Elegant Cuba Tour - With Turkish Airlines
Day 1 ISTANBUL – HAVANA
We meet three hours before the flight at the international departure terminal of Istanbul New Airport (one day before the flight). After luggage, ticket, and boarding procedures, our flight to Havana begins with Turkish Airlines scheduled flight. We spend the night on the plane.
Day 2 HAVANA
After our arrival in Havana, we proceed to our private vehicle waiting at the airport and start the city tour. During our visit, we will see Old Havana, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the Malecon Boulevard, the Revolution Square, the Columbus Cemetery, Miramar, and the Morro Castle, where you can view the city from a bird's eye perspective. We will have lunch at a local restaurant. After the tour, we transfer to our hotel and check into our rooms. Accommodation at our hotel in Havana and free time.
Day 3 HAVANA
After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for a tour of Vinales Valley & Pinar del Rio & Indian Cave with lunch included. We are heading to the Vinales Valley, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage List and known for its world-famous Cuban cigars. After approximately a 3-hour journey, we will visit the center of Vinales city, tobacco fields, and a local tobacco farm. Our tour continues with lunch at a restaurant located in the middle of the valley. Afterward, we will move to Pinar del Rio to closely learn about the production and culture of cigars, which are officially produced in factories here. Guests can purchase original Cuban cigars if they wish. At the end of the day, we return to Havana after enjoying drinks on a viewpoint with a panoramic view of the Vinales Valley. After the tour, we transfer to our hotel and have free time.
Day 4 HAVANA
After breakfast at the hotel, we set off for the Revolution Trails Havana Tour with lunch included. We start this tour with the Old American cars, which were imported from the USA since the end of 1958 until the Cuban revolution and have not had the chance to be brought back into the country due to the subsequent embargo and are still actively used today. After a short tour through the streets of Cuba with these colorful vehicles, we will see the open-air exhibition of the neighborhood decorated through paintings, ceramics, and drawings by Jose Fuster, known as the Picasso of Cuba. After this visit, we will visit Hamel Street, the center of modern artists, named after Fernando Hamel. Then we will visit the home of Cuba's legendary hero, Che Guevara, where we can see Havana from above. We will have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we will continue to Prado Boulevard, one of Havana's most enjoyable streets. We will visit the Museum of the Revolution, which was used as a palace during Batista's regime and opened as a museum for the public after the revolution. In this largest museum of Cuba, we will see weapons, artifacts, and belongings from the Cuban independence war and the Cuban revolution periods. After the tour, we transfer to our hotel and have free time.
Day 5 HAVANA
After breakfast at the hotel, we will have a tour of Ernest Hemingway with lunch included. We will visit the small Cuban fishing village of Cojimar, located 20 minutes away from Havana, where the famous writer Ernest Hemingway spent 20 years, wrote his novel “The Old Man and the Sea,” and had his lunches. We will explore his magnificent La Vigia estate, where he lived and which is now used as a museum. We will have lunch at a local restaurant. After the tour, we transfer to our hotel and have free time.
Day 6 HAVANA – CIENFUEGOS – TRINIDAD
After breakfast at the hotel, we depart for Cienfuegos, one of the most beautiful cities in Cuba. We will have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we will explore the beautiful city of Cienfuegos, founded in 1819 by French settlers and protected by UNESCO in 2005. We will see Jose Marti Park, the Tomas Terry Theater surrounding the park, and the state buildings of Colegio de San Lorenzo. After exploring the city, we proceed to Trinidad. After a pleasant journey, we transfer to our hotel in Trinidad and have free time. All-inclusive accommodation at our hotel.
Day 7 TRINIDAD – SANTA CLARA – VARADERO
After breakfast at the hotel, we will get to know Trinidad, a city that became rich between the 18th and 19th centuries due to sugar production and is proudly one of the best-preserved examples of colonial architecture on the UNESCO World Heritage List. While walking on the cobblestone streets, we will feel like we are traveling back in time, refreshing ourselves with Canchanchara, a mixture of the local lemonade, honey, and Cuban rum. After the tour, we will head to Villa Santa Clara, an important front of the Cuban revolution that made Che a legend. After lunch, during our city tour, we will see the armored train museum park, where the great leaders of the revolution and Comandante Che Guevara captured and transported almost all of Batista's ordnance, and Parque Vidal, where we can still see bullet marks in the old Hilton Hotel. We will visit Che Guevara's mausoleum and the monument of "El Che," where his famous farewell letter is inscribed in cuneiform. After exploring Santa Clara, we head towards Varadero, transfer to our hotel in Varadero, and have free time. All-inclusive accommodation at our hotel.
Day 8 VARADERO
After breakfast at the hotel, we have the entire day free. You can relax on the magnificent beaches of Varadero or enjoy your time at our all-inclusive hotel. Accommodation at our hotel.
Day 9 VARADERO – HAVANA – ISTANBUL
After an early breakfast at the hotel, we will check out of our rooms. At the time indicated by your guide, we will depart for Havana airport. After luggage, ticket, and boarding procedures, our flight to Istanbul begins with Turkish Airlines scheduled flight. We spend the night on the plane. With our arrival at Istanbul New Airport local time, our tour and our services come to an end.
Revolution Museum + Che Guevara's House + Ernest Hemingway Museum
Local Guides: 150 € per person
***Payment to our guide will be made during the tour***
January 10, 17, 28, 29, 31
TK 183 IST HAV 01:50 07:00
TK 183 HAV IST 08:30 09:25*
April 04, 30 & May 11, 23, 25 & June 13, 22
TK 183 IST HAV 01:50 07:30
TK 183 HAV IST 09:00 08:55*
A valid passport for at least 6 months is mandatory for international trips. Passports older than 10 years are not valid for international travel and must be renewed before the tour departure date. Entry cannot be made with torn and worn-out passports.
For visa applications, a passport valid for at least 6 months and the documents listed in the visa requirement document that you can obtain from our agencies must be delivered to the agency in writing at least 1 month before the tour departure date.
Accommodation may occur outside the promised distance and region due to fairs, congresses, events, etc. in the cities. In such a case, the hotel region will be informed to our agencies in writing at least 30 days before the tour departure.
The visa must be obtained from the first country entered or the country where the most accommodation will occur; otherwise, the agency is not responsible for the entry denial by passport police.
In case of tour cancellation, the visa fee and insurance fees are non-refundable.
The agency acts only as an intermediary between the client and the consulate and is not responsible for any rejection of the visa for any reason, delay, or errors in the visa, and the traveler has no right to compensation from the agency.
The agency acts as an intermediary between the airline and the traveler and is subject to the Hague Protocol of 28.09.1955.
During registration, the name, date of birth, and passport number in the passport must be entered into the system. Flight tickets are issued based on this information. Cancellation or changes to flight tickets due to erroneous information will incur no-show charges for the guests.
Flight times may change before departure, and all times must be confirmed in writing by our guests by calling the central office 48 hours before the departure dates.
The city of arrival may vary. The agency is not responsible for any changes in flight times or delays made by airline companies.
Guests who do not confirm flight times and routes are not the responsibility of the agency for any changes in domestic flight connections.
In group tickets, airline rules apply, and if the outbound flight cannot be used, the return flight cannot be used either.
Generally, the baggage weight for flights departing from Turkey is 20kg. This weight may vary depending on the airline and the destination country. In domestic flights within the visited countries, this weight may drop to 15kg. Extra luggage weight/price rules are determined by the airlines and are not the responsibility of the agency.
If the number of participants for the package tour is insufficient, the tour will be canceled and the consumer will be informed 21 days in advance.
The tour route specified in the program is a sample route and may be subject to change.
City introduction tours may be conducted the next day/days depending on the arrival time in the city.
The tours specified in the programs can be moved to different days at the discretion of the guide for any reason.
Additional tours along the route will be conducted if at least 6 people join. Guests who do not wish to participate will wait at the break point.
During peak periods such as fairs, congresses, seminars, hotel accommodations may be made outside the city.
Tours or trips that local authorities do not permit for any reason will not be conducted. Alternative tours can only be carried out with a minimum participation of 20 people; if the participation is less than that, the guide will decide and if necessary, prices may be altered. The agency cannot be held responsible for the inability to conduct these tours.
Museum and archaeological site entrance fees are not included in the prices.
The agency reserves the right to change hotel names as long as the star category remains the same.
All hotel names listed in the programs are V.B. (and similar) and are written as examples for star category and distance. Staying in the hotel with the specified name does not guarantee accommodation there.
In triple rooms, an extra bed application is available, and the 3rd bed is smaller than standard beds or may be an additional foldable bed.
During your travel, please ensure that you take all your belongings when leaving the means of transport and the hotels you are staying in.
Child discounts are only valid for children within a specified age group staying with 2 adults.
In cases where children under 18, who are not considered adults, do not accompany either one or both of their parents on the tour, it is mandatory to carry the necessary consent documents with them during the trip.
In case of cancellation or change, the "AGENCY SALES CONTRACT" will apply.
What's Included
Airport taxes
4 nights accommodation with breakfast at a 5-star hotel in Havana
1 night all-inclusive accommodation at a 4-star hotel in Trinidad
2 nights all-inclusive accommodation at a 5-star hotel in Varadero
Airport-hotel-airport transfers
Lunch included Vinales Valley & Pinar del Rio & Indian Cave tour
Lunch included 2-hour Havana city tour in American cars in the footprints of the Revolution
Lunch included Ernest Hemingway Tour
Lunch included Cienfuegos city tour
Lunch included Santa Clara tour
Trinidad city tour
6 lunches & 3 dinners
All city transfers with our private buses
Professional Turkish and English guiding services
Hotel taxes
Tourist city taxes
TURSAB professional liability insurance
Not Included
Domestic connection ticket
Cuba visa fee, service charge (65 EUR) - MANDATORY
Lunch and dinner not specified in the program
All personal expenses and hotel extras
International departure tax
Museum and archaeological site entrance fees (150 Euro)
Driver tips 5 Euro / per person (optional)
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