Sleeping in the Case Particular in Cuba is like sleeping in bed and breakfasts, accommodations made available by the locals to experience the real and old Cuba, read here.
I'll be back to talk about Cuba, just in this period that the Caribbean island is on everyone's lips for the opening offered by the Obama presidency in closing business after over sixty years with the Castro government.
Although the United States of America remains my favorite country, it must be recognized that they specialize in noisy and massive "invasions" there are already reports of cruise ships as large as skyscrapers, sailing to Varadero, and numerous resorts already sold out. for the summer season.
Unfortunately, I fear that there is no turning back from this process of westernization and that it is already an unstoppable process even in the minds of the new generation of Cubans.
However, for the moment they still remain old traditions and beautiful experience to do in the real and old Cuba del Che. One of these could be to decide to let go of crowded resorts and choose how to stay the so-called formula Particular Houses.
Le Case Particular in Cuba, are none other than the real homes of Cubans who accept to host tourists with one formula similar to bed & breakfast. You will therefore share spaces and customs of the family, and being them very hospitable, they will make you live like real Cubans.
In the past, choosing this type of accommodation was a bit like traveling on an adventure, backpacking and looking for them from time to time in the village where you were, now a real circuit of online sites, where it is possible to book (not to pay of course), many times even managed by compatriots who have moved to live in Cuba.
Perhaps using technology could help you get an idea of the types of accommodation and in which center there are the most, but my advice is to get to a place you like and look door to door, so I assure you that the search will be fast. Now that this type of activity has been declared legal by the regime, the first signs appear that clearly identify them with a blue symbol bearing the words "Uniform Arrendador".
In big cities there are many: from the most popular in really dilapidated houses with minimal hygiene requirements to the limit, to those in the relais style. In cities like L 'Havana e Santiago I strongly advise against those in low-cost accommodations, because they are often used as motels by the hour of the lowest category, as prostitution is an activity more than cleared on the island, even minors, unfortunately.
In the capital, the most beautiful are those overlooking the Malencon with panoramic terraces overlooking the sea, or those in Havana Vieja, the most beautiful district of the city in my opinion, but now they have more than European prices, so much so that hotel accommodations are very often cheaper. .
The most beautiful I've ever seen are located in Trinidad: in the center, right in the triangle between Plaza Carillo, Calle Procopio and Calle Santo Domingo, there are these colorful Caribbean-style houses with large windows, interior gardens full of palm trees and furnished with period furniture, rocking chairs and Santeros altars .
