Trips & Pricing

Welcome to Cuba!

We offer two types of trips: Urban Sketching, and Cultural Immersion. Participants in Urban Sketching trips join a small group of like-minded travelers interested in painting and drawing in Havana’s beautiful plazas and hidden corners. These trips have set dates and will happen in February and March, 2025. Cultural Immersion trips are flexible and can be customized and designed for your private family or friend group based on your preferred dates of travel, interests, and budget. We ensure that all trips are reasonably priced with the best guides, accommodation, and off-the-beaten path activities to introduce you to the country we love.

On all of these trips, you will discover Cuba's unique beauty, history, and living originality as you explore its streets and squares, countryside and beaches. Experience fun, meaningful and down-to-earth activities in a fascinating environment. Meet dynamic, entrepreneurial Cubans and leave a positive impact “in support of the Cuban people”.

Experienced guides and trip organizers will navigate often complex and unpredictable logistics on your behalf, eliminating headaches and looking after your safety. Our specialty is making sure you have a comfortable, meaningful and happy experience in the country we love!

All CAA trips support local grass-roots projects and provide excellent employment for our talented team of Cuban guides and teachers.

Havana is an aesthetically vibrant environment, with a feast for the eyes at every glance. If you love to get to know a place by sitting with their sketchbook to observe the details and rhythms of life, here you will find you will find a rich treasure. Traveling with other art enthusiasts is also a treat.

Daytime activities for this group include all our usual favorites for visitors plus daily morning and afternoon opportunities to stop at plazas, cafes, fascinating architectural interiors and exteriors, and hidden corners ideal for painting and drawing.

If you and your family or friends are looking for a tropical vacation that is also thought-provoking and culturally rich, Cuba will be a memorable destination. A customized itinerary designed for around your groups interests and needs with advice from experienced local guides and trip leaders is the kind of preparation that leads to fun, relaxing, and meaningful trips.

We can provide a menu of activities, and will help you design the trip to fit your budget.

Depending on how long your stay in Cuba will be, you may want to be based in Havana and include some day trips to the countryside and beach, or even a short trip to another city such as Matanzas, Trinidad or Ceinfuegos.

CUSTOM TRIPS

Choose your travel partners, dates of travel and activities in collaboration with our team before you travel.

The “Experience Havana” template below can be a starting point to customize your unique Cuba adventure.

Experience Havana!

7 Nights in Havana

Includes: 

• 7 nights accommodation in a lovely “casa particular” guesthouse in the heart of Old Havana

• Daily breakfasts in your casa

• Daily guiding with expert local guides

• Entry fees and activity expenses for a full itinerary of activities in compliance with your “education and people-to-people” travel category

• Local transport for guided activities

• Airport pickup and return in a classic car

• Welcome dinner with your Cuban team

• Classic convertible car tour of greater Havana

• Day trip to Vinales valley with banquet lunch at an organic farm and tours of tobacco farms and prehistoric caves

• Daily artistic opportunities including art, dance, and language classes

• Cuban cooking class

• Cuban cocktail-making class

• Cuban dance class

• Tips for evening outings, activities in free time, and great places to eat

• Travel Affidavit and documentation to fulfill your “Education and Person-to-Person” visa requirements

• Pre-trip communication via email to answer all your Cuba travel questions

Pricing:
1-2 people: $5,000 total
3-5 people: $2,500 per person
6-10 people: $2,000 per person

Notes on all trips:

• Items not included in trips are: flights, lunch and dinner (other than the Welcome Dinner and Vinales banquet luncheon), other personal expenses such as souvenirs or toiletries, or personal emergency expenses.

• After you let us know which trip you would like or how we can customize something for you, and you select your trip dates, we will send you an invoice for your trip. You can pay the invoice by credit card or paper check.

• Payments by credit card carry a 3% processing charge, added to the prices listed above. You can avoid this charge by paying by paper check.

• All guides and teachers are paid a professional international wage, in accordance with our ethical business practice.

• 15% Friends and Family discount applies to all participants plus one friend/family member for 12 months following their CAA trip.

• For all trips, $500 deposit is due at the time of booking, and full balance is due at least 30 days before the start of the trip. Detailed itinerary and casa bookings are provided when the full trip payment is submitted. Cancellations by trip participants will be refunded fully or partially depending on the amount of time until the start of the scheduled trip (see cancellation policy on our website); cancelations by CAA will be fully refunded.

• Payments by check can be made out to Laura Jones, Art Adventures LLC and sent to 20 Fayette St. #2, Cambridge, MA 02139.

Questions?

email Laura at laura.cubaartadventures@gmail.com

or fill out the response form in the Join Us tab