Casa Colonial Gustavo y Yalina ::: www.cubacasas.net •|• Baracoa • One of Cuba's Top 10 casas

CASA COLONIAL GUSTAVO y YALINA
Claudia Escalona Rodriguez y Manuel Castro Toirac
Flor Crombet 125, entre Frank Pais y Pelayo Cuervo, steps from the Malecon and the main plaza - and wifi zone. Tel. (21) 64-5809 whatsapp +5352813579

Casa Colonial Gustavo y Yalina ::: www.cubacasas.net •|• Baracoa • One of Cuba's Top 10 casas

One of Cuba's Top 10 casas — a perennial favorite of travellers. This is a fairly large colonial built in 1890 by a coffee dealer from Marseille (France).

Gustavo's great-grandfather inherited it. Yalina has French ancestry, as do a lot of Baracoans.

The building was renovated in 2006 and extensively enlarged in 2012-13 with five ac bedrooms on two upper floors and a mirador (lookout) on top of the roof.

Nowadays Yalina and husband Gustavo manage a great casa in Habana Vieja where they live with their son.

Running the casa are Claudia who is Yalina's daughter and her husband Manuel and their child.

Located on a quiet street, its access is now through an independent staircase on the facade. It leads up to a small lounge and a pantry for meal service by which sits the large front bedroom with four other large bedrooms, one on an upper floor. On the ground floor, the sixth, part of the original house.

Each bedroom is air-conditioned (the new silent "split" models), with fan(s), mini-fridge, reading lamps, hair dryer, luggage table, the works.

There is a large terrace on the upper floor looking out to the sea. Each bedroom has at least two comfortable beds, some three.

Breakfasts are the casa's specialty while dinners are mastered Claudia who learned from her mother and their legendary cook Neubi, a descendant of aboriginals.

Meals are served in four different places for more intimacy. Two floors up, a large covered terrace from where Mount Yara, El Yunque and the sea can be admired.

Rates : 25€/$US per bedroom per night, breakfasts, 4, dinners 8-10. Laundry service, assured parking on the street; bike rentals next door; up-to-date excursion information, taxi sharing to near and far places.

Updated 13.04.2023