Curacao Airport

Quite cosy and small airport immigration is great and hassle free! There is a nice bar outside with modern dance music you can enjoy a beer and snack before flying. Check-in lines are long - make sure to check-in online to avoid hassle. Tax fee is quite high.

I recently had the pleasure to travel through the new Curacao intl airport. I'm very pleased with the new airport. It is very efficient from the outside it has a beautiful typical Dutch Caribbean facade and there are plenty of shops and cafe's to hang out. Staff is very friendly only the immigration customs could to with a customer service course.

They just built a new departure and arrival building. The departure area is beautiful. The floor were you check in is huge. It’s isn’t hot at all although their isn’t air-conditioning. They designed it so that it’s cool all year round. But they made a huge mistake with the arrival area. For big planes like a Boeing 747-400 they only have one exit on the plane. Our biggest company on Curacao KLM had a Boeing 747-400 flying over from the Netherlands everyday. But now because it takes so long to empty the plane they decided to send a smaller plane. This means less tourists each day. Also the airport raised its airport taxes a few years ago it was only 20 dollars now it’s 32 dollars. Some people may think this isn’t a lot but consider this. One of our own plane companies named DEA also flies to Aruba. A ticked to Aruba costs 62 dollars. In that perspective 32 dollars is a lot for people living on Curacao.