Curacao Money

In the downtown area you can use dollars in many stores, but on the rest of the island you'll use Antillean Guilders, "florin" in Papiamento, the local language.  The larger round coins are 1 guilder and Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands is on one side.  Remember that Curacao is not an independent country and the highest official is the Dutch Queen.


I love the square coins, but apparently they are becoming a rarity.


In the downtown area I've seen signs that say US$1 = NAFL1.85 sometimes it's 2 to 1.