Havana Jazz Plaza Festival 2025,
40th Edition
Damara Estévez Bresó
October 30, 2024
- info@saguaservicestravel.com
- 3148 NW 72 Ave, Miami, FL 33122
- Fla. Seller of Travel Ref. No. ST40733
$1,999.00 – $4,256.00
HIGHLIGHTS:
HAVANA
6 DAYS / 5 NIGHTS
The captivating city of Havana, Cuba, one of the 7 Wonder Cities of the World, will welcome readers, authors, publishers, librarians and celebrities to the XXXIII Havana International Book Fair. It is considered the largest cultural festival on the island, and the event with the highest attendance in Cuba. It is one of the biggest book parties in the World. Authors hold lectures and interact with fans, but the event is much more than that. It also involves music concerts, art exhibitions, fun, educational activities for children, theatre plays, film screenings, dance performances and food. You will always find a public eager for books and knowledge, like nowhere else in the world.
Join us on this adventure! Enjoy inspiring poetry readings as you get captured by the historical, architectural, and cultural charms of this great city and its people.
Guaranteed departures:
To guarantee the departure of this group tour, a minimum of 4 people is required.
Don’t worry if you are traveling alone or with a friend. You can reserve your package for only $100 per person and once the departure is confirmed continue paying the balance due.
Te Esperamos!
Sagua Services & Travel (SST) offers opportunities to travel legally to Cuba under the OFAC General License category “Support for the Cuban People,” 31 CFR § 515.574.
Our programs include activities intended to strengthen civil society in Cuba and constitute a fulltime schedule that enhances contact with the Cuban people, and results in meaningful interactions between you and the locals.
HAVANA
Welcome to Havana, the most literate country in America! Here is where your adventure begins. Meet your friendly guide and driver who will take you to your accommodation in the city center. Once you check-in and settle in, take your time to enjoy the surroundings. Be ready to enjoy a delicious welcome dinner at a private Cuban paladar while getting familiar with the ambiance and warmth of the Cuban people. Return to your lodging once you finish.
Meals Included: Dinner
HAVANA
HAPPY SAINT VALENTINE’S DAY! The book party will take place at its usual main headquarters in the cultural complex Morro Cabaña, one of the America’s oldest standing fortresses. Other spaces will be the sub–headquarters, Pabellón Cuba, and some squares of the Historical Center of Old Havana, an area that was declared by UNESCO a World Heritage Site.
Fairground doors open at 10am, so after breakfast get ready to visit the main venue. Enjoy the site and meet people who share your love for books. At noon, your guide and driver will pick you up to take you to have lunch at a local private paladar.
After lunch, take your bottle of water in hand and walk along Obispo, a famous street where you will explore the urban fabric of Havana and may find several bookstores with hidden literary talent that you will not find almost anywhere.
Continue walking up to the Central Park and prepare to explore Modern Havana. Do it in style! The finest and most elegant American classic cars will take you on a panoramic tour of emblematic places in Havana like the Revolution Square. Drive around the outskirts of the lush Almendares Park, the Malecón, the seafront promenade, Vedado and Nuevo Vedado districts, and the Colon Cemetery. This unforgettable old car tour will take almost two hours and end at your accommodation’s door. Take some time to relax and be ready at 8:30PM, to enjoy a lovely dinner accompanied with live music to celebrate friendship and love.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
HAVANA
Rise and shine! Finish your succulent breakfast and get ready. On this day you will visit the National Library Jose Marti, named after our national hero. This institution is more than a century old. It is the repositary of the documentary, bibliographic, artistic, and sound heritage treasure of Cuba, as well as the most representative of universal culture. It offers researchers, students, teachers, and readers in general the possibility of interacting with Cuban cultural, scientist and artist creation to increase the contribution to national and universal culture. Enjoy time at the library and later on have lunch at a local private paladar.
In the afternoon visit the other venues. We highly recommend Pabellón Cuba as it offers a concert program of excellence during the bookfair. Return to accomodation at convenience. Your driver and guide will inform pick up time for dinner. After dinner return to accomodation for a nice rest.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
HAVANA
On your 4th day in Havana, after having breakfast, you will have free time to visit once again the main venue of the event and participate in colloquiums, tributes, panels, conferences, readings, awards, and book presentations included in the program of activities. You will be picked up by your driver and guide at a meeting point to visit the Callejon de Hamel and have a delicious creole traditional meal in the paladar of the project. Afterwards enjoy street art, much of it executed with recycled materials, and a hypnotic live rumba show. Around 4PM you may return to your accommodation to have a shower and take some rest.
After dinner, enjoy your night at leisure.
Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
HAVANA
On your last day in Cuba, after breakfast, you will visit Finca Vigía, home and museum of 1954 Nobel Prize winner Ernest Hemingway. During the time he lived there he wrote many of his most renowned works. Take a stroll around its garden to see its pet cemetery, his fishing boat and the pool where Ava Gardner bathed naked.
Lunch today has been excluded from the program cost, so you can decide where to enjoy it on your own and return to accommodation at convenience. Be ready at 8PM for dinner time with live music. Don’t be sad. This is not an ADIOS CUBA!, but an HASTA PRONTO!
Meals Included: Breakfast & Dinner
HAVANA
Hello! Helloooooo!!! This morning you can pack your suitcase and all those souvenirs you have bought for your loved ones. The driver will pick you up 3 hours before your scheduled departure flight time to take you to the airport. Remember to have your passport, airline ticket and all your belongings by hand.
Our SAGUA TEAM wishes you an excellent flight back home!
Meals Included: Breakfast
In case there is any activity of the program that for reasons beyond our control is not available on the scheduled date, our company will offer a second alternative to replace it.
As specified above, Flight tickets and Travel Insurance are not included, but SST team may assist you with the booking process if needed. Take into account that an extra fee of $50.00 USD will be charged for operating expenses.
Cuba requires all visitors to have travel insurance at the time of entry to the island to cover their entire stay. Please note that SST will book your flight ticket and travel insurance directly through the airline depending on their availability for the scheduled date. Most of these airline tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE. If you cancel your trip, the amount paid for the airline ticket and the travel insurance will not be refunded.
SST assists its clients in the choice and purchase of the travel insurance plans, limiting itself only to the assistance during the purchase and not to the implementation of said plans. Therefore, in case of unforeseen circumstances, you should contact your insurance company directly.
To acquire your Travel Visa, you can purchase it directly at the airport during your check-in process. In case you want it to be included in your package, please contact our team. An extra fee of $125.00 USD per visa will be added and you will receive your visa at the address you request. We only ship within the United States. Note it will arrive blank for you to fill out with your passport information. This tourist card is valid for 30 days. Make sure you do not misplace it while in Cuba since you cannot leave the country without it, and please, do not detach the two separate sides. Customs in Cuba is responsible for this.
Prices shown above are per room taking into account single and double occupancy.
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Essential travel documents you must bring with you in order to travel stress-free and get the most from your visit.
A valid passport is required for the entirety of your trip. Make sure it has six months validity at the time of entry.
Cuba requires that all arriving travelers, except Cuban born travelers, have a Tourist Card or Visa to enter the country. If you are flying to Cuba via the US or you are a US citizen, then you will need a “pink” Visa. For those who travel from the rest of the world to Cuba, they will need a “green” one. You can get your visa online or purchase it at the airport during check-in for your flight. If you are a US passport holder residing in the United States you can also purchase it from us. We ship only within the US. Note it will arrive blank for you to fill out with your passport information. This tourist card is valid for 90 days. Make sure you do not misplace it while in Cuba since you cannot leave the country without it, and please, do not detach the two separate sides. Customs in Cuba is responsible for this.
Cuba requires all visitors to have a travel medical insurance at the time of entry to the island to cover their entire stay. Most of the U.S. airlines that fly directly to Cuba give you the option of purchasing it at the moment of booking your flight ticket. SST assists its clients in the choice and purchase of the travel insurance plans if needed, limiting itself only to the assistance during the purchase and not to the implementation of said plans. Therefore, in case of unforeseen circumstances, you should contact your insurance company directly.
Make sure to buy a roundtrip ticket or have onward travel from Cuba if you are buying one-way. US airlines flying to Cuba: American Airlines (AA), Southwest (WN) and Delta (DL). SST assists its clients with the airline ticket booking process if required. Please, take into account that your flight ticket will be booked directly through the airline depending on their availability for the scheduled date. Most of these airline tickets are NON-REFUNDABLE. If you cancel your trip, the amount paid for the airline ticket and the travel insurance will not be refunded.
This is an Advance Traveler Information form. As it is mandatory for each traveler to fill out the form, it is available in several languages and must be filled out 48 to 72 hours prior to arrival. It results in a QR code to be presented digitally or printed, in order to facilitate transit through customs. Access through this link, click Top Right Hand ‘Lenguaje’ tab for the dropdown language menu and choose Ingles/ English which will instantly translate the page for you. Then, follow the instructions. If you need more help filling out the form, check out our complete guide on how to fill out the D’Viajeros Travel Form.
If you are visiting the island and staying on your own, you will probably find that most of the private casas in Cuba do not have wi-fi service available, so guests usually go to the nearest hotels, buy an internet card and access the service in the hotel lobby. If this is too complicated for you, CUBACELTUR has the perfect solution. You can get a temporary phone line with internet access plans for an additional cost.
Note that CUBACELTUR is a service offered by ETECSA, the Cuban telephone operator. Sagua Services & Travel does not benefit from this operator. It only provides information for its clients.
Sagua Services & Travel offers a simple and flexible travel payment plan to make it easy for you.
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