{"id":7015,"date":"2021-01-14T12:49:26","date_gmt":"2021-01-14T12:49:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curacaotodo.com\/driving-on-curacao\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T10:07:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T14:07:14","slug":"driving-on-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/curacao\/driving-on-curacao\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving on Curacao"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Car rental on Curacao<\/h2><p>Almost all tourists rely on a rental car for going around the island. Distances are too big to walk and public transportation is not as reliable or comfortable as you are probably used to. There are many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/rental-cars\/\">car rental agencies<\/a>\u00a0which offer different types of cars to explore the island. Usually for a decent price.<\/p><p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/z6syb4xKv74\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p><h2>Car Parking on Curacao<\/h2><p>Since you can park your car virtually anywhere without costs, a car is the ideal vehicle to visit <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/areas\/willemstad\/\">Willemstad<\/a>, the most beautiful <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/beaches\/\">beaches<\/a>, or one of the islands <a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/sightseeing\/sights-landmarks\/\">landmarks<\/a>.<\/p><p>It is also possible to rent a\u00a0motorcycle\u00a0or\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/rentals\/scooter-rental\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scooter<\/a>, but be aware this is usually the less safe option. Apart from the somewhat erratic driving behavior of other drivers the roads are sometimes covered with potholes and dirt. Especially when it has just rained the islands roads tend to become very slippery, due to a film of oil on the tarmac. When this happens you are definitely better off on four wheels.<\/p><p>Also read about:<\/p><p><a title=\"Geography\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao-information\/geography\/\">Geography on Curacao<\/a><a title=\"Geography\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/pages\/geography\">\u00a0<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao\/languages-on-curacao\/\">Languages on Curacao<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao\/money-on-curacao\/\">Money and Tips on Curacao<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao\/food-on-curacao\/\">Local Kitchen on Curacao<\/a><\/p><p><a title=\"Weather\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao\/curacao-weather\/\">Weather and climat on Curacao<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/diving\/\">Diving on Curacao<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/curacao\/flying-to-curacao\/\">Flying from and to Curacao<\/a><\/p><p>Medical facilities on Curacao<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Car rental on CuracaoAlmost all tourists rely on a rental car for going around the island. Distances are too big to walk and public transportation is not as reliable or comfortable as you are probably used to. There are many\u00a0car rental agencies\u00a0which offer different types of cars to explore the island. Usually for a decent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[580,581,582,583],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-7015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curacao","tag-car","tag-driving","tag-traffic","tag-traffic-rules"],"acf":{"content_box_1":"","content_box_2":"","content_box_3":"","content_box_4":"","content_box_5_faq":"","faq_schema":"","youtube_video":"","admin_field_not_public":"","blog_faq_q1":"","blog_faq_a1":"","blog_faq_q2":"","blog_faq_a2":"","blog_faq_q3":"","blog_faq_a3":"","blog_faq_q4":"","blog_faq_a4":"","blog_faq_q5":"","blog_faq_a5":"","blog_faq_q6":"","blog_faq_a6":"","blog_faq_q7":"","blog_faq_a7":"","blog_faq_q8":"","blog_faq_a8":"","blog_faq_q9":"","blog_faq_a9":"","blog_faq_q10":"","blog_faq_a10":"","primary_keyword":"","image_prompt":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7015\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7015"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.curacaotodo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=7015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}