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The Divi Flamingo Beach
Resort & Casino, Bonaire
Sustainability, service, and standards
Bonaire is a small, 24-mile long island municipality of
the Netherlands that lies off Venezuela’s coast in the
Leeward Antilles in the southern Caribbean. Together
with Aruba and Curaçao, it forms the group known as
the ABC islands. Bonaire is popular destination for
scuba divers, and is well known for its easy access to
various offshore reefs and dive spots. The unique is-
land also attracts wind/kite surfers from around the
world.
On the west coast of the island is the Divi Flamingo
Beach Resort & Casino, built on the foundation of a
World War II POW camp, and near the government
buildings of Kralendijk, the island’s capital. The facility
became the Hotel Bonaire in the late 1960s, and was
purchased by Divi Hotels in the late 1970s. The Divi
Flamingo was one of the first hotels on the island and
became a dive resort in early 1980s. It was also one of
the only local hotels with an onsite casino.
