This small hotel opens onto Parque Cé spedes and offers a value-priced budget alternative to the deluxe Iberostar a stone´s throw away, while having the advantage of a heart-of-affairs location compared to the similarly priced Hotel Horizontes Las Cuevas up the hill.

A delightful option a few kilometers west of Trinidad, on the banks of the Río Guaurabo, Villa Finca Ma. Dolores is contrived as a traditional rural farmstead, complete with milking demonstrations, an aviary, and even traditional cockfights. It draws in the tour groups for horseback riding and lunch with folkloric shows, but overnighting guests are surprised to find that the accommodations are modern and the amenities up-to-date.

For many years this motel-style complex on the hill overlooking Trinidad was the only hotel in town. It has undergone several transformations in recent years but is one place where the more things change, the more they stay the same. The location offers the advantage of receiving refreshing breezes, and the views over town towards the Caribbean Sea are no less refreshing.

This could well be Cuba´s finest provincial hotel. Offering a much-needed deluxe option for visitors to this most popular of Cuban colonial cities, the Iberostar opened in 2006 and has justifiably earned plaudits as a true five-star hotel. The hotel is a conversion of an unassuming, two-story, mint-green 19th-century mansion on the north side of Parque Céspedes. Beyond the front doors, however, and…