A 150 Year History of Hotels in Cuba

Before activity added into the origins of the Cuban hotel trade, we accept to acknowledgment assertive aspects of the Cuban history that characterized the aperture of the aboriginal hotels in Cuba.

It was not until 1762, back Havana was taken by the English that the chargeless barter with added countries started. The English larboard the island about the added bisected of 1763 in an barter of acreage with the Spaniards, who bedevilled Florida, but things would not change abundant for the affluent Cuban bodies in the faculty of trading with added nations. From that aeon on, Havana became a added affluent burghal than anytime and in 1818 it was already a chargeless port.

It can be declared that the breeze of visitors to Cuba added a lot as compared with the accomplished and the abode capacities were not enough. There were alone some inns and boarding houses that were not acceptable in the faculty of adaptation and casework for the traveler.

It was afresh that the aboriginal accurate hotels in Havana appeared. They were no best bald lodgings and started to action casework that fabricated the guests' break added pleasant. New concepts were put into practice, for instance: to action to the guests the new abstruse advances that the burghal enjoyed already.

As an archetype of this, we can acknowledgment the Telegrafo (Telegraph) Hotel founded in 1860 which is advised the oldest actual hotel in Cuba at present. This hotel, although in a altered abode from today, was amid in one of the best accepted corners of the burghal at that moment, Prado and Neptuno. In time, the Telegrafo Hotel would action an accomplished advice account with phones in every allowance and its own telegraphic service.

Next to the Telegrafo there was the Inglaterra (England) Hotel, additionally one of the oldest in Cuba. This hotel offered, for the aboriginal time, the account "a la carte". Afore that, alike admitting there was a restaurant and alike the best of aggravating acceptable Spanish wines, audience had not had the befalling to accept what they ate.

Among the firsts hotels congenital in Cuba is the Santa Isabel, founded in 1867 by an American man. He accustomed it abutting to the Templete (Shrine) at The Accoutrements Square, in the affection of the old burghal and afterwards he continued it to the aloft alcazar of the Santovenia Calculation area it still offers its airiness to the tourists visiting Havana.

The Santa Isabel was advised the best hotel of the city. It had big aerial rooms, restaurant service, etc. The added advantage of this hotel was the actuality that the ladies were assisted by a agents of their aforementioned sex, that is to say, the hotel had maid service, article still alien in Cuba. Besides that, the ability of the English accent was alien amid the employees, a actuality that added its authority aural the arising hotel business rivalry.

Another hotel that alleged the absorption because of the exclusivity of its casework during the aftermost decades of the 19th aeon was the Miramar hotel, which no best exists in our days. It was amid aloof at the access of the Havana bay in Malecon and Prado. This hotel was the aboriginal to authorize that the waiters had to abrasion cape and the advisers were not accustomed to accept moustaches.

With the end of the Spanish aphorism over the island in 1898 and the enactment of the Republic, the hotel barter horizons widened considerably. The advance of the burghal and its added burghal appraisal that advised to accessible to the avant-garde world, as able-bodied as the access of the Cuban ancestry bread-and-butter welfare, fabricated accessible the architecture of new hotel facilities. But sometimes they did not fit the aspirations of assertive guests and it was all-important to accept a hotel that would amuse them, it was congenital then...the aboriginal affluence hotel.

The aboriginal hotel that had the requirements accepted at that time to be advised comfortable was the Sevilla hotel, founded in 1908. This hotel and the abolished Almendares Hotel were the alone comfortable hotels in Havana until 1930, back the Civic Hotel was built. We accept already talked about this aftermost one in our blog.

At the aforementioned time that the apple absorption on alive the adorableness of the island was growing, alluring a lot of visitors every year, there were added actual contest that contributed to the hotel architecture in Cuba to a abundant extent.

One of them was the approval by Admiral Mario Garcia Menocal in 1919 of a law that legalized bank for tourism purposes. The added one was the enactment in the Affiliated States of "The Prohibition" for about 20 years. By that time, rum, the roulette, bank and horse antagonism bets, the Jai Alai and erect fights, fabricated the tourists' break in Cuba actual pleasant. As a result, on that aeon abounding hotels were congenital in Havana. We can acknowledgment amid them the Alcazar and the Presidente (The President) in Vedado, and the Ambos Mundos (Both Worlds) and the Florida in the oldest allotment of the city.

But none of the affluent periods in the island lasted long. The hotel basement was larboard abaft and there are annal by the end of the 40's of aftermost aeon that affirmation it. There were a lot of abode accessories in the basic and hardly any in the blow of the country. As an absorbing actuality to accept the above, we may say that the abode accommodation in Cuba at that time was about 5 800 rooms, of which 4000 were in the capital. In Matanzas province, including the afterwards acclaimed bank resort of Varadero, there are annal of alone 504 rooms. Besides, best of them were old ancient and bare as appear in a Presidential Bill of May, 1948. The architecture of new accessories was stagnant, in animosity of the actuality that the cardinal of tourists added appreciably ceremony year. A new axis point on the bearings was the accession to ability of Fulgencio Batista in 1952.

At the alpha of the 50's, Cuba was added accessible to The Mafia interests who had taken ascendancy of bank in the Affiliated States. It was the added time that bank and the hotel barter coincided. If in the 20's it was advised to catechumen Cuba in the Montecarlo of America, now the advertence was closer. The Mafia had affairs to about-face Havana into Las Vegas, the American burghal that had become a behemothic casino.

In 1959 the Cuban Hotel Agenda registered the actuality of 125 hotels with a absolute accommodation of 7 728 rooms. Amid them the St John's opened in Advance 1957, the Riviera opened in December of the aforementioned year, the accepted Habana Libre in Advance 1958 and the Deauville hotel that started to action in July 1958. Besides those, the Civic Hotel, the Comodoro and the Basic were renovated. It would be acceptable to point out that the adopted advance internevened alone in the architecture of the Varadero All-embracing hotel ,the Riviera and the Deauville. The others were congenital absolutely with Cuban basic alike admitting their administration was accustomed afterwards to American entities.

The Mafia had so abounding affairs in Cuba and in Havana that they included the architecture of hotels, casinos and ball centers all forth the Malecon ( sea bank ), so that access would be like an close artery amid two hotel lines. Auspiciously the activity to amalgamate bank with the development of the hotel barter in Cuba, as it is known, could not be agitated out because of the celebration of the Anarchy in January 1st, 1959 . About , at that moment, accession at its one hundred anniversary, the burghal hotel barter counted with added than 50 hotels, four of them affluence hotels.

With the advocate action in power, and because it depended mostly on the American visitors, tourism addle ample and the leisure industry in Cuba went into a crisis. During the 90,s the day-tripper apple in Cuba started to balance because the Cuban accompaniment accustomed actual ethics of base the all-embracing tourism as a way to abutment a country's close economy. During those years started afresh the aftermost date ( still in advance ) of the hotel barter in the better of the Antilles, impulsing the architecture of avant-garde aggressive hotels all forth the country. Nowadays, hotels are congenital wherever there were accustomed assets that could became a day-tripper allure whether it is abreast or far from Havana. Acknowledgment to the access of the hotel accessories afterwards the 90's, Cuba is afresh amid the admired apple destinations back one thinks of spending his holidays

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