I'm there now, rented a villa for 2 months, its my goto island because montreal has direct flights which is really good, C. Is not a poor island by carribean standards, so the super markets are excellent, centrum and mangusa hypermarket, market in willemstaad has the cheapest produce from Venezuela. Amazing weather year round. Tons of hiking trails and having my atv and boat would give me so much more to do. Atv trails galore.....no interest to visit aruba or sister island bonaire. Great place that still is not well known but they are building lots of houses here now. March 2024. Worth the stay.
Great recap and update, especially on the building of houses. Yeah the markets and availability of products, especially Dutch and European products, was wonderful when we were there also. Thanks for sharing your experience and we really appreciate you watching our video and leaving us a comment! If you haven't already it really helps the channel if you click that like button for us 👍 Enjoy your 2 months, Ayr & Lori
Hi Carmen! The pleasure was all ours. You live in a beautiful country. Thank you, if you have, for subscribing! It's fast and FREE and really helps us grow. Maybe your friends would like to watch this video we made on Curacao also?
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These experiences and reflections like yours are what changes you for the good and is what inspires you to keep traveling and keep pursuing the unknown. Let your memory be your travel bag and keep going!!!!!!
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oh wow! thank you for visiting and living on my island for 6 months! for those wanting to go to Christoffel mountain I suggest you put on good strong sneakers, that mountain road is not for weak shoes, believe me, I when one time with school excursion and those sharp rocks destroyed my brand new sneakers.
Yes @about sue tv, very good advice! The rock on Christoffel is no joke and we are sorry to hear that you wrecked your new sneakers! A good paid of hiking shoes is great advice! What a view once at the top, hey!? Thank you so much for the comment and taking a minute to connect with your experience and advice! You rock! (get it!?) ...but you DO! *Please share the vid to your personal Facebook feed to help promote the island! 👍
Our pleasure! So glad you like our videos, we appreciate hearing that! And it's so great to hear @Bill Kaufmann that you have a trip coming up soon to Curacao! You'll probably find this other video that we made on Curacao's beaches very helpful (they are our Top 5!) th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html Please click the LIKE button on our videos that you like, and leave us comments any time. Those 2 things really help us grow ad we thank you so much for watching! 👍😘
Glad you liked that....just what you needed right....MORE motivation to return!? We love that in your other comment on our other video that you mention you rented a car. Best decision. We bought one while we lived in Curacao. Having our own vehicle was hands down the single best thing we did to have the freedom to get out whenever we wanted and to venture out and adventure anywhere we wanted to, stay as long as we wanted to too! Can't wait to hear when you decide to go back. Thanks again for watching and commenting! We appreciate that and hope you click the LIKE button on our vids too! 😘
Thank you for showing off the island of Curacao in such a wonderful video. I love how you have recorded scenes of the many beaches and all those locations around the island. This is one of the best promotional videos I can find on TH-cam for Curacao right now! Great job! Thanks for creating and posting this video. I was born in Curacao but I'm currently living in Hudson Valley, New York USA.
Well @Rex Torres! What an excellent an awesome comment to read from you tonight! We are so super happy that you like what we put together! It is definitely a beautiful island and we enjoyed our time living there. Thank you so much for your very positive comments and what we did it means a lot and we love that you love it! Please feel free to click the like button on this and our other Curacao vids (heres another one: th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html) Please also feel free to share it with anyone you might know to promote the beauty of Curacao. Thank you for your positivity on our channel! Cheers!
Oh how awesome! Did you get a chance to explore all over Curacao, all the way up to Westpunt and Shete Boca Park? How you get to go for 6 months soon and we thank you for watching and commenting! Welcome to our channel, Ayr & Lori
Well done yet again! Fantastic narration Lori! If you could provide more info on admission fees to enter parks, cost of accommodation(s), and languages, and whatever else you think you'd like to know before visiting a new country, that would be good, for future videos of course. Thanks for the content
Yes, noted! When we move to a new country we try hard to think of and remember all the things that go along with planning potential upcoming videos. There is a LOT of info to gather, think about, remember to ask, jot down, keep receipts for ....etc! The funny thing too about Curacao is we lived there BEFORE we started our TH-cam channel so we actually weren't even really in keeping receipts, documenting and jotting down details to share with others mode. We were just living that year! We only filmed cause we ALWAYS did that in new places we lived. It was a good year later when the idea came to put our experiences of living in Curacao into a video for people to learn from. Believe us, we wish we had more info to share there. But we are super glad that you like what we DID remember. Haha! Super great ideas though that we will keep in mind for future. Thank you @Sue M!
@Ron A That is such a short, sweet, nice thing to say. We appreciate that very much. A lot of work goes into making just a simple informative video and so we really appreciate you taking a few minutes to write your comment. We hope you click the LIKE button, subscribe and check out all our other videos. 😘
Thanks so much @Tom Holloway! We put a lot of effort into them so that is really super nice to hear. 😁 Have you been to Curavao? If you can, please click the LIKE button on the vid and share it to your Facebook page? This will help promote the island to others. 👍 And we thank you for your super positive comment!
Hi @TheUtiateKing1, haha you are funny! Well, we DID think that because it took us months and months to explore all the roads, areas, and really learn the landscape and texture of the island well, the way we wanted to. I mean, keep in mind, that the way WE travel is S L O W.... while in Curacao, we were not "tourists" that had only 2 weeks or something to really hit the road and get around everywhere fast and just get a quick "taste"! We moved there for 6 months, we worked during the day and then in the afternoons/evenings we would venture out and go explore slowly a location/road/beach. It was wonderful. So, we found that most quieter, local, rural, undeveloped places were at a fair distance from our apartment. They took a good 45 mins to an hour to get to. Curacao is, in our opinion, JUST right for size. We can imagine, though, that if a person is born and raised in Curacao and doesn't get to leave the island much, that they would feel that it is NOT large? Is this the case? Thank you SO much for your great comment. We enjoyed reading it and got a little giggle! Thank you for taking a few minutes to write it! Please help promote Curacao by clicking the LIKE button on this video and SHARE it to your Facebook page! 😇 Thanks!
Awesome video! Makes us miss Curacao. We got to visit for three days. We did a video on hiking Christoffel Mountain and also one on a great out of the way restaurant called Jaanchies on the west end of the island. Did you happen to go to Jaanchies? It was a unique experience.
Thanks for letting us know you liked this vid too! That's so kind of you guys!! Your adventure sounds super fun! No, we didn't find that gem of a restaurant unfortunately. What made it unique and awesome?
@@PlanFree There were several reasons that made it unique. There are hundreds of little birds that fly around the garden that surrounds the dinning area which makes it a neat experience. (The food was excellent as well) We post a video on our channel about our experience. Check it out if you like, I think you will enjoy it.
Wow! Curaçao looks beautiful, I just came back from Aruba, I was there for 1 month and I loved it but found it too crowded and way too expensive. I heard Curacoa is less crowded and less expensive. I was shocked at the price of produce in Aruba. I do not drive for medical reasons hence why I chose Aruba since it’s smaller and easier to get around. Thanks again for your video ☺️
You're welcome, thank you for watching @Busybee! You made a good choice in Aruba for being a smaller island and you not driving. From that stand point you were probably able to see a decent amount within walking distance or taxi ride. But, on the other hand, you likely found yourself limited to the busier areas, with more people and higher prices!! (Stay tuned to out channel...very soon we have an Aruba Cost of Living video coming out that I think you might find interesting!) Curacao IS beautiful! Actually, Curacao being so very much larger than Aruba there was miles and miles to explore and get away from busyness. You have your larger metro areas for sure, but you also have so many smaller towns, smaller rural areas, deserted coastal rocky shores, full on huge parks and so on. We actually didn't see everything we wanted to even in 6 months of living there WITH our own vehicle (recommended!). So yes, Curacao is less crowded simply because of the larger area. 👍 But make no mistake it's still crazy and gets awful traffic jams in and around Willemstad! We hope you get to go one day. Hope you love the rest of our channel. Click like and comment any time. 🤗
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Good vid, but did you learn to speak Papiamento or dive at all? I know that’s not easy to film. Also, so much in the way of Dutch culture exists here to include chocolate, beer, food!!! Please make another video!
Hi @William Haneke! Thank you for your entertaining comment and taking a few minutes to write it! We very much enjoyed reading it! 😄 We no longer live in Curacao so it would be very difficult to film another video! Haha. However we did experience chocolate and some of the foods you speak about while we were there, they were excellent!! We only learned a few words in Papiamento, we mostly used Spanish and English to get by. The diving we did was freediving only (we do not scuba dive personally). Do you live in Curacao and do you dive?
Thanks a lot for this video and for the other videos on your channel! I believe that there are very interesting and super helpful! I am planing to spend in Curacao 6 months. Could you please recommend any relatively inexpensive car rental place? Any ideas about it?
Hi @Yanya Maslova! Oh, you are very welcome for the video! Super glad you liked it and got some good info from it! And REALLY glad you liked some of our other videos too! :) Do you have a favorite? We actually did a Google search for car rental companies in Curacao and did some price asking in the weeks leading up to moving to Curacao for our 6 months. I cannot quite remember what we were quoted then, but we ultimately decided to BUY a car. Living in 1 place for so long, it made more sense to us to BUY a nice used car that would run well and treat us well for 6 months and then sell it a few weeks before leaving. That way we purchase something in our price range, it's inexpensive to insure, and we can make the selling price super attractive to the next person because we want and NEED to sell it, so everyone gets a GREAT deal! When you calculate the cost difference between the 2 options (buying a car and then selling it for a great deal versus renting for a full 6 months) the difference is H U G E . Right? With the rental option you are out of pocket ALL that money. You get non back. With the purchase and sale option, our total vehicle cost is so incredibly low, something like CAD$1000-1500 for 6 months! And, the BONUS is that we get to meet awesome people all over the island when looking at cars and going to insurance companies, etc. Does that help?
@@Lori.Miller Hi Lori, thank you! It makes a lot of sense to buy a car instead of renting. I also googled the prices for car rental and yes, buying a car seems to be much better! I will do that. Do I have a favorite video? Hard to say. I really like that you compare places in your videos , you talk about pluses and minuses of living in Aruba and Curacao, you compare life in Panama and Costa Rica. I find it very helpful when we are trying to make a decision where to go for longer period of time or where to move. I also like your videos about Canada and about Nevada - living in the RV when you are not traveling internationally sounds great - life is simple but not boring and you are not stuck in one place. And probably what I like the most - you show in your videos that this is all possible, that you actually CAN be FREE and live on the Caribbean islands or in your other favorite places. And you do explain the ways how to get there, and this is super! Thank you :)
@Tanya Maslova Wow, you are our super fan! So great to read your comments and we thank you so much for taking the time to reply so well, so positively, so thoroughly!
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How about your top 5 beaches and beach bars? Plan on spending 2 days explooring west end. One day williamstead. Staying at sunscape near mambo. Will have rental car.
@Tony Flood were working on it! We are hoping the Cuacao's best beaches video will be out before your trip. When do you visit? 🙏 If you subscribed and clocked the blue bell you'll get notified when it comes out! You are our NEWEST motivator! Thank you for watching and adding a comment! What did you like about the video?
Thanks for your question @DJ Carnes! Curacao is such a large island that there are more than 40 beaches (here are our favorites!: th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html). The vast majority of the numerous beaches on Curacao are free and most of them are not in the built up and touristy zones, they are mostly well outside of the Willemstad area. The ones that are in the touristy zones sometimes have a charge and it's either because someone has purchased the land and developed it (private) or the charge goes toward the cleaning and maintenance of the beach. So, most are free! There are soooooo many! We'd love to hear your thoughts on the video we linked above for you to see what you think. We hope you click the LIKE button on this and all our videos that you enjoy, it really helps the channel grow. And we appreciate you watching!
Hi @SW! You're welcome, glad you liked it! We actually had a tricky time finding a place, before we arrived in Curacao, to rent for 6 months. We DID end up finding one and booking it before we arrived, but it was a long search! Not sure if this is normal for others, but that was our experience. We found things a tad overpriced for what you get also. Note, this was before Covid.....and tourism was booming everywhere....perhaps things are different now with people not traveling as much and landlords in Curacao maybe have had to lower their prices?? You'll have to check online. When we did our traveling to Curacao, in 2017, we did our searching online before hand and it did turn out ok, but once we landed in Curacao and started poking around a bit more just to get an idea of the rental market and availability and we found a few more local companies that offered rentals outside of the websites that we had found from home. So, we looked at a few more villas and apartments, but ended up staying where were were because a) we had already committed to 6 months with our landlord and b) because prices were even HIGHer than what we had found online! Yes, they were larger and more beautiful places, buuuut we just stayed where we were. :) I would not hesitate now to find more local companies and make contact via email, phone and ask for some virtual tours! Let us know what you find!
@@PlanFree thank you for the excellent and thorough advice. I'll definitely heed this and do my research with locals. Now I'm thinking thinking about taking a cheap brief solo trip to check things put before returning later. You are awesome! I'm subscribed now!
@@newtiger007 YAYYYYY! Our newest subscriber and we are so happy to have you! Thanks for that!! Our pleasure to help you in your search. Let us know how it goes and what you end of doing (mini trip before a longer trip). We'd love to hear!
We thank you so much @Micheline Mona for watching our video. Hope you clicked the LIKE button also, that helps a lot! 👍 We're glad you liked it and what a good idea for a future video: the cost of living for 6 months in Curacao! We'll give it some thought and sorry we didn't mention it here! We appreciate your comment!
Hi @Rain Drop, first thanks for thinking of us for your question! We travelled to and lived in Curacao from November through mid May but all of the months of the year normally have very little variance. See: www.google.com/search?q=curacao.weather+in+october&oq=curacao.weather+in+october&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l2j0i390l2.10237j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 So awesome that plan to visit that island. It is large and interesting for sure. We would say to be sure you rent/buy/'get a car because a car is really the only way to be able to leave the city centre and get out north and west along the less inhabited parts of the island and beaches. 👍😊
It was 2017-18, November-April. (In the video we show our car registration decals that show the year also...that's a nice hint for you! 😊). Thank you for watching and commenting! What did you like about the video?
Hi @Lynn, how are you? This should answer your question!: www.curacao-travelguide.com/about/ Are you planning to travel to Curacao one day or have you already been? Thanks for watching and asking your question, we love that! Please click the LIKE button also, that helps us keep the good free info coming. 👍😘 thank you!
Great video! Im so jelaous! :) How much did you pay for your car? COuld you recommend some rental car place? I heared that it is really hard to travel around the Island without the car. Greetings! :)
Hey @Pawel Gie! The lifestyle IS awesome, we agree! And we want to try to help others live this way also if they want to! Check out our other videos on financial management and living below your means to be able to "buy" your FREEDOM back! Our car in Curacao: I believe we purchased the car for around 4800ANG (the Netherlands Antillean Guilder). Yes Curacao is so large and has many smaller and rural community roads that you would want your own car. The distances on the island also pretty much require a car. I think a Google search for a car rental company would be the best for you because we bought our car and we bought it privately.
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Hi @Socoro Aqua, No we don't still live in Curacao. As we mention in our video, we lived there for 6 months. We are Canadian. You? Thank you so much for watching our video! What was your favorite part? Thank you also for leaving a comment, that really helps our channel grow! 🙏 Please click the LIKE button also! Have you seen our Curacao "Top 5 Beaches" video? Here you go! th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html
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@Sneji Georgieva Here is a good short read for you: arubabeaches.net/what-you-should-know-about-aruba-weather-rain-storms-earthquakes/#:~:text=Earthquakes%20in%20Aruba&text=In%202016%20there%20were%209,and%20the%20strongest%20was%203.8. Earthquakes do happen, not a major concern in this region. 😏
@@snejigeorgieva we don't have natural disaster on this island.I was born in 1979 and my father in 1945.We didn't see any natural disaster on this island.
@@mrarafat this information is extremely important to make my dream come true on your island. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. I would like to ask you if you know how long a European citizen can stay in Curacao?
Hi @Gary! You are most welcome! First of all thanks for your question and comment! We feel that generally, cost of living would be cheaper in Curacao (our of the 3 ABC islands). It's a bigger island so you can find more food options, market options and for that matter rental apartment options, car options... everything! In our experience living in both Aruba and Curacao for 6 months each (a little bit longer term, not just vacation length) we found the cost of groceries/food to be comparable with Canada. In Canada for us, two people, the way we eat, we average around the $800/mo mark and sometimes a little more. In Aruba we averaged $850/mo and in Curacao we averaged under $800/mo. Again, that was our experience but everybody has different eating patterns....this was us eating out at a food truck or restaurant occasionally and cooking most of our things from home. I suspect Curacao was a little lower because meats, cheeses, fresh fruits and vegetables were so easily found and with a large population and a good import economy they're getting a lot of good produce and meats and supplies brought into an island with more people. And keep in mind if you look at all three of our averages those are SO very close...we feel like around the $800/mo mark in any country is totally reasonable. We cannot comment on the cost of eating in Bonaire but having lived on two of the three islands our suspicion is that Bonaire would be a little bit higher because it's a smaller island with less population, less shipping routes going to it, etc. I think overall you're going to do fine and all three locations but Curacao I would have the most options available and the lower prices. Does this help?
@@PlanFree Thanks so much for your considerate reply. I've spent 2 weeks on Curacao and 2 on Bonaire in 2017. I'm a scuba diver, so Bonaire to me is the consistent winner. But its small and very sleepy. Aruba to me seems to be a tourist island, and I'm not the biggest beach person. Curacao seems very large, wild and wooly--but so very Dutch. I am tired of the politics in the US. the cost of living (I live in midtown Manhattan), the mass shootings, the crime etc. I would like to live about 20 minutes from a major town where I could buy groceries, but I also want peace and quiet! I am alone in my 50's so I think an apartment would be nice--but apartments aren't usually found away from city centers. Maybe a casita or a bungalow would fit me best. I want to be out of the hurricane belt so that's great. Maybe Curacao wouldn't bore me to death lol. So many things to consider! Thank you again!
Based on the things you say you like/need we would say Curacao would win for the overall for you, that's just out 2 cents. We loved Aruba and the slow pace of life there very much. It was touristy but only really on the one hotel end of the island. The rest of it was just regular people living their lives, going to church, cleaning up the island, working in the business or Gov't sector, lots of insurance companies.... it was all very nice. But Aruba, for us after 6 months became very small very fast! It's a small island! We did love it though. We know Bonaire is a diving mecca and wed like to try living there also one day. We just didn't include it in our plans for living there yet because it is also very small and very sleepy....we feel we'd explore it all in a month or 2! It sounds like you might want a little more activity, interest, outings, a larger territory to explore, more restaurants, etc. which brings us back around to Curacao again. There's hiking, there are endless roads to explore both quiet and busy and in terms of Villas/apartments/condos/casitas there's just so many more options on Curacao. None of the three islands hit the relocation mark for us but if we had to choose one of these three it would probably be Curacao. (However the people were much friendlier in Aruba...!) If we were you we'd rent in all 3 places for a year each (why not!?) and THEN decide. You'd get a better feel for the people, friendliness, overall longterm welcoming atmosphere. 😉 Yeah! We're definitely with you with the way North America is changing its politics and view of how society should live. ....fastly becoming not our cup of tea either. 🙏😶
Hi @kevin welsh! Thanks for the question. We have travelled to and lived on several different islands over the last 10 years (please see a lot of our other videos on our channel) so do you mean why did we end up choosing one of them to be Curacao?
Can you please compare CURACAO vs ROATAN, HONDURAS!? Here ya go!
th-cam.com/video/Z88Cu6nT-vs/w-d-xo.html
I'm there now, rented a villa for 2 months, its my goto island because montreal has direct flights which is really good, C. Is not a poor island by carribean standards, so the super markets are excellent, centrum and mangusa hypermarket, market in willemstaad has the cheapest produce from Venezuela. Amazing weather year round. Tons of hiking trails and having my atv and boat would give me so much more to do. Atv trails galore.....no interest to visit aruba or sister island bonaire. Great place that still is not well known but they are building lots of houses here now. March 2024. Worth the stay.
Great recap and update, especially on the building of houses. Yeah the markets and availability of products, especially Dutch and European products, was wonderful when we were there also.
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Thank you for promothing our beautiful Curaçao!!👌🏽😉
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The pleasure was all ours. You live in a beautiful country.
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Maybe your friends would like to watch this video we made on Curacao also?
Just visited this island a week ago fell in love. Now I’m back here in Ohio thinking might spend winters there when I retire.
You should! Easy place to fall in love with right!?
All reasons I bought a house in Curacao back in 2012. Always enjoy going there...
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These experiences and reflections like yours are what changes you for the good and is what inspires you to keep traveling and keep pursuing the unknown.
Let your memory be your travel bag and keep going!!!!!!
Yes agreed!
Thank for stopping by and for watching.
Cheers!
Thank You very much for visiting and promoting our beautiful island 🇨🇼🍃🌟
It was our pleasure entirely @Yrzah Eisden! And you are the sweetest person to say that!
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Good morning I lives there b4 from 204 to 2010 and 2014 I go back and 2016 now I lives in ja I love it there good life
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oh wow! thank you for visiting and living on my island for 6 months! for those wanting to go to Christoffel mountain I suggest you put on good strong sneakers, that mountain road is not for weak shoes, believe me, I when one time with school excursion and those sharp rocks destroyed my brand new sneakers.
Yes @about sue tv, very good advice! The rock on Christoffel is no joke and we are sorry to hear that you wrecked your new sneakers! A good paid of hiking shoes is great advice! What a view once at the top, hey!?
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Thanks for your great videos, looking forward to our first visit next month
Our pleasure! So glad you like our videos, we appreciate hearing that!
And it's so great to hear @Bill Kaufmann that you have a trip coming up soon to Curacao! You'll probably find this other video that we made on Curacao's beaches very helpful (they are our Top 5!)
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Awesome!!! Can't wait to return there! 🤗👍
Glad you liked that....just what you needed right....MORE motivation to return!?
We love that in your other comment on our other video that you mention you rented a car. Best decision. We bought one while we lived in Curacao. Having our own vehicle was hands down the single best thing we did to have the freedom to get out whenever we wanted and to venture out and adventure anywhere we wanted to, stay as long as we wanted to too!
Can't wait to hear when you decide to go back.
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Thank you for showing off the island of Curacao in such a wonderful video. I love how you have recorded scenes of the many beaches and all those locations around the island. This is one of the best promotional videos I can find on TH-cam for Curacao right now! Great job! Thanks for creating and posting this video. I was born in Curacao but I'm currently living in Hudson Valley, New York USA.
Well @Rex Torres! What an excellent an awesome comment to read from you tonight! We are so super happy that you like what we put together! It is definitely a beautiful island and we enjoyed our time living there.
Thank you so much for your very positive comments and what we did it means a lot and we love that you love it!
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Thank you guys. Also at playa Kalki or playa Piskado you can swim with the turtles. It's the same beach.
That was a great beach to hang out on and in the water for sure!
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Favorite place I’ve ever been, hoping to do my 6 months very soon!
Oh how awesome!
Did you get a chance to explore all over Curacao, all the way up to Westpunt and Shete Boca Park?
How you get to go for 6 months soon and we thank you for watching and commenting!
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Well done yet again! Fantastic narration Lori! If you could provide more info on admission fees to enter parks, cost of accommodation(s), and languages, and whatever else you think you'd like to know before visiting a new country, that would be good, for future videos of course. Thanks for the content
Yes, noted! When we move to a new country we try hard to think of and remember all the things that go along with planning potential upcoming videos. There is a LOT of info to gather, think about, remember to ask, jot down, keep receipts for ....etc!
The funny thing too about Curacao is we lived there BEFORE we started our TH-cam channel so we actually weren't even really in keeping receipts, documenting and jotting down details to share with others mode. We were just living that year! We only filmed cause we ALWAYS did that in new places we lived. It was a good year later when the idea came to put our experiences of living in Curacao into a video for people to learn from. Believe us, we wish we had more info to share there. But we are super glad that you like what we DID remember. Haha!
Super great ideas though that we will keep in mind for future. Thank you @Sue M!
Great video... thanks guys..
@Ron A That is such a short, sweet, nice thing to say. We appreciate that very much.
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Great video
Thanks so much @Tom Holloway!
We put a lot of effort into them so that is really super nice to hear. 😁
Have you been to Curavao?
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This is the first time I ever heard someone (other than Arubians) call my island “very large”. Hahaha, nice video tho ^_^
Hi @TheUtiateKing1, haha you are funny! Well, we DID think that because it took us months and months to explore all the roads, areas, and really learn the landscape and texture of the island well, the way we wanted to.
I mean, keep in mind, that the way WE travel is S L O W.... while in Curacao, we were not "tourists" that had only 2 weeks or something to really hit the road and get around everywhere fast and just get a quick "taste"! We moved there for 6 months, we worked during the day and then in the afternoons/evenings we would venture out and go explore slowly a location/road/beach. It was wonderful.
So, we found that most quieter, local, rural, undeveloped places were at a fair distance from our apartment. They took a good 45 mins to an hour to get to. Curacao is, in our opinion, JUST right for size.
We can imagine, though, that if a person is born and raised in Curacao and doesn't get to leave the island much, that they would feel that it is NOT large? Is this the case?
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Awesome video! Makes us miss Curacao. We got to visit for three days. We did a video on hiking Christoffel Mountain and also one on a great out of the way restaurant called Jaanchies on the west end of the island. Did you happen to go to Jaanchies? It was a unique experience.
Thanks for letting us know you liked this vid too! That's so kind of you guys!!
Your adventure sounds super fun! No, we didn't find that gem of a restaurant unfortunately. What made it unique and awesome?
@@PlanFree There were several reasons that made it unique. There are hundreds of little birds that fly around the garden that surrounds the dinning area which makes it a neat experience. (The food was excellent as well) We post a video on our channel about our experience. Check it out if you like, I think you will enjoy it.
Wow! Curaçao looks beautiful, I just came back from Aruba, I was there for 1 month and I loved it but found it too crowded and way too expensive. I heard Curacoa is less crowded and less expensive. I was shocked at the price of produce in Aruba. I do not drive for medical reasons hence why I chose Aruba since it’s smaller and easier to get around. Thanks again for your video ☺️
You're welcome, thank you for watching @Busybee!
You made a good choice in Aruba for being a smaller island and you not driving. From that stand point you were probably able to see a decent amount within walking distance or taxi ride. But, on the other hand, you likely found yourself limited to the busier areas, with more people and higher prices!! (Stay tuned to out channel...very soon we have an Aruba Cost of Living video coming out that I think you might find interesting!)
Curacao IS beautiful! Actually, Curacao being so very much larger than Aruba there was miles and miles to explore and get away from busyness. You have your larger metro areas for sure, but you also have so many smaller towns, smaller rural areas, deserted coastal rocky shores, full on huge parks and so on. We actually didn't see everything we wanted to even in 6 months of living there WITH our own vehicle (recommended!).
So yes, Curacao is less crowded simply because of the larger area. 👍
But make no mistake it's still crazy and gets awful traffic jams in and around Willemstad!
We hope you get to go one day.
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@@PlanFree thank you for this beautiful through answer 🥰
@@Busybeeee the pleasure is all ours!
Great video .
Ahhhh so you found this one!
Yes....we like it! Haha
So glad it's Curacaoan approved!
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Good morning from bali
Good morning Indra!👋
Good vid, but did you learn to speak Papiamento or dive at all? I know that’s not easy to film. Also, so much in the way of Dutch culture exists here to include chocolate, beer, food!!! Please make another video!
Hi @William Haneke!
Thank you for your entertaining comment and taking a few minutes to write it! We very much enjoyed reading it! 😄
We no longer live in Curacao so it would be very difficult to film another video! Haha. However we did experience chocolate and some of the foods you speak about while we were there, they were excellent!!
We only learned a few words in Papiamento, we mostly used Spanish and English to get by. The diving we did was freediving only (we do not scuba dive personally).
Do you live in Curacao and do you dive?
What are the best beaches for sea glass?
Hi @Jimmy Phan, good question!
We have to say that we didn't see any. Perhaps another viewer may know and can reply here. 👍
Thanks a lot for this video and for the other videos on your channel! I believe that there are very interesting and super helpful! I am planing to spend in Curacao 6 months. Could you please recommend any relatively inexpensive car rental place? Any ideas about it?
Hi @Yanya Maslova! Oh, you are very welcome for the video! Super glad you liked it and got some good info from it! And REALLY glad you liked some of our other videos too! :) Do you have a favorite?
We actually did a Google search for car rental companies in Curacao and did some price asking in the weeks leading up to moving to Curacao for our 6 months. I cannot quite remember what we were quoted then, but we ultimately decided to BUY a car.
Living in 1 place for so long, it made more sense to us to BUY a nice used car that would run well and treat us well for 6 months and then sell it a few weeks before leaving. That way we purchase something in our price range, it's inexpensive to insure, and we can make the selling price super attractive to the next person because we want and NEED to sell it, so everyone gets a GREAT deal!
When you calculate the cost difference between the 2 options (buying a car and then selling it for a great deal versus renting for a full 6 months) the difference is H U G E . Right? With the rental option you are out of pocket ALL that money. You get non back. With the purchase and sale option, our total vehicle cost is so incredibly low, something like CAD$1000-1500 for 6 months!
And, the BONUS is that we get to meet awesome people all over the island when looking at cars and going to insurance companies, etc.
Does that help?
@@Lori.Miller Hi Lori, thank you! It makes a lot of sense to buy a car instead of renting. I also googled the prices for car rental and yes, buying a car seems to be much better! I will do that. Do I have a favorite video? Hard to say. I really like that you compare places in your videos , you talk about pluses and minuses of living in Aruba and Curacao, you compare life in Panama and Costa Rica. I find it very helpful when we are trying to make a decision where to go for longer period of time or where to move. I also like your videos about Canada and about Nevada - living in the RV when you are not traveling internationally sounds great - life is simple but not boring and you are not stuck in one place. And probably what I like the most - you show in your videos that this is all possible, that you actually CAN be FREE and live on the Caribbean islands or in your other favorite places. And you do explain the ways how to get there, and this is super! Thank you :)
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How about your top 5 beaches and beach bars? Plan on spending 2 days explooring west end. One day williamstead. Staying at sunscape near mambo. Will have rental car.
@Tony Flood were working on it! We are hoping the Cuacao's best beaches video will be out before your trip. When do you visit?
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Are most of the curaçao beaches free or have a cost??
Thanks for your question @DJ Carnes!
Curacao is such a large island that there are more than 40 beaches (here are our favorites!: th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html).
The vast majority of the numerous beaches on Curacao are free and most of them are not in the built up and touristy zones, they are mostly well outside of the Willemstad area. The ones that are in the touristy zones sometimes have a charge and it's either because someone has purchased the land and developed it (private) or the charge goes toward the cleaning and maintenance of the beach.
So, most are free!
There are soooooo many!
We'd love to hear your thoughts on the video we linked above for you to see what you think.
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Thank you! Any recommendations or advice about apt rentals?
Hi @SW! You're welcome, glad you liked it!
We actually had a tricky time finding a place, before we arrived in Curacao, to rent for 6 months. We DID end up finding one and booking it before we arrived, but it was a long search! Not sure if this is normal for others, but that was our experience. We found things a tad overpriced for what you get also. Note, this was before Covid.....and tourism was booming everywhere....perhaps things are different now with people not traveling as much and landlords in Curacao maybe have had to lower their prices?? You'll have to check online. When we did our traveling to Curacao, in 2017, we did our searching online before hand and it did turn out ok, but once we landed in Curacao and started poking around a bit more just to get an idea of the rental market and availability and we found a few more local companies that offered rentals outside of the websites that we had found from home. So, we looked at a few more villas and apartments, but ended up staying where were were because a) we had already committed to 6 months with our landlord and b) because prices were even HIGHer than what we had found online! Yes, they were larger and more beautiful places, buuuut we just stayed where we were. :) I would not hesitate now to find more local companies and make contact via email, phone and ask for some virtual tours! Let us know what you find!
@@PlanFree thank you for the excellent and thorough advice. I'll definitely heed this and do my research with locals. Now I'm thinking thinking about taking a cheap brief solo trip to check things put before returning later. You are awesome! I'm subscribed now!
@@newtiger007 YAYYYYY! Our newest subscriber and we are so happy to have you! Thanks for that!!
Our pleasure to help you in your search. Let us know how it goes and what you end of doing (mini trip before a longer trip). We'd love to hear!
this is very interesting, but you did not say what was the budget for 2 or 4 people as a whole. car, apartment, food etc.
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We're glad you liked it and what a good idea for a future video: the cost of living for 6 months in Curacao! We'll give it some thought and sorry we didn't mention it here!
We appreciate your comment!
Hello.. How is the weather in Oktober? I plan to visit this year. Thank you 😁
It's going to be great weather for you in October, mostly sunny and warm-paradise! You are going to have a great time in Curaçao, enjoy!
Hi @Rain Drop, first thanks for thinking of us for your question!
We travelled to and lived in Curacao from November through mid May but all of the months of the year normally have very little variance.
See:
www.google.com/search?q=curacao.weather+in+october&oq=curacao.weather+in+october&aqs=chrome..69i57j0i22i30l2j0i390l2.10237j0j7&client=ms-android-samsung-ss&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8
So awesome that plan to visit that island. It is large and interesting for sure. We would say to be sure you rent/buy/'get a car because a car is really the only way to be able to leave the city centre and get out north and west along the less inhabited parts of the island and beaches.
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Thank you so much 😁
Gosh! Anytime!
Hope you love our other videos, ask us anything you like!
What year was this and from what months?
It was 2017-18, November-April. (In the video we show our car registration decals that show the year also...that's a nice hint for you! 😊).
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How big is this island?
Hi @Lynn, how are you?
This should answer your question!: www.curacao-travelguide.com/about/
Are you planning to travel to Curacao one day or have you already been?
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Great video! Im so jelaous! :) How much did you pay for your car? COuld you recommend some rental car place? I heared that it is really hard to travel around the Island without the car. Greetings! :)
Hey @Pawel Gie!
The lifestyle IS awesome, we agree! And we want to try to help others live this way also if they want to! Check out our other videos on financial management and living below your means to be able to "buy" your FREEDOM back!
Our car in Curacao: I believe we purchased the car for around 4800ANG (the Netherlands Antillean Guilder).
Yes Curacao is so large and has many smaller and rural community roads that you would want your own car. The distances on the island also pretty much require a car.
I think a Google search for a car rental company would be the best for you because we bought our car and we bought it privately.
@@PlanFree Thank you! :)
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Do you still live there? Where are you from?
Hi @Socoro Aqua,
No we don't still live in Curacao. As we mention in our video, we lived there for 6 months.
We are Canadian.
You?
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Have you seen our Curacao "Top 5 Beaches" video? Here you go!
th-cam.com/video/QBz3dM1jwUQ/w-d-xo.html
I would like to live there for a while
We hope you get the chance to do that! You will enjoy exploring the island of Curacao!
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@@PlanFree I will definitely do just wandering what about earthquakes, tsunamis and natural disasters in this area?
@Sneji Georgieva Here is a good short read for you: arubabeaches.net/what-you-should-know-about-aruba-weather-rain-storms-earthquakes/#:~:text=Earthquakes%20in%20Aruba&text=In%202016%20there%20were%209,and%20the%20strongest%20was%203.8.
Earthquakes do happen, not a major concern in this region. 😏
@@snejigeorgieva we don't have natural disaster on this island.I was born in 1979 and my father in 1945.We didn't see any natural disaster on this island.
@@mrarafat this information is extremely important to make my dream come true on your island. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I would like to ask you if you know how long a European citizen can stay in Curacao?
Thank you. How were the food shopping costs and general cost of living? I would like to move to Curacao or Bonaire one day...
Hi @Gary!
You are most welcome!
First of all thanks for your question and comment!
We feel that generally, cost of living would be cheaper in Curacao (our of the 3 ABC islands). It's a bigger island so you can find more food options, market options and for that matter rental apartment options, car options... everything!
In our experience living in both Aruba and Curacao for 6 months each (a little bit longer term, not just vacation length) we found the cost of groceries/food to be comparable with Canada.
In Canada for us, two people, the way we eat, we average around the $800/mo mark and sometimes a little more.
In Aruba we averaged $850/mo and in Curacao we averaged under $800/mo.
Again, that was our experience but everybody has different eating patterns....this was us eating out at a food truck or restaurant occasionally and cooking most of our things from home.
I suspect Curacao was a little lower because meats, cheeses, fresh fruits and vegetables were so easily found and with a large population and a good import economy they're getting a lot of good produce and meats and supplies brought into an island with more people.
And keep in mind if you look at all three of our averages those are SO very close...we feel like around the $800/mo mark in any country is totally reasonable.
We cannot comment on the cost of eating in Bonaire but having lived on two of the three islands our suspicion is that Bonaire would be a little bit higher because it's a smaller island with less population, less shipping routes going to it, etc.
I think overall you're going to do fine and all three locations but Curacao I would have the most options available and the lower prices.
Does this help?
@@PlanFree Thanks so much for your considerate reply. I've spent 2 weeks on Curacao and 2 on Bonaire in 2017. I'm a scuba diver, so Bonaire to me is the consistent winner. But its small and very sleepy. Aruba to me seems to be a tourist island, and I'm not the biggest beach person. Curacao seems very large, wild and wooly--but so very Dutch. I am tired of the politics in the US. the cost of living (I live in midtown Manhattan), the mass shootings, the crime etc. I would like to live about 20 minutes from a major town where I could buy groceries, but I also want peace and quiet! I am alone in my 50's so I think an apartment would be nice--but apartments aren't usually found away from city centers. Maybe a casita or a bungalow would fit me best. I want to be out of the hurricane belt so that's great. Maybe Curacao wouldn't bore me to death lol. So many things to consider! Thank you again!
@@PlanFree BTW what did you mean to say when you wrote " the cost of eating invulner"...
Oh! Typos!? We'll fix that, our apologies!
Based on the things you say you like/need we would say Curacao would win for the overall for you, that's just out 2 cents.
We loved Aruba and the slow pace of life there very much. It was touristy but only really on the one hotel end of the island. The rest of it was just regular people living their lives, going to church, cleaning up the island, working in the business or Gov't sector, lots of insurance companies.... it was all very nice. But Aruba, for us after 6 months became very small very fast! It's a small island! We did love it though.
We know Bonaire is a diving mecca and wed like to try living there also one day. We just didn't include it in our plans for living there yet because it is also very small and very sleepy....we feel we'd explore it all in a month or 2!
It sounds like you might want a little more activity, interest, outings, a larger territory to explore, more restaurants, etc. which brings us back around to Curacao again. There's hiking, there are endless roads to explore both quiet and busy and in terms of Villas/apartments/condos/casitas there's just so many more options on Curacao.
None of the three islands hit the relocation mark for us but if we had to choose one of these three it would probably be Curacao.
(However the people were much friendlier in Aruba...!)
If we were you we'd rent in all 3 places for a year each (why not!?) and THEN decide. You'd get a better feel for the people, friendliness, overall longterm welcoming atmosphere. 😉
Yeah! We're definitely with you with the way North America is changing its politics and view of how society should live. ....fastly becoming not our cup of tea either. 🙏😶
Did you see pigs at the Porto mari beach
No we didn't, that would have been memorable!
Did you? Hopefully!
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why choose this island over any other?
Hi @kevin welsh! Thanks for the question.
We have travelled to and lived on several different islands over the last 10 years (please see a lot of our other videos on our channel) so do you mean why did we end up choosing one of them to be Curacao?