack of long overdue maintenance to the building and its surroundings, what finally forced us to move to another hotel.

Memories Jibacoa: Wonderful!

Would recommend this place to anyone looking for a relaxing vacation! Fabulous snorkelling on your very own reef, beautiful beach, lush grounds, and surrounding mountains. Truly, the best bread products of any resorts I have ever been to in 6 pre-Covid trips. Egg to order, fresh fruit, fresh fish grilled for you, plenty of choice, no complaints. The after dinner lobby music was great, they travelled between a la carts as well. Staff, professional and wonderful. Loved Heather Felice’s hone [... read more]sty and complete competence in all her dealings making sure we were looking for a lower key resort and all that entails. It was a perfect selection for me. Older resort, but lovely and very clean.

The One Gallery Hotel: Amazing resort

beautiful place everting is close the beach pool restaurant, for people the can't walk is good , if you need for anything talk with LORA costumer service the help you , the hotel is niece and clean .

Grand Memories Holguin: Another Sunwing disaster!!

it was new ,clean but staff were mostly just out of high school very poorly trained with little initiative,very little engish spoken ,so called butler service was little more than a customer service rep,adult side was very noisy at night and there were still many kids in rooms , beach was a 3 at best very windy in the afternoon, so called sanctuary pool was no sanctuary, ignorant people blast there own personal "ghetto blasters" all afternoon there is no peace,food buffet was small and other on [... read more]e was closed very little choice , this is a sunwing managed property and is run as poorly as their company is we were all stranded at the airport for our return trip, got home a day late never again will I use sunwing!!

Playa Pesquero: SECOND VISIT AFTER SEPT 2019.EXCELLENT BEACH NO WAVE SAND NO SEAWEEDS

AS MENTIONED ABOVE SECOND VISIT FOUND THE RESORT WAS WELL MAINTAINED ALTOUGH IT WAS HARDLY 25% FULL.SAME FRIENDLY STAFF BUT FOOD SHORTAGES .NO LOCALLY PRODUCED CORN,CASSAVA (YUCA)AND BANNANAS NOT EVEN A SINGLE ONE.NO BEEF UNTIL LAST 2 DAYS.RAN OUT OF EGGS LAST 2 DAYS.DRINKING WATER RATIONED TO ONE BIG BOTTLE A DAY THAN LUG IT AROUND FOR REFILL AT BAR.ON THE WHOLE WE HAD SAME VARIETY AT BUFFET.A LA CARTE ONLY ONE OPEN .MANAGED TO FEED OURSELVES.WENT TO RESORT MOSTLY FOR CALM WATERS.

Iberostar Origin Laguna Azul: Iberostar Laguna Azul June 9 - 12, 2023

Hotel was great. Read a lot of reviews and already had my expectations for the food to be subpar. I was more than impressed. Hotel and grounds are beautiful. Workers are working everyday keeping it up. The furniture is dated but everything worked. Food was better than I expected. Not a ton of variety but always something there. Egg station in the morning, pasta station lunch and dinner. Was scared to drink the water at first but after a couple days, realized it was good. They give you [... read more] 2 liters in your room each day. And I am sure you can ask for more if needed. We never got sick from anything. Even ate the ice cream and the alfredo pasta. We did the Italian and Japanese a la carte . Both were great. The Japanese was fun to watch and delicious to eat. I recommend both. But you have to book in early, 9am - 3pm is when the booking office is open. We slept in the first morning and never got to book the romantic one. But we still got 3 al a carte booked for our 4 days stay. Resort had good whiskey and liquors. Great fruit juices as well. Staff were super friendly and always smiling. We bought the Cuban money which was not needed. They prefer USD money. which we brought with us as well. Everything in the Cuban airport was also in USD currency. Beach was amazing. Clean clear water. We got a couple of buns from the buffet and took them into the ocean. just about 20 feet out (still standing) and there were a ton of tropical fish that came and swam around us. The resort offers free snorkel masks, but we never used them. Didn't need them as the water was so clear, you could see the fish no problem. I had never been to Cuba before, and I would go back. We are planning on going back next year and we are going to be book this resort.

Gran Muthu Almirante Beach Resort: Nice and clean resort

The hotel is very clean, very good entertainments and staff are very helpful and pleasant. The only thing we wish that there were more variety of vegetables. However, one thing we were concerned that there were so many flies in the buffet restaurant.

Sol Rio de Luna y Mares: Amazing resort !!!

I rate this resort as the best in the area. What are you looking for your vacation while traveling from, for example, Canada to Cuba? Firsts and most of all it is the beach and the resort by that beach. This resort is fantastic and playa Esmeralda is one of the most beautiful places in Cuba for sure. Everything went well and everything was just fine! The personnel was very friendly and helpful; the features, public areas, dinning, bars and coffee services, room and services were excellen [... read more]t. The beach and all the surroundings are just pearl of fantastic, tranquil vacation place. This place went through some renovation, still going through some additional improvements and it is on the ramp up, no doubts. I strongly recommend this resort for a vacation.

Melia Marina Varadero: Worst vacation ever

I am not sure where they have the 5 star title from, but it is barely a 3 star hotel. Not sure where to start from but to say if you want to be disappointed definitely go to this hotel. Rooms were nit cleaned, sand on floor and baby bed upon arrival. All buffet and a la cart restraunts were sauna as no AC and had to eat sweating. All restaurants were full of mosquitoes and flies on the food. No small spoons in the entire hotel for a baby's mouth or desert. Had to line up for baby chairs as not  [... read more]enough. Had to line up for buffet several times. No clean tables without cutlery or napkins, service was terrible all around except the pool or lobby bar. Food warmers in the buffet restaurant not working so cold food was being served. Buffet floors were slippery saw few people fall from the grease. Public bathrooms had no toilet paper and no hand soap. Beach was never cleaned it was full of seaweed. Pool water was green and chunks of bleach everywhere including pool bar counter, not safe for kids. Pool bar was closed due flooding and pool bar had no beer had to walk to snack bar to get beer. At check out we got courtesy room due our flight was in the evening, this courtesy room was super dirty eithout toilt paper, also had no soap, no towels. We asked for towels at front desk, and we were told that in the whole hotel they didnt have any clean towels, if we wanted we couod fo back to our old room to use our own dirty towels, so we ended up dying ourselves with our own old clothes. In general this hotel is not well maintained and service is terrible so don't waste your money.

Hotel Atlantico: Atlantico hotel

Very good location, old hotel , good bar , not very clean room, small pool, i recommend this hotel sor good beach and bar , it is near havana so you can enjoy both beach and history , for a three star hotel it is acceptable , in the rooms toilets are old , for safety box and wifi i paid extra money

Iberostar Origin Laguna Azul: Well kept on the outside- great views and beach

You need to know Cuba, always choose 4-5 star and don’t expect it to be like Canada, it is Cuba…it is that simple. Go for the beach, water, people, fresh fruit and don’t expect gourmet. I read various reviews …all worried as I was travelling with a toddler, so I brought what I needed for him and so my expectations were met. (Diapers, formula some snacks- all was good.) Hotel was decent, they probably just repainted the outside and the inside could do with a better clean and revamp, but  [... read more]it was all livable for our stay. Coffee was good as usual, sugar was not available( but I brought honey) sugar came in three days later… no big deal. Sweeter they had was actually better than what we have. I bring loads of stuff to give away and people are always happy with that. Things are more expensive after Covid especially at the airport. Buy at the hotel or at local places. I would suggest this hotel… it meet my expectations. No shortages or issues. .

Hotel Villa Cuba: Unfortunate

I love the cuban people, And it's such a beautiful country, So I wouldn't want to leave a review that makes things worse. Unfortunately things have changed since the pandemic, it's bad! This was my 2nd time at this resort, the last time was 5 years ago, things have changed significantly. The food is much worse, way less options. Only 1 Ala Cart, and a snack bar with almost NO options at all. The rooms and property have fallen apart. These things are all to be expected. The cuban dictatorship a [... read more]lways had a strong hold on the people, but they have recently taken over full control of ALL resort business. All I can say, it seems as if the wonderful soul of the Cuban people has been completely trampled. Not a smile, not even 1 happy person. I feel horrible slamming them, but this was by far the worst vacation I've ever had. I have very realistic expectations for Cuba, but they took away all the go to items. No fries, or hot dogs or pizza, no burgers, just an incredibly sad buffet. The room was in horrible disrepair smelled of raw poop, and had mild everywhere. Until the Cunban government allows the Cuban people to shine their spirits again, I'd avoid Cuba all together. I spoke to people staying at much nicer resorts that spoke of the exact same issues on my bus. There is no difference from the most expensive place to the cheapest place except for slightly nicer property, The government has literally ruined destination and worse, Ruined the beautiful spirits of its people. I was almost moved to tears, seeing a resort I stayed at only 5 years ago, in such a state. It was dark and raining whe I checked in, I was told a room number and pointed in a general direction. It took me 3 trips back to the lobby soaking wet, and 40 minutes to find my room. The signs were all blank from the name change, and it was not a great start. SUNWING has also declined alot, no food service anymore. And the flight times horrible, arrive passed dinnertime and no food on plane, almost a whole day no food, and then departure is so early u miss breakfast b4 your shuttle, and snow food on plane. Basically 2 days of ur trip you're expected not to eat. My maid was amazing, her name was Milady, she was the only person who seemed to hold onto what used to be. I spent some time talking to some cuban locals and they confirmed everything I am saying. That things were never great in cuba, But they've never been this bad. It's a cuban Doesn't start doing trade and opening up the market so that the cuban people Can sustain themselves, I fear the absolute worst for its people. I have been to cuba nine times, And sadly I would not return even if it was free. The mold in my room caused me to develop a very bad respiratory illness on my last day, I've been home 2 days and coughing non stop, doctor says I have Atypical pneumonia, from either mold or bacteria. My legs are destroyed from sand flea on beach, big what look like burns. It was wet season so it rained an hour here or there, but they had no staff to squeegee the puddles, so there were puddles everywhere on the paths and near the rooms, causing me to get probably 100 misquoto bites, all while they have a huge Denge Fever and Zika outbreak. The food was honestly a 2/10, rooms 3/10, property 4/10, and service 2/10. Overall, a generous 3/10. It honestly pains me to say this, But spend the extra little bit of money and had to the dominican republic instead.

Grand Memories Holguin: Wonderful Time in Cuba

The Staff at this resort are amazing, from the Managers Yosbel and Jorge as well as all the cleaning, wait, bar and maintenance are all fantastic people. We had such a good time with them all. The resort is a good distance from the airport but the ride was interesting and fun. Luis (the chef) made sure that the food here was always better that we expected, with good selections and tastes. The hotel itself has a good layout to it even though it is quite large, the grounds are impeccable as well a [... read more]s the rooms which are also spacious and clean with good views. The beach has beautiful white sand and the water is calm and shallow (perfect for wading in with a cool Mojito). All in all we had a wonderful time at this resort and would not hesitate recommending it or returning to it.

Gran Muthu Almirante Beach Resort: Great resort, Friendly staff

Everything was fine. Shortage of some foods, bananas, lettuce. Buffet clean, restos were great. We went to the Japanese, Indian and Elite. I got COVID on the return journey. Still recovering. We went on a trip to see the dolphins swimming. My card was refused. It was a pin issue that I sorted out on return. The trip was amazing and I would highly recommend! The animation team were great. Loved the roof top bar.