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The hotel is located right alongside Varadero beach and within the new Varadero golf course. Just 35 km from the airport and only 8 from downtown Varadero, Hotel Melia Las Americas. Here you will find a list of more than 160 locations.

340 rooms: 220 Doubles, 12 Duplex, 14 Suites, 2 Gran Suites and 2 Presidential’s Suites with hydro-massages and 90 Bungalows. The Junior Suites are located outside the main building and surrounded by the lush tropical vegetation. Guests may also make use of Internet access, a laundry service, room service and a car park.

Good taste, functionality and modernity are the elements that compose the design and decoration of these rooms. American breakfast in the room (on request). 

The hotel’s three restaurants offer the very best, most varied and exquisite of international cuisine.Barbecue Restaurant on the beach, specialized in Spanish paellas. Lobby bar and Piano bar.

Melia Las Americas boasts a swimming pool with a waterfall set in lush tropical gardens, a children’s pool, jacuzzi, fitness center, watersports center, activities program and boutiques. Convention Hall with natural light for up to 200 guests.

Melia Las Americas, a great resort for avid golfers.
 

Melia Cayo Coco Hotel located in Las Coloradas beach to the North of Cayo Coco. The resort is set between a soft white sand beach and a lagoon. With its quiet atmosphere and candlelit restaurants with unique views, the Melia Cayo Coco is the perfect spot for a romantic honeymoon.

250 rooms distributed in 53 two-storied bungalows: 168 standard rooms, 62 superior double rooms on the lagoon, 8 Junior Suites and 12 Suites with separate lounge.

Room Amenities: telephone, private bathroom, air conditioning, balcony and terrace.

Activities: Volleyball, archery and basketball, games room with billiards and table tennis, swimming pool, gym, sauna and jacuzzi. This Resort has a center for nautical activities located at the beach of the hotel where visitors can enjoy the aquatic sports.

  The 5- star Paradisus Varadero hotel is located the most beautiful Varadero beach. The hotel is at 13 km from the town of Varadero, from city center, 30 km from the airport of Varadero and 144 km from the capital – Havana, Cuba.

This resort offers 421 Rooms and 1 Garden Villa. The rooms are with either ocean or tropical garden view. All rooms are equipped with full bathroom with hairdryer, satellite tv, direct dial telephone, safety box, coffeemaker and coffee service, minibar, iron and ironing-board, sauna, jacuzzi.

Resort’s extras – hairdresser, launderette, ironing service, shopping mall, currency exchange, tour desk, spa, souvenir shop, car rental, dive center, medical services.
Also has  elegant restaurants- Gourmet Restaurant Turey,  Mexican Restaurant, Grill Cairi, Aqua-Bar Toa, Beach bar.

Attractions – Ambrosio cave, aerobics, mini-bowling, giant chess game,  shuffleboard, darts, beach volleyball, ping-pong, volleyball court, billiards, 3 tennis courts. The Water sport: windsurfing, sailing, catamaran, kayaking or canoeing,  water ski, banana boat or water polo.

The Havana’s Grand Theatre is the oldest theatre institution on active service in all Latin America. One of Old Havana’s finest buildings, the Grand Theater was built in 1837. It was considered to be one of the finest theaters in the world. During this time the construction of the Capitol, in which the national assembly met and the construction of the Grand Theater was begun, but it became only completed in 1929.

Some important artist that played in this place: dancers Fanny Elsler and Anna Pavlova, actress Sarah Bernhart and Eleonora Dusse, singers Adelina Patti, Victoria de los Angeles, Enrico Carusso, Tita Ruffo, musicians as Arthur Rubinstein, Ernesto Lecuona and Serguei Rachmaninov, Prima ballerina assoluta Alicia Alonso and many others.

Dancers of Cuba’s National Ballet perform “After the Deluge” during the 20th International Ballet Festival at the Grand Theater of Havana in Havana November 4, 2006 The first Havana Ballet Festival was in 1960 and it has taken place every two years since 1974, making it one of the most well-established events of its kind in the world. The festival features performances at various theatres in Havana including the Grand Theater of Havana, Havana National Theatre and the Mella Theatre. This is a fantastic theatre in a fantastic small town. The Wheaton Grand is one theatre that sits in a cool suburban downtown. Theatres like this can be used to help slowly emerging revitalized downtown areas.