Hotel La Rusa

Russian émigré Magdalena Rovieskuya once posted aid to Castro's rebels up in the Sierra Maestra. La Rusa hit Baracoa in the 1930s, built a seafront hotel and welcomed guests like Errol Flynn, Che Guevara and Fidel Castro. After Rovieskuya's death in 1978, it became a more modest (if bright pink) government-run joint with sad little single beds and a rundown lobby.