We're coming to Bonaire in June, and thinking of spending a night in Curacao on the way down, to take some of the stress out of flight connections. Can anyone recommend a hotel, either at the airport or downtown? Nothing fancy, just a good place to sleep. (We don't care about airport noise.)

Nancy, the reason your not getting any replies is Bonaire is 35 miles(15-20min) by air away from Curacao. If you stop overnight you will be subject to Departure Tax as well. With your hotel cost's and other fee's could pay for a first class rental vehical on Bonaire... I hope this little note helps you.

It takes long enough to get to Dushi Bonaire, lets not streach it out any longer then necessary...

Nancy
I believe there is only one hotel on the airport side of the island so you may also wind up with a two way cab fare to Wilhelmstadt as well. Also read about how easy the connection to Divi Divi is.
Mick

on our return from our first trip to bonaire (june 2000) we ended up spending the night on a park bench on the observation level at the curacao aiport...not good

just didn't seem worth getting a room for 7 hours...wrong

i think maybe the airport has been renovated a bit but at the time was NOT the place to get stuck overnite...

Nancy, I must agree with Ron. It will be more stressful trying to get a room and then returning to the airport than just passing through on Divi-Divi Air. Unless time and money is no object I recommend connecting through to Bonaire.

Best place to stay overnight? Any suggg...?

The nearest Hotel to the airport is the Airport Hojo, which I stayed at in late Oct of last year, but I think they were changing it into a weekly hotel. It was clean and safe. Please remember the cab fare from the air port to the airport Hojo is only 10-15 $ but if you stay in town the fair is 25/35 $ each way.

If you sit at the bar of the Airport Hojo you can see the planes taking off, that's how close it is.

Terry here is a link, this is really close to the airport--never stayed there, but have been told is reasonably priced and safe!


http://www.apartamentuholanda.com/