One of the only Hotels in Baracoa, Cuba. Staff are friendly, gift shop is OK, pool is awesome. You can come enjoy the pool without staying there as a guest for $10 per person. Only one or two people spoke English. The breakfast was filled with so many options and an omelet bar!
I enjoyed the pool especially as this was very clean and has a good bar !
The hurricane had hit the hotel just 5 months before, so some of our complaints may be fixed. No water pressure, just a trickle out of the shower and the sink. Hot water . . . none, just lukewarm after 15 minutes. The swimming pool was actually warmer, so start the shower, dunk in the pool, then soap and rinse in the shower.
Food was cuba standard which means foodies would be disappointed. Plain but clean. Breakfast was the best meal offered. Room was OK, small and you could see where water leaked in during a small shower. Long walk down the hill and back up, but the view was incredible.
Incredible location, sitting right above Baracoa with 270° views out to sea, over the harbour, down across the town in both directions and across the bay to El Yunque, the flat-topped mountain behind Baracoa. The rooms are fairly basic in the old building. We read that the newer building has improved rooms, but we arrived just a couple of weeks after Hurricane Matthew hit Baracoa and most of those rooms, along with various parts of the hotel, were undergoing repairs from the storm damage. If you're staying for a longer period you might get tired of the very steep walk back up to the hotel from the town, especially in hot weather which is pretty stanard here obviously, but we didn't mind it. There's a nice big pool in the hotel's central courtyard with a bar next to it that does a mean Baraco 500 cocktail which I can recommend. The in-house restaurant is pretty decent too (again, options were limited in the wake of Hurricane Matthew). The usual lunch and dinner menu looked more varied than your average Cuban restaurant and had a few options for vegetarians too. A warning about breakfast - it's worth getting in around 7am when they start putting it out, because the food starts attracting a lot of fruit fly pretty quickly and becomes distictly less appealing by 8:30am.
Lovely swimming pool and hotel with beautiful views of Baracoa!
Burns Vista!
Breathtaking view over Baracoa city
Nice hotel situated in a good location over the city