Teens and Tweens in Cuba

Arrive in Havana, where your private driver will meet the family and transfer you to your accommodation. After time to settle in, ease into the rhythm of the city over freshly made mojitos accompanied by live Cuban music. The evening continues with a relaxed family dinner at a restaurant led by one of the island’s noted chefs, providing a warm introduction to Havana’s food and hospitality.

Spend a lively day experiencing Havana through food, music and movement. Taste local specialities while exploring Old Havana’s markets, bodegas and street-food scene before joining local musicians for an interactive drumming session. Cruise the capital’s neighbourhoods in a classic American convertible and then learn a few salsa steps together. Tonight offers a more intimate encounter with Cuban life, dining privately in a local chef’s home while hearing about their inspiration and creativity.

Leave Havana with your private driver and guide for a journey into the green landscapes of Viñales, where dramatic limestone formations rise above farms and fields. Pause for a traditional Cuban lunch overlooking the valley before exploring tobacco country with a local farmer. Enjoy freshly ground coffee, travel by oxcart to a family-run farm and watch an experienced cigar maker demonstrate the craft behind Cuba’s celebrated cigars. Return to Havana for dinner that evening.

Begin with an immersive family cooking experience, gathering herbs and spices with local farmers before preparing Cuban dishes alongside experienced chefs. Continue to Hemingway’s former Havana home for a glimpse into the writer’s years on the island. Later, subject to availability, meet female hip-hop and jazz duo Reyna y Real for a private performance and conversation about their music, social themes and creative influences. Finish the day over dinner in a restored historic setting.

Begin with an immersive family cooking experience, gathering herbs and spices with local farmers before preparing Cuban dishes alongside experienced chefs. Continue to Hemingway’s former Havana home for a glimpse into the writer’s years on the island. Later, subject to availability, meet female hip-hop and jazz duo Reyna y Real for a private performance and conversation about their music, social themes and creative influences. Finish the day over dinner in a restored historic setting.

Head into the countryside surrounding Trinidad for a closer look at rural Cuban life. Visit a private coffee farm to learn how beans are cultivated, harvested and roasted before tasting coffee prepared close to its source. Continue with a moderately challenging waterfall hike, with the opportunity to swim beneath the cascade, followed by lunch at a small ecological restaurant in a family home. Later, unwind on a nearby beach at sunset before returning for your farewell dinner.

Enjoy breakfast before leaving Trinidad and beginning the drive back across the island to Havana. Watch Cuba’s countryside pass by one final time as you return to the capital for your departure flight. Your family journey concludes after a week combining Havana’s music and street life, the rural landscapes of Viñales, snorkelling on the southern coast and the colonial character and natural surroundings of Trinidad.