Where is it? Varadero is Cuba's famous 20-km long powder-fine white sand beach area located on a peninsula on the northwest coast of Cuba.

Getting there: International flights are offered to Varadero. Alternatively, flights into Havana can be coupled with an inexpensive two-hour land transfer to Varadero.

Accommodations: Varadero Hotels

The Scuba Diving: Diving is offered from the Barracuda Diving Center (beside Cuatro Palmas Hotel), the Aqua International Dive Center (beside Kawama Hotel), the Chapelin Marina, as well as from several other hotels in the area. Weekly trips are also offered from the Barracuda, Coral & Chapelin dive centers to the Bay of Pigs on the south shore (transportation included, no supplement). Sites in Varadero alone total 21 and highlight shipwrecks, flooded caves, gulf walls, coral barriers and even friendly moray eels. A daily schedule at each dive center visits 2 dive sites per day, with a weekly rotation that is intended to avoid repetition. Groups may customize their diving itinerary upon arrival with dive instructors. Gaviota also has a marina in the eastern tip of Varadero, but note that our offers below are valid for the Marlin marinas in western and central Varadero.

Dive Pass: Dive Pass available for Barracuda, Aqua and Chapelin dive centers.

Varadero
Dives	1	2	3	4	5	6
WoWCuba Price	$25	$51	$76	$101	$120	$144
Public Price	$50	$70	$92	$120	$148	$174
You Save	$25	$19	$14	$19	$28	$30
Save $$ on your dives by booking in advance!
Dives	7	8	9	10	15	20
WoWCuba Price	$168	$192	$216	$227	$341	$412
Public Price	$198	$220	$240	$258	$375	$500
You Save	$30	$28	$24	$31	$34	$88

Dive Reservations/Minimum Booking Requirements: No Fee: For WoWCuba clients booking hotel, car rental reservations or tour packages. No minimum dive requirement. Agency Service Fee applies: For dive only reservations, minimum 10 dives. Included: Tanks, weights, boat and dive guide. In Varadero, our dive packages also include daytime diving equipment (wetsuit, mask, fins, regulator, BTU) and transfers from/to Varadero hotels Not Included: Night diving equipment (available for rental locally)   Note: Divers must bring their accreditation or Dive License and passport presentation is required for boarding boats     Valid to: 31 Oct 2008

Russian Patrol Boat - 30 meters, Intentionally sunken in 1997 for diving purposes, this vessel is almost 100 m long. Located close to Cayo Piedra, the excursion is often accompanied by a professional photographer who will offer you a printed memory of your experience in the afternoon.

Coral Beach - 20 meters, The coral barrier is accessible by the beach. There are more than 30 species of coral, some developed and reaching the surface, interlinking to form channels, passages and caves.

Saturn Cave - 20 meters, A cavern flooded by both fresh and sea water, with abundant secondary formations, stalactites and stalagmites. There is a lake and two galleries where you can find blind shrimp and fish.

The Mandarins - 15 meters, Coral patch with diverse, greatly-developed fauna among which you will find various coral fish, moray eels, groupers and large schools of grunt that eat out of divers' hands.

Caribe - 10 meters, Remains of an old German merchant ship sunken in 1943. There are many angel fish, groupers, lobsters and green moral eels up to 2 meters long fed from divers' hands.

Note: the Varadero "underwater museum" site with plane wreck, etc no longer exists - it was affected by a hurricane in 2006.

Technical Information:
Aqua
Barracuda