{"id":13587,"date":"2024-02-07T15:29:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/?p=13587"},"modified":"2024-02-07T15:30:12","modified_gmt":"2024-02-07T20:30:12","slug":"carnival-conquest-day-10-curacao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/07\/carnival-conquest-day-10-curacao\/","title":{"rendered":"Carnival Conquest Day 10 – Curacao"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Carnival Conquest<\/em> in Curacao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I like Curacao. It is beautiful and has interesting shops and restaurants. This is probably the port that I was most looking forward to seeing again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My last visit was about 10 years ago and a lot has changed. The port is more built up and there are more hotels, shops and casinos on the walk into town. But the town – Willemstad – is mostly unchanged. The floating bridge is still there and we had to hustle to jump off it as it started to move.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was, as usual for our port days, a day of shopping. We visited many shops, but the one Marlene most wanted to see again was the “Everything $5” shop. We bought 2 dresses and a number of shirts. It must have been 10 items because the total cost was $50. That made Marlene very happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also treated myself to 3 small beers for $10. That was right after we ran into 3 members of the Conquest Rockband and got a photo with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Us walking into town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Us at the river<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene in town<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Port mall<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Floating bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Shopping break<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Marlene and friend<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Downtown Willemstad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With the Conquest Rockband<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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My 3 beers<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Me at the fort<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Robbie in the lobby<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After dinner we listened to some music in the lobby and watched our Cruise Director, Robbie, dance. He is quite good. Then we went to the casino and I struck gold – I won $165 (but still down $120 for the cruise).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I like Curacao. It is beautiful and has interesting shops and restaurants. This is probably the port that I was most looking forward to seeing again. My last visit was about 10 years ago and a lot has changed. The port is more built up and there are more hotels, shops and casinos on the … Continue reading »<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[50,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13587","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caribbean","category-cruise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1VniU-3x9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13587"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13602,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13587\/revisions\/13602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourwanderyears.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}