Nightlife on Curaçao

Curaçao has a lively night life, mainly centred on Willemstad, and Mambo Beach. Willemstad is busy at night, with a number of clubs with live bands. With a diverse cultural background, there is a lot of variety, although blues and jazz are the local favourites. The real bonus is the music is raw with an authenticity you rarely find elsewhere. The clubs and bars stay open until the early hours.

Many hotels, and some restaurants, in Willemstad and around the island, have live music. This is often ad hoc, and impossible to detail here, but part of the fun is walking around and making "surprise discoveries" yourself. The informality of it all is a big part of the enjoyment. It is worth checking with your accommodation, and they will point you in the right direction. As befits a small island with 55 distinct cultures, Curaçao has a wide range of excellent restaurants, scattered around the island, not just in the capital. Willemstad offers the full range of types of restaurant and cuisine. From fast food to the superb Gouvernor de Rouville which overlooks the quay, one of the very best restaurants, for food, atmosphere and service. There are dozens of specialised restaurants, Caribbean, European and Asian.

In spite of it's vibrancy, Willemstad is not hectic, it retains the relaxed, friendly Caribbean atmosphere. If you seek out the restaurants, become the pioneer again, all around the island you will find some real gems, serving excellent food, in a variety of styles, and in some unique and interesting settings. It is hard to describe the enjoyment of eating Creole food on a balmy Caribbean evening, in the courtyard of an old colonial mansion, in a wonderfully informal atmosphere. Most resorts, and hotels, around the island have excellent restaurants, so you do not have to stay in town. The resorts will have quieter, more informal restaurants often with an ocean view. They also have regular theme nights, you will always be welcome and these are great fun. Again, best to check locally. It is not expensive to eat out, prices are very reasonable, much the same as Europe, but a lot more interesting and enjoyable! A few miles south of Willemstad, near SeaQuarium beach is the famous Mambo Beach, a particularly lively spot, with two bars and two good restaurants. The food served is modern, more international and good quality. Mambo Beach is busy and energetic. The bars play modern dance music each night and live bands most weekends.

SALSA is a way of life here. Fun Travel are pleased to be a sponsor of the Salsa Tour to Curaçao each year, when Salseros
and Salseras can indulge their passion for the dance of the Caribbean. In addition to flights and accommodation, our Salsa Tour package includes day time workshops, where instructors of an international level, from all over the Caribbean, help all standards of dancer, including beginners, to improve their technique. With an evening pass, Salseros visit a different location each night, where they can dance until they drop! Of course the tropical atmosphere is all-important, and what better than to be able to dance the night away, and to really let yourself go. The tour includes people from different countries, coming to the Caribbean, the home of the Salsa, and enjoying a week of dancing combined with an exciting holiday, on an island virtually unknown to tourists from the UK and Ireland.

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