Hotel Vedado

The hotel was OK, but staff would sneak me around to "off camera sites" to exchange 1 Canadian dollar for 100 Cuban pesos (better than the government rate, I suppose). One staff guy wanted to visit my room and then offered me only 80 Cuban pesos for 1 Canadian dollar, a total creep. Staff in the bar area were generally friendly, and the chambermaid was a sweet old lady who should have retired years ago, but the front desk staff were self-important, lazy and outright hostile when I complained that my one chair had collapsed from rot the moment I sat in it.

Wi-Fi was not available in the rooms, and there were no room safes, much less a safe in the lobby, so I was forced to carry cash, cards and documents on my person everywhere. A total drag.

The bathroom stank like an open sewer, and the shower only sometimes disgorged hot water, but some attempt had been made to fix it up. [Details]