travel42 Hotel Review: Barcelo Solymar

Barcelo Solymar travel42 Professional Hotel Review

This hotel's verdant lobby, lively atmosphere and proximity to the heart of Varadero earn it points, helping set it apart from competitors on the far end of the peninsula. Access is directly off Avenue Las Americas, a 10-minute walk from the restaurants, nightlife and tourist facilities of Avenue Primera.

The narrow entrance road is flanked on each side by narrow parking lots of ungainly hollow cement blocks with weeds growing in the interstices. Although traffic is ostensibly one-way, taxi d...