With the addition of this giant hotel, Cuba's company Gaviota S.A. tries its hand at all-out management together with an international team of collaborators that will combine to guarantee the lodging facility's quality and good work.

The top-rated construction built under international guidelines was handled by the International Economic Association and pieced together by Bouygues Batiment, a French company, and U.C.M, a local construction firm.

Recreating the railroad topic, the building and its decoration evoke the history of Cuba as the world's fourth nation –the first in all Latin America- to ever make use of that means of transportation.

The resort's campus is checkered in avenues that bear street names from eastern Cuba like Enramada and La Gran Piedra in Santiago de Cuba, as well as the Alto Cedro Train Station, mentioned in Cuban crooner Compay Segundo's lyrics.

This 994-room hotel distributed in bungalows has three smorgasbord mess halls seating 1,200 patrons, a couple of a-la-carte restaurants, plus one poolside snack area and another beachfront restaurant.

It's equally outfitted with a boulevard dotted with stores, Cuban clubs, social centers, ice cream parlors and a beer pub.

Entertainment features animation for all ages –including babies- from 9:00am to 11:30pm. The lobby bar is open 24 hours a day while the Karaoke Pub –for those willing to belt out tunes, listen to live music, enjoy deejay presentations or do karaoke -closes at 3:00am.

All-inclusive Hotel:

Drinks & food in all three specialized restaurants (serving Mexican, Cuban and international cuisine), the a-la-carte Romantic Restaurant, the Italian food restaurant, the snack bar, the beachfront restaurant, the lobby bar, the aqua bar and the Karaoke Pub.

Sauna, gym, hammocks and umbrellas at the pool and beach. Tennis, table tennis, squash, billiard, windsurf, sail boating, beach volleyball, water bikes, kayaking, snorkeling, bicycling and other sports.

Sports Club, Youth Club, Children's Club, Baby Club and Social Center featuring courses on dancing, cooking and Cuban cocktails. Nightly live music and performing arts presentations.

Ecology-oriented tours. Massages at an additional charge. Air-conditioned rooms with two queen-size beds or one king-size bed, balcony, terrace, threshold, complete bathroom with hairdryer , music, phone, mini bar, digital-locked safety box (it takes an extra charge), ironing board and flatiron, satellite TV, CD player, coffeemaker, Internet hookup, around-the-clock room service with a fixed charge of $5 per service.

Suites with two interconnecting rooms, balcony, terrace, two complete bathrooms equipped with hairdryer, two queen-size beds or one king-size bed, plus all of the aforesaid conveniences.

Meeting and conference rooms. Weddings and honeymoons.