Beautiful place

Santa Barbara resort was everything we hoped for, the grounds are gorgeous, the people are super nice, food is delicious, the beach is small but clear waters to do your own snorkeling and see some pretty fish! We will be returning to this resort.

Mrs.Iryna Mak

The rest of us pool and beach-bummed and loved the relaxed environment. Unlike Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica etc., there's no fighting for space and it's not crowded where I need to get up at 8am to save us spots for the day. The BEACH is AMAZING! There's a pier that goes the length of the beach so the waters are VERY calm and it's pretty shallow for 40 feet or so. The water is CRYSTAL CLEAR! We saw fish and crabs in them. The bar on the beach is brilliant. Make sure you get a premier [... read more] waterview room is you're right at the beach. An extra plus! The restaurants are good but there's not a lot of variety. There's three restaurants and at any time, two are open. The menu doesn't change too much but it's good food. The TWO pools are great! Lots of space to swim and sunbathe in. It's just a perfect place if all you want to do is hang out, drink and eat. We will be back

Beautiful resort- loud weekend parties

This resort is absolutely magnificent. The grounds and accommodations were top noch. But what really makes this resort special are all the incredible people who work there. It really seems like they love what they do, and it showed throughout our entire trip. One thing to mention would be their weekend free for all parties. Unfortunately this resort allows locals to park their boats at the beach dock and come party and play loud music at the beach all day. We were also kept up late at night Satu [... read more]rday by people screaming, blowing whistles and running around until the early morning hours. This behaviour continued until mid Sunday afternoon. For a 5star resort, I would have expected a different atmosphere as this really hindered our enjoyment of the resort. Unfortunately by the time management got back to us to discuss this problem we were on our way out, but we intend to send them an email. It would definitely stop us from coming back due to this issue, which is unfortunate given the type of experience we had on none party days.

Resort Retreat

Perfect place to relax and recharge. Beautiful, elegant resort. I would recommend for anyone wanting quiet and calm, although there are plenty of activities (yoga, golf, tennis, very nice gym, hiking, scuba/snorkel) if you wish to keep busy. Great for couples or mature groups.

You have to go if you're looking for relaxation!

We just came back last night and I had to write a review. I went with my husband, my baby (9 mos), my sister, brother and my in-laws. We all LOVED the resort and will be back. We were looking for a semi-quiet place to hang out and that's what we got. My in-laws golf three days and loved the course. The best they've been to. The rest of us pool and beach-bummed and loved the relaxed environment. Unlike Mexico, Dominican Republic, Jamaica etc., there's no fighting for space and it's not cro [... read more]wded where I need to get up at 8am to save us spots for the day. The BEACH is AMAZING! There's a pier that goes the length of the beach so the waters are VERY calm and it's pretty shallow for 40 feet or so. The water is CRYSTAL CLEAR! We saw fish and crabs in them. The bar on the beach is brilliant. Make sure you get a premier waterview room is you're right at the beach. An extra plus! The restaurants are good but there's not a lot of variety. There's three restaurants and at any time, two are open. The menu doesn't change too much but it's good food. The TWO pools are great! Lots of space to swim and sunbathe in. It's just a perfect place if all you want to do is hang out, drink and eat. We will be back.

Fantastic Resort

An all around great resort. Clean, great service, friendly staff, food, drinks, amazing views!!! Very relaxing. Would definitely recommend this resort to family, friends and fellow travellers!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful resort

We stayed at Santa Barbara resort in October 2017 and we enjoyed every moment spent there. The resort is beautiful, clean, their staff are very friendly, especially all the staff from Splash bar (Jaymie was awesome). We will definitely be back!

Quiet serene resort

We enjoyed its beauty and activities offered. Staff were very happy and friendly, eager to please. Being at the south east end of the island, we were a long way to join day trips and excursions. Gorgeous golf course! Little beach to walk on as it is a rocky shoreline.

Stunning place

Amazing place. Clean,friendly, professional great service. Food was good but would have preferred buffet with children as they were fussing over a la carte dinning. Golf and tennis was amazing and great value with kids being free. Love this place. It was quite just like we like it.

Awesome beach vacay

We had a wonderful stay at the Santa Barbara Beach and Golf Resort Feb 12-19th. The beach was fabulous with crystal clear water. The room was very well appointed. the staff were very nice and welcoming. Food was for the moist part good. Shore is quite tasty. there wer a couple dinner buffets that could have been better but not an issue. We loved it!

5 Stars - Don't listen to any review under 4 Stars

This is my first ever review of the many places my wife, 4 year old daughter and I have visited. We've been on about 10 Caribbean islands and the Santa Barbara Beach and Golf Resort was the best. Definitely 5 Stars in comparison to what we have been to on St Lucia, St. Maarten, Jamaica, DR...etc. The people were 5 stars happy to serve. The food (with the exception of the American buffet) was superb. The Shores restaurant was probably the best meal I have ever eaten, may I recommend the rac [... read more]k of lamb! The pools were well kept, towel service excellent and food and drink service at both pools and the beach were wonderful. The rooms were spacious and the balcony view over the water wonderful. The beach water was so enjoyable with such a calm gentle slope of perfect white sand. We brought a couple of blow of tubes to float around and we highly recommend doing this! Drink and float in the hot Curacao sun made for a perfect week!!! My only suggestion to the management at the resort is to change their signing for every item that you receive. Our bracelet should be enough and work out a tipping arrangement that works with that. Best of vacationing to all of you! My motto is at the end of my life, I want more stamps on my passports than stuff in my house! Enjoy!!!

Nice and quiet

Clean rooms. Amazing stuff. Restaurants are expensive but the food is good- tuna was great but it would be nice to have a more selection of fish. Plenty of shade and the launch chairs at the beach - No need to pre-reserve the spot on the beach. Nice and quiet resort- we are happy that we selected St Barbara for our vacation and we'll come back.

Not a 5 star

This was the third year in a row that we were at this resort. Obviously we like it or we wouldn't have come back. However this year there were a few things that weren't up to its usual standard. There were fewer guests than before and probably because of that we were only offered one choice at a time for meals, whether breakfast, lunch or dinner. The same applied to bars, only one open at any given time. The food and quality of the drinks were very good. we had an issue with our room air conditi [... read more]oning. Every night ( up until the last night ) the temperature was set at 26 Degrees (c) and the only was to change it was to contact the front desk, who contacted engineering and set it onto manual. Very frustrating. The staff were great as usual, remembering us from past years, and the grounds and beach beautiful. The rooms were spotless and made up in good time each day. Will we go back? we have a year to decide.

Nice resort.

The resort was very nice. Staff were awesome! It is a great place to go if you want something quieter than most all inclusive so. Lots of chairs available anytime of day on beach and by the pool. Food was great but it would have been nice to have a couple other a lacarte restaurants included. This resort is very far from town or anything else so would be expensive to leave it. There is a shuttle into town but it only goes once per day and only runs if 4 people book it.

Customer service

The trip started off on the wrong foot as we did not have transportation to our hotel. Fortunately we were able to get a ride from one of the vendors there. Once at the hotel our Canadian bank cards did not work. It was our honeymoon and we were treated as regular guests. Service at the resort was poor until we complained about our service at the pool bar and then the service improved drastically. The beach was very nice, it if a great resort to go and get away from everything. When we were leav [... read more]ing we were worried about transportation as the vendor who was supposed to be picking us up from the hotel emailed us the day before and said they were not coming. Thankfully we contacted our travel agent and had that sorted out.

Great Resort!

Rooms were clean and updated, food was great, pool and grounds were very well maintained. Activities are listed but they don't really have an entertainment staff rounding people up to partake in anything. It was a very low-key, relaxing stay. If you are looking for activities to do, this is not really the place for you. Resort is far from the city centre, but easy to get a free shuttle to a grocery store, also fine to be picked up for tours/excursions.

Most beautiful vacation

This was the best place to take a vacation. You are surrounded by nature including beautiful birds and friendly iguanas. The place is very clean, quiet and well maintained and the staff is friendly and knowledgeable. The island tour and the Williamstad tour are well worth it.

Santa Barbara-

Santa Barbara was definitely a beautiful resort but they have a long way to go if they are planning on keeping All-Inclusive packages.There was next to no entertainment during the day or evenings.There were no entertainment staff trying to get people involved in pool side activities and the few days that they had singers at dinner, they were gone by 10 p.m. There is only one restaurant that you go to for dinner unless you want to "pay extra".You are entitled to only one a la carte depending on t [... read more]he date that you book.(Even though we had the time booked we still waited app 1 1/2 hours as we were a party of Five).The drinks were mediocre-if I heard "not on your package you need to pay extra" once more I would have screamed.The staff however are very friendly.We have stayed at many all-inclusives before, have spent way less money and have gotten alot more than what we got for our very expensive vacation at Santa Barbara.Never have I gone away and have gone to bed at 11p.m. because there was simply nothing to do.

Totally Relaxing & Great Service

This resort is just beautiful and the grounds are well maintained. The food at Medi (their buffet) and Shore was very good. This resort is not for the party crowd and is very quiet, which was perfect for us. The only downside to this resort is that it's about a 30 minute car ride to Willemstad. We were aware of this before booking our vacation, so I can't say that it was a surprise. Overall the island of Curacao is very nice, the people are extremely friendly, and the weather was great.

Nice Resort

Overall, my husband and I enjoyed our week at Santa Barbara Resort. What we enjoyed most was the natural setting, small non commercial island and the resort. Our room was nicely appointed; the towels in the room were very inconsistent with nice fluffy towels to greyish well used and often did not get facecloths or hand towels replaced. There was a very large group of 350 people and we were always asked if we were with the group as they had a different all inclusive than us. There is really only  [... read more]one main restaurant with the all inclusive package; we were able to go the the Shore just once or pay extra so we chose to just stay with the Medi which offered a great selection and we were always pleased with the food. The service is not great, you have to ask for beverages and refills as they don't approach you often. The resort is clean, staff pleasant and we would definitely go back.