CubaPLUS Magazine

The emblematic Hotel Presidente will celebrate its 95th anniversary with multiple activities throughout the remainder of this year, until December 28, the date of its opening. In a press conference offered this Tuesday by the managers of the facility, the activities to be held from now until December were announced, including special dinners, contests, tours to commemorate that important anniversary, which in the opinion of its general director, Spanish Morey Perez Yntriago, there are few hotels in Cuba and even in the world, 95 years old and still operating.

“We are in a special occasion. Ninety-five years are not celebrated every day and for me it is a special pleasure, because being here in front of the hotel on December 28, its anniversary is important. It has so much history and so good…and it is known worldwide. It was a pioneer in those years of 1928 and has been for all these years and hopefully "this old lady" last many more years and we can celebrate 100 and many more always working and healthy”, Pérez said.

Dinner with a show by the pool on the last Friday of each month, a children's painting contest –especially for the children of the community- to convene in June, one of photography to highlight the patrimonial values of the hotel, another of literature, where the novels or stories to be presented have as the central axis of the plot the installation and a tour called Los Presidentes with a tour of the entire avenue where monuments to various illustrious leaders of Latin America are erected.

Belonging to the 4-star Gran Caribe hotel group and managed by the Spanish chain ROC Hotels, the Presidente was at the time it was built, the first skyscraper in the Cuban capital, it is a symbol of elegance, it has 158 rooms with all the comforts and something that distinguishes it is that it has some 300 patrimonial works.

Also present at the press conference was the deputy general director of the accommodation, Ariadna Hernández, and also the commercial director, Dayane Mejías. Founded in Palmas de Mallorca in 1998, the Roc Hotels chain has been present in Cuba since 2013, where it operates a total of six 4- and 5-star accommodations, in Havana, Varadero and Key Santa Maria.