Havana’s new monstrous 5-star skyscraper hotel offers unimaginable capitalist luxuries

From our Bureau of Socialist Equity and Social Justice with some assistance from our Bureau of Core Communist Values

How’s this for “Revolutionary” communist values? Rooms for $1,000 per day. Private penthouse terraces and swimming pools. Jacuzzis and hydro-massage bathtubs.. All you can eat and drink. Plus, your own electrical power plant, immune from the constant blackouts that plague the native savages below your Olympian perch. Sounds an awful lot like capitalist selfishness and sharp class distinctions, doesn’t it? See for yourself HERE and below

Oh, yeah.. Denounce capitalism, abolish private property, free enterprise, labor unions, free speech, political parties, and elections. Then invite rich fat cat capitalists from abroad to visit so you can take their filthy money and use it to keep yourself in power and everyone else on your island enslaved, poor, and starving. Read details below and howl with rage . . .Absolute, lava-spewing, rock-melting, volcanic rage . . .

Loosely translated from Diario de Cuba

The Iberostar Selection La Habana, a brand-new 5-star hotel about to open in the heart of El Vedado and the tallest building in Cuba, has launched its opening offers, with rooms priced at over $1,000 per night.

According to the tour operator Online Tours, the building, known as Torre K and popularly dubbed Torre López Calleja during the six years of its construction, has reservations available starting January 11, though its official inauguration is scheduled for January 15.

This ultra-luxury facility, built by the Cuban military conglomerate GAESA during a time when the regime’s economic policies deepened poverty in Cuban households and plunged the country into an unprecedented crisis, stands 155 meters tall and boasts “the best views of the city.” Its advertising proclaims it offers the chance to see “Havana from the sky!”

With 42 floors and 454 rooms between the fifth and 30th floors, plus another 140 between the 33rd and 40th floors, the hotel offers a total of 594 rooms. Among these, the standout is the Horizon Suites, which for $959 per night for two people (bed and breakfast) or $1,068 (half board) includes 120 square meters with panoramic city views, a jacuzzi, a hydro-massage bathtub, and other amenities.

Located between the 33rd and 39th floors at the corner of J and 23, these exclusive rooms feature private access and special service throughout the stay.

Other room options at Iberostar Selection La Habana include the Junior Suite ($871–$980 per night), the Executive Junior Suite ($841–$951), the Double Horizons ($702–$812), or the Double Premiere ($541–$651), the cheapest option in the facility.

The new GAESA hotel, situated across from the Coppelia ice cream parlor and along Avenida 23, will feature a lobby bar and shopping gallery on the ground and first levels, while the third level will include hotel services, a main pool, terrace, snack bar, spa area, and a restaurant.

The 42nd floor houses the so-called Habana Executive Lounge, which includes a private reception area, a private pool, and the Sky Terrace, described by Iberostar as “the closest point to the sky on this island,” already deemed “a must-see experience in Havana.” This area will feature a telescope for observing Havana, “that cinematic city now at your feet,” where uncollected garbage and blackouts are commonplace.

On the 41st floor will be the Sky Bar, offering “a unique view of the entire city,” where, as the hotel’s advertising claims, “every time a guest’s eyes settle on a point around them, 155 meters above sea level, they will be capturing a cinematic scene where they are the protagonist.”

Iberostar also operates four other hotels in Havana: Iberostar Marqués de La Torre, Iberostar Grand Packard, Habana Riviera by Iberostar, and Iberostar Parque Central. The latter is the preferred venue of Cuba’s first lady, Lis Cuesta, for hosting exclusive international culinary events, even as shortages and blackouts make life unbearable for the country’s residents.

In November, Cuba’s Ministry of Tourism (MINTUR) announced the opening of five new hotels in 2025: Iberostar Selection La Habana; Sierra Cristal in Ramón de Antilla, Holguín; Gran Muthu Ensenada and Starfish Guardalavaca, also in Holguín; and Muthu II Frente in Santiago de Cuba.

As MINTUR has highlighted following the nationwide blackouts in the second half of 2024, electricity supply in its main hotels is guaranteed via generators or exclusive connections. In the case of resorts like Cayo Coco or Varadero, these are independent of the national energy grid.