Elvira, Mi Amor

Set inside a 1920s building in Old Havana, Elvira, Mi Amor sits within walking distance of El Capitolio and the rum museum on Old Square. The hotel is small and boutique in scale. Its rooms mix eras deliberately: original 1950s furniture stands alongside contemporary Cuban art, and each room keeps its own private bathroom and a workspace for anyone mixing travel with work. Rooms are spacious by the standards of the old town, where colonial buildings were rarely built with generous interiors in mind. Breakfast is taken outdoors, in a dedicated area away from the rooms, a small daily ritual that sets the pace before the neighbourhood's museums and squares fill with the day's foot traffic. The address puts guests inside the oldest part of the city, where balconies overhang narrow streets and the architecture predates the revolution by decades. It is a short walk to the main sights of Habana Vieja. The hotel does not try to hide its age or smooth it over; instead it keeps the period furniture in view and lets the modern art sit against it, room by room.