Holiday Tags: Cuba

I stayed on an all inclusive holiday.

Food was good always something to choose from, staff were excellent nothing was too much trouble, entertainment leaves a lot to be desired, not to everyone’s choice last alternative is a piano playing every night in the lobby bar (ave maria not what you want to listen to).

Biggest disappointment was the hygiene of the pool, was never cleaned daily often cups & debris floating from the previous evenings, having to be fished out by parents whose children wanted to swim. Pool side area in the two weeks we were there was never cleaned only when it rained.

Wouldn’t probably return.

We stayed at the Paradisus Rio de Oro in may & WOW!

We booked a holiday package here to get married, we were just going on our own until friends got wind of it & started to book too. Ended up 13 of us which was great.

However I worried on the run up to our holiday if hotel etc would be ok as we had not been to Cuba before & other couples were paying a lot of money to go.

As soon as I stepped of the coach my worries were no more, the place & the people are great. …

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Having holidayed in the Caribbean a number of times we decided to give Mexico a try as we do get a bit “buffet’ed out” into the second week of our stay, & Cancun offered a good selection of restaurants outside of the hotels.

We booked with First Choice & as the flight was early on the Friday morning we decided to stay overnight at the Sofitel at the Gatwick north terminal. This too allowed us to make use of the day before check-in & baggage drop. We were a bit surprised on checking in at five pm that we could not get a window seat as they were all reserved? The girl at the check-in was very unhelpful & rude when we queered this. …

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Best to come clean right off – this was the first time I have ever stayed in an All-Inclusive beach resort hotel & I realised within 24 hrs that the whole concept wasn’t for me. By the end of my 4 night stay at Villa Cuba I had ‘cabin fever’ because there’s not a lot to see & do in Varadero away from the hotel. Also, a lot of what I saw as problems wouldn’t necessarily have been seen that way by others. …

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We went to Cuba to the Sol Rio de Luna hotel in Guardalavaca in July to celebrate our honeymoon. What a nightmare! We were given a room on the Mares side which was very basic but at least it was clean. There were chips in the bathroom floor tiles & the decor was gaudy & from the 70′s. …

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Just returned from two weeks in Cayo Coco in Cuba & thought it my duty to warn potential holiday makers of this hotel. Ok, first off just a few things about the Blau Colonial hotel in general. It is the last in a series of 5 hotels on the same beach & is just 10 mins from the airport (flights are so infrequent so you won’t be bothered by aircraft noise at all). …

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