Cuba Guide
Varadero and Matanzas
Cigars and rum
1 Casa del Habano Ave. 1ra e/ 63 y 64 Varadero's outstanding cigar store, which not only has an impressive selection of all the major brands but also all sorts of smoking paraphernalia, a smokers' lounge, a separate section selling rum and coffee and an upstairs bar.
2 Casa del Habano Ave. Playa esq. 31 A professional little shop located in the same ranch-like building as La Vega restaurant.
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Casa del Ron Ave. 1ra e/ 62 y 63 As well as stocking the best choice of rum in Varadero, this is one of the peninsula's most novel shops. Occupying almost the whole front room is a captivating model of an early twentieth-century Cuban rum factory and in the back there's a 1920s-era bar set up solely for try-before-you-buy purposes.
4 Casa del Tabaco at Ave. 1ra esq. 27 A small tabaquería where you can also watch cigars being made.