Flex Cuba Tour (TK221)
Highlights:
• Transportation with Turkish Airlines • 7 Nights Accommodation • Cienfuegos & Santa Clara Tour Included! • 3 Lunches Included! • 3 Nights All-Inclusive Accommodation!Istanbul – Havana
We meet at Istanbul New Airport's international departures terminal three hours before the flight. After baggage, ticket, and boarding procedures, our flight to Havana begins with a scheduled Turkish Airlines service. Upon arrival in Havana, we transfer to our private vehicle waiting for us at the airport and head to our hotel. Accommodation at our hotel in Havana and free time.
Havana
After the breakfast we will have at the hotel, the rest of the day is free. For our guests who wish, departure from the hotel for the extra Vinales Valley & Pinar del Rio & Indian Cave with Lunch (130 Euro) tour. We head to Vinales Valley, which is on the UNESCO World Heritage list and where the tobacco used in the world-famous Cuban cigars is grown. After approximately a 3-hour journey, we visit Vinales city center, tobacco fields, and a local tobacco farm. In the continuation of our tour, we have lunch at the restaurant located in the middle of the valley. Then, heading to Pinar del Rio, we will get to know up close the cigar-making process and culture in the factories where Cuban cigars are officially produced. Guests who wish can buy original Cuban cigars here. At the end of the day, after sipping our drinks on the hill with a view that dominates the entire Vinales Valley, we return to Havana. After the tour, transfer to our hotel and free time.
Havana
After the breakfast we will have at the hotel, the rest of the day is free time. For those who wish, departure from the hotel for the extra Havana Tour in the Footsteps of the Revolution with Lunch and American Classic Cars (125 Euro). We start this tour with classic American cars, imported from the United States from the end of 1958 until the Cuban Revolution, and which, due to the embargo imposed afterward, were never again allowed into the country and are still actively used today. After a short ride through the streets of Cuba in these colorful vehicles, we will see the neighborhood of Jose Fuster, also known as the Picasso of Cuba, which he decorated throughout his life with paintings, ceramics, and drawings and transformed into an open-air exhibition. After this excursion, we will see Hamel Street, the center of modern artists, named after Fernando Hamel. Then we visit the home of Cuba’s legendary hero Che Guevara, from where we can see Havana from above. We have lunch at a local restaurant. After lunch, we continue our tour to Prado Avenue, one of Havana’s most enjoyable streets. We will visit the Museum of the Revolution, which was used as a palace during the Batista regime and was opened to the public as a museum after the revolution. At the Museum of the Revolution, Cuba’s largest museum, we will be able to see weapons, uniforms, and items from the periods of the Cuban War of Independence and the Cuban Revolution. After the tour, transfer to our hotel and free time.
Havana
After breakfast at the hotel, the entire day will be free at leisure. For our guests who wish, we will take an optional Ernest Hemingway Tour with Lunch (100 Euro) to Cojimar, a small Cuban fishing village 20 minutes away from Havana, where the famous writer Ernest Hemingway, who spent 20 years in Cuba, wrote his famous novel “The Old Man and the Sea” and had his lunches. After “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” we will visit La Finca, the house at the magnificent La Vigia farm he acquired and began living in, now used as the Hemingway Museum. We will have lunch at a local restaurant.
Havana – Cienfuegos – Trinidad
After breakfast at the hotel, we set off for Cienfuegos, one of Cuba’s most beautiful cities. We have lunch at a local restaurant. After the meal, we visit the beautiful city of Cienfuegos, founded by French settlers in 1819 and protected by UNESCO in 2005. We will see Jose Marti Park, the Tomas Terry Theater surrounding the park, and the government offices of Colegio de San Lorenzo. After touring the city, we head to Trinidad. After a pleasant journey, transfer to our hotel in Trinidad and free time. All-inclusive accommodation at our hotel.
Trinidad – Santa Clara – Varadero
After the breakfast we will have at the hotel, we will closely get to know the city of Trinidad, which was enriched by sugar production between the 18th and 19th centuries, is a source of pride for Cubans, and is the best-preserved example of Colonial period architecture in the world, listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. As we walk through its stone streets, we will feel as if we are traveling back in time, and we will cool off by drinking Canchanchara, a mix of lime juice, honey, and Cuban rum, which is unique to Trinidad. Then, the Villa Santa Clara tour with lunch, the city that is the most important front of the Cuban Revolution and where Che was turned into a legend. After our lunch, during our city tour, we will see the armored train museum park, seized by the legendary Comandante Che Guevara and carrying almost all the ammunition of Batista’s armies, and Parque Vidal, where bullet marks can still be seen on the old Hilton Hotel even today, where the fiercest part of the war took place, and we will feel those days more closely. We will see the Mausoleum of Che Guevara, who, while leading a small guerrilla group, was captured wounded in Bolivia on October 9, 1967 and executed, and whose remains were brought back and buried 30 years later, as well as the monument written in cuneiform script with the famous farewell letter of “El Che” and his statue. After our excursion in Santa Clara, we set off toward Varadero, transfer to our hotel in Varadero and free time. Accommodation at our all-inclusive hotel.
Beach resort
After the breakfast we will have at the hotel, free time all day. If you wish, you can enjoy the sea and sun on Varadero’s magnificent beaches, or spend pleasant time at our hotel where we will stay on an all-inclusive basis. Accommodation at our hotel.
Varadero – Havana – Istanbul
After the early breakfast we will have at the hotel, we check out of the rooms. Then we depart for Havana. Upon our arrival, we begin our city tour. During our excursion, we will see Old Havana, listed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, Malecon Boulevard, Revolution Square, Colon Cemetery, Miramar, and Morro Castle, where you can view the city from a bird’s-eye perspective. We have our lunch at a local restaurant. Free time after the tour. At the time your guide will announce, we depart for Havana airport. After baggage, ticket, and boarding procedures, we begin our flight to Istanbul on Turkish Airlines’ scheduled service. We spend the night on the plane.
Istanbul
The end of our tour and services upon our arrival at Istanbul New Airport, local time.
What's Included
✅ Turkish Airlines scheduled flights economy class flight ticket for Istanbul(IST) - Havana(HAV) outbound, Havana(HAV) - Istanbul(IST) return
✅ Airport taxes
✅ 4 nights accommodation with breakfast in a 5* hotel in Havana
✅ 1 night all-inclusive accommodation in a 5* hotel in Trinidad
✅ 2 nights all-inclusive accommodation in a 5* hotel in Varadero
✅ Airport-hotel-airport transfers
✅ Havana City Tour with Lunch
✅ Cienfuegos city tour with Lunch
✅ Santa Clara tour with Lunch
✅ Trinidad City Tour
✅ 3 lunches
✅ All city transfers with our private buses
✅ Professional Turkish and English guiding services
✅ Hotel taxes
✅ TURSAB professional liability insurance
Not Included
❌ Mandatory travel health insurance
❌ Domestic connecting flight ticket
❌ Cuba visa fee, service charge
❌ Lunch and dinner not specified in the program
❌ All kinds of personal expenses and hotel extras
❌ Extra tours
❌ International departure tax
❌ Driver tips 10 Euro / per person (optional)
ACCOMMODATION NOTES & FLIGHT DETAILS
o Hotel check-in times are between 15:00 – 17:00 / check-out times are between 10:00 – 12:00.
o Departure and arrival times are local times.
o Flights marked with * arrive at the destination on the calendar day after the departure date.
o Please ask for domestic connection details and price differences.
o Prices are not valid for groups; please ask for our special prices.
TK221 21JUN ISTHAV 1550 2130
TK222 28JUN HAVIST 2315 1755*
TK221 10JUL ISTHAV 1550 2130
TK222 17JUL HAVIST 2315 1755*
TK221 24JUL ISTHAV 1550 2130
TK222 31JUL HAVIST 2315 1755*
TK221 25OCT ISTHAV 1535 2145
TK222 01NOV HAVIST 2330 1810*
TK221 06NOV ISTHAV 1535 2145
TK222 13NOV HAVIST 2230 1810*
TK221 27NOV ISTHAV 1535 2045
TK222 04DEC HAVIST 2230 1810*
TK221 04DEC ISTHAV 1535 2045
TK222 11DEC HAVIST 2230 1810*
IMPORTANT NOTES
Our tour program is organized with a minimum participation of 20 people. If sufficient participation is not achieved for the trip, the final cancellation notice date is 21 days before the tour departure. Tours canceled due to insufficient participation will be notified to you through your agency.
In cases where there is insufficient participation but the tour is still carried out, English-language guiding may be provided.
In cases where only category information is provided in the tour program without specifying a name and/or there are alternatives for the same destination, the hotel(s) will be notified by your agency 48 hours before the tour departure.
During periods such as fairs, congresses, concerts, events, sports tournaments, etc., hotels may be used at a greater distance than the specified km or in a different city. In such a case, you will be notified by your agency 48 hours before the tour departure.
3-person rooms may be provided depending on hotel availability, and the bed assigned to the 3rd person in such rooms is smaller than standard beds. 3-person rooms consist of 1 large bed + 1 extra bed. Since extra beds are foldable and called coach beds, participants of the tour are deemed to have accepted the possible cramped conditions in the rooms and the bed type in 3rd person and/or child reservations. Child discounts are valid only for one child staying with 2 adults, provided the child is within the applicable age group. No bed is guaranteed for children aged 0–2.
Breakfasts included in the tour program services and taken at the hotel are offered in accordance with the breakfast culture of the country visited and generally as a limited menu called continental breakfast, consisting of butter, jam, bread, tea or coffee, and may be served in a separate hall allocated to the group for groups.
Panoramic city tours included in the tour package are tours organized for the general introduction of cities, lasting at most 2-3 hours, conducted panoramically with guide narration from inside the vehicle and not including museum or archaeological site entrances. Panoramic tours, including the other tours specified in the program, are not the responsibility of Lidya Tour if they cannot be carried out on the day and time scheduled for the tour due to reasons such as being prohibited by local authorities to visit or enter, or due to closed roads because of any event, or if weather conditions make the tour impossible. Some tours may, where possible, be conducted by public transport or on foot in places where roads are closed or vehicle access is not permitted.
Since the tour flights are group tickets, flight times may change. You can confirm the current flight details with your agency. Current times will be communicated by your agency with the tour information.
It is necessary to confirm the tour flight times before purchasing a domestic connection flight. If the guest purchased the domestic connection flight from a different product provider independently of the agency, they cannot request any refund from the agency in the event of cancellation by the agency or in case of a schedule change. The guest accepts in advance the financial and moral losses that may arise due to tour cancellation or change when purchasing the tour. Lidya Tour cannot be held responsible for this situation.
According to airline rules, if the outbound flight of tickets purchased as round-trip is not used, the return flight is canceled by the airline.
Our guests joining the tour without flights must be present at the tour starting point on their own means and without any delay. Otherwise, they will arrange all their transfers themselves.
Lidya Tour is not responsible if guests who do not arrive at the specified airport at the times announced in accordance with airline rules for participation in the tour, who do not complete check-in and boarding procedures on time, or who complete check-in and boarding on time but cannot board the plane, are unable to take the flight. All costs related to obtaining new round-trip plane tickets required for guests who miss the flight to join the tour, as well as transfers in the destination area, etc., are their own responsibility.
The personal belongings, bags, suitcases, passports / IDs of the participants in the tour are under their own responsibility, and Lidya Tour is not responsible for forgotten/lost/stolen items. In cases where forgotten items are found, there is no obligation to deliver them to the country and/or the person, and the costs incurred during delivery belong to the owner of the item.
In cases such as illness or loss/theft, since the integrity and continuity of the group is essential for the guide, the guide cannot accompany guests individually in such adverse situations.
When purchasing the tour, it is mandatory to correctly provide the name, date of birth, and passport number as stated in the passport. Air tickets are issued according to this information. Ticket cancellation and change penalty fees arising from incorrect information will be collected from you.
In some airlines, food, beverage, and online check-in services may be subject to a fee.
During the tour, seat numbers in the bus cannot be guaranteed.
During our tours, the times announced by our guide to the guests are the departure times, the time the vehicle’s wheels start turning. Our guide, who is responsible for equally protecting the rights of all our guests, will set the vehicle in motion without waiting at the meeting times. In the event of a delay, our guest will have to make their own way to the next stop.
Extra tours are organized by the local agency we work with, with a minimum participation of 20 people. If the required number is not reached, the tours cannot be carried out, or extra tour prices, content, and the vehicle to be used may change depending on the number of participants. In addition, the days and times of the tours may be changed by the guide according to the open/closed status of museums and archaeological sites at the destinations and weather conditions. A different guide may accompany our guests during extra tours.
In classic packages where extra tours are not included, extra tours are optional and not mandatory. Passengers who do not wish to join the extra tours organized during the trip are deemed to have accepted waiting at a suitable rest stop on the route. These passengers are dropped off at the roadside rest stop before the extra tour begins and picked up from the same point after the tour is completed.
In programs where extra tours are included, payment of museum & archaeological site entrance fees to your agency at the time of reservation or to the guide during the tour is mandatory.
The participant accepts in advance that they will join the tours scheduled in the tour program and will not disrupt the program, and accordingly, they will additionally pay the amount previously announced in the tour program for payments related to expenses such as local guide, museum & archaeological site entrance fees, city taxes, and audio system with headphones, if any, to the tour representative during the trip. The participant has been fully and completely informed on this matter.
Where only category information is provided and/or there is alternative information for the same destination, you can learn about the hotel(s) you will stay at 48 hours before the tour departure.
Lidya Tour is an intermediary institution between the airline and the passenger and is subject to the Hague Protocol dated 28.09.1955. On scheduled and special flights, there may be a risk of delay, or times may change before the current trip and flight. Lidya Tour is obliged to notify these changes as soon as possible. Our passengers have purchased the tour knowing and accepting that flight details may change.
VISA
There is a visa requirement for T.R. citizens. For a visa application, it is necessary to apply with a passport valid for at least 6 months from the end date of travel and with the documents specified in the “Documents Required for Visa” list.
Our guests who will travel with a T.R. green passport must renew their passports if the issue date of their passport is older than 10 years. Otherwise, they may not be accepted into the destination country and/or their flight may not be operated by the airline. In such a case, responsibility belongs to the passenger.
There is no visa requirement for green passport holders, and a passport valid for at least 6 months from the end date of travel is sufficient.
Obtaining a visa does not mean that entry to the country is guaranteed; the passport police have the authority not to let you into the country. Lidya Tour is not responsible for this situation; responsibility belongs to the passenger.
The visa information stated in the program is the information applicable to citizens of the Republic of Turkey. Guests holding a passport other than a Republic of Turkey passport must obtain visa information from the relevant consulates.
In order to avoid problems with customs police at the border gate of the country to be visited due to torn, worn, wet and/or similarly damaged passports; the mentioned passports must be renewed and, if it is a country that applies a visa for T.R. citizens, the relevant visa must be in the new passport. Otherwise, responsibility belongs to the passenger.
Since there is a possibility that our guests under 18 traveling alone or with only one parent, mother or father, may be asked by the passport control officer at entry/exit to show a document proving the joint consent of the parents, we recommend that our guests under 18 and their parents be attentive to this matter.
- Free Cancellation & Refund. · The tour can be canceled up to 24 hours before the start time.