One of the Caribbean’s Coolest New Hotels Has an Oceanfront Infinity Pool and Art in Every Room

Art Hotel Curaçao is a 30-room, adults-only boutique hotel in Willemstad’s Pietermaai district, where an afternoon by the sea can end with dinner a few doors down.

At Art Hotel Curaçao, the daybeds sit on a pier over the Caribbean Sea. Behind them is an infinity pool. Walk out the other side of the hotel and you’re on Kaya Wilson (Papa) Godett, a street in Willemstad’s Pietermaai district where you can spend an evening walking from one restaurant to the next.

That’s the combination we like about this hotel. You can swim and spend a few hours by the water, then walk to the floating Queen Emma Bridge and cross into Otrobanda. You can have a five-course dinner at the hotel or go out and see what’s on the menu in one of Pietermaai’s old houses. And when you come back to your room, there’s a piece of art made specifically for the property.

We covered the hotel’s debut in 2025 and named it one of the Caribbean’s coolest hotels for 2026. The rooms and the waterfront make an immediate impression. What makes us want to stay a few nights is how easily you can go back and forth between the hotel and the city.

An Infinity Pool Right on the Willemstad Waterfront

The infinity pool looks straight out over the sea, and the pier gives you another place to spend the afternoon. Settle into a daybed, order a drink or something to eat from the Lemon Beach Bar, and stay as long as you like. The hotel is adults-only, and with 30 rooms, the pool and pier are easy to make part of your day even if you have plans elsewhere.

That’s how we’d use the waterfront here. Go out for lunch in town, walk back for a swim and decide over a drink where to have dinner. You can get a proper afternoon by the sea without giving up an evening in Willemstad.

Art Made for Every Room

Curaçao architect Cas Aalbers designed the building, and Studio Piet Boon designed the interiors. The rooms are pared back, with space for the work of artist Ellen Spijkstra, who was commissioned to make pieces for all 30 rooms, the lobby and two penthouses. The hotel also displays pieces curated by Zanolino Gallery in its shared spaces.

The commission gives you something to look for from check-in onward. You can see one piece in the lobby and spend a few days with the one in your room. If you’re coming with someone who books hotels as much for their design as for their location, this is the detail worth telling them about.

We’d start by comparing the Oceanfront Room and Oceanfront Deluxe, particularly if you expect to spend time in your room between outings. The Deluxe City-Suite is the category to look at if you’d prefer a suite on the city side. The art is part of the stay whichever side you book.

A Five-Course Dinner and a Neighborhood Full of Restaurants

At The Lemon Tree, the hotel’s restaurant, the five-course chef’s menu draws on Curaçao’s culinary heritage and uses ingredients sourced from local growers. Give dinner here an evening of its own, then spend another in Pietermaai, where you can walk past the old façades, look at a few menus and pick a table.

The neighborhood is worth seeing in daylight, too. From the hotel, head toward Punda and give yourself time to stop along the harbor before crossing the Queen Emma Bridge. Once you’re in Otrobanda, keep walking for a while. The best part of doing this from Pietermaai is that you can come back whenever you’re ready, whether that’s after coffee or after a long lunch.

How We’d Spend Three Nights at Art Hotel Curaçao

Keep the arrival afternoon open. Put your bags down, go straight to the pool and have a drink on the pier before dinner. The next day, do Willemstad on foot and give yourself enough time in Punda and Otrobanda that you can stop when you see somewhere you want to eat or look around.

Use the other full day to drive west and spend a few hours at the beach. That gives you two sides of Curaçao in the same stay, with a night back in Pietermaai after each. On the last evening, we’d come back to the hotel early enough for one more swim, then step out the front door and walk to dinner.