Curacao

Took a run out to the holy ground last nite, and was pleasantly surprised by the new rotation of talent that has come aboard. This is the first time in 6 months that I can actually say that it is above averagej just hope the trend stays that way.

Check out the Beautiful girls of Curacao. All photos taken at Mambo beach! Here is the Web address:

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A hurricane "watch" was just issued for the entire Netherlands Antilles incl. the island of CURACAO and the northern coast of the countries of Colombia and Venzuela. At 12 degrees latitude!

"I've absolutely seen it all now!" :(

It looks like Curacao is going to get "hammered" by powerful hurrican Ivan! First hurricane to hit the island sine 1877. It is an absolute freak storm at this latitude.

Good luck to all the residents and guests!

God bless Curacao! Curacao and his Campo is intact. Once you are in Curacao, try Race Cafe too.

I am looking to travel to Curacao to dive in February and fully intend on visiting Campo. I have a few questions I would like to ask of the regulars or those lucky enough to be living on the island.
Where is Campo? It sounds as if it is just outside Willemstad?

Where is a good place to stay that is good for diving, resonable price and is clean and safe?

What action is there outside of Campo? I read of the Red Lion (unsafe?)

What is the best place to pick up the tourist women, it's always fun to try?

Any info is appriciated.

WCP,

Spend the time to read this forum and your questions will be answered!

WCP,

I will try to answer all of your questions.

1. After going to the camp, you will not want to go anywhere else.

2. All of the smaaler places have not as good a lineup as the camp, and you will pay more.

3. The bars in Salina---Living Room and TMF are the two of the best party places.

I'm now comparison shopping for Caribbean destinations that combine good scuba diving and womanizing. I know that there's already much information here already about Curacao diving and mongering. I'm just hoping to choose which place is best in this part of the world to combine these 2 noble pursuits. I'll have about one week so I can only go to one place.

So far I'm looking at Roatan, Curacao and Cartagena in Colombia. I guess Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic are also possibilities. I hope to hear from people who have been to some or all of these places. I've only been to Grenada and I can say it's definitely not a good mongering destination.

So I'd like to know about places where I can find the best of the following:

Diving Scene:

Accessible diving (as in can go out, dive twice, and be back before 4 pm or so)

Affordable (no more than about $75 for 2 dives with my own gear)

Good, meaning not Palau or Maldives good. But not a total waste of time looking at nothing. An occasional quality sighting, like a sea turtle or colorful nudibranch, will do.

The mongering scene is mostly covered already on the respective boards so I won't ask for much detail about that. Just want to hear about the best places to combine watery diving with dry land diving.

I have visited Campo Allegre last month. Very easy to find, close to the airport. I was impressed by the facilities, as I heard it was an army camp before. Now, it looks more as a vacation resort.

On the other hand, I was disappointed about the quality and the quantity of the chicas, as well as the general atmosphere. May be I just expected more. I still prefer St Maarten (see my report on that section).

Mahku,

The diving in Curacao is very solid -- healthy reefs, good visibility, decent abundance and diversity of underwater wildlife (generally, no large pelagics). There is a ton of good shore dives available, so if you can buddy up with someone, you can dive very cheaply, as tanks go for about $5 a tank, weights included. One of my favorite sites, Porto Marie, boasts a very beautiful beach, a nice open-air restaurant/bar, a free area for divers to stash and wash their gear, and a pristine double reef easily accessible from shore.

Because Curacao is quite small, it is likely the easiest place to combine quality diving and quality mongering. I have visited this interesting desert island five different times from the USA and always had a great time. A rental car is a necessity.

I mostly stayed for about $45-50 a night at the Flamingo Park, a VERY nice, quiet and clean place in a rural, quite pretty area of central Curacao, only 5 minutes from Porto Marie. The Flamingo Park boasts incredibly beautiful landscaping, full kitchenettes, and quality ownership.

My last visit was in December, 2003, and the Campo was rocking with some high-quality ladies. I confess to being disturbed by some of the more recent reports on this board, however. My guess is that you will always be able to find a hot babe or two.

I have not been to Rotaan, so I can't comment. I have been to Costa Rica, but the diving is far away from the monger scene in San Juan, and isn't all that great unless you can make it down to the Osa Peninsula and Cano Island.

Mahku

We have both the two same hobbies: diving and mongering.
as I travelled a lot here my experience, scanning through the world best diving spots:

- Red sea: in my opinion, the world best diving, but surrounded only by moslin conservative countries, exept the little town of Eilat in the southern end of Israel. There seem to be a few escorts there, but it is worthless to travel for it.

- Austalian Great Barrier, the second best diving. There is quit some good action in Sydney, but there are still 1500 km between Sydney and the Great Barrier. Difficult to combine both.

- The Indian Ocean (Maldives, Seychelles, Maurice). Very good diving, but forget about mongering.

- The Pacific Ocean (Polynesia, Micronesia etc..). Very tiny islands, indeed very good diving but nearly no action.

- The Carribean has four main action islands: Cuba, Dominican republic, St Maarten and Curaçao. Action is different between the four, but for diving, Curaçao is by far the best in the Carribean, together with Bonaire.

Curaçao is a very good choice to combine both diving and mongering. But not the only one.

The two remaining world diving areas are:

- Central America (Mexico, Guatemala...) wich combine both, but I have no experience

and last but not least:

- South East Asia (Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia...) I've experienced very nice diving there, and you don't need me for having information about action in Thailand. In my opinion, for combining both hobbies, head for Phucket!

I'm going to be visiting Curacao on business from Nov 9 - 13.

I've read all the posts on this board from the last year. It seems like CA is the (obvious) way to go -- simple, cut and dried, reasonable prices.

BUT... I'm a dreamer.

Is there any possibility of hooking up with one woman for most or all of my stay? A low-key GFE-type situation?

Being in my 50s, I don't need a 19 y/o honey. In fact, I prefer a woman with a bit more experience, and to me 35 - 40 is still a "cute young girl." I'm not picky on color, with a slight preference for black or dark latina women. I prefer slim and small-busted to heavy/topheavy, but none of these are absolutes; attitude means more to me than appearance.

I don't know which hotel I'll be in. It'll be someplace the NA government puts up mid-level official visitors, I suppose, since that's what I'll be, there to do a little computer training.

Anyway, does anybody have any idea if the kind of arrangement I'm mentioning exists in Curacao? I've never ha any problem setting up this sort of thing in Mexico, and I spent most of my off-hours during a delightful 4-day stay in Port of Spain (TT) a few months ago with a 30ish Columbian woman who wasn't locked into a CA-type arrangement and was happy to accept (approx) $50/evening (plus meals, drinks, and a few small gifts) to be my multi-night steady companion. The hardest part was negotiating in my horrid Spanish and her non-existent English, but we managed...

Please either post or PM me... a post might be best since I'm sure at least a few others have desires similar to mine.

Thanks,

A

Any updates on Campo would be apprecated. Quality the same? Any new places to try out?

Happyness is 7 days of Campo walking away with a big smile.

Hello All,

Here are fresh updates from Curacao - the trip was in the middle of October 2004.

The most important: Campo is still there.

The Entrance fee now is 10 Florins ($6). Chica prices are the same - 50FL($28)

They also now allow women visitors on a certain day (thursday?). The entrance fee for women is 30 or 40 florins.

They advertise that if you buy some coupons for 25FL for Campo services, then they'll wave the entrance fee. But I did not try that.

It looks like the action is slower now, if you compare it to some previous years. I think there are less girls and the action starts later - 9-10 p.m.

However there are still some good quality girls with great personality and outstanding service. If you are there before November 23, stop by the room 155 Angelina, very young, slim, beautiful.

Also try Kamila, she's blond, great body, long straight legs. Her room is the closest to the restaurant area. She's usually standing outsdide her room.

Spanish is very necessary(as always). Some girls speak good English, but many of them do not speak at all, especially Dominican Republic girls.

Dining in Curacao
There are many restaurants advertized in their restaurant guide you find in hotels. Some of the restaurants are really good, but also many of them are overpriced or have bad quality. The worst I tried - Surf and Turf - they say a lot of nice words in their ads, but it is dirty, the food is bad and expensive.
For inexpensive and good food Campo is better than many other places on the island. They make good steaks and barbeques on sundays.

Hotels
So far the best hotel I stayed was Hilton. You can find very good deals on Travelocity, if you buy hotel+air together. It is also one of the closest to Campo. Marriott also should be good. Other popular hotels such as Aquarium Resort and Lion's Dive are good, but not as good as Hilton, they are also very far. There are also hotels I would not recommend such as Holiday Beach. Read hotel reviews on TripAdvisor.com before booking.

Don't forget to rent a car. Taxis are expensive on Curacao.

Not everybody who visits Curacao is very excited about chikas. During several trips I was asking occasionaly some people about their opinion about Campo, I think this is interesting:

- An American Guy (~35-40 y.o.): "Campo? Uh no. I'm here with friends. We just go to the beach. There are topless women, we can watch them, this is so cool!"

- A guy from Holland (~30 y.o.): "Campo? I've been there once. Will never go there again. Amsterdam red light district? No, never go there."

This was a pleasant surprize:
- A local old man, about 60-70 y.o! He works as a barman: "Campo! Oh yes! I love it! They got now young girls, not like Cuban girls in old times in 1960s... Sorry cannot go there tomorrow, gotta work, but look me up in December when you're next time in Curacao, and I'll be glad to go to Campo."

Have great time in Curacao!