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Casa Particular El Encanto

Our house is located in a building called El Encanto. It is a building of the fifties, which a metal rain covering the main entrance, and trees at both sides.

We offer exclusive private, wide and ventilated room, with two beds: a double and a personal one, also refrigerator, air conditioner, TV-Video, a private bath with hot- cold wather shower and hair dryer.

We also include (free):

-Breakfast.
-Typical cuban diner, keeping breakfast (if you stay a month or more).
-Towels and blankets.
-Laundry facilities.
-24 hours reception.
-Daily Housekeeping.
-Luggage Storage.
-Free local telephone calls.
-The price is 10 % cheaper if the guest stays for a week or more.
-We offer an ESPECIAL PRICE for those who stay more than a month

Minimum nights:1

Maximum nights: as long as you want.

You may acceded by taxi, which commonly use to circulate by the different ways of transportation in Havana City; taxis are frequently staying near the outside exit of the International “José Martí” Airport. It would cost 20-25 CUC.

You should also ensure that you have 25 Convertible Pesos (CUCs) per person for payment of departure tax at the airport. US dollars will not be accepted.

Additional Information

We know that when you visit a country, it is necessary to estimate all in relation with the money of the trip. In Cuba it is important to distinct two different kinds of money; this are: the Cuban Pesos (CUP), used for you to pay only certain products and services, for example: for paying the public transport in Cuba (commonly called “guagua”), also in movies, at Cuban groceries, agro-markets; and the Cuban Convertible pesos (CUC), used by tourism. Both kinds are used in Cuba for different purposes.

You may get CUC at CADECA Posts (Changing money legal houses in Cuba). A CUC seems to be more or less like a dollar, but is not exactly like this –try to pray attention please: as a result of the block out imposed by United States to Cuba, Cuban Government is forced to discount first the 10%, per each dollar, after that, the result of this discount is divided into the Changing Task. That’s why a dollar is equal to $ 0,87 CUC. If you wish to be safe from this inconvenient you may travel with Euros, Pounds, Mexican pesos, Canada dollar or Yen. In fact, Euro is the most convenient kind of money to travel to Cuba. So, one CUC is about 0.75 €.

You may take into consideration that is not difficult to distinct between CUC and CUP, in the CUC is explicitly written “Billetes convertibles” at the billet. By the other hand, if you only change money in the legal CADECAS Posts, you won’t have problems, this CADECAS are located in many places of the city, so you won’t have any inconvenient for providing yourself of money. Any way considering also that there is not differences of change from one CADECA to another, is convenient, at least, to change a part of your money at the Airport Jose Marti, in order to have money for the taxi (the first quantity of money you wish to spent). You also may ask for easy billets for exchange, according to its lower denomination, for example: billets of 1, 5 or 10 CUC, avoiding other difficulties.