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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