The Cuba Experience : Cuba Holidays
blau costa verde + occidental miramar

blau costa verde + occidental miramar

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club amigo atlantico guardalavaca + comodoro bungalows

club amigo atlantico guardalavaca + comodoro bungalows

13 Nights £699 »

comodoro bungalows + bella costa

comodoro bungalows + bella costa

13 Nights £799 »

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On your Cuba Holidays you will find out that Cuba is a museum on wheels.


Only on your Cuba Holidays you will have the unique opportunity of travelling in time and have a magic encounter with the stronger Buick, the traditional Chevrolet, the expensive Ford, the post-war huge Cadillac, the British and aerodynamic Jaguar, the beautiful Mercedes Benz, the lustrous Desoto and the brighten Plymouth. All these jewels made of Cuba your first choice on this Caribbean Holidays full of adventure and road experiences. On your holidays in Cuba you can be one of the hundred of speed and tradition lover of the road. As faithful romantics of the highways, drivers in Cuba of well-known American-made antiques cars know all the secrets about them, as a token of unconditional love and as part of your all inclusive holidays in Cuba, you can meet them and more spectacular than that have the unique opportunity that your summer holidays give you: to appreciate their wonderful classic cars. Bystanders get dazzled as they roar by, flashing elegant black paint and chrome coats in the engine, the hubs, headlights and honks. Their powerful engines start revving up and make people turn their necks, looking for that majestic rooming machine that's about the conqueror the roads. From you Cuba Hotels you can see them passed by, the Macorina Shuddery, men in Cuba who put their fortunes on the line, spent time and eventually worked the kinks out of a might 41 Chevrolet to keep it rolling, pamper their hog cars as trophies of what homemade technology can actually do. They make an exhibition once in a month, however, you will see those beautiful cars spruce up lots of sport activities likened to motor racing, whether it is carting or motorcycles. They are also seen in carnival parades, fairs, tradeshows and other social functions. On those activities you can meet the owners of this magnificent cars and this is a five star possibility to take pictures of them in order to astonish your friend when you will be home after enjoying this amazing Cuba Holidays. This is an experienced to be lived on your Caribbean Holidays.

Some about its history: a unique opportunity of your Holidays in Cuba.


If you area fan of those unique classical cars you surely know that this well-known car trademark; Pontiac, was named after an American Indian Chief that started a rebellion back in 1763 on the settings of what is nowadays the city of Detroit on the United States of America. The attempt of this brave Indian failed however, almost two hundred years after this episode one of the most powerful automotive industry of the world baptised on his behalf one of its Product and that is how its was born on 1926, The Pontiac division of the General Motors. The State-of-the-art technology, comfort, elegance and original design have simply made them unique and peerless. The ones that area still on Cuba's road are samples of how their owners love them because they do not matter about time, technology they keep them as they exactly were many years ago and you can be they witness as enjoying your holidays to Cuba. Mechanics admire the many hog cars that still roam the streets and avenues of Cuba –over a hundred of them in Havana alone- and the advanced technological breakthroughs they came equipped with at the time.

Only on your Caribbean holidays in Cuba you will know more about the history of the Pontiac cars. There were mainly created for the middle-lower segment of the market, it was the option between Chevrolet and Oldsmobile. The Pontiac was a functional and sober car without great luxury but with the strength that was not present on the Chevy's. The arrival of the first Pontiac to Cuba happened over a century ago, according to record books kept at the country's Customs Office Headquarters. Today, these marvellous four-wheelers are labelled as old-vintage vehicles, especially for their roaring sound, bulky shape and one-and-only design line rather than for their comfort and elegance. Once you are spending your Cuba Holidays you can take pictures of those beautiful antique cars and take a ride on them, these will be an unforgettable moment to be experienced on your luxury holidays in Cuba.


Being part of an extraordinary family on this summer holidays in Cuba


Once you meet the members of the Macorina Shuddery as part of your package holidays you will know that Cuba's Classic Car Club is an amazing project. The Communitarian Cultural Project of La Macorina was named in order to honour the first woman that drive a car in Cuba and it was founded six years ago in an effort to rescue and preserve old-timed vehicles from years of relentless impairment, and to keep this larger-than-life treasure of the history of world's driving up and running. "Antique cars stand for what men managed to conquer some decades ago from a technological standpoint," says Mr. Lorenzo Verdecia, one of the members of this one of a kind movement. La Macorina first started as a club but it was limited as an exclusive group therefore; the Communitarian Cultural Project was created in order to gather members from all over the island. On this Cuba Holidays you will discover the other reasons of why this project is a Communitarian one because it is on the community where the small workshops and garage are and the owners of these beautiful masterpieces of cars also belong to the community. Meeting the persons that with daily devotion take care of their cars preserving them from time is a job that is worth to be admiring on this Cuba Holidays. That is why; visiting places like Marianao, Santos Suarez, Guanabacoa, Santiago de las Vegas among others is a trip that you have to do if you want to add adventure to your Caribbean Holidays in Cuba.


After becoming part of this huge family as part of your all inclusive holidays in Cuba, you can take part of the family meeting that every second Sunday of each month occurs on the Bello Caribe Hotel, one of the most beautiful of the Cuban Hotels, in order to reinforce the origin of this projects. They also teach seminars and conferences regarding the classic car topics. It will be an unforgettable experience full of new ideas and thanks to it you can be witness of the love they dedicate to their cars with the main objective of creating a family legacy worth to be enjoyed and preserved.

On your luxury holiday admiring the charming of the brotherhood that joint this Communitarian Cultural Project takes new dimensions as adding to the sponsor entities that help the children that suffer from cancer on the hospital of the city. Making of this summer holidays something different will be driving one of these beautiful cars while admiring the wonderful scenery that offers La Lisa the territory where the first automotive competition took place in Cuba on the year 1903.After enjoying this Cuba Holidays you will have that every time that you speak about Cuba to mention not only its rum, tobacco and braches but also its old cars as Cuba has the biggest reservoir of American cars in the world. During this Cuba Holidays you will also have the unique possibility of meeting in person to Mr. Elias Regalado, the Cuban Champion of Automotive competitions. He won on the 1955 Sagua la Grande to Havana circuit as well as, Pinar del Rio to Havana one, he is consider a live heritage of the Cuban Automotive. While knowing Cuba on one of these old and beautiful cars you will realize that there were made from the 1920s to the 1960s and they are still rolling in Cuba. Every one of them set up their own style from the very beginning, a design line that soon captured the minds and the hearts of thousands of people from around the world and we bet that you are one of them and that is why you have chosen Cuba for spending your Caribbean holidays.

Speed and tradition: a marvellous mix for your all inclusive holidays in Cuba.


You can also notice while you are on your all inclusive holidays in Cuba not only that the fact that antique cars from the 1930s and 1940s are still roving up and down Cuba's streets is owned to the talent and boldness of Cuban mechanics and drivers, but also that the celebrated resourcefulness of the Cuban people as far as keeping classic cars running is concerned –regardless of scarcity or total absence of spare parts, motors and accessories- have prompted many experts to call Cuba a museum on wheels that still makes people from elsewhere get at their wits' ends. And you are enjoying this museum on wheels because you make the right decision of visiting Cuba and make it an unforgettable Cuba Holidays.

On your Cuba holidays you also have the possibility of reading a magazine calls SENDAS, that deals with everything related to the road, cars, bikes among plenty of other things and on one of its editions there is an interview with Mr Lorenzo Verdecia and there it talks regarding to this topic of the lack of spare parts: "Many times we've found ourselves with no parts at all, but we haven't given up," Mr. Verdecia points out. "We're bound to transform or make pistons from modern cars fit in the engines. We've been forced, for instance, to use spare parts from Japanese cars and Russian-made trucks. Right now, however, we've got plenty of experience to make any part fit in the Chevy. This is the result of the patient and toilsome work of mechanics, engineers, physicians, lawyers, you name it. We always come up with fresh ideas, we exchange those ideas and creativeness is the name of the game here." Your Cuba holidays also offers you to be subscripted to this magazine and can be send to your country and this is a possibility of knowing what happens in Cuba in matters of antique cars and this can be only achieved on your Holidays in Cuba.

Defying Time and Imagination: a choice given to you on your Cuba Holidays.


Thanks to your excellent choice of making yours this Cuba holidays you can be part of a multitude of curious people swarm over the "All in One" Park in Varadero, events that takes part once in a month. Organizers of a makeshift fair always present an exhibition of Old cars as some driver's starts making bold manoeuvres on their classical vehicles.. Next to eye-popped tourists waiting for a chance to take a picture of the old machines, Cubans of yesterday and today pause to take a good long look.

This unique show also comes around every third Sunday of each month in the surroundings of La Maison, Havana's fashion house, organized by Cuba's Classic Cars Club and you can be there while spending your holidays in Cuba. On this event, you will also see, as part of your all inclusive holidays in Cuba, an exhibition of old cars mixed with a huge fashion parade. This wonderful Sunday will come to your mind as a beautiful memory of your holidays in Cuba. Taking pictures of these beauties is a unique chance given to you by your holidays in Cuba. You will see how they slowly exhibit that time do not affects beauty, it only gives more experience and value as it happens in women, and as if they were are treated by their owners as you can see in this unforgettable summer holidays.

Whenever an event like this takes place anywhere on the island nation, you can be there if you chose Cuba for spending your Caribbean holidays. Once you are there you can see that long and colourful line that this beauty form like they were dancing in front of you eyes, as a parade of old ladies that resemble to be younger thanks to the love and care of its owners. Some drivers in Cuba, though, drive up to 250 miles to proudly showcase their cars, a token of true love on four wheels by those who are willing to defy time and adversity altogether. So if you like that the wind refresh your face and that your hair moves as it likes thanks to the speed of classic car, come to Cuba on your luxury holidays, and you will see that our antique cars are more beautiful and valuable as they get older. But always remember what all Cuban drivers know and practice that alcohol does not mix with wheels because the price can be too high to be paid. So, now that you know all the history and quality of these ancient "girls" come to Cuba on your luxury holidays and once you hear its characteristic sound you will know that it is worth a tried to spend an unbelievable Cuba Holidays.

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