The best Cuban Experience for us!!! Marisol is just a sweetheart - and an awesome cook! If you rather experience a piece of Cuba instead of the touristy downtown - Marisol is the best choice for you! Sure, you have to walk about 10 minutes to come to downtown Vinales - but... you don´t really have to... there are just tourist restaurants anyways. Marisols house, is right at the end of the city (practically the last house before the countryside starts). Here you can get a CocoLoco with coconuts just picked for you from their own tree, you can take a walk (with Juri! highly recommended) through the valley and you will meet no one but locals and farmers), you will get a full Cuban meal just prepared for you (you have to try her home made potato and banana chips!!!) and you can have talks with her and here family (who are living right next door) about everything and anything! If you don´t know too much Spanish, take a dictionary along... I am sure you can work it out... Marisol is a Spanish teacher... so familiar with using dictionaries for sure! I wish all of you who decide to stay with her a wonderful time!! No doubt you will have a great time, if you are not the very touristy kind of travelers. Saludos desde Austria, Judith and Hans-Jürgen P.S.: remember to take earplugs along for the roosters... they can be loud in the morning - but even in Havanna you can hear them sometimes.

This is the casa to stay at! Just came back from our trip and what we will remember most - is the welcoming and awesome people at the casas. Coming to Cuba we had only booked the room for 3 nights - and were so glad to end up at this place. Marvelys helped us with everything we needed. The room has a decent size + we loved to have a refrigerator for ourselves (+ air condition and fan). The best thing in Havanna was, to sit on the balcony of the Marvelys´house, which has a direct view on the street!!!! and sip our chilled beers. The area is very safe and not touristy at all (which we loved). Still - you will only need about 10 minutes to Old Havanna (a bit more if you take as many pictures on the way as we did - great Havana impressions :-). We will always remember Marvelys, her sister Mercedes and her mother as the nicest Havanans! P.S.: should you plan a trip to Vinales also - take Marvelys recommendation to stay a Marisol (it´s a bit outside of the town - but this is highly recommended. In downtown Vinales you will only see tourists and touristy restaurants. Marisol is an awesome cook and a great person. Note: Take a walk with Juri :-) - if you don´t mind to walk a bit, this will stay in your minds!! Judith and Hans-Jürgen