CASA ALIDA AT PASEO VEDADO

PASEO VEDADO LODGING Avenida Paseo is a broad boulevard lined with mansions from a by-gone era. Where you will get a nostalgic sense of the glamour of Havana in the fifties and you will enjoy walking distance to excellent restaurants. CASA PARTICULAR PASEO 313 BETWEEN 13 AND 15 STREET AT VEDADO The terrace. The living room by the terrace. Each bedroom has a fridge and air condition. The bathroom are inside each bedroom. Air coditioning and a fridge in each bedroom at $ 30 CUC per day, not included breakfast. Each bedroom has the private bathroom inside. Click on to see other angle of the kitchen. Breakfast are served with a price from $ 3 to $ 5 CUC per person. To book on line send an e-mail to paseo313@gmail.com

Welcome to His Holiness Benedict XVI

ON Monday, March 26 the Cuban people will warmly and respectfully receive Pope Benedict XVI, Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and head of state of Vatican City, as a guest of the government and the Cuban Conference of Catholic Bishops.



Cuba is honored to welcome his Holiness with hospitality and demonstrate the patriotism, culture, solidarity and humanist vocation of its people, which sustains the history and unity of our nation.



We will also welcome, with our characteristic friendship, the thousands of pilgrims present for what doubtless will be highly memorable days.



Fourteen years ago, with the same sentiments, the Cuban people received Pope John Paul II who, before leaving, spoke of "the profound impression" his stay made on him and gave thanks for the "cordial hospitality, a genuine expression of the Cuban soul."



The apostolic visit of Pope Benedict XVI, which will continue through March 28, is motivated by the 400th anniversary of the discovery of the image of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre.



Recently, her statue toured the country in the company of believers and non-believers.



We are confident that His Holiness will retain warm memories of the island and will value his visit as a demonstration of confidence and a renewed expression of the excellent and uninterrupted relations between the Holy See and Cuba.



In recent months, authorities of the Catholic Church, the Vatican and the Cuban government have all been working toward making Pope Benedict XVI’s visit a success.



From his arrival in the eastern province of Santiago de Cuba, the cradle of national independence struggles, the Pope will be welcomed and accompanied by Cuban men and women.



The mass presence of the population in Santiago de Cuba and Havana, joined by compatriots from other provinces, will express the country’s satisfaction given the opportunity to receive the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church and will demonstrate our unity, community spirit and culture.



His Holiness will meet with a people secure in its convictions, noble, educated, impartial and organized, who defend the truth and listen with respect.



From his reception in Santiago de Cuba’s Antonio Maceo y Grajales Plaza de la Revolución and the José Martí Plaza de la Revolución in Havana, to his farewell, Pope Benedict XVI will find a nation fighting for human dignity, freedom, independence, solidarity and the common good, in order to win justice and a better world, which is not only possible, but essential.

Church Announces Dates For Pope's Cuba Trip

Official statement of the Catholics Bishops Conference of Cuba


"To Jesus for María, the Charity unites us"



Welcome Sacred Father Benedicto XVI Pilgrim of the Charity!



To all the Cubans:



As it has been announced through the media the Sacred Father XVI Benedicto it will visit, God by means of, our country from the 26 to the 28 oft March. A matter enthusiasm one is living in the communities and Catholic parishes with this good news.



This visit completes a desire that has been alive for long time in the heart of the Catholics and many Cubans that are identified with or they feel part of the Catholic Church.



This has been, also, a desire of the Pope who, in spite of the limits that it imposes him the age and its great responsibility in the Church and in the world, has wanted to come to accompany and to take place with the Cubans the IV Centennial of the discovery and the presence of the blessed image of the Virgin of the Charity in our homeland.



The Sacred Father will visit us in his condition of Universal Shepherd of the Catholic Church, successor of the apostle San Pedro to who Jesus Christ commended the mission he gives to confirm in the faith to his siblings and being sign of the unit of the Church in the world.



From Rome the Popes have presided over twenty centuries ago the Church, in the Truth of the Gospel and in the Christian Love. XVI Benedicto is the Pope 265, starting from the apostle San Pedro who was the first one, until our days.



The Pope comes to our country like Pilgrim of the Charity. As we know Charity it is the name that the Cubans give to the Virgin María, the Mother of Jesus Christ, and with this name has accompanied, protected and alleviated to our town in all the moments of our history for 400 years.



Charity means, also, Christian love, as which showed us and Jesus sent when telling us loves you each other as me have loved them". (Jn 15, 12)



Particular relevance has the company of the Pope to Cuba in the Year to Retire Mariano, after the preparation that has been had in the communities during three years and with the unforgettable and joyful memory of the journey of the image of the Virgin Mambisa to the long and width of our country.



The step of the image of the Virgin it has summoned and gathered to millions of Cuban that prayed, they sang, they cried and moving religious experiences lived. Some felt to revive the faith, perhaps hidden or sleeping and others made their first approach to Jesus Christ by means of the Virgin. The members give the communities they received it and they took place jubilant the presence of the Mother of the Son of God in their lives. Without a doubt it was an experience of faith and of cubanía that the Sacred Father will confirm with his presence and his word and, at the same time, it will encourage feelings and attitudes of Christian love, mercy, gratitude and reconciliation among all the Cubans.



With these feelings and aspirations, the Bishops of Cuba we want to invite to the whole people to receive the Sacred Father XVI Benedicto with the affection and the enthusiasm of who comes on behalf of the Sir..



The Pope will arrive to Santiago of Cuba, on Monday 26 of. March at 2:00 p.m. o'clock The Mass in the Square Antonio Maceo will be at 5:30 o'clock p.m. On Tuesday 27 in the morning the Sacred Father will make a visit to the Virgin of the Charity in the Basilica National Sanctuary of the Cobre a.m. at 9:30 o'clock and it will travel later on to Havana, where it will celebrate the Mass on Wednesday 28 of March at 9:00 a. m. o'clock in the Square José Martí.



We exhort to all the faithful ones and the whole town to participate in the two celebrations of the Santa Mass that will take place in Santiago and in Havana. At the same time we invite to all the faithful ones to dedicate during the week previous to the arrival of the Pope three days to the sentence and the mission, in such a sense we propose that on Thursday 15 of March it is a dedicated day to the sentence eucarística in all the communities, on Friday 16 are one day of fast and on Saturday 17 it is one day to carry out works of mercy, these stock they would offer for the spiritual fruits of the visit of the Sacred Father.



The Year to Retire 2012 is dedicated to thank to God the gift that has made us of the Virgin of Charity, to put into practice, with bigger care and generosity, the Christian love, to go on pilgrimage to its Sanctuary of the Cobre and we will have, also, the opportunity of to meditate on the teachings that the Sacred Father leaves us and give to secure the Christian roots of this way our nation.



That the Virgin of the Charity of the Cobre guides and accompany the steps of the Pope among us to who we receive with branch affection like Pilgrim of the Charity, so that He confirms us in the faith, it encourages us in the hope and he makes us solicitous in the love.



With our blessing and affection.



The Bishops of Cuba

March 1, 2012

SIX Frequent Asked Questions About Renting Private Homes in Cuba

SIX Frequent asked questions about renting Private Homes in Cuba


1.-Why tourist rent bedrooms in private homes, is it legal to rent a particular lodging in Cuba…?

2.-How to find an apartment or specific house in this Web Site …?

3.-Will I have to share common areas with other guests, what if I don´t achieve to find the lodging with the characteristics that I look for. …?

4.-How do I make the reservation and how I will obtain the confirmation from my reservation …?

5.-No achievement to find the lodging with the characteristics that I look for. How to contact with you in Havana …?

6.-Do I have to pay extra to have made the reservation on line, How do I pay the reservation, To who I should pay, A payment advance is needed before the arrival …?

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¿Why tourist rent bedrooms in Casa Particular, is it legal to rent a particular lodging in Cuba…?

Most of those that travel to Cuba are looking to be in direct contact with our culture, our beaches, our music and mainly: with our people.

They want to know the country

Therefore, the best way is to be in direct bonding or contact with our Cubans hospitality, and to end up knowing how we live, how we are, how we share smiling the current problems of the daily life, it is staying at a Casa Particular with a cuban family.

Another evident reason is that you can save money if you rents in a private homes because the particular lodgings are more economic than the Hotels.

Also, when being in a particular lodging, you are not under the obligation to take the routine life that the hotels impose to you in any place of the world, and you will feel free in this way, the same like if you were in your own home.

From 1997 the Cuban government authorized to the Cuban families to rent rooms to foreign tourists by legal way in the whole country.

To carry out this economic activity, the proprietors pay a monthly license for rent besides the corresponding annual taxes. This is one of the legal private business that are allowed in Cuba.


2.-How to find an apartment or specific house in this place web …?

You should enter to the list of the Casas Particulares and to look for your lodging in the different Casa Particular names.
To facilitate your search, the directory has been divided in different sections in dependence of the neighborhood that you are looking for. Once you reach the one that you are loooking for, double click on the written text of the name of that Casa Particular and you will see the completes description, pictures, prices and local information, of every accommodation listed in our website.


3.-Will I have to share common areas with other guests, what if I don´t achieve to find the lodging with the characteristics that I look for. …?

In some cases, where they can be let more than one bedroom and the bedrooms are inside of the house or apartment, sharing common areas with the Cuban family, the otherbedrooms are available to be rented to other guests. If this represents an inconvenience for you, please see in our directory the category of lodgings with independent entrance.
If you are not able to find in our directory the lodging with the conditions that you needs, simply contact us and send us the conditions that you want to have in your lodging. We have contacts with many other similar lodgings that can be available.

4.-How do I make the reservation and how I will obtain the confirmation from my reservation …?

> In each striped Casa Particular , there is a connection in the lodging description with the text "Click on to book your bedroom"? that will take to your own e-mail to make the specific reservation for this lodging.

By e-mail. As soon as we confirm that the lodging that you have requested is available, we will send you an e-mail with the confirmation and we will include the address of the lodging, the name of your hosts and his phone number.

You will be able to include in both cases any comment, or asks any questions or any other kind of information that may helps us to find the best lodging for you. .


5.-No achievement to find the lodging with the characteristics that I look for.How to contact with you in Havana …?

If you are not able to find in our directory the lodging with the conditions that you needs, simply contact us and send us the conditions that you want to have in your lodging. We have contacts with many other similar lodgings that can be available. Raúl Sarmiento, Paseo # 313 apartment. 43, corner 15, Vedado or by phone 833 4174
6.-Do I have to pay extra to have made the reservation on line,How do I pay the reservation, To who I should pay , A payment advance is needed before the arrival? …?

No, but we can also offer you a special discounts of 20% for reservations of more than one month. You should pay only by cash when you arrives to the lodging and you must pay directly to the owner of the lodging. You should pay the total quantity corresponding to the quantity in advance of the days that you have reserved with us.

There is not payments in advance before your arrival to Havana.


Last update:March 4, 2012