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Renaissance Curacao's Infinity Beach is Now 40 Percent Off
The Renaissance Curacao impressed us just by telling us about their 32,000 square foot infinity beach, which beats an infinity pool any day (and a local even assured us that in real life it is truly as cool as it sounds). Now they're trying to impress us with a 40 percent off sale. And they get it half right.
The good part of this sale is that if you book by the end of November, for travel any time between January and April 2010, then you will get 40 percent off room rates – that's a pretty hefty discount. The Renaissance Curacao has had some good reports, and with the world heritage Rif Fort literally on the doorstep, we like it for being a bit different.
The bad part about this deal is they're advertising it as the "Life Begins At 40%" sale. And while we, well, get it, we can't help but feel like they're aiming for an over-40s market and that ain't quite our thing. But then we remember the infinity beach and we forgive them all over again.
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Renaissance Curacao Sees Your Infinity Pool And Ups You
Curacao is something we drink more often than a place we dream of traveling to, but with the February 1 opening of the Renaissance Curacao Resort we are seriously thinking of hopping on a plane and flying down there.
This new place looks so colorfully funky from the photos that we are already thinking we'd enjoy it. And then there are the swimming options. There's an infinity pool, of course, because no self-respecting new resort could open up without one these days. But they've added a new dimension by creating an eternity beach. We're not quite sure we understand it--they say it's "Real sand, real ocean water, real palm trees...above sea level"--and it could just be a bit of a marketing ploy, but we have to admit, we're falling for it. (All 32,000 square feet of it).
Added bonus--the resort is built around a UNESCO Heritage-listed fort, so there's some cultural learning to go with your cocktails. Like every good just-opened resort, the Renaissance Curacao has an opening special--they're doing $199 per night for rooms with normal rack rates up towards $300 a night.
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Escape the Slush: One Twenty Fifth of T+L's Affordable Beach Resorts
A while back the big news on Curacao was the J Lo's possible pregnancy. Didn't happen, but we are guessing the Dutch could care less.
Fast forward six months, or so, and it turns out Lodge Kura Hulanda & Beach Club, one of Willemstads's beach resort options, made Travel & Leisure's 25 Affordable Beach Resorts List (March 2007).
While all the beach resorts on the list are definitely worth a look we focused in on Kura for two reasons.
First, Curacao takes our minds off slush--just get yourself to Miami, and three hours from MIA you will be in Curacao.
Second, Kura was written up by Andrea Bennett, a friend of HotelChatter, and we always tend to believe our friends, even when they show up in the glossies.
The lodge's 75 villas, suites, and guest rooms stand on a cliff, surrounded by 350 acres of carefully tended gardens filled with flowering shrubs and tamarind and breadfruit trees.
The rooms, with their big patios, soft white linens, and rattan furnishings, are soothing but also high-tech, with flat-screen TV's DVD players, and free high-speed Internet.If we do book a flight to Curacao and get out of the slush filled Northeast the first thing we will do upon check-in is fire up our computer, no, not to live blog the experience for you, but instead to go straight to Wikipedia and hope there is an entry for tamarind trees.
As a bonus, it sounds like you get welcome drinks. Nice. White coral-sand beach, welcome drinks, free Internet for under $200 a night, if you find a deal.
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· 25 Affordable Beach Resorts [Travel & Leisure]
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J.Lo Goes on a Babymoon?
Always a credible publication when it comes to celebrity procreation, Life & Style mag reveals that Jennifer Lopez and hubby Marc Anthony took the 2 and a half-hour flight from Miami to Curacao for a possible babymoon and to celebrate their second anniversary.
The crooning duo stayed at the Hotel Kura Hulanda on this Dutch Isle in the Caribbean. Although, we don't know exactly which type of suite they stayed in, we're pretty sure they passed on the regular $220 a night standard rooms in favor of the $1,000 a night Indian Bridal Suite which comes complete with "sterling silver furniture."
Even if you can't afford this suite, the rest of the rooms will still please you with bathrooms decked in Indian marble, hard-carved mahogany and teak furniture and hand-woven linens from India. And you'll still feel original as no two rooms in the hotel are the same.
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· Hotel Kura Hulanda reviews [TripAdvisor]
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