AREQUIPA, Peru – The Havana skyline has changed in recent years with the construction of the K-23 Tower, a Cuban regime hotel in the heart of Vedado that is close to opening its doors and already reveals its lodging price.
According to information from companies such as Havanatur and Online Tours, the highest hotel on the Island promises “a movie scene” near the sea. This, with exorbitant and unaffordable prices for the majority of Cubans, mired in a deep crisis.
The website of Online Tours Note that the Iberostar Selection La Habana, five-star category, offers reservation options ranging from 147 euros to 325 euros per night.
In the absence of an official opening date for the K-23 Tower, its inauguration is scheduled for the middle of this month, with a price range that will vary according to the type of room, views and the type of accommodation chosen by the client.
The block will have 44 floors and more than 500 rooms, as they reproduce with immense pride the journalistic media financed by the Cuban regime. The advertised offers highlight “Double Premiere” rooms with “bed and breakfast” for 147 euros, the “Double Horizons” with “half board” for 225 euros, and the “Horizons Suite” with “full board” at a cost of 325 euros. .
In the K-23 Tower, the cheapest room in the offer presented by Online Tours is equivalent to 31 salaries of an average retiree (1,500 Cuban pesos) on the Island, according to the euro exchange rate in the currency market in force this January 4 .
The controversial K-23 Tower
Tower K stands in the popularly known “Hueco de 23”, near the Hotel Havana Free. “The approximate height will be 154 meters above sea level, spread over 44 floors and two basements,” commented to the official magazine Technical Youth Alfredo Ledón Llanes, one of the project engineers of the work.
Another of those involved in the work, Osviel Carrillo, architect of the Havana Project Company, pointed out that the design of the K-23 is a mixture of influences. “From its formal conception, there is a nod to contemporary architecture and the most internationally valued Cuban architecture, such as the Focsa building and the Tryp Habana Libre Hotel,” he noted.
However, not all comments on social media are admiring. Some, whether specialists or citizens interested in the subject, see in this skyscraper an element foreign to the identity of the city, its history and its traditional architecture.
There are those who claim that the construction of the hotel will contribute to revitalization. However, there are also those who consider that this project could have a negative impact on the daily lives of residents, due to increased traffic and noise.
Added to the above is the fact that the construction of the K-23 Tower has demanded millions of dollars in a country that is experiencing a deep crisis, marked in recent years by the shortage of food, medicine, and constant blackouts as a result of the collapse. energetic.
