Bella Perla Marina

We went to Cienfuegos with a friend to stay one night. The big duplex is amazing with such nice and furniture it’s like being in another century. Our hosts were really charming and have 3 small dogs. We spent only one night but we were really happy to stop by there place and enjoy the rooftop terrasse.

We had high expectations of this casa as it scores well in TripAdvisor and is also recommended by The Lonely Planet. I had already back in February 2022 booked the double room including breakfast for 40€/night. When we arrived at the casa we were given the suite. Conscious of the considerable difference in price, I did mention that we had booked the normal room. Waldo said however that we could stay in the suite for the night for the price of the normal room but asked us not to use the jacuzzi in return. We found that totally reasonable and we were happy with the big luxurious bed in which we slept reasonably well (the room is located on a very noisy street). Tired of driving 6 hours that day, we asked whether we could have dinner in the casa. Big mistake on our part was to not asking the price beforehand. We got only 1 plate of rice with some shrimps in sauce and vegetables + a mango juice. No starters, no desserts. The next day, we got the worst breakfast of our trip. Black coffee, no milk at all, and very hard old bread (3 mini pieces per person), mango juice and some cut mango pieces. When checking out, the room was suddenly 45€ instead of the 40€ preagreed by email (then after pointing it out back to 40€ again) and the dinner was 20€ per person!!! We paid 80€ for 1 night and 2 plates of rice! We felt astronomically ripped off!