Havana For Women 2024

Spanish history is everywhere in Havana

Havana, Cuba for Women
February 5 to February 15, 2024

Tour for women Price Based on twin accommodations

$1500.00 USD

tour for women Single Supplement:

$300.00 USD

Tour for women Deposit due at time of registration

Final payment due November 1, 2023

$300.00 USD

Registration form, click here

To make this trip a go it is necessary to have 10 participants.
1 place left as of Aug. 15, 2023 to meet the minimum number.

Maximum number of participants including host is 14.

INCLUDED:

NOT INCLUDED:

Meals as per itinerary
Daily Sightseeing and entrance fees
English speaking guides

Going Places Together escort

International Air
Tipping
Cuban tourist Card
Travel Insurance
Any meals not mentioned

10-Day Itinerary

February 5-15, 2024

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Day 01 February 5, 2024 Havana
Arrive in Cuba and make your way to your accommodation for the next 10 nights.
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 02 February. 6, 2024 Half Day walking tour of Havana
9:00-11:00 with Thalia of Air BnB - We are meeting Thalia at "Gran Teatro Alicia Alonso", also well-known as "García Lorca". It is located right next to the "Hotel Inglaterra", very close to the Capital. We will take you through the most popular area of our city, Old Havana. You'll get to visit the best landmarks in this zone. It’s the best way to have an introduction to Havana's culture and history. There, we will tell you about many topics travelers are usually interested in. This tour deals with CULTURE, ARCHITECTURE, ECONOMY, HISTORY, POLITICS, RELIGION and ART.

Meals Included: Breakfast

Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 03 February 7, 2024 Day at Leisure
Enjoy your special time wandering the streets of Havana. Your host will be available to share her favourite places, just ask.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 04 February 8, 2024 Havana walking with Nancy
Join Nancy for a visit to eclectic Vedado, (we will travel there by coco Taxi)a neighbouring district of parks and mansions where Havana residents shop, dance, and dine. View the elaborate sculptures of Cementerio de Cristóbal Colón, relax in the garden of the grand Hotel Nacional, or stroll along the sea on Havana’s famous Malecón.

If you are a painter, today is a great day to paint! Photographers, search for the perfect photo! Everyone else, just enjoy this wonderful city by the sea! Return to your hotel at your convenience by Coco taxi, taxi or by foot. It is about 45 minutes by foot to walk from the Hotel Nacional to your accomodation in the old city.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 05 February 9, 2024 Havana and the Arts
A morning surrounded by the stunning Cuban art collection at Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes is followed by an afternoon at leisure. This evening join Nancy to visit the home of Mercedes, a Havana friend, for a simple dinner and frank conversation about life in Cuba. Mercedes and her family will share their home, their neighbourhood and life for a Cuban with you.
Meals Included: Breakfast, dinner
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 06 February 10, 2024 Havana and the People
Fervent belief in the Revolution never completely replaced the
Cuban love affair with religion. Havana churches and cathedrals are a perfect place to spend time and explore. Join Nancy to discover Havana's cathedrals.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 07 February 11, 2024
Havana and Hemingway - Full Day Tour
This morning is dedicated to Hemingway. Begin your exploration of Havana's most famous writer-in-residence with a visit to his home in San Franciso de Paula. Cojimar, a quite village to the east of central Havana, is the costal setting of Hemingway's Old Man and the Sea, return to Havana and Hemingway's favoured Floridita Bar for a taste of the best Daquiris in town!
Meals Included: Breakfast,
Overnight: , Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 08 February 12, 2024  Havana at Leisure
Havana at leisure. Indulge in ice cream, peruse the used book stalls lining Plaza de Armas, visit another wonderful museum or private gallery and bring a piece of Havana home.
Meals Included: Breakfast
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 09 February 13, 2024  Havana, Day trip to Vinales
Following breakfast depart Havana bound for the breathtaking natural wonders of Valle de Vinales. Your bus leaves the Hotel Royalton, Paseo del Prado (approx. 120 meters from your accommodatioon) at 7:30 AM. As you travel west into Pinar del Rio, broad city avenues are replaced with palm-lined roads where tobacco fields stretch away into lush rolling hills. Visit Cueva del Indio caves and travel by boat along an underground river as you step back into a time before the arrival of the first Europeans. Enjoy an open-air lunch shaded by the towering dome-like hills.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch,
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 10 February 14, 2024  Havana Day of Leisure
A day to see those places that you didn't see and to pack and repack for your return flight home. Join your group (locataion to be advissed) for a farewell dinner. Meals Included: Breakfast, farewell dinner
Overnight: Fachada del Hostal San Lázaro 17, Havana

Day 11 February 15, 2024 depart Havana
Time to say goodbye to Havana.
This is the end of our services until we are Going Places Together again!
Meals Included: Breakfast in Havana

Tour Host Since 1990, Nancy Walsh has been leading tours around the globe. Falling in love with Havana was easy for Nancy who is always on the lookout for beautiful landscapes and cityscapes to paint and to expore.

Havana fits that bill and so much more!

GOING PLACES TOGETHER'S RECOMMENDED READING TO BEGIN YOUR CUBAN ADVENTURE:

Our Man in Havana - Graham Greene

First published in 1959, Our Man in Havana is an espionage thriller, a penetrating character study, and a political satire set in Havana during the brutal American-backed regime of Fulgencio Batista. This comic novel tells of MI6’s man in Havana, Wormold, a former vacuum-cleaner salesman turned reluctant secret agent. To keep his job, he files bogus reports based on Lamb’s Tales from Shakespeare and dreams up military installations from vacuum-cleaner designs. Then his stories start coming disturbingly true. A taste of Havana at a time when America’s rich and famous played by its pools and on its stages; Our Man in Havana captures the city just moments before the revolution.

Dreaming in Cuban - Christina Garcia

Dreaming in Cuban is a novel about the bonds and barriers between three generations of women in the del Pino family. Set against the backdrop of Havana during, before and after the Cuban Revolution, this story stretches across time and place, is filled with magic and faith, and is a reminder to readers how difficult it can be to forget. A colourful and careful imagining of private life in the city, Dreaming in Cuban subtly reveals how the revolution changed life in Havana and how residents of this great city met this change in their own unique ways.

Havana Lunar - Robert Arellano

One night in the dark heart of Havana, Mano Rodriguez, a young doctor with the revolutionary medical service, comes to the aid of a teenage woman named Julia. Taking refuge in his clinic to break away from an abusive pimp, Julia joins Mano in an unlikely alliance that he thinks might save him from his own twin burdens: a dead-end hospital assignment he was delegated after being blacklisted by the Cuban Communist Party and a Palo Monte curse on his love life commissioned by a vengeful ex-wife. Contemporary Cuba struggles forward in this excellent literary snapshot of Havana after dark.

The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway

The Old Man and the Sea is one of Hemingway's most enduring works. Told in language of great simplicity and power, it is the story of an old Cuban fisherman, down on his luck, and his supreme ordeal -- a relentless, agonizing battle with a giant marlin far out in the Gulf Stream. Here Hemingway recasts, in strikingly contemporary style, the classic theme of courage in the face of defeat, of personal triumph won from loss.