10 Best Beach Bars in Curacao

Café 40 B offers a friendly staff and welcoming owner who treat locals and guests the same with local music, outstanding happy hour specials, and superb Caribbean views. This hidden gem of a beach bar in Curaçao is the place to go if you want to see how the locals party. The bar offers a casual ambiance and a good combination of craft cocktails and local beers. They also have televisions playing current sports events.

While it's not one of the more crowded visitor bars, those who come here tend to become regulars. Happy hours are daily from 5 pm to 9 pm, and it's located on Mambo Beach along the southwestern coast.

Bonita Beach Club offers a cozy setting with a rustic atmosphere and welcoming vibes from staff and patrons alike, where you can grab coffee, cocktails, and cuisine. They have over 200 beach beds where you can sip a cool drink or warm coffee and just enjoy the Caribbean views of the ocean crashing on the shore. They offer a lunch and dinner menu comprised of food they describe as "feel good," and "easy but tasteful."

The club is located on Mambo Beach Boulevard. Daily happy hours offer drink specials. Any time of day you decide to come here, you'll be pampered by the staff, and you're sure to get great drinks and even better food.

MOOD Beach offers up craft cocktails and Caribbean cuisine in a bohemian style and vibe with casual and comfortable surroundings with an upscale vibe. This club has a laser focus on offering superior service with amazing beachfront views. They offer lunch, dinner, cocktails, snacks, and fun no matter what mood you're in. This is a place where you come to kick back, relax, and let the batteries recharge with good conversation and good friends.

It's important to note that this bar is cashless, so be sure to bring your plastic or mobile pay app along for the ride. They are located on Seaquarium Beach in Willemstad along the southwestern shores of the island.

Madero Ocean Club is the anchor club of the entire Mambo Beach Boulevard complex with dining, live entertainment, a gigantic swimming pool, daybed rentals, and a surfside lounge. It's a full-featured beach club that hosts regular events from pool parties to international DJs and live bands. The entire complex takes on a South Beach feel, but the entertainment is just where it all begins.

You can also enjoy outstanding food here, whether you're in it for breakfast, lunch, or dinner. The menu offers up great locally caught seafood, meat, and tapas with tons of choices. It's located in the Bapor Kibra region of the island's southwestern coast.

Koko's, on the quiet side of Jan Thiel Beach, is a hidden gem of Curaçao beach bars, with few crowds but friendly and personalized service, great drinks, and food. They are open all day so you can head here for a quiet cup of coffee and breakfast in the morning or grab a craft cocktail and dinner along the seashore in the evening. The menu is uniquely inspired by takeaway street food from all over the world. It's like eating at a food truck, but a sit-down restaurant and bar.

You can enjoy everything here from signature cocktails to smoothies and healthy shakes, Cuban sandwiches to pulled pork and pulled beef, nachos, buffalo chicken pizza, and even sliders.

Chill Beach Bar & Grill wants to make you forget what you thought you knew about beach bars, offering a chill vibe with tables, umbrellas, hammocks, and a party atmosphere. You can grab a table and chairs with an umbrella to shade you from the sun and order up authentic Caribbean barbecue with specialty cocktails and a solid craft beer menu. Daily happy hours offer drink specials, or kick back on a hammock and just relax with a drink.

Naturally, the bar is right on the beach so it's all just a quick jog to the surf. There's a good reason why this club on Curaçao's southwestern shore is such a hot spot.

Hemingway Beach Bar and Restaurant is built for relaxation, a place where you can sip your rum-based cocktail and just look out over the water, with regular theme nights. Every Sunday, they host a Cuban buffet and the live Cuban salsa house band plays all night. It's part of the LionsDive Beach Resort and offers 4 different seaside areas so you can choose from covered or open-air views of the ocean.

Breakfast is an endless buffet, the lunch menu offers light, savory fare, and dinner is a romantic vibe under the stars. Daily happy hours offer the celebratory vibe you're looking for.

Blend Beach Bar is a walk-up establishment right on the beach with a bohemian vibe offering up delicious craft cocktails, lite snack fare, and friendly staff. Bar stools allow for barside service and a few chairs in front let you relax with your drink and watch the waves come in. You can even rent a beach bed to kick back and unwind. A seating area to the side is near a stage where live music plays. Every few months they host a concert series called Blue Bay, which is free to attend.

This bar considers itself the heart of the beach. It's a chill place to come for great drinks, snacks, and good conversation along Blue Bay.

Blues Bar & Restaurant offers up a different beach experience with al fresco cuisine, great cocktails, and live Jazz and Blues music played twice a week. The bar is located at the Avila Hotel in Willemstad and is on a pier that juts out over the Caribbean, so you'll enjoy your drink over the clear blue waters while local and international jazz acts play on a covered stage beneath a pitched wood roof.

The bar is set up in a breezy spot where the winds gently blow in, offsetting the heat, and it offers spectacular sunset views. Every Friday is tapas night, while Thursdays and Saturdays host the live bands.

Pirate Bay Curaçao beach club and restaurant is all about refueling and unwinding with fine fusion cuisine and a lively atmosphere that caters to professionals. If you are the type who is in Curaçao for business and your work doesn’t end at 5, this is the place to go for good food, great drinks, a relaxing vibe, and where you can continue your meetings while getting away from the sterile office setting.

The club is located at Piscadera Bay and offers premium specialty cocktails and fusion food with an international flair, all just steps away from the Caribbean seashore. They offer breakfast, lunch, dinner, and happy hour specials.