Curacao Trip Details

Curacao is located in the Southern Caribbean and is famous for its rich underwater world. Above water, it is also breathtakingly lovely. Curacao is the largest of the ABC island group. It sits 35 miles North of Venezuela and is wedged between Aruba and Bonaire. The ABC islands are part of the Netherlands Antilles where more than 40 languages are spoken. The average year-round high is at 82 degrees Farenheight. The best advantage about diving these islands is they lie below the hurricane belt. This is not to say hurricanes don't happen here, but they are far less likely to make landfall.

June 1 — June 8, 2008

Trip cost: $1114.00 plus Air*

Deposit: $200.00

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*The price does not reflect the group discount. The group will also receive a price break from the free land packages depending upon the total participants on the trip. We receive 1 free package for every 9 people that are booked. Air fare is not included.

Includes: 7 night accommodation at Lions Dive & Beach Resort in standard room, (including taxes, resort fees and airport transfers). 5 days of 3 tank boat dives with Ocean Encounters Diving, including unlimited air for shore diving. Free shuttle service to Willemstad and back, twice a day. Two pools, wireless Internet access hotspots around resort and Internet access in rooms. Two restaurants on property. Free use of lockers and health club. Free entrance to Sea Aquarium Underwater Park, free entrance to Dolphin Academy, free entrance to Sea Aquarium Beach and on-site car rental.

Contact Info

Sharon Yates is our trip coordinator and is collecting all monies for our group.

Air

Please note: We have removed the Air fare rates from the trip pricing. Most will probably want to use miles to purchase tickets. The following is the best flight plan found to date using 30K AADVANTAGE miles:

• June 1: AA 2571 Departs D/FW 11:25 AM Arrives Miami 3:05 PM
• Connecting flight: AA 939 Departs Miami 4:40 PM Arrives Curacao 7:30 PM
• June 8: AA 934 Departs Curacao 6:30 AM Arrives Miami 9:30 AM
• Connecting flight: AA 1818 Departs Miami 12:20 PM Arrives D/FW 2:25 PM

Depending on the available seats for AADVANTAGE mile usage, you may have to play with different flights to use your miles. The total fare per person is looking to be around $782.00 at the time of this update. We will constantly monitor the air fares to try to alert you of the best possible rates we can find for this trip.

Accommodations

Lions Dive & Beach Resort, located directly at the National Curacao Underwater Park, has its own private beach with plenty of palm trees, lounge beach chairs and beds, beach huts and sunshades. Lions Dive's private beach connects to Curacao's largest white sand beach named Sea Aquarium Beach (popular Mambo Beach), with several beach shops, bars and restaurants on walking distance.

At the pool in the center of the resort you will find restaurant Nemo and on the beach they have the beach bar – restaurant Hemingway. The moment you arrive at Lions Dive & Beach Resort you will feel the "bare foot elegance".

Lions Dive & Beach Resort is well aware of the fact that tourism can only survive in a world where good care is being taken of their natural environment! Lions Dive & Beach Resort is a nature-oriented accommodation that strives to maintain the highest possible environmental standards. Saving water, saving energy, monitoring waste and waste water and bringing nature to your hotel rooms' doorstep.

Lions Dive & Beach Resort has been built in a typical Dutch Caribbean style with 2 and 3 floors surrounded by a tropical garden. All rooms have a private bathroom with shower or bath, balcony or terrace, air conditioning, ceiling fan, shutters, 2 double beds or 1 king-size bed, cooler, safety deposit box, cable color television, direct dial telephone and Internet access. All electrical outlets are 220 Volt/50 cycles.

Diving

Ocean Encounters' "One Stop Dive Shop" philosophy allows divers the opportunity to dive the entire island. Experiences like Mushroom Forest, Klein Curacao, Superior Producer and Tugboat are available right outside your hotel door. Just off the Lions Dive beach is the famous Stella Maris reef. It's a beautiful shore dive that is home to a missing shipwreck found by Ocean Encounters' Technical Exploration Team.

The dive boats are spacious and include all the safety equipment required for an enjoyable excursion. There are rinse tanks for masks and cameras and one Divemaster for every ten divers. The Divemasters are experts in the marine wildlife in the area. They will make sure you don't miss any seahorses, frogfish, turtles, green morays, or anything else that moves under the water.