Hemingway Marina (Havana) - Provisions & Laundry
Provisions:
It is advisable to head to Cuba very well stocked up as the majority of goods are hard to find or unavailable. Load up with bottled, canned and dried goods. Items that are just not available in Cuba are milk, butter, good bread, potatoes. Sugar and coffee are in very short supply. Rice and beans are rationed. Good cheese is not available.
You can find eggs, seasonal fruit & veggies, frozen chicken, pork and fish in limited quantity and selection but beef is difficult to come by.
On Saturday mornings there is a big market with a huge range of Cuban vegetable and fruit.
Toiletries are luxury items in Cuba. Stock up at home with soap, toilet roll, toothpaste, toothbrushes, disposable razors, clothes powder, shampoo & conditioner, pain relief, cough-syrup, antihistamine creams, antiseptic creams, mosquito smoke coils and repellent, plasters, etc.
Beer and rum are available everywhere and is cheap. Wine and fizzy drinks are not.
There are some state-run shops at Marina Hemingway including a grocery with a decent selection of dried goods and a deli counter with frozen meats. Other local shops are within walking distance where you can get essentials such as bread, eggs, vegetables, and pork. Turn left outside the marina, walk along the main road for a ½ mile, over a bridge and turn left at the first crossroad. 400 meters along the street, there’s a junction with the shops.
A new bakery opened in Marina Hemingway in 2018. The Dulceria Dulcinea is located in the annex of the Viejo el Mar Hotel. High-quality pastries, sandwiches, and freshly baked rolls, buns, baguettes, and croissants. The prices are a little higher than their main outlet in Flores but you avoid the 2-mile walk in each direction. The product in the store comes from the main outlet but it is delivered fresh as required. They normally sell out by 2pm.
Fresh bread is also available most mornings from the coffee shop in the La Cova complex.
Laundry:
There is a small laundry in the shower complex. Wash, dry and fold for $ 4-6 CUC per bag depending on size.
There is a girl in the snack bar who does laundry.
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From Cuba Land & Sea Facebook Page:
Hazard warning for canal #1 in Marina Hemingway ⚠️
If avoidable don’t use the turning basin at the bottom of canal #1.
There is a sunken sailboat lying on its side at the height of the rent-a-car place with its mast towards the channel centre – marked with a white fender. When passing, keeping to starboard you should be ok.
There is an abandoned ketch moored on the other side.
Berthing tip from Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
To be closest to the marina store, showers and laundry ask for the north side of canal #2 or the south side of canal #1. If its really busy or if you request it the marina will also put vessels on the south side of canal #2, which means either a very long walk to the facilities or you can launch your dinghy to cross the canal.
Update posted on Sailing and Cruising Cuba Facebook page:
A little update from Marina Hemingway. Quite a number of improvements were made for the Hemingway Billfishing competition. Firstly they moved all the abandoned boats out of channel 2, making more berths available.
In conjunction 6 new power/ water torrents were installed on the east side of C2 and the whole west side of C1 now also has water and electricity. Capacity has so been increased by nearly 50 slips.
There now is a new bus service available to cruisers, they don’t want us to use the hotel bus anymore, that takes you for 1cuc from the marina to “Playa” from where you can then get the double-decker tourist bus to Old Havana for 5cuc. Both are hop-on-hop-off and tickets are valid all day.
There now is wifi available at the Acuario Hotel, half hour for 2.50 cup and 1 hr for 4.50 cup, the day I tested it worked very good …
As far as entertainment is concerned the popular Friday night BBQ at the Yacht Club is still on and a good deal for 5 cups. For late night parties, the Cova now opens nightly as a discotheque from 10 pm. Sun-Thurs entrance is free, Fri & Sat its 3cuc … busier during the week.