Hotel Conde de Villanueva
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Hotel Conde de Villanueva Interior View
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Junior Suite Room
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Restaurant at Conde de Villanueva Hotel
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In Cubaism’s opinion, the Hotel Conde de
Villanueva runs a very close second to the Hotel Santa Isabel and indeed
some of our clients prefer it for its quieter location. The building is
the pretty little mansion of Claudio Martínez de Pinillos, Count of
Villanueva, the leader of Cuban Creole society in the nineteenth
century. It was restored and is now run by the Office of the City
Historian of Havana, so all its profits are reinvested in the
restoration of the city’s historical centre.
The Hotel Conde de Villanueva has been designed for the special enjoyment of cigar smokers - each of the rooms is named after a famous Cuban tobacco plantation, and the very best cigar shop in the city is tucked away secretly in the mezzanine floor of the hotel. Passionate aficionados can even rent their own personal humidor there, rather like a vault in a Swiss bank. However, you don’t have to be a smoker to enjoy the colonial courtyard full of flowers and mahogany rocking chairs, and the fact that the hotel only has nine rooms causes our more discerning clients to book the whole place for themselves and their friends when they come to Havana for special parties. The Hotel Conde de Villanueva is on the corner of Mercaderes and Lamparilla streets in Old Havana, about 2 minutes’ walk from all the most important places to visit in the historical center |
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Details of Standard room
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Standard rooms at the Conde de Villanueva
are very pleasant with the same elegant furnishing style as the suite
and junior suite. Whilst the rooms are less spacious than the suites
they are far from cramped, and the general ambience of the hotel is so
agreeable that we at Cubaism consider these some of Old Havana’s most
attractive standard options.
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Details of Junior Suite room
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Junior suites at the Conde de Villanueva
are wonderfully grand with incredibly high ceilings and elegant, rather
masculine dark green upholstery and bedspreads. They have good
Colonial-style furniture, beautiful original chandeliers and French
windows to private balconies accessed through charming arched window
recesses. The bathrooms are spacious and there are very attractive
traditional stained glass panels set into the walls dividing bathroom
from bedroom, which glow with colour when the bathroom lights are
switched on.
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