SPOTS IN CUBA :
white huge beach about 25km long and 10km wide. White and soft sand,no corals or grass.Enough space to launch and land. Many Hotels beaches so do not launch directly in front of them where it is apcked the most .From the beach closed the Barcelo Marina Palace Hotel (the end of Varadero Peninsula) you can launch and kitesurf with noth-est wind and hit superb flat water sections on the next small island or you can enjoy 25 km downwind until the end of the Peninsula.
Where stay in Varadero - Our suggestions :
Hotel Barcelo Solymar - Blau Marina Varadero
or beside our School Cubakiters : Hotel Club Karey, very basic and cheap.
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Playa de L'este / Santa Maria. Sandy white huge beaches at 20 min from the centre of the city. The wind is side on to the beach, coming from East. Sea usually with waves from 1 to 2-2,5 mt or more, depending by the strenth of the wind. Wind often present above 10-12 knts, best months october, november (watchout for hurricanes) and april but all the winter is normally windy. In Playa del Este you can easily reach the eastern part of the bay and come back with a 7 km beach-only down wind. Very safe and for everyone. Kites : 12-14 in Summer - 7-12 in the winter, depending from the weight of the surfer. Problems : in Summer lot of people on the beach.
Hotels we suggest in Playa del Este :
Hotel Atlantico (all incllusive) - Hotel Tropicoco (all inclusive) - Villa Los Pinos (Only Bed)
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Freestyle :
Name - Las Brisas - a lagoon with outer reef, flat and low. Careful with reef bottom (1mt and less in low tide, 1,5 in high). Little beach but ok to launch.
Location - 25 km east from Havana in Varadero direction
BRISAS DEL MAR LAGOON
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Wave - Freestyle
Name : Megano - a nice and large beach, depending from the wind conditions wave from 1 ot 4 mts. For beginner-medium wave kitesurfers
Wind direction : North-East
Location : 20 km east from Havana in Varadero direction
MEGANO BEACH
A nice and safety beach were you could find from wave to choppy conditions. Easy launch in winter, but very crowded in Spring-Summer.
Wind direction : North-East
Location : 20 km east from Havana in Varadero direction
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Name : Espigon - renamed from the havana's kiters "Little Hawaii" - Little beach close to Brisas spot. Little-Medium waves close to the beach and , with windy conditions, bigger and smouth waves on the outer reef at 1 kilometer from the coast. For beginner-medium wave kitesurfers.
Wind direction : North-East
Location : 24 km east from Havana in Varadero direction
You can find small rancho's along the beach for a good mojito and a quick fish based lunch.
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In the north coast of Cuba you can find thousand of little keys or "Cayos".
The most famous for thourism are : Cayo Largo (the only one in the south part of the Island), Cayo Coco, Cayo Guillermo and Cayo S. Maria. In all this keys there are big lagoon or inside reef spots of clear, warm and shallow water. Normally the wind is going inside this lagoons giving you flat and calm freestyle spots. Many of those are undiscovered and if you can move with car you could find exclusive places where plan with your friends. Or just stay in your 5 star Hotel and have your session between a "Mojito" and a "Pina Colada".
Cayo S. Maria
The last one to be develop for thourism. Here below some pictures of the possibilities going there :
Cayo Guillermo
One of the best Place to kite in Cuba. Shallow water, white sand and hotels with bungalow on the beach.
Best spot and cheapest Hotel : Gran Caribe Club Cayo Guillermo
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In the city of Havana there is no beach. The famous Malecon is just a road where to enter in the water is almost impossible. We strongly suggest to go to Playa Del Este. But if you don't want to go there, there is a little beach in the "Club Habana£, a club just for Inscripted Clients where with a daily fee you could enter and stay for the day. The beach is litttle and you will have two jetty closing the little bay with 200 hundred meter of channel to exit. Not the best...but last solution to stay in the City.
With north winds you could find also medium waves at the exit of the bay.
