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By Nathan Borchelt
  • Unlike some Caribbean islands, Curacao locals love their beaches--and given the clear water, dramatic coves, and fine-grained sand, it's easy to understand why. The best beaches are on the northwestern coast, where you'll find more island residents than tourists.  To see some of Curacao's best beaches, check out Cas Abou, Playa PortoMari, and Shete Boca National Park, one of the island's more dramatic coastlines.
  • Curaçao Underwater Park offers a glimpse of some of the island's best preserved reefs. Admission to the park is U.S. $10 to $15.  Or check out the island's famed Curacao Sea Aquarium, which offers everything from turtle feeding to swimming with dolphins.
  • Consider taking a day trip out to Klein Curacao, which rests about 45 minutes east of the main island. This small spit of sand offers great snorkeling, and daytrips typically include beach BBQ lunches.   You can dive, snorkel, or just laze out.
  •  The diving might not be as awe-inspiring as you'd find on neighboring Bonaire, but Curacao still has some of the Caribbean's best reef dives, including the Mushroom Forest, the Valley, Sandy's Plateau, Barracuda Point, outings with the Dolphin Academy, and Superior Producer, a 230-foot-long wreck dive.

Curacao Travel Guide

Curaçao (Coo-ra-sow), together with Bonaire, St. Eustatius, St. Maarten, and Saba, is in the Kingdom of the Netherlands as part of the Netherlands Antilles. Just 56km (35 miles) north of the coast of Venezuela, Curaçao, the "C" of the Caribbean's Dutch ABC (Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) islands, is the most populous of the Netherlands Antilles. Visitors come for its distinctive culture, warm people, duty-free shopping, lively casinos, and watersports. Fleets of tankers head out from its harbor to bring refined oil to all parts of the world. If you want grand high-rise resorts on spectacular beaches, head for Aruba. Curaçao has a few middle-bracket resorts on the beach, mostly along the island's southern coast, but we've always found the shopping and cultural experiences here more appealing than the beaches. Read More

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Avila Beach Hotel

130 Penstraat
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Distance: 5.2 mi.
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Lions Dive & Beach Resort Curacao

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Lodge Kura Hulanda & Beach Club

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Attractions

National Curacao Underwater Park

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Curacao, Netherlands Antilles

Distance: 5.7 mi. (from destination center)

Description: Established in 1983, this 1,500-acre national marine park encompasses Curacao's underwater terrain... Read More
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Curacao Sea Aquarium

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Willemstad, Netherlands Antilles

Distance: 7.5 mi. (from destination center)

Description: Curacao Sea Aquarium offers educational programs as well as interactive programs in which visitors can touch the marine animals. The park also offers demonstrations of sea lion and dolphin training. ... Read More
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Klein Curacao

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Off the eastern coast of Curacao


Distance: 25.1 mi. (from destination center)

Description: This small, mostly deserted satellite island off the southeast coast of mainland Curacao is... Read More
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Major Airports near Curacao

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Caracas Simon Bolivar Airport 173.0 map

Other Smaller Airports near Curacao

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Curacao Aeropuerto Hato Airport 1.4 map
Bonaire Flamingo International Airport 45.7 map
Las Piedras Josefa Camejo Airport 89.7 map

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