ISLANDS Magazine Caribbean Places to Stay - Curaçao
Not far from the bustling, candy colored downtown of Willemstad, the capitol of Curacao, the Avila Beach Hotel, once the mansion of the island's governor and also refuge to Simon Bolivar, the liberator of Venezuela, sits on the sands of the Caribbean Sea. For more than 200 years, the Avila has been part of the rich Dutch Colonial tradition of Curacao, part of the Dutch West Indies which lies close to South America. And since 1977, when the Moller family bought the hotel, they have also been part of the fabric of the island.
