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Travel Writer Alex Robertson Textor was in Bonaire and Curacao at the end of March. He'll be filing five dispatches for Jaunted this week about the relatively unknown (unless you're Andruw Jones) Caribbean islands. The second, Learn with Luxury, starts below and continues here. Alex, when not traveling and writing, is a Senior Editor over at EuroCheapo.com. Take it away, Alex:

The Kurá Hulanda Hotel and Museum, located in Willemstad's Otrobanda neighborhood just up the hill from St. Anna Bay, is an unusual resort. In addition to the standard boutique hotel, retail, and restaurant tangle, it includes a museum. The Kurá Hulanda complex, historically-driven and aesthetically-coherent, is a possible model for future luxury resorts. The resort manages to remain rooted in the histories of its location, rather than the site-independent extreme luxury more typical of super-luxe resorts.

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