Cuba Travel Guide

ext">The Hemingway Marina is located at 23°Hemingway Marina is the flagship in the field of
5.35' N and 82° 30.5' W, to the west of Havanathe nautical activities and is also the organizer of
City in the neighbourhood of Jaimanitas. Thisvery important international events, among which
marina is ideal for ships of medium size; and it canappear regattas and fishing tournaments. Among
harbour up to 400 ships of 70 meters inthe latter the most well known is the Hemingway
maximum length, with a maximum depth of 4.30Tournament, dedicated to the catching of marlins;
meters. The Hemingway Marina uses the radioan event that increases in foreign participation
frequencies 72 and 16 in VHF.each year. Another two interesting contests on
Operated by the group Cubanacán S.A., thisthe agenda are the Blue Marlin- due in September-
center has the conditions to assimilate in its fourand the Wahoo in November. This center has also
channels up to 400 vessels and even facilitate upbeen included as a base for technical scales in the
to 200 of those ships the ultimate conditions forvoyages of some international regattas.
the onboard modality, providing the basic services,The Hemingway Marina complex has shopping
such as drinking water, electricity, gas,malls, a Cohiba (Cigar) House, medical services,
communications, cable TV and a nauticalnaval hardware shops, Cybercafés, drugstores
workshop able to take on all types of vesseland transportation around the facilities. For those
repairs.who decide to stay, there are hotels, such as the
Among the novelties of the Marina, there is theAquarius Hotel and the Hemingway Marina Hotel,
stay of the so-called mega yachts, vessels of aoffering single and double rooms, houses and
greater size than the common ships and of abungalows. The complex also has a network of
luxury oriented to the maximum comfort of itsrestaurants with cuisine ranging from Cuban and
occupants; such stay being considered by manyinternational food in Palmares Restaurant to
people as a sign of the acceptance of this facilitySpanish flavours in Fiesta Bar, to Italian (Pizza
in the world.Nova) to the Papa’s, specialized in seafood.