General Information
- Category: Half day tours
- Modality: Landing tours
- Duration: 5 hrs aprox
- Departure time: 09.00 hrs
- Tour guide: Yes
- Children are allowed: Yes
- Languages spoken: Spanish, English and German
Program Details
**“SUN AND SEA: SOUTHERN BEACHES” Cycling tour **
Degree of difficulty: Basic, pedaling at a light pace, through terrain with only 20% of elevation. For this level, no great physical or technical demands are required. All those interested can participate.
Distance to cover by bike: 18 km approximately.
Municipalities to visit: Trinidad and Ancón Peninsula.
Duration approximate of the tour(total): 5 hours approximately.
Minimum of passengers for the tour: 2 pax.
The price includes
- Bicycles of your choice and to your size,
- Helmets, Padlocks,
- Water bottle of 500 ml per pax, or water to fill your personal reusable bottle,
- Accompaniment with a guide specialized in cyclotourism, in the following languages: Spanish, English, French, German and Dutch, at your choice (recommended to book in advance to ensure availability).
- Lunch at a local restaurant according to local offers.
- Technical assistance on the road for all groups. A mechanic will be assigned to every 5 clients who will accompany them all the way with the guide.
- Any other service specified in the tours of this catalog as Included.
Places of interest:
- The Port of Casilda, a typical fishing village, where it's residents are closely linked to the sea, being the fishing and cargo port of the city of Trinidad, 5 km inland from the Gulf of Ana Maria and very close to the Ancon Peninsula.
- Playa la Boca, a small fishing village facing the Caribbean Sea, located 7 kilometers south of the colonial city of Trinidad. It is a set of rocky beaches and dark sands but of unparalleled tranquility and beauty. The small town is full of houses that are rented by nationals and travelers. From Playa la Boca the impressive views of the mountains of the Escambray Massif are spectacular. Its warm and transparent waters invite all visitors to take a pleasant swim and rest before returning to the colonial city.
- La Batea Beach, located in a cove of crystal clear waters and fine sand, although the rocky shores, along the rocky coastline of the Ancon Peninsula. An excellent place to enjoy snorkeling and swimming among corals and fish of different colors and species.
Important: Our provider does not guarantee medical insurance or other types of insurance against damage to customers in any of its routes. This must be contracted by the clients before their arrival to the country by the agency that travels or acquire it in any of the ports and airports of access. By accepting the reservation contract, the customer accepts full knowledge of the use of the medium.
Home delivery service:
The routes can leave from our headquarters, or from another point of the customer's choice. In the second case, a home service fee will be added, established as follows:
Trinidad:
- Inside the historical center of the city: 2 USD x pax.
- Outside the area of the historic center of the city: 3 USD x pax
- Southern beaches area (port of Casilda or beaches of the Ancon Peninsula): 9 USD x pax
An additional professional photography service is offered for clients at an extra charge (not included in the program): A professional photographer will accompany clients throughout the tour and deliver 25 edited photos within 15 days via WeTransfer. - From 1 to 2 Pax: 25 USD x group - From 3 to 4 Pax: 30 USD x group - From 5 to 7 Pax: 35 USD x group - From 8 to 10 Pax: 40 USD x group - More than 10 Pax: 45 USD x group
TIPS: • Recommended: light clothing, sunglasses, water and light meals with sweet and protein, hats or caps, tennis or sandals, other protective layers for seasons rain, solar protection and a photographic camera. • For the tour, we recommend carrying a water bottle.
You must carry a personal identification document or a photocopy of your passport.
This tour operates with a minimum of 2 passengers. Holiplus will reconfirm you 48 hours before the departure of your tour. If the supplier decides to cancel, due to force majeure or bad weather conditions, Holiplus will offer you an alternative excursion or will reimburse, in full, the cost of your excursion.
Level of complexity: Basic.
Duration: minimum 5 hours - maximum 5.30 hours
Your reservation will always be a CONFIRMED RESERVATION, you will only have to get to one of the two nearest departure points (Calle Obrapía No. 360 bajos e/Habana y Compostela, Habana Vieja or Calle Montero Sánchez No. 34 e/ 21 y 23, Vedado) on the day of your excursion, at the exact time to start the bike ride with the number of people you declare in the VOUCHER of the RESERVATION option. You do not need to make additional confirmations to your reservation because we will always wait for you on time.
We recommend starting the tour at nine in the morning (09:00 hrs) but you can decide the time of departure of your tour, we will adjust to your plans at any time of the day. The maximum recommended cycling time is 4 hours. Recommended minimum time is 2 hours.
Working hours and holidays: Our provider runs the tours from Monday to Sunday at the hours of 9:00am (morning) and 2:30pm (afternoon), only not for the beach tour which is only run in the morning. We work in a personalized way so with previous request we can make adjustments for earlier departures. No tours on December 24th and 31st.
We are legal workers, with us you have guarantees that you will not find if you make excursions with people who act outside the law.
Once the reservation is made you will receive at your email address the voucher with the information you have chosen. If you can print out the voucher you can present it to your tour guide.
With us you can book for any time of the year, either in the high season of tourism or in the time of less tourists in Cuba.
You can decide the time of the excursion, even if you have booked for a certain time and you will have the possibility to ride your bike for less or more time than agreed. We do not recommend to take the tour for less than three hours.
Our service is collective, it is a guide service for a group of clients.
Maximum group capacity: The capacity to run tours is up to 30 clients in unison, larger groups we recommend sectioning them off.
Our bikes are in excellent technical condition.
Cancellation policy:
If the service is cancelled up to 72 hours before the excursion departure time, a penalty of 0% of the excursion price will be applied.
- If the service is cancelled between 72 and 24 hours before the excursion departure time, a penalty of 30% of the excursion rate will be applied.
- If the service is cancelled between 24 and 12 hours before the excursion departure time, a penalty of 50% of the excursion rate will be applied.
- If the service is cancelled between 12 hours and up to the time of the excursion, and in case of no-show, 100% of the price of the excursion will be deducted.
Note: no administrative costs or credit card fees can be refunded in case of cancellation.
Force majeure: There may be causes that cause the cancellation of the tour not desired by the Holiplus provider. We consider that these may be: adverse weather conditions such as heavy rains or declaration of hurricanes, partial or total closure of the circulation of cycles through the city declared by the traffic police or similar. In such cases, the tour can be rescheduled or cancelled without any payment from the client.