10 Best Hotels in Havana, Cuba (2026) — Old Havana & Vedado Picks

Gran Hotel Manzana Kempinski La Habana is the 5-star flagship of the Kempinski group in Cuba, which opened in 2017 in the heart of Habana Vieja, the UNESCO World Heritage old town, directly across from Parque Central. The building is the Manzana de Gómez, the first Spanish colonial-style department store in Havana, trading since 1917 before a major restoration turned it into the most expensive hotel in the country. There are 246 rooms including 50 suites, with 3.2-metre ceilings and many rooms facing the Capitolio and the square. The standout is the 5th-floor rooftop infinity pool looking out at the Capitolio dome and old-town roofs, plus the roughly 1,800 sq m Albear Spa, four restaurants including Constante Bar mixing original Cuban cocktails, and renowned-brand shops downstairs — a rarity in Cuba. From about $386 a night, 8.6/10 from real reviews. Best for luxury travelers and couples who want to stay dead-center in Old Havana with no compromise.

Iberostar Selection Parque Central is the 5-star many travelers rank near the top in Havana, sitting right on Parque Central — open the door and you step into the busiest square in Old Havana. The hotel is two buildings: the older Colonial wing facing the square and the newer Tower behind it, linked by an easy underground tunnel. Across roughly 426 rooms, choices run from standard Deluxe up to Capitol Level on the top floors, angled at the white dome of the Capitolio. The headline is the rooftop: 2 pools and a 360-degree bar taking in the Capitolio (modeled on the one in Washington DC), the Caribbean, and old rooftops running to the horizon. You can walk to every UNESCO Old Town plaza — Plaza Vieja, Plaza de la Catedral, Plaza de Armas — in under 10 minutes. The trade-offs are some dated rooms, music from the square at night, and slow Cuban internet. It scores 8.4/10, best for couples set on covering Old Havana in one trip.

Hotel Nacional de Cuba is the country's national icon, standing on the Taganana rise above the seafront Malecon in the Vedado district of central Havana. It opened in 1930 in an Art Deco-eclectic style blended with Moorish and Spanish touches, designed by the New York architecture firm McKim, Mead & White, and its twin domed towers became the postcard image of the city. Roughly 426 rooms spread across the original main building and a newer wing, with a clifftop tropical garden, 2 outdoor pools, and a back terrace where you can sip a mojito over the Caribbean all day. Past guests read like a legend list — Frank Sinatra, Winston Churchill, Ernest Hemingway, Ava Gardner, and the mob characters of The Godfather Part II. It now sits on the UNESCO Memory of the World register as national documentary heritage. From $157 a night, scoring 8.2/10 — right for anyone who wants the real classic Cuba over modern polish.

SO/ Paseo del Prado La Habana is Havana's freshest 5-star lifestyle hotel, opened in 2023 under Accor's SO/ brand. It sits on the exact corner where the city's prettiest tree-lined promenade, Paseo del Prado, meets the seafront Malecón — the north edge of Habana Vieja. Across its 250 rooms, many have floor-to-ceiling glass framing the Caribbean. The interiors are playful-luxury work by Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la Prada, all bold color set against the building's old colonial bones. The piece every review fixates on is the rooftop infinity pool and the Cuban Vibes bar, with the sea on one side and Old Havana's rooftops running to the horizon on the other. It's about an 8-minute walk to the Capitolio, 15 minutes to Plaza Vieja, and a 30-40-minute drive from HAV airport. Best for couples and design lovers who want something new in Havana's most atmospheric quarter.

Meliá Cohiba is a 23-storey white-and-grey contemporary tower with 462 rooms in the Vedado district, open since 1995 under the Spanish Meliá chain. It sits right on Paseo, so the Malecón — Havana's legendary seafront drive — is about a 5-minute walk, and the 1930s landmark Hotel Nacional is roughly 10 minutes on foot. What earns it a spot as one of Cuba's safest bets is service and food that run clearly above the city's state-hotel average: 6 restaurants, an outdoor pool, a spa, a gym, and the in-house Habana Café nightclub known for live music and shows. Rates start around $143 a night and the overall score is 8.4/10 (Agoda 8.3, Booking 8.5). Best for business travelers and couples who want an international-standard stay in a city where everything else is still analog.

Meliá Habana is a 5-star, 397-room resort from the Spanish Meliá group, set in the Miramar/Playa district on the western edge of Havana. It sits right on Avenida 3ra, facing the Caribbean, in the same leafy zone as the city's embassies and the Convention Center — far quieter than the heart of Old Havana. The feature reviewers mention most is the set of 3 connected freshwater pools, the largest hotel pools in Havana, ringed by palms and a thatched palapa bar. Rooms run a contemporary cream-and-brown colonial palette; Premium rooms on the upper floors look straight out to sea, while The Level is a special floor with its own check-in lobby and breakfast included. A free shuttle runs into Old Havana several times a day, and José Martí airport is about a 20-minute drive. Rates start around $186 a night.

Iberostar Selection La Habana is the newest trump card in Cuba's hotel scene, opened in early 2025 on Calle 23 in the heart of Vedado. It rises as a slim glass tower of 42 floors and 155 metres — currently the tallest building in the country. The headline draw is the SkyBar on floor 41, which opens onto a panorama of the Malecon curving along the Caribbean. There are two pools on different levels — a big one mid-building on floor 3 and a rooftop plunge pool on floor 42 — plus a large spa, several restaurants and around 600 rooms, many facing straight out to sea. In a city where most buildings are over a hundred years old, staying somewhere brand-new and fully kitted out is an experience you can't get anywhere else in Havana. It scores 8.3/10, starts at roughly $170 a night, and suits couples and luxury travelers who want to soak up the old-city charm from a modern base.

Mystique Regis Habana by Royalton is an adults-only 5-star boutique with just 61 rooms, set on Paseo del Prado — the prettiest street in Havana — between Habana Vieja and Centro Habana. The building dates to the early 20th century, around 1910, and has been fully restored: original floral floor tiles, wrought-iron railings and high ceilings stay, paired with modern emerald-green-and-gold furniture for a glamorous period feel. Most rooms face Paseo del Prado with a private wrought-iron balcony where you can watch Cuban life walk by. It is a 3-minute walk to El Capitolio, 5 minutes to Parque Central and about 8 minutes to the seafront Malecón; José Martí airport (HAV) is a 30–40 minute drive. Rooms start around $200 a night at the upscale-boutique tier, and it earns a 8.5/10 overall — a good fit for couples and travelers who want privacy in the old town over a big hotel.

Hotel Sevilla Habana Affiliated by Meliá is a 1908 Moorish-Mudejar building in the heart of Habana Vieja on the leafy Paseo del Prado. Its 178 rooms spread across 9 floors dressed in Andalusian mosaic tile, horseshoe arches and a central courtyard whose glass ceiling drops daylight in like an old Vienna lobby. It has welcomed famous guests for a century — Enrico Caruso, Josephine Baker and Graham Greene, who wrote it into Our Man in Havana. The location is close to perfect: next to Museo de la Revolución, a few minutes' walk to Capitolio Nacional, El Floridita and Bodeguita del Medio, Hemingway's legendary bars. On the 9th floor a rooftop pool and Roof Garden bar look out over the golden Capitolio dome and the rooftops of Habana Vieja running down to the bay. Reviewers single out the breakfast as the best around. Overall 8.2/10 — built for couples and history-minded travelers who value a building's story and its address.

Hotel Inglaterra is the oldest hotel in Cuba, running since 1875, and it sits directly across from Parque Central on the seam between Habana Vieja and Centro Habana — right next to the Capitolio Nacional and the Gran Teatro de La Habana. The building pairs a clean white neoclassical exterior with a mudejar Arab-Spanish lobby dressed in colored tile and old stucco work, high ceilings, antique mosaic floors and wrought-iron balconies looking onto the park. The roughly 83 rooms keep a turn-of-the-1900s feel in nearly every detail, while the sixth-floor Sky Bar is the hangout everyone heads to — a live band plays Cuban music every night with the Capitolio filling the view. Rates start around $100 a night, a genuine bargain for sleeping inside this much history in central Havana. Overall 7.8/10, best for travelers who value atmosphere and location over a brand-new room.