The historic capital. The hip, enjoyable seashores. The buzzing culinary scene. The jaw-dropping diving. The previous few years have been a golden age of journey for the Dutch Caribbean island of Curacao, and the vacationers simply preserve flocking.
Now, there’s one other handy strategy to fly to the southern Caribbean hotspot: Brazil’s Azul, which simply launched a brand new nonstop route between Fort Lauderdale and Curacao.
The brand new nonstop service is operating 4 instances per week, Caribbean Journal has discovered.
It’s an vital enhance from the more and more vital South Florida marketplace for Curacao, which has been seeing record-breaking customer numbers for a lot of the final two years – a development that has proven no indicators of slowing down.
What about costs? Properly, given present flight costs it’s an excellent worth.
You may fly roundtrip in Azul’s primary fare class for about $569.98, in keeping with Azul’s web site. By comparability, an identical American Airways itinerary from Miami this month will value you round $1,078 roundtrip, in keeping with Google Flights.
Are you fascinated about a visit to Curacao? First, you’ll want to decide on the proper lodge. What you could not know is that the island has one of many extra layered, various lodge shares within the Caribbean, from ultra-luxe boutique inns just like the fabulous Baoase Luxurious Resort (one we’ve stayed at a number of instances and strongly suggest) rooms from $1,375; the glowing new Sandals Royal Curacao (a lodge that helped usher within the island’s current tourism growth when it opened again in 2022); the recently-transformed Kura Botanica, an enthralling, adults-only village-style property; after which some nice choices proper in the midst of Willemstad just like the Brion Metropolis Lodge — a property with a pleasant boutique rooftop pool you could keep at for simply $119 per evening.
If you happen to’re trying to expertise Curacao’s distinctive all-inclusive expertise, there are another new choices, too, from Wyndham’s value-friendly Kunuku resort (rooms from $274) to the Mangrove Seashore all-inclusive, which is a part of Hilton’s Curio Assortment. However be forewarned: this isn’t an all-inclusive vacation spot the place you keep in your lodge. Curacao is supposed to be traveled, to be explored, and which means getting out, renting a automobile and immersing your self in its many wonders.
Then you have to get out and discover the island. However the place to start? Is it the secluded, uncrowded seashores on Curacao’s western coast? Or the occasion scene at Mambo? Possibly you need to bounce proper in to its diverse gastronomic scene, beginning with the Brass Boer, the Curacao outpost of the three-Michelin-star Die Librije in Holland; or take a look at some if its wealthy historic websites just like the Fortchurch Residing Monument or one in all its many artwork galleries. And no journey is full with out a night strolling the Rif fort.
Each time we’ve visited, we’ve been struck by simply how a lot the island has to supply. And now it’s even simpler to get there.
