A lot of people complain that they never find flight deals
out of the city that they live in, but you gotta get creative and search for
flights out of cityz that you can easily get to. How? There are lots of travel
search engines, but I like www.skyscanner.com. I enter the city that I want to fly out of,
leave the dates blank and the destination blank, from there I let the cheap destinations
determine when I will travel.
So any who, we were very back and forth about where to lodge
in Curacao. Initially we went with the Hilton, but later decided to rent a
condo. Thank goodness we made that
decision because 1) the Hilton (and neighboring Marriott) were kinda far out
and not near anything of interest 2) the Hilton looked beat the “F” up in
person, like an old HOJO. After debating on the many beautiful condos we
settled upon The Beach House. It was a great call because the property was intimate,
beautiful, and on a great location of Mambo Beach. Mambo beach is a very happening spot with
lots of dining and entertainment during the day and at night, I also hear they
have a very lively Sunday beach party that we sadly did not get to attend.
The main language of Curacao is Papiamento and I must say it is a very peculiar tongue. It’s a hodge podge of African, Portuguese,
Indian, English, Dutch, and Spanish.
When I heard them speaking I could understand like every 5th
word, luckily most people in the country also speak English.
We rented a car because all our research indicated that
taxis are very expensive. Luckily they
drive on the right side of the road because my brain cannot handle driving on
the left side of the road (that was a #FAIL in the Bahamas) If u don't wanna
rent a car I would recommend lodging by the port and the Queen Emma Bridge. The
Queen Emma Bridge is a beautiful pontoon bridge that connects the Punda and Otrobanda districts. That area
is the heart of Willemstad and you will have plenty of lodging options, lots of
shopping, dining, casinos, and nightlife.
I just wanna say that they likes their Happy Hour in Curacao, a
lot of places have early evening happy hour and also late evening happy hour
were drinks are buy 1 get 1 free. I’m
not talking Miami prices of $15 drinks and you get one free, these are like $5
and you get one free #WINNING. We spent one evening at Mambo Beach enjoying the
local liquors for the low low.
We partied two evenings at a spot called The Alley which of
course played the Caribbean/African chunes that I likey!!! It was located in the Punda district mentioned
above. Entry and drinks were dirt cheap so it was definitely my kinda
party!
Another evening we were told that we could find the chunes that we were in
search of at Zanzibar at Jan Thiel Beach, but upon arriving we heard Caribbean chunes
coming from the Mojito spot next door so we let our ears guide us to the bar and
then dancefloor. I just want to share this
bottle menu from Curacao, please keep in mind that this is in the local
currency which is LESS than US$. I don’t
do club bottle service in the US (cause I’m poor), but at these prices I will
pop bottle or two.
If you don’t make
it to the alcohol factory, fret not because there are plenty of shops ready to
give you samples of every flavor liquor and attempt to sell you a bottle or
5.
I read in numerous places that Curacao is a snorkeling paradise. We were supposed to go on an ATV/Snorkeling
excursion with ATV & Buggy Tours (they had great reviews online), but a
monsoon came thru in the middle of the night and the tour was cancelled because
the route was too wet. Rather than give up
we went with a different ATV company (Eric’s ATVs) that didn’t have snorkeling,
but did have a cave tour. That tour was
great until 2 ATVs broke down and we wasted a good hour waiting on them to try
and fix them and then we had to help tow them back to base.
I had a great time in Curacao, there was so much more to see
and do that we didn’t have time to do.
If another good flight deal dropped, I was definitely go back. I must
say that everyone was so dayym friendly EVEN the customs agents and that is usually NOT
the case at many other countries that I visit.
Even the mosquitos were friendly, usually I am bit to death (no matter how much repellent I wear), but this go round I was only bit about 3x.
One thing I did find odd was the oil refinery which neighbored the center of town. You could see flames shooting from silo’s (or whatever they are called) all day long, it reminded me of the hunger games. Our first nite I saw flames shooting into the sky and thought there was a big forest fire and we were all going to burn to death (I can be a tad bit dramatic at times).
One thing I did find odd was the oil refinery which neighbored the center of town. You could see flames shooting from silo’s (or whatever they are called) all day long, it reminded me of the hunger games. Our first nite I saw flames shooting into the sky and thought there was a big forest fire and we were all going to burn to death (I can be a tad bit dramatic at times).
Fun facts before we part:
Their favorite word is DUSHI. It has multiple meanings, but is basically used
to describe everything good, awesome, sweet, lovely, etc
The US$ is a legal tender
Prostitution is legal
They love to add a Caribbean /Latin/ African beat to American chunes (something
I rather enjoyed). I was dancing my life away to artists I would normally never
dance to back home.
The men love and I mean LOVE their murses (man purse), apparently if you don’t have a man purse you don’t have your life together!
And of course I leave you
with a recap video *CHOW*
Once again, great reviews and great insights on how to party like a rockSTAR! ;)
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