Curacao Travel Tips
- Choose your beach carefully. The northwestern coastline is rugged and not good for swimming, but the western coastline is sheltered with mellower waters. Locals call large beaches playas and smaller inlets bocas.
- Get taxi quotes. Curaçao cabs don't have meters, so you need to get a quote from the driver before going anywhere to avoid a surprise later.
- Use English or Spanish. Even though it's a Dutch island, both English and Spanish are widely spoken and understood. You'll also hear the local Papiamentu dialect—a mixture of Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, French, English, and Arawak Indian.
- Feed sharks by hand and swim with dolphins at the Curaçao Sea Aquarium.
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Curaçao Underwater Park offers a glimpse of some of the island's best preserved reefs.
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Top Answers To Curacao Travel Questions
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Hi Rob and Sue, we just published our Curacao Parks tips, including some specific to horses and riding. See this link here: http://vacation.away.com/curacao/travel-v2-cid307-curacao-cid1698-horses-and-riding-vacations.html Our expert, Lynne Sullivan, recommends Rancho Alfin. You can find her review and the stables' contact info here: http://vacation.away.com/attractions/travel-ad-cid5541-willemstad-attid295906-rancho-alfin-attraction.html -
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Incidentally, pixieduster, you can also read more about snorkeling in Curacao and other top Caribbean locales at following link: http://bit.ly/9pFv56
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If you're really set on weeklong snorkeling, I'd go to Bonaire, not Curacao. Curacao is GREAT, but its snorkeling isn't as easy or as epic and Bonaire's shore diving. Curacao does have great beaches--but to see the best you'll want to get away from the resorts as they all reside on manufactured sand beaches rather than natural ones, and thus the snorkeling isn't too exciting. Cas Abu beach is grand, with decent snorkeling. Ocean Encounters is the big player on the island, and should also be able to point you to other island locales good for snorkeling. Also consider a day trip with them to Klein Curacao, a small deserted island west of the mainland. It's got decent snorkeling, and makes for a nice change from Willemstatd and surrounds.
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Following two links might offer up some ideas in terms of places to look for on the map: http://vacation.away.com/curacao/travel-v2-cid307-curacao-cid5-scuba-diving-vacations.html, http://vacation.away.com/curacao/travel-v2-cid307-curacao-cid13-snorkeling-vacations.html.