Playa Giron

Description

The hotel is located on the southern coast of the Province of Matanzas. Juan Gualberto Gomez Airport is approximately 165 km from the beach hotel.The air-conditioned, 282-room hotel features 2 bars, medical services, a shop, bicycle and motorcycle hire, a tourist bureau and rent-a-car service. Further facilities include a lobby with hotel safe, a bar, disco and restaurant.The rooms have an en suite bathroom with shower, a double bed, direct dial telephone, satellite TV, an in-room safe, minibar and individually regulated air conditioning.Guests may take a dip in the outdoor swimming pool, go diving (fees apply), or enjoy a game of table tennis. The hotel organises entertainment programmes for adults.Playa Giron, on the eastern side of the famous Bay of Pigs (Bahia de Cochinos), 48 km south of Boca de Guama, is named for a French pirate who frequented the area centuries ago. The CIA-sponsored landing here on April 17, 1961, was defeated within 72 hours, as a museum and many monuments proclaim.