Occidental Grand Playa Turquesa, Holguin, Cuba
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Hotel Description:
This all inclusive resort is located on a stunning, natural beach in the resort area of Holguin. The resort is located approximately one hour from the Holguin Airport and about 15 minutes from the town of Guardalavaca. There are many activities and facilities available for everyone to enjoy as you would expect from a 4* Superior hotel. One of the most beautiful aspects of the resort is the swimming pool area where there are 7 pool connected by waterfalls. There is an infinity pool, a childrens pool, relaxation pool and an activities pool. Other activities include snorkelling, aerobics, aqua aerobics, archery, water polo, windsurfing, tennis and a gym. loading...
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Occidental Grand Playa Turquesa Reviews
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- Date of Holiday:Apr 2009
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:I Transit
Submitted By: mickie125
The best holiday ever, lots of things to do including swimming with dolpjins, etc hotel and surrounding area is beautiful. Great if you like water sports and activities and also great if you just like to relax and not do anything. Beach is amazing...
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Advice: Late Summer there may be Hurricanes, we went in early summer (end of july) and we were fine!!!!
Activities:
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Booked Independently
Submitted By: father terry
Great resort, wonderful staff- Good food including 5 theme restaurants.Good beach. Rooms are beautiful and where I stayed it was totally quiet at night.Recommend you dine at the Italien restaurant near the beach,and they also do lunch there, with a...
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Good for: Beach City Breaks
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- Date of Holiday:Mar 2009
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:AirTransat
" holiday, wedding and honeymoon! "
Submitted By: collinandsooze
We had never been on such a long flight before, but wanted somewhere neither of us had ever been. This for us was a one off as we took the weddding package so we could get married whilst we were there.
I can't believe people are complaining and... read more
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Advice: We didn't do the trip to Holguin as, what with the wedding plans, we ran out of time.
Activities: We loved the Cuban restaurant in the resort. We did the overnight trip to Santiago.
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Dec 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
Submitted By: Hols969
We stayed in this hotel over NYE of 2008/09. In general I really think it was a good holiday, long flight but worth it. Great for toddlers as they have 5 pools and the bottom one is up to the waist on toddlers so great for confidence building. Beach...
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Advice: Good beach, nice hotel, bad mosquitos/sand flies.
Activities: Swim with Dolphin and the Jungle adventure (imported some animials from Africa)
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Dec 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
Submitted By: knickersx3
brilliant holiday, loads of pools, and yummy food :) the only bad thing was the weather! made some friends, as well as going with each other. great for all the family. make sure you go out at some point to the market :) see crazy women begging of... read more
brilliant holiday, loads of pools, and yummy food :) the only bad thing was the weather! made some friends, as well as going with each other. great for all the family. make sure you go out at some point to the market :) see crazy women begging of... read more
Advice: (Y)
Activities: restaraunt was good & swimming with dolphins.
Good for: Beach
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- Date of Holiday:Mar 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" Fantastic Christmas Getaway "
Submitted By: RocketJDawg
We have just returned from our stay, Dec 21 – 28, and I have to say what a fantastic time we had at this resort. I think Red456838 said it all in her review so I will just mention some differences that we found during our stay. We weren’t looking...
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Advice: Beautiful quiet and relaxing
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Good for: Beach City Breaks
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- Date of Holiday:Dec 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Transat Holidays
Submitted By: tjhooker
We were stupid.After reading the reviews about this hotel we thought that things would have improved after all this time.But the food was still cold.We were served cold and stale roast chicken in the snack bar.The service throughout the hotelwas...
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Advice: Give it a miss
Activities:
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- Date of Holiday:Nov 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
Submitted By: natasha1310
I would recommend this hotel to anyone. 8 of us went all together, my parents as it was their honeymoon, me, my brothers and sisters and their partners. Everyone of us enjoyed every moment we were there! We paid for a champagne and lobster dinner for...
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- Date of Holiday:Feb 2007
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" Having just returned from Cuba I have... "
Submitted By: Mr J ASKEY
Having just returned from Cuba I have to say this is one of the worst holiday let downs ever.4 star I don't think so more like 1 star maybe plus.From what I have read on other reviews regarding this hotel it seems to have gone down hill fast in the...
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" Having returned from Cuba this week,... "
Submitted By: Mrs K BARBER
Having returned from Cuba this week, we did something for the first time of going on holidays for thirty years and moved from the Occidental Grand Playa Turquesa Hotel after four days. Clearly not a four star, extremely disappointing. Please ignore...
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" I have only just returned from my... "
Submitted By: Miss RB Barber
I have only just returned from my holiday in Cuba. The hotel Occidental is definitely not a four star hotel I can say that for sure, after reading good reviews and seeing beautiful pictures of the hotel I was greatly disappointed. The food was cold in...
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- Date of Holiday:Jul 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" This hotel is definately not 4* The... "
Submitted By: Mrs S Seddon
This hotel is definately not 4* The hotel rooms were spacious and clean but need to be refurbished. We were lucky as we had a terrace we could use as most people were unable to use them because they were overgrown with trees and bushes. The food was...
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- Date of Holiday:Jun 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Thomas Cook
" Just returned from a fantastic 2... "
Submitted By: Miss P Evans
Just returned from a fantastic 2 weeks at the Turquesa. Everything was fab here - accommodation, pools, beach, staff - especially Ivan at the pool bar! We even managed to get in some windsurfing - bonus!! The food was fine - something always available...
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- Date of Holiday:Jun 2008
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:First Choice
" This resort was amazing!!
My... "
This resort was amazing!!
My family and I are planning to retun this year(2008)
Friendly staff, and the food was great!The chinese a la carte restaurant was pretty good considering the setting in the carribean. The beach was beautiful, mini... read more
My family and I are planning to retun this year(2008)
Friendly staff, and the food was great!The chinese a la carte restaurant was pretty good considering the setting in the carribean. The beach was beautiful, mini... read more
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2006
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:air canada
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Advice: The Cuban people are friendly and what a nice place to go to..They sure love the Canadians.
Activities: loved all the a la carte restaurants and the dolphin tour
Good for: Beach