Prepare yourself! The vista from this pastel-pink colonial-style hotel is one of the best in Cuba. Open the shutters of your classic valley-facing room and drink in the shimmering sight of magnificent mogotes (limestone monoliths), red oxen-plowed fields and palm-frond-covered tobacco-drying houses. Although the facilities are long overdue a refurbishment, the location is unrivaled and there's a gloriously inviting swimming pool.
Handy extras include an international medical clinic, a massage room and a small shop/market. The setting comes at a cost: bus tours stop off here almost hourly, thus eroding some of the ethereal ambience. The hotel is walkable from Viñales: 4km south on the Pinar del Río road. The Viñales tour bus also stops here.
