Cuban Island Casa Particular

In Cuba, an island casa particular is a private home that rents out rooms to travellers. It’s like a hostel or Airbnb in other countries.The host family provides you with a room and takes care of you.

Many independent travellers arrange their own accommodations and various Cuban private travel agencies use island casa particulars for their tours and excursions. It makes sense. It saves their guests a lot of money and is extremely convenient. 

The rooms are attractive, clean and neat, and there is often an en suite, though you may have to share the bathroom with other tourists. You should bring your own toiletries as such are expensive and considered luxuries in Cuba.

The ability to interact with your hosts and other Cubans are the best parts of staying in an island casa particular. Such rarely happens in resorts or hotels. Your hosts will offer inside advice on what’s fun and interesting, help you find solutions to any possible issues you may encounter, and may share a meal or cigar with you. The Cuban people are truly one of the most friendliest you’ll ever meet.

Casas particulares are also extremely safe. Standards are the same as hostels and B&Bs. Most have locks on the door, some have separate entrances, and many offer security boxes for valuables. Hosts are required to ask for passport identification and signatures in a guest book, which they must present to the Immigration Office. So, safety and security for both sides is important. Trust your host families and feel secure in their homes. Offering rooms for rents is oftentimes a main source of income for them. Stealing from you would ruin their reputations and cost them precious business.

QuéBolaa Cuba Travel Agency

 

QuéBolaa Cuba Travel, a Cuban private travel agencyutilizes island casa particulars for their guests when booking Cuba roundtrips & tours and top tours excursions. It saves their guests money and makes their stays unique and fun. And, such is the goal of QuéBolaa Cuba Travel. To show travellers Cuba’s splendor and fun in a totally different way.

QuéBolaa Cuba Travel, as its name suggests, specializes in Cuba travel. Its agents are trained, skilled professionals with a wide range of travel experience. As a visitor, you’ll see all the great tourist sites, but you’ll also see the wonderful, exciting sites only the native travel agents know and love.

“Que Bolaa” is the friendly Cuban way of asking “how are you going to have fun?” Well, how are you going to have fun? Contact Que Bolaa Cuba Travel today and let them show you.

Things to Do When You’re in a Cuban Port

Cruises to Cuba

Cuba is becoming more and more popular as a cruise destination. It’s obvious why. It’s is more than 775 miles long, more than ten times larger than some of the other Caribbean vacation destinations, and is located along every potential route along the eastern, western and northern Caribbean shores. It literally demands to be seen.

People-to People Travel

With President Obama lifting the United States fifty-year travel embargo, American cruises are now adding Cuba as a destination. Christine Duffy, president of Carnival Cruise Line, said, “Cuba is an island jewel unique from anywhere else in the Caribbean and we are thrilled to have this rare opportunity to take our guests to this fascinating destination.”

Americans, however, cannot visit Cuba for recreational purposes. Their visits are limited to “people-to-people travel”exchanges that fostermeaningful interactions with the Cuban people and satisfy cultural and educational requirements.

American travellers are responsible for arranging the “people-to-people” exchanges and completing a form certifying that they will be participating in cultural exchanges before setting sail, which they must keep for five years. The cruise ship should provide these forms.

About that People-to People Limitation

How could anything that requires travellers to learn about a historical, colorful, inspiring, World Heritage city and build relationships with the warmest, friendliest, and most generous people on the planet ever be considered “limiting?”

There is so much to seeand do in Cuba, no matter where you’re from or where you port.

Qué Bolaa Cuba Travel

In addition to booking roundtrips and extended tours, it also books private and group activities for the cruise ship traveller, including the American cruise ship traveller.

Cubans often ask “Que Bolaa?” It means, “what are you going to do today?” and “how are you going to have fun?” Everyday, too, Que Bolaa Cuba Travel asks, “Que Bolaa?” But, you don’t have to answer. Let Que Bolaa Cuba Travel answer for you with one of their Specials for Cruises.

Specials for Cruises

Here are some of the Specials for Cruises Que Bolaa Cuba Travel offers for Cruise travellers:

o Visit to a Cigar and Rum Factory: Cuba is known for producing the best Cigars and Rum. Visit a Rum and Cigar factory and see how both are made. See why they’ve always been the best.

o Tour old and modern Havana, a World Heritage and historical Center. Admire the beautiful and unique architecture of the monuments, churches, and palaces. See the people going about their day. No other place compares.

o Vintage Cars Ride around Havana. Cuba is colorful. That’s actually understating things a bit. Everything in and around it adds color – the ocean, the buildings, the people, and the cars. The vintage cars are full of hues. And, they’re vintage and classy. How cool. So, why not tour Havana while riding one of them? (trips are hourly).

o A Buena Vista Social Club concert or show at the Tropicana.

Between the 1940s and 1960s, the Buena Vista Social Club in Havana was an exclusive place for musicians and performers. The traditional Afro-Cuban musical and “son,” salsa’s root, developed there. When it closed in the 1990s, it led to a recording with various Cuban musicians. After some of the members passed away, Cuban singer and dancer OmaraPortuondo; guitarist and vocalist Eliades Ochoa; Barbarito Torres, trumpeter Manuel "Guajiro" Mirabal; and trombonist Jesus "Aguaje" Ramos formed the The Buena Vista Social Club and began spreading the Cuban sound. They are now an international success.

The Tropicana, which was established in 1939, was known throughout the world as a cabaret and club. It is located on a six-acre suburban estate with luxurious tropical gardens. The club is known for inspiring Cuban culture and influencing its music. The club also inspired Cuban native DesiArnaz. On the I Love Lucy Show, his character, Ricky Ricardo, is a bandleader at the Tropicana. Today, it still captures its old spirit with an open-air nightclub show and spectacular song-and-dance show.

Travellers may choose whichever activity(ies) they prefer and Que Bolaa Cuba Travel will do all the arrangements.

Specials include:

o Pick-up at and return to your cruise site.

o Specialized guide service in your preferred language, according to availability.

o Private Transportation in the type of car you choose (Antique, modern, or luxurious), according to availability.

o Rest Room Facilities

See www.quebolaacuba.com for more detail.