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Hotel Saratoga

Up till recently, discerning visitors have bemoaned the lack of a really luxurious hotel in Havana. The Saratoga, which opened in November 2005, has rectified the situation. Standing on the western edge of the Historical Centre of the city, its elegant façade overlooks the other nineteenth century architectural glories of the Prado and Parque Central.. visit our Hotel Saratoga Habana website to more details.

Hotel Santa Isabel

The Santa Isabel is the grandest of Old Havana’s hotels, and its location is perfect: it stands on the eastern side of the Plaza de Armas, Havana’s earliest and most beautiful colonial square. The building is an eighteenth century mansion which was constructed for the Countess of San Juan de Jaruco but was later bought by the Count of Santovenia, whose initials can be seen in the decorative iron.. visit our Hotel Santa Isabel website to more details.

Hotel Ambos Mundos

Much is made of Ernest Hemingway’s predilection for staying at the Hotel Ambos Mundos. He wrote the first few chapters of ‘For Whom the Bell Tolls’ in room 551, which is now maintained as something of a shrine. The rooms are comfortable and this also applies to the ground floor bar area, with its cosy, squishy modern sofas. The roof terrace has great views of the Plaza de Armas and environs.. visit our Hotel Ambos Mundos website to more details.

Hotel Armadores de Santander

The Hotel Armadores de Santander (which means ‘Shipowners of Santander’) overlooks the port of Havana. The building’s façade, with its stone reliefs of the coat of arms of Santander surrounded by maritime motifs, is wonderfully evocative of the city’s seagoing past.Havana’s entire raison to be, was the excellence of its natural harbour and its strategic position within the Spanish Empire in the ... visit our Hotel Armadores de Santander website to more details.

Hotel Marques de Prado Ameno

The four stars Hotel Marques de Prado Ameno enjoys a privileged scenario formerly in the same center of the Within Havana the city, very near the celebrated Square of Weapons and Havana Cathedral. The Hotel Marques de Prado Ameno that owes its name to the illustrious family that inhabited this colonial large house of the carefully restored XVIII century .. visit our Hotel Marques de Prado Ameno website to more details.

Sloppy Joe's Bar in Old Havana

The Sloppy Joe's Bar that was in their time one of the more converged and appreciated facilities of their type, and that it is located in the corner of Zulueta and Anímas in the Old Havana, it began to be reformed as part of the restoration project of the Historical Centre of Havana City ... visit our Sloopy Joes Bar in Old Havana website to more details.

Welcome to my site dedicated to the famous and historical Hotel Parque Central. I am "poco a poco" researching and updating it with the aim to provide as complete as possible record of the hotel's ancient and recent history; bearing in mind that the goings-on today may one day be of historical interest.

My site is NOT the official website of the current hotel operator, and is by no means endorsed by them; but I am grateful for their help with the research and supplying some of the photographs. ASAP I will try to have only my own photos taken with my nice new camera.

You can make from this site room reservations through the Bizloco eTravel System operated by Cubaism Ltd.

Best wishes for 2024

Nigel Alexander Hunt

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