Mr & Mrs Smith

Hotel Havana

San Antonio, United States

Steps from San Antonio’s renowned River Walk, Hotel Havana is a hymn to vintage Cuban glamour, all soft pastels and wrought-iron retro. When a hotel bar stocks its sodas on the basis of bottle design, you know you’re in good hands.

Need to know

• Rooms 27, including 11 suites.
• Rates Double rooms from $105.00, excluding tax at 16.75 per cent.
  The price shown represents the lowest nightly rate for a double room available at this hotel over the next 21 days. Any price conversions from the hotel's local currency ($105) have been conducted using today's exchange rates from xe.com.
• More details Rates exclude breakfast, from US$20.
• Facilities Private parking, free Wi-Fi throughout. In rooms: flatscreen TV, pre-loaded iPod with dock, fully stocked Smeg minibar, radio, and Red Flower toiletries.
• Check-out 12 noon, but flexible up until 2pm. Earliest check-in, 3pm.
• Children Little Smiths are welcome, with cots and roll-out beds available free. That said, the hotel is more suited for romantic getaways.
• Also Pets are welcome, for US$25 a day.

Food and drink at Hotel Havana

• Hotel restaurant

  Ocho restaurant has a tempting pan-Latin menu, glass walls, a soaring ceiling (opened up in warmer months) and a prime perch overlooking the River Walk. The inventive breakfast menu has caused a bit of a buzz: try the plantain griddle cakes with Mexican crema and blueberries or the shrimp and crab campachena.

• Dress code Rakish open shirts, smouldering skirt suits – channel Bogart and Bacall in To Have and Have Not.
• Top table The terraces dotted around the hotel are perfect for evening mojitos.
• Last orders The bar opens at 5pm, and closes at midnight (2am on Fridays and Saturdays).
• Room service None.
• Hotel bar

  Hidden in the basement, Ocho Lounge is a sexy speakeasy lit with dozens of candles encased in red glass. The saffron yellow, red, brown and orange furnishings contrast with cool turquoise walls, and the drinks menu includes mescal coffee, Mexican beer, rum, and cocktails. In keeping with the Cuban spirit (if not it's still-embargoed tobacco exports), cigars are available to smoke from the hotel’s terraces.

Hotel Havana 1015 Navarro, San Antonio, Texas 78205