Hotels - Rex

About  Rex

If you want to stay in a modern, stylish hotel that is well placed for the bars, restaurants and cultural attractions of Santiago de Cuba city, you should consider Hotel Islazul Rex.

Hotel Islazul Rex was redeveloped in 2013 & now combines boutique features with a fabulous location overlooking the famous Plaza de Marte. The hotel has a small, attractive restaurant which serves good breakfasts & evening meals, while its bar also serves snacks.

The 24-hour terrace bar is one of the Rex’s most attractive features and has great views over the park & city of Santiago de Cuba. With this relaxing rooftop oasis in the centre of the city & friendly staff keen to ensure you enjoy your stay, you will find this a great place to unwind with a Mojito.

The Islazul Rex is an attractive, historic hotel in a great central location & its accommodation prices reflect that, though these are likely to come down through market testing. But if you want a great central base for exploring the city by day or night, you will find this one of the most stylish, comfortable choices.

Autopista Nacional, Km 1, Santiago de Cuba

Tropicana Santiago

Every night, the Tropicana cabaret offers its performance "Viaje al Caribe" (a Journey to the Caribbean), which narrates the history of the people of Santiago, the most Caribbean city in Cuba, where one can feel the influence of Haiti and its voodoo religion and French customs, Dominican Republic and its merengue, Jamaica and its reggae and Puerto Rico among others. Dinner and show in the same style as the famous Tropicana Cabaret from Havana. This modern facility has been elegantly decorated with traditional elements that blend-in with the lush natural vegetation surrounding the area

Santa Rita a Hospital, Santiago de Cuba

Calle Padre Pico

This is undoubtedly one of the city's most well-known streets. It offers an excellent natural viewing point and is the only stepped street in Cuba. It's part of the Tivoli neighborhood, where 18th-century French-colonial mansions sit side by side with 16th-century structures

Carretera de Siboney y San Juan. Santiago de Cuba

Loma de San Juan

Visit San Juan Historic Park, a place where it was developed an important battle of the North American-Cuban-Hispanic War, bringing the end to an era. At the helm of a brigade at this battle was a future president of the United States, Theodore Roosevelt. The Peace Tree (Árbol de la Paz) is the tree in which it was signed the surrender of Santiago de Cuba. In the San Juan Hill you can admire various monuments in memory of the numbered casualties in both sides in the battle developed in the surroundings of Santiago on the first of July 1898. You can witness sculptures to the Victorious Mambí, to the Unknown North American Soldier and to the Spaniard Soldier surrounded by a series of cannons and artillery objects decorating the place. This is the only place in Cuba with a monument to the American soldier. Furthermore, quite close to the hill, a ceiba tree named the Peace Tree (Árbol de la Paz) witnessed the surrender of the city, although nowadays just remains the trunk of this historic tree which fell few months after the centenary of the battle.    

Calle Pío Rosado y Calle Aguilera, Santiago de Cuba

Emilio Bacardí Provincial Museum

Cuba's oldest museum was founded in 1899 by Emilio Bacardí Moreau, the former Santiago mayor whose rum-making family fled to Puerto Rico after the Revolution. It is just a few metres from the Parque Céspedes, in the heart of the city. The museum has an excellent collection of Cuban art, as well as some European works, some items from the wars of independence and an archaeological hall that features a 3,000-year-old Egyptian mummy, two Peruvian skeletons and a shrunken head. It houses the most important painting gallery in Cuba, displaying an enviable collection of colonial painting dating back two centuries.

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