If you found this page searching on the net and you are looking for the hotel Royal Hideaway please allow me to clarify one thing first. Royal Hideaway is not located in Cayo Santamaria and there is not such a thing called Hideaway Cayo Santa Maria.
Cayo Santa Maria is one of there tiny islands located off shore on the north coast of Villa Clara Provice and it takes 40 minutes to reach them driving along a road build over the sea. Magnificent drive by the way.
The other 2 islands are called Cayo Las Brujas and Cayo Ensenachos. Cayo Ensenachos is where Occidental Royal Hideaway Hotel is located and this is the only hotel in this island. Fantastic beaches completely virgin. In some places there is absolutely no one else but you. I think this is pretty amazing.
I have seen and stayed in many hotels in Cuba but when I visited Royal Hideaway that hotel topped the top of the list of the best hotels in Cuba.
Excellent food (they even have a Suchi a la carte restaurant), the rooms are very large and decorated impeccably but if you have money to spend the give the Royal suites a go. These suites are located in a separate area of the hotel with its own reception and you get a golf car for your self to drive around the hotel. You also have your own butler. The suites look like a villa. It is a 2 story construction with living rooms dinning rooms, bedrooms and every thing you find in your own home plus a Jacuzzi over looking the sea.
If you are looking to stay in this Hotel don’t even think about it and go for it. You will not regret it.