Lions Dive & Beach Resort Curaçao

Food & Drinks

Want to enjoy delicious culinary delights? Breakfast, lunch or dinner is available to enjoy at the Hemingway with your feet in the sand. Enjoying Italian at Piazza by the pool or elegant and tasteful dining at the Nemo restaurant with a beautiful sunset in the background. The ultimate beach feeling is at Beach bar Chill, recommended for delicious BBQ dishes and cold drinks during a wonderful beach day. At weekends, there is live music and here are the famous local 'happy hours'. 

Dive Information 

 Curaao Dive Sites

• Eel Valley
• On the east side of Santa Barbara Resort, and just underneath its golf course, we find this amazing dive site.
• Booby Trap
• Perfect place to work on some sponge identification: all types of sponges cover the slope.
• Double Reef
• West of Santa Ana Bay, this double reef has its shallows covered with small brain corals and loads of sun anemones.
• Shipwreck Point
• This is like diving inside an aquarium! Next to our dive shop, sits one of the healthiest reefs around Curacao.
• Beacon Point
• Currents make this site an intermediate to advanced dive. You will see the largest pillar coral formation in the Caribbean at this dive.
• Klein Curacao
• A very special trip for divers only. They say that in Klein Curacao underwater everything is bigger and there is more of it.
• Cornelius Bay
• Elkhorn Coral can be spotted during this dive on the plateau. Seahorses are found around the many gorgonians along the wall.
• Mushroom Forest
• One of the most famous dive sites in Curacao. Over time hard coral formations have grown in such a way that they resemble mushrooms, hence the name.
• Superior Producer
• Sport Diver Magazine rates the Superior Producer as one of the Caribbeans best wreck dives. This cargo freighter sunk in December of 1977 and is now sitting upright at a depth of 100ft/30m.
• Newport
• This beautiful and pristine Curacao dive site is only accessed by Ocean Encounters. A beautiful slope with great star coral, brain coral, and soft gorgonians.
• Smokeys
• How to describe this wonderful Curacao dive? It is pristine with large dense corals, great visibility and simply beautiful.
• Blue Bay Gardens
• A true underwater garden. Box crabs in the sand, octopus, and baby clusters of brain and star corals. On the slope gorgonians, large brain and star corals. Lots of cleaning stations.
• Snake Bay
• If you want to be in the middle of a fish traffic jam, this is the dive site for you. Huge Jacks chasing bait balls, Caribbean Chromies, Creole Wrasses, Southern Rays, and Turtles.
• East Point
• A pristine and unspoiled reef at the very East of Curacao. Only to be reached by boat trip, this site is part of our Special Boat Trip to Klein Curacao.
• Barracuda Point
• A favorite Curacao dive, covered in dense coral formations, gorgonians and boulder corals. Turtles are spotted often on this dive site, as well as jacks and barracudas.
• Small Wall
• The name says it all, it is a wall and it is small. Overhangs and little nooks house schools of soldierfish, grunts, and damsels protecting their gardens and eggs.
• Director's Bay
• Perfectly suited for divers and snorkelers. This dive site landmark is an old decaying shark fence now covered in corals and sponges.
• Lost Anchor
• A favorite Curacao Dive Site, bright and colorful. A beautiful lush wall covered with gorgonians and sea fans. Dense coral growth hides an anchor chain that keeps on going forever.
• Jan Thiel
• A typical Curacao diving spot starting at a sandy plateau going down on a sloping reef. The best treat at the end of the dive will be the curious school of squid looking directly into your eyes.
• Sandy's Plateau
• Gorgonians and hard corals, and everything in between. An excellent dive site to spot lobsters under the overhangs and crabs hiding in the large barrel sponges.
• Rolling Stone
• Next to Hole 17 and 5 at Blue Bay Golf Course. These are 2 fun dive sites to search and collect golf balls during your safety stop.
• Saba
• The small tugboat that sits in the shallows is called Saba, and its only at 5 meters/15 ft.
• Divers Leap
• At this dive site, you may have the possibility to do a great drift dive, flying while enjoying the reef scene in front of you.
• Tugboat
• This famous tugboat wrecked just a few yards offshore in a protected bay. Perfect site for divers as well as snorkelers.

Special Diving Expeditions

Ocean Encounters offers 2 tank morning and 1 tank afternoon dives to the sites in Curaao. Check out world famous Mushroom Forest & Blue Room and the unspoiled East Point & Klein Curaao.

Snorkeling Excursions

Afternoon snorkeling excursions depart daily right from the resort. Take a day trip to Klein Curaao, a secluded island known for its pristine waters and turtle population.

Dive Center Information

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 LionsDive 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. Ocean Encounters is also the place to learn. They offer PADI diving education for the non-diver to Instructor level and Technical training. No matter where you are in your diving life, Ocean Encounters will have something to teach you!