Airbnb Offers Lodging Options to Travelers to Cuba Nicole Akoukou Thompson - Latin Post
go to original April 18, 2015

Welcoming Cuba to the Airbnb Community (Airbnb)

The San Francisco-based community-driven, home-rental marketplace Airbnb features property listings located in more than 34,000 cities and 190 countries. And the latest nation to open its doors to U.S. travelers via Airbnb is Cuba.

According to reports, more than 1,000 properties across Cuba have been listed for U.S. visitors who are eager to tour the nation for private and/or business purposes. Forty percent of the properties listed on the site are located in the nation's capital, Havana. And Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, popular tourist destinations, also offer housing to tourists visiting the island.

Cuba already has a pre-existing network of affordable homestays ("casa particulares"), which have existed in Cuba since the early 1990s. Entire apartments and private rooms are made available for a little as $27 per night. And attractive colonial homes or renovated pre-war apartments in Old Havana, and long-standing houses in the 500-year old town of Trinidad, have been made available for $36 an evening. Airbnb has tapped into that network.

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