Hemingway Marina (Havana) - Transport & Travel
From Marina Hemingway, there is a shuttle bus from the marina to the “Playa” from where you can get the double-decker tourist bus to Old Havana. Both are hop-on-hop-off and tickets are valid all day.
There are also local buses into Havana from the bus stop on the main road just east of the marina. These local buses can get very overcrowded, however, are ideal if you are looking for a bit of local colour!
To explore within the city once you get tired of walking, you can take a taxi, a horse-drawn carriage, a bicycle-powered bicitaxi, or an egg-like 3 wheeled motorbike called a coco-taxi.
The Havana Hop-on-off bus (CUC 10 pp.) does a 45-minute tour through Havana visiting all the major tourist attractions with an explanation of places of interest. Final stop at Parque Central Old Havana. Every 20 minutes at any stop (with some flexibility).
You can get a taxi into Old Havana for $20. Be sure to negotiate and agree your fare before getting into the taxi.
There is a CubaCar car rental office in the marina, however, they are usually sold out and there is no electronic reservation system at this location.
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From Cuba Land & Sea Facebook Page:
Hazard warning for canal #1 in Marina Hemingway ⚠️
If avoidable don’t use the turning basin at the bottom of canal #1.
There is a sunken sailboat lying on its side at the height of the rent-a-car place with its mast towards the channel centre – marked with a white fender. When passing, keeping to starboard you should be ok.
There is an abandoned ketch moored on the other side.
Berthing tip from Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
To be closest to the marina store, showers and laundry ask for the north side of canal #2 or the south side of canal #1. If its really busy or if you request it the marina will also put vessels on the south side of canal #2, which means either a very long walk to the facilities or you can launch your dinghy to cross the canal.
Update posted on Sailing and Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
A little update from Marina Hemingway. Quite a number of improvements were made for the Hemingway Billfishing competition. Firstly they moved all the abandoned boats out of channel 2, making more berths available.
In conjunction 6 new power/ water torrents were installed on the east side of C2 and the whole west side of C1 now also has water and electricity. Capacity has so been increased by nearly 50 slips.
There now is a new bus service available to cruisers, they don’t want us to use the hotel bus anymore, that takes you for 1cuc from the marina to “Playa” from where you can then get the double-decker tourist bus to Old Havana for 5cuc. Both are hop-on-hop-off and tickets are valid all day.
There now is wifi available at the Acuario Hotel, half hour for 2.50 cup and 1 hr for 4.50 cup, the day I tested it worked very good …
As far as entertainment is concerned the popular Friday night BBQ at the Yacht Club is still on and a good deal for 5 cups. For late night parties, the Cova now opens nightly as a discotheque from 10 pm. Sun-Thurs entrance is free, Fri & Sat its 3cuc … busier during the week.