Sunscape Curaçao Resort, Spa & Casino

Location

This beachfront resort, located outside the Caribbean's hurricane zone, is just 10 miles from Hato International Airport or Curacao International Airport and just 2 miles from the diverse capital city and UNESCO World Heritage site of Willemstad with excellent shopping and site-seeing.

Dive Overview

Curacao has a mixture of all sorts of diving, so whatever your preference you'll find it here! It has a fringe reef surrounding the island. With calm waters and great visibility, you can see the healthy corals, macro life, and abundance of marine life. [Read More: Curacao Dive Travel Guide]

Accommodation Overview

Your Sunscape Curaao getaway features spacious, welcoming, recently renovated guest rooms or suites with picturesque views of lush tropical gardens or the Caribbean Sea. Choose optional family rooms, connecting suites and other family-friendly amenities to make yourselves right at home:

• Comfy rooms & suites with two double beds, one king bed or 1 double bed
• Private balcony or terrace
• Optional connecting rooms or family suites
• In-room kids amenities such as gaming consoles (available upon request and subject to availability)
• In-room mini-bar with soft drinks, juice, bottled water & beer
• Family check-in experience including red carpet stairs, a welcome treat and resort passports for kids
• Air conditioning with individual climate control
• Daily maid service
• Flat screen cable TV
• Coffee/tea maker
• Hair dryer
• Iron & ironing board
• In-room safe
• Rollaway beds available upon request
• Cribs available upon request
• 4 handicap accessible rooms available in the Flamingo wing on the first floor
• Alarm clock
• Wireless internet access (Additional fees may apply)

• 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 soldier fish, 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.Beautiful lush wall covered in 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

Sunscape Curaao Dive Center Overview

Ocean Encounters is Curacaos premier 5 star dive operator, offering both SSI & PADI courses for every level; from beginner to dive professional.

• Dolphin Dive: For divers and non-divers
• Special Trips: Mushroom Forest / Klein Curacao
• Learn To Dive: Discover scuba diving!
• Lionfish Scuba Dive Experience
• Coral Restoration Curacao
• Animal Encounters: No dive certification needed
• Boat Diving: Experience The Best Dive Sites

Practical Information

• Electricity: 220V
• Time zone: UTC-4
• Languages: Dutch & English
• Accept Credit Cards?: Yes (Visa, Mastercard & American Express)