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#6 Sol Varadero Beach 16 Plus
#6 Sol Varadero Beach 16 Plus
Varadero
Cuba
190 reviews
Amazing
Where can we start? From July 4 till July 11, 2023. My husband and I chose a short getaway. Beautiful hotel, amazing people always ready to help and the ocean and sun is simply stunning! The minute we entered the hotel we knew we wouldn't have a problem. Check-in went quick and the free WiFi was nice. You get an access code and this code once logged into the WiFi gives you 10 hours of internet surfing. When the 10 hours run out, you simply go to the reception desk and they gladly reactivate the same code each time. The Wifi is good everywhere around the hotel even the beach. Getting to our room, so beautiful, we asked for a garden view as it is much quieter. Every night there is entertainment, each night is different with different people. The shows and music all end at 11:00pm or before, so there is never a noise issue. Thus, our review is as follows: 1- beach and ocean, stunning. 2- food, drinks and wine, never an issue. Yes, the food can get repetitive, but this is Cuba and NOT home. Yes, they are missing condiments, please do not complain. We all are aware of this, so next time you decide to go to Cuba just bring your condiments! You can leave the extra condiments and the people of Cuba will love you for . If you can't go away because you're missing ketchup, do yourself a favor and stay home! Next time visiting Cuba, don't forget to bring gifts. The Cuban people don't ask for much, anything you bring or leave them is so appreciated. They always had a smile and a thank you! 3- our room 2114 was garden view and quiet, as we asked for with our travel agent. 4- the people that were and will be the most memorable to us are: 1- Almudena, (GM) she was always kind and ready to hear from us. 2- Yardiel, at the 24/7 coffee and snack bar (friendly and honest). 3- Miligros, our chambermaid, always ready to give us what we needed. 4- Dahymara, the one that always says "si mi amore"! 5- Kirenia, our waitress that was always ready to help us get what we wanted at the buffet. 6- Sahily, our coffee lady that knew exactly how we liked our coffee each time we got to the buffet room. No matter who we dealt with they were all truly amazing but hard to keep track of everyone's names. 7- the pool is very shallow but always kept clean & games in the afternoon. 8- not far from downtown, as we are both walkers, we did the walk 2 times on our 1 week vacation. 9- we ate Langostine at La Rampa in the downtown area and Italian food at Nonna Tina. Both restaurants are very good and would definitely go back again. 10- no mosquitoes or bugs, just about every day they spray for bugs so we can enjoy the outdoors 11- there are a few dogs around which the hotel has tried to deal with but as long as the tourists keep feeding them the dogs stick around. People need to STOP feeding the dogs. We saw someone walking along the beach eating something and 1 of the dogs got aggressive. These dogs are so used to being fed by the vacationers that if they see food in your hands, they start to bark. Nothing bad has ever happened, but it can get scary. So STOP feeding the dogs!!!!! The specially restaurants we tried were "Mexican and Peruvian", both very good. We are writing this review 2 days after we got back and are already thinking of returning. The question is when? We'd like to be there every 3 or 4 months but reality kicks in and tells us it's not possible. Not just because of the cost of the all-inclusive but because we go with lots of gifts. Our luggages upon leaving Montreal were both at 23 kilos, but coming back home, my luggage was 14 kilos and my husband's was 12 kilos. Don't forget the gardeners. They work on the grass and plants outdoors most of the day. We brought caps, work gloves, bug spray, tanning lotion and t-shirts. It's not hard to wash your clothing in good shape from home and spread it out amongst the workers. We loved our stay, love the people with their happy smiles and trying to keep everyone happy isn't always an easy thing. Remember that on vacation these Cuban people we call our friends are very busy keeping everyone happy, be patient!
#8 Memories Jibacoa
#8 Memories Jibacoa
Varadero
Cuba
702 reviews
Mon endroit de rêve! Calme et repos!
Commentaires jibacoa Cet hôtel est mon coup de coeur ayant fait plusieurs endroits dans Cuba depuis 3 ans comme Holguin 2 x,  caya coco 1 x et Jibacoa 2x! Le personnel est tout à fait attachant et serviable toujours prêt pour nous servir! Kiki et Sara les personnes piliers de cet hôtel, nous accueillent avec amour en français, en anglais et espagnol bien sûre toujours souriants et aimés des employés ça se ressent... Notre femme de ménage Eimé a fait un nettoyage impeccable à chaque jour de notre chambre et balcon avec des attentions dessins serviettes et autres!  Au buffet nous avons rencontrés des femmes extraordinaires ainsi que les cuisiniers!  Nous mangeons en abondance bon choix de nourriture tel que: poisson, poulet, porc, saucisses, pizza, pâtes au choix et même hamburger!  Nous retrouvons des fruits frais et légumes de la saison, beau choix de desserts! Et les restaurant à la carte délicieux on a même eu droit au homard! Cet endroit est un petit resort, calme pour 16 ans et plus dans un décor accompagné de montagnes, avec beau récif parfait pour le snorkling ou plongé... beaucoup de couleurs et poissons de toute beauté! N'oubliez pas vos chaussures de plages lorsque vous entrez dans la mer car rocailleux. La climatisation est impeccable une chance qu'elle fonctionnait car à 32 et 36 degré on en avait besoin!  Les matelas semblait neuf on a très bien dormi! L'animation est bien organisé et les animateurs très dévoués!  Les spectacles du soir sont agréables et bien organisés! Ce qui fait un plus... et l'animation danse plage avec Kiki et groupe cubain live wow! Chambre vue sur mer un must! À quelques pas de la plage! Merci à toute l'équipe mon voyage fut mémorable avec beaucoup de snorkling et j'y retourne l'année prochaine!
#13 Starfish Cuatro Palmas
#13 Starfish Cuatro Palmas
Varadero
Cuba
619 reviews
Cuatro Palmas: Varadero's Colonial Style Crown Jew
Starfish Cuatro Palmas: Varadero's Colonial Style Crown Jewel If you're looking for a good holiday odds are you will find it at this adults only, Spanish colonial style Cuatro Palmas resort in Varadero. With its central location, beach par excellence, pleasant staff and almost everything you can want in a smaller, stylish resort undergoing improvements, this hotel offers an authentic Cuban experience. But like all resorts, there's room for improvement and the usual frustrations that come with holidays in Cuba. As part of Blue Diamond Resorts (since 2011), C.P. could have an advantage. This may include access to supplies, including food. Best known for the Royalton, Hideaway, Memories, Grand Memories and Starfish brands, they boast an award winning track record. To bolster their strength, they partnered with Marriott Hotels (Feb. 2020) yet their resorts are still operated by the Blue Diamond chain. With 36 properties and over 10,000 rooms in the Caribbean including management of ALL Cayo Largo properties, Blue Diamond has grown far and wide. Positive as this is for them and partners - the property is owned by Grupo de Turismo Gaviota, Cuba's largest tourism company - concerns exist among vacationers fearing a quasi-monoploy and with this, less competition and higher prices. I have noticed this and stayed at other, similar resorts offering better value and no single supplement. Soon after arriving on July 11, it was apparent for some guests that hotel renovations, refurbishments and repairs weren't happening fast enough. In recent months, British guests put in the hotel's Eco section, complained bitterly about the state of rooms there in the hotel's neglected, desolate building across the road as well as in the main building on my vacation. My own original (superior room) assignment was far off in the Colonial section at the end of a dark hallway next to an electrical room, facing the street with a tiny balcony, a fridge that didn't work, a missing lamplight and power that went out soon after arriving. Although repainted and set off nice with new decor and artwork, it was not a a cheerful place and I spent my first night elsewhere. Yet, reception staff was helpful, and by 5 P.M. the next day, I had a new room. MY ROOM Repainted, redecorated, with a large screen TV, full length mirror, dresser drawer, sufficient clothes hangers, good fridge, free safety deposit box, clean linens and lovely balcony view, it was nice. Only tiny ants coming up from the overflow drain in the bathroom were an issue. As a multi-repeat guest, I was pleased about my invitation to a complimentary lobster dinner featuring Son y Carazon, a great band that plays "traditional" Cuban music - what we go to Cuba for! On the other hand, I went two weeks without an a la carte dinner because nobody explained how to book one, and when I learned, it was almost impossible to do. MGMT TIPS - Assign a person to handle restaurant reservations in the lobby area or hand out two pre-booked reservations per week to guests on arrival (day 3/5, day 8/12). Guests can always cancel if they don't want them. It would also be easy to cheer up and improve the Eco Las Palmas section by excellerating repairs, opening a bar there, cleaning out its courtyard for tables and chairs, piping in traditional Cuban music and offering guests lodged there, snack food (afternoons and late nights). THE FOOD It was very good to ahh, not so great some nights with things I didn't recognise yet there was lots of lean, perfectly cooked sliced pork and roasts, ok precooked chicken, a spaghetti station, fresh grilled meat, brocolli, cauliflower and brussel sprouts some days (albeit overcooked/watery); great lasagne (once I saw), and breakfasts with scrambled, poached and boiled eggs, an omelette station and plenty of delicious mango and pineapple, cucumber slices (albeit often recyled), mango and pineapple juice, among other things. No potatato, banana or tomatoes though. The young lad who made omelettes was great; normally, Cubans overcook them. Nothing on a la carte dining; never did that - a FIRST in over 20 years of visiting Cuba. IMPROVEMENTS: LIKES & DISLIKES LIKES 1. 24 hr lobby bar and snack food; 2. The property, architecture, swimming pool area, pool bar, beautiful beach and soft music around the pool in mornings; 3. The entertainment incl. some good shows but especially the large, traditional Cuban music house band that plays daily and often; 4. The air conditioned cocktail bar that also serves beer (in a can) and air conditioned buffet restaurant; 5. The generous breakfast, lunch and dinner hours that allows guests flexibility and helps minimize lineups and crowds at the grill station etc; 6. The new beachfront bar with its tent canopies, tables and chairs offering a view of the beach in a shaded, rain protected environment (good for smoking); 7. The snack bar and staff, pizza, cheeseburgers, hotdogs, grilled chicken/ham cheese sandwiches and sweet potato chips albeit things can be a hit and miss; 8. The pleasant staff who work hard in difficult conditions like the lobby bar without air conditioning or fans while often understaffed (that effects service); 9. Contrary to a review raising the alarm of flies in the buffet restaurant, I saw no such problem; 10. Attention to food hygiene by grill station cooks that I saw; 11. Bartenders/staff that substitute for the hotel's lack of a money exchange service converting dollars to pesos. GUEST TIP: Offer to take on their damaged foreign banknotes and coins that they can't use or bank. DISLIKES 1. The often "too loud" music at the swimming pool; 2. Not cool enough buffet restaurant AND lack of air conditioned or fan cooled places in the hotel at large; 3. The lack of overhead fans or any in the lobby bar. Bad for guests, even harder on staff. You can go to restaurants in The Boulevard area across the street where fans are placed at each table! 4. The cocktail bar's small size (you may not find anywhere to sit) and limited hours (6 - 11 P.M.); 5. While I like the tables outside the snack bar alonside the ocean, like other improvements, it falls short of a "meaningful improvement." The uncovered wooden structure overhead allowing direct sun, renders it unusable unless you can stand strong sun and heat. Shame because this area has GREAT POTENTIAL! A photoshopped picture (?) showing it covered by an awning is disappointing as I looked forward to this place by the sea. 6. The new beachfront bar AND lobby bar areas with so FEW tables and chairs and no designated smoking area. At the lobby bar area, smokers are FORCED out into the OPEN SUN with no umbrellas for protection where you usually can't find a place to sit, let alone in the shade
#14 Iberostar Laguna Azul
#14 Iberostar Laguna Azul
Varadero
Cuba
891 reviews
Beautiful resort but awful food!
The layout and design of the resort is wonderful and it is directly on the white sands of Varadero Beach. Three large pool areas provide plenty of places to relax in the sun (although very few shaded areas or umbrellas are available). We had the "family room", which turned out to be two connected rooms, so we had plenty of space and a beautiful view over the pool and to the sea from our balcony. The disappointments began the very first night when we (arriving late) had to get food at the 24 hour snack bar. A menu listed numerous options, but the reality was only burgers and fries were available. The burger was literally just a burger - no ketchup, mustard, onion, tomato - a piece of meat and a bun. However, the real horrors began the next day in the buffet restaurant. Although clearly designed to be air-conditioned (windows do not open, A/C vents in the ceiling, and NO fans), the A/C was not working the entire 11 days. It was really HOT in the restaurant and since they kept all the doors open to try and get some airflow - it was full of flies and birds! Food sits out in the 30C to 40C room for several hours. Yes, we all got sick to some extent - in my case it took me a week after the trip to recover. Not only that, the food options were lousy! Breakfast - only fried eggs were good (pancakes looked and tasted bad, omelettes tasted bad, scrambled eggs tasted bad - perhaps not made from real eggs?). Bacon, when available, was always undercooked. The only sausage was wieners. NO toast, bagels, muffins, etc. They had hard bread that you had to slice - but the toaster was broken. Pastries were freshly made but none really tasted good (hard and sweet). NO orange juice - they had a few other juices but all tasted bad. The only fruit on offer was papaya and unripe pineapple and watermelon (NO mango, bananas, oranges, apples, etc.). Cereal was one kind and it was chewy and flavourless with warm milk that had been sitting in the hot room for hours. Lunch and dinner were even worse - NO chicken, NO pork, NO beef except liver (!), and they usually had fish and the inevitable wiener variations and sometimes mussels. NO salad except cucumber, beets, and carrots. At lunch and dinner it is safe to say that you will find nothing delicious - if you are lucky, you can find something to get by on. However, the dining experience is awful because it is so HOT, flies all around you, bird buzzing past your head, and mostly lackluster service. The resort has four a la carte restaurants, which are much better - the best is the Japanese, which actually tasted good! As mentioned above, snack bars are not good, usually offering one item at a time. Their pizzas were probably the worst I've every had - chewy dough, tasteless sauce, and a few pieces of cheese. The rum is great, of course, but it is hard to find something good to mix it with because they have their own cola and "juices", none of which taste that good. For some inexplicable reason, they could never make a mojito. Service was occasionally fast and friendly, but many staff members were slow and unmotivated. For example, one of our beds had no bedding on it the first night, but calls and even visits to the front desk could not resolve this. In our entire stay, we never saw any kind of manager - nobody ever seemed to be responsible for anything. Maintenance was lacking - almost all elevators were not working the entire time - some did not even have buttons, so clearly had been broken for years! At night, you noticed that almost all the lights were burnt out, some areas were completely dark. Can't a 4-star resort get some light bulbs? Ice cream parlour was mostly closed. Spa (hot tub) had no water in it and looked like it had been broken for months. Entertainment was mostly good but very brief - evening show sometimes as short as 40 minutes! Nothing before or after. Also, if you stay more than one week, you should know that they just repeat the same schedule - so you will see the exact same shows again on your 2nd week! The hotel is in a lovely beachside location but there is nothing in walking distance (except neighbouring resorts), so there is NO possibility of strolling somewhere for some different food. You are a 30 minute drive from the town. Overall, we felt we paid FAR too much for this resort and would NOT recommend it to anyone due to the abysmal and unhealthy food.

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