Mambo Beach Boulevard: eating, drinking and going out

Elisabeth Resort sits on Mambo Beach Boulevard, and that is the single biggest practical advantage of sleeping here: you walk to dinner and you walk back. No car, no taxi, no argument about who is not drinking.

What is there

The boulevard is a continuous run of restaurants, bars and shops directly on the beach. A cross section: pizza and pasta, sushi, steaks, an Argentinian grill, poké, ice cream, and at either end the beach clubs where you sit with your feet in the sand.

Madero and Chill Beach are the two names you will hear most. Both are on the water, both have loungers beside the tables, and at both it is wise to book at the weekend.

The casino is on the same strip, along with a small supermarket for whatever you forgot.

When it is busy

Friday and Saturday evening, and Sunday afternoon. On Sunday Curaçaoans come to Mambo Beach too, and it is lively and full. For a quiet dinner, pick Tuesday or Wednesday.

You do not need to go anywhere for sunset: you see it from the boulevard itself, around half past six all year, because this close to the equator it barely shifts.

Practical

Prices on the boulevard are tourist prices, and it shows. For cheaper and better food, go once to the Marshe Bieu in Punda for local cooking, or to one of the snack places outside the centre. For the convenience of walking out of the door and being there, the boulevard is unbeatable.

Card is accepted everywhere. Dollars are taken, euros are not.