Accommodation – Ciego de Avila

E Hotel Ciego de Avila, Carretera de Ceballos, T28013, 2 km out of town. 144 rooms in a modern, 5-storey block, pool, taxis, Havanautos car hire, good food. E Santiago-Habana, Chicho Valdés y Honorato del Castillo, T25703. 76 rooms on the main road through town, run down but convenient.

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Cayo Coco:

AL-A pp Hotel Club Tryp Cayo Coco, T301311 (locally), 333202, F333292 (in Havana), t...@teleda.get.cma.net, Spanish and Cuban, all-inclusive, the largest complex in Cuba, 1,000 rooms including a club, with a 250-room aparthotel and convention centre, like a village, shops, supermarket, pharmacy, disco, bowling alley, restaurants, bars, piano bar, snack bars, pools, watersports (extra charge for motorized watersports), volleyball, floodlit tennis, badminton, beach a bit disappointing but facilities well planned.

Sol Club Cayo Coco (Cubanacán), T301280, F301285. All-inclusive, 270 rooms, lots of sports and entertainment for adults and children, several restaurants, disco, gym, pool. Meliá Cayo Coco 250 rooms, some round a lagoon, 5-star hotel.

Cayo Guillermo:

Venta Club Gayo Guillermo, Italian run, 220 rooms, all-inclusive, gourmet restaurant, Bodeguita de Guillermo overlooking beach. Sol Club Cayo Guillermo (Gran Caribe), T301760, F301748. 264 rooms in cabins with red tiled roofs, all the same facilities and all-inclusive luxury. Iberostar Daiquirí (Gran Caribe), T301650. Opened end-1998, 312 rooms. Meliá Cayo Guillermo, 318 rooms, opened 1999.

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