Nos Isla

There is a Curaçao most visitors never find.

I grew up here. Let me show you the island the tour buses drive past.

A row of small colourful houses on an ordinary Curaçao street

I grew up in Suffisant, a small neighbourhood where nobody has much and everybody knows each other. I left to study, and it took about a month to know I was coming back, and that I wanted to change something when I did.

Years later I was walking through Punda and noticed our own places were half empty. The kitchens cooking the food we grew up on. The shops selling things actually made here. Visitors walked straight past all of them.

A cook serving home-style Curaçao food at a local market kitchenColourful shopfronts and restaurants in Pietermaai, Willemstad
Curaçao does not have a quality problem. It has a visibility problem.

So I built the thing I wished existed. No investors, no team, nobody who wanted to help. Just me, for a long time.

Island Pass is for every business here that carries a piece of Curaçao with it. If you are keeping something of this island alive, I want travelers to find you.

A vendor at his fruit and vegetable stall in Willemstad

And if you are the one visiting:

I want you to eat somewhere you would never have found. I want someone behind a counter to remember your face. I want you to leave knowing you barely scratched this place, because you did.

Diners at an outdoor restaurant table in Willemstad in the eveningA quiet bay on the west coast of Curaçao

I grew up somewhere everyone knew each other. That is what home felt like to me, and that is what I want this island to feel like for you.

Nos isla. Our island. Come and see it properly.
Founder, Island Pass
Willemstad, Curaçao