What to Expect and Do

Easter starts on April 1st and last around two days. During these two-official holydays, most stores, banks and offices will close. With this you may think there won´t be anything to do, while in fact, is the opposite!

Most Curaçao´s Resorts will offer Easter brunches that will be fun to attend with the whole family. On Easter Monday you will experience the Seu Harvest Festival. You will even have lots of special events in all the nightclubs.  

In this article we´ll cover where to go and what to expect during your visit. Keep reading so you can leave your Curaçao´s Resorts in search for adventure.

What to Expect Outside Your Curaçao´s Resorts

The week before Easter will be normal, except for Good Friday. Since it´s an official holyday most stores are not permitted to open, unless they have a license. Gas stations and stores at the airport don´t fall under this ban.

Don´t worry, that most restaurant and Curaçao´s Resorts will be open during this time.

Many use the Easter holydays as an opportunity for a vacation. So, you will find most Curaçao´s Resorts a little too crowdy.

The same goes for the beaches. Almost every beach will be full and you can even find people camping in them. If you dislike crowed spaces, we recommend to stay out of Porto Marie, Knip, Playa Abou, Lagun, and Santa Cruz.

Supermarkets will also be full of people buying for the weekend.

Some Chinese supermarkets will be open during Easters. You can find a couple of them within a 5 minutes’ drive from the airport. Don´t forget to buy your basic stuff before the weekend or after you have arrived at your Curaçao´s Resort.

You also have to take into account the traffic during Easter Monday. This because of the Seu Harvest Festival.

Normally you could get out of the beach without any hassle.

If the Parade ends close to your Curaçao´s Resort, just ask the personnel for additional precautions. This Festival ends close to the afternoon.

If you want to keep the Easter tradition, there are plenty of stores that sells Easter chocolate eggs.

The Albert Heijin supermarket has a wide selection of chocolate. The DA insalinja also have them and Candy Barrel too.

These stores are also close to each other, around a 4-minute drive and close to most Curaçao´s Resorts.

Seu Harvest Festival

This Festival is the biggest parade besides the Carnival, although is less popular.  

In this Festival, locals dress up in their most amazing traditional costumes.

Like everything in Curaçao, the Seu Harvest Festival is colorful, big and full of folkloric bands.

All the music is played with traditional instruments. The Seu Festival in Willemstad will be held on Monday, April 1st. While the Seu Festival in Barber will be on Sunday, April 14th.

I bet you can find a brochure about this Festival in most of Curaçao´s Resorts.

Curaçao Ponton Festival 2018

This Festival will last from April 5 until April 7.

It includes performances of the traditional local bands as well as international artists.

This will an unforgettable music experience for a couple. Full of Rock, Urban, Reggae, Pop and local folklore.