A R E C O M M E N D A T I O N The infrastructure and expertise at WorldGUEST cannot be matched. I personally traveled with this organization to Cuba as a paying participant to get a firsthand experience in 2008. We have offered 9 departures since that experience, and every evaluation has been consistent in praising Tony and Vic for their excellent service and attention to detail. We cannot fathom traveling to Cuba without them. Cuba stands to offer you an incredible educational and humanitarian journey but it is critical you select someone that brings a solid history of established positive relationships within this country. I haven’t found anyone that tops WorldGUEST in this regard.

Rick Davis, Director Enrichment Programs The University of North Carolina General Alumni Association

PROGRAM H I G H L I G H T S Our program offers the comforts of Havana’s 5-Star Hotel Parque Central and Trinidad de

Cuba’s 5-Star Gran Hotel Iberostar. Both hotels are located within walking distance to the city’s historical attractions.

Travel throughout the program in our private air conditioned coach with your English-speaking Cuban guide.

Bring your questions and curiosity to learn all about Cuba Today as our program features expert seminars by renowned English-speaking Cuban experts on the development of Colonial Cuba, the Roots of Cuban Music, Cuban Interiors and modern and contempo-rary Cuban Art.

Enjoy the opportunity to visit local homes and artist studios to experience the Real Cuba!

During our week you will visit museums in Havana and Trinidad de Cuba specializing in colonial history, interior design and modern and contemporary fine art.

We will have the opportunity to deliver humanitarian supplies to assist the Cuban people and meet with local residents with the aide of an expert translator for free exchanges of ideas and cultural values.

Our program includes full health insurance issued by the Cuban agency Asistur.

Travel to Cuba with the Bryant University Alumni Association

Cuba’s People & Culture Today

H avana, in its faded glamour, was once known as the “Paris of the Carib-

bean”, now a shadow of its former prestige. A world where time is held captive – poised between the past and the future in a place where anything is possible.

Our program allows access to the preserva-tion efforts to preserve some of Cuba’s finest architectural heritage in Havana and Trinidad de Cuba.

The Cuban people are proud of their inter-twined European and Afro-Cuban cultures exhibited in food, music and religion; all meld into an infectious blend, as the Cuban’s say, a “ajiaco”; the traditional stew where everyone contributes and it is always being reinvented.

Examining Cuba’s efforts to preserve its na-tional heritage of the colonial and modern periods we include a masterpiece of post-Revolutionary architectural, the campus of the Superior Arts Institute (ISA); some ex-traordinary murals within Havana and ele-ments of interior design.

Meeting and interacting with professionals involved with restoration and urban planning will give you unusual access to the goals and politics involved in preserving Cuba’s heri-tage in Havana and Trinidad de Cuba.

Explore Cuba with us. We have operated exchange groups in Cuba for 18 years and we are pleased to offer this program to the Bry-ant University Alumni Association.

Interior, private home in Trinidad de Cuba

Plaza Mayor, Trinidad de Cuba

This program is operated by WorldGUEST and is licensed to travel to Cuba. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Robin Torbron Warde at rwarde@bryant.edu | 401.232.6253

Havana & Trinidad de Cuba: April 17 to 25, 2016

I T I N E R A R Y Day 1: MIAMI Independent flight to Miami from you home town. Your overnight will be at the Courtyard Miami Airport Hotel. The hotel offers complementary coach transfer to the hotel from the airport. Orientation dinner at our ho-tel. Overnight at Courtyard Hotel. | Meals D

Day 2: MIAMI to HAVANA Our representative will meet you at the hotel to transfer to the airport for check-in and the flight to Havana. Your travel documents will be distrib-uted at the airport check-in. Upon arrival in Havana clear Cuban Customs and you will be met by our English-speaking Cuban guide and coach. Transfer to the 5-Star Hotel Parque Central in Old Havana. Enjoy a light lunch and orientation while your luggage is delivered to your room. Our first seminar will be on the Roots of Cuban Music. followed by welcome cocktails at an artist studio before our welcome dinner at a former mansion in Old Havana. Overnight at Hotel Parque Central. | Meals B L D

Day 3: HAVANA to TRINIDAD DE CUBA Breakfast at our hotel. Early check-out and depart for Trinidad de Cuba. Rest stop and independent lunch en route. Arrive in Trinidad, check-in at the 5-Star Gran Hotel Iberostar. Afternoon free for a visit to the Romantic Museum filled with decorative arts from the wealth of Cuba’s sugar barons. We will also visit private homes for a first-hand view of Trinidad’s past glory. Dinner at our hotel followed by live music with the local population blocks from the hotel. Overnight at Gran Hotel Iberostar. | Meals B D

Day 4: TRINIDAD DE CUBA Breakfast at our hotel. Full day to explore Trinidad de Cuba. We begin with a walking tour of the Old Quarter and a visit to the Museum of Colonial Architecture. A private visit to the 16th century church at Trinidad’s Old Plaza Square and additional private homes in the quarter. Lunch at our hotel. Afternoon free for more visits or at leisure to visit the craft markets or an afternoon at the beach on Cuba’s Caribbean coast. Dinner is inde-pendent at one of Trinidad’s new paladars in the Old Town. Evening free for music under the stars. Overnight at Gran Hotel Iberostar. | Meals B L

Day 5: TRINIDAD DE CUBA to HAVANA Breakfast at our hotel. Check-out, return to Havana. Independent lunch en route. Arrive back at the 5-Star Hotel Parque Central. Free afternoon in Old Havana or visits to art galleries in Havana. Dinner at one of Old Havana’s best new restaurants. Evening free for optional activities. Overnight at Hotel Parque Central. | Meals B D

Day 6: HAVANA Breakfast at our hotel. Enjoy an informative seminar by our English-speaking Cuban expert on Cuban Interiors followed by a visit to the Mu-seum of Decorative Arts and a restored private home filled with antiques. Lunch in Old Havana with a free afternoon. We arrive for dinner is at one of Havana’s best know restaurants in vintage 1950’s American cars. Over-night at Hotel Parque Central. | Meals B L D

Day 7: OLD HAVANA Breakfast at our hotel. Enjoy a seminar on the Development of Colonial Cuba, join your guide on a walking tour of the Historic District to include the Palacio de los Capitanes Generales at Plaza de Armas and the other important plazas of Old Havana. Lunch is at a former printing press. Fol-lowing lunch we will travel outside Havana to the Hemingway Estate for a look-back to life in 1950’s Cuba. Free afternoon. Independent dinner in Havana at one of the many new restaurants. Overnight at Hotel Parque Central. | Meals B L

Day 8: HAVANA Breakfast at our hotel. Participate in a talk on Cuban art by a well-known expert to explore the history and development of Cuban Art. After the seminar we will have a visit the Museo des Bellas Artes before traveling outside Havana to the home/studio of José Fuster, a well known ceramicist and painter. Before returning to our hotel we will deliver humanitarian supplies to a local charity. Our farewell dinner is at one of Old Havana’s finest restaurants, Café del Oriente. Overnight Overnight at Hotel Parque Central. | Meals B L D

Day 9: HAVANA to MIAMI Breakfast at our hotel. Return flight to Miami and home. Our scheduled return time is 2:40pm. | Meals B

Old Havana at sunset, the view from the Hotel Parque Central.

P R O G R A M D A T E S & R A T E S The program dates are April 17 to 25, 2016. The per person rate for 9 Days/8 Nights is $4,590.00 in double occupancy. For single supplement please add $350.00. The program includes hotels in Miami, Havana and Trinidad de Cuba; air-port transfers; flights between Miami and Havana; private air-conditioned coach and local guide throughout; meals as indicated; all gratuities and the complete program and seminars as described. Flights to/from Miami are not included. Cuban Travel Card (Visa) and Cuban medical insurance and Airport Departure Tax are provided. For terms, conditions and complete details please refer to our Reservation and Information Form.

Cuban-born participants must secure a Cuban Visa before traveling. Please contact us for assistance.

This program is operated by WorldGUEST and is licensed to travel to Cuba.

FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please contact Robin Torbron Warde at rwarde@bryant.edu | 401.232.6253