Renovated Oceanfront Condo, Sand Dollar, Bonaire - Kralendijk

Renovated Kitchen, bathrooms, closets, floors.

Newly furnished living room, bedrooms.

New mattresses both bedrooms.

New air-conditioning in both bedrooms and living areas.

Large screened porch with ceiling fan.

Four other ceiling fans and movable floor fan.

Free, always reliable internet connection through our own router and wifi.

Dive Friends, on-site dive shop, five star PADI services, 10% discount for guests (ask for voucher).

Ask for details: a 10% discount at AB Car Rental

The space
Drive up to your front door and walk right into your home-away-from-home in this rightly named 'Divers Paradise.' Drop your bags and keep walking through the living and dining rooms, out the sliding glass door, to your screened-in porch that opens onto the Sand Dollar gardens. The beach and the dock are only steps away. When you aren't diving, you can relax in your comfortable, family-friendly condo, equipped with air conditioning, free Wi-Fi, cable TV with DVD player, an assortment of games, puzzles and books, a fully functional kitchen, and all you need to make yourself at home. The two twin beds in the guest room can be converted into a king bed with a mattress connector. Ask us in advance to arrange this. The pool and lighted tennis courts are on site and ready for you when you aren't diving, snorkeling, windsurfing, kiteboarding, hiking, kayaking, birdwatching, caving, or biking. You will be glad to tuck into the new king-sized bed in the master bedroom and ready to do it all again the next day, when the birds wake you to song and the gentle waves beckon you to the blue! If you dive with Dive Friends, you can take advantage of their five locations for tank drop-offs and pick-ups and rinsing--and our guests receive a 10% discount on packages they book directly with Dive Friends (as us about it). Also ask how to get 10% off of car rentals from AB Car Rental! And ask us how to arrange a guided dive on the east side of the island, where you will see eagle rays and large sea turtles and green morays and schools of large snappers and grunts in all directions!

Guest access
During low season (April 15-Dec 15), the condo can be rented as a one-bedroom, one bath unit at a reduced rate.  (The second bedroom and bath will be locked.)  Inquire with the owners about this option's availability and rate.

Otherwise, all parts of the condo are accessible except locked owners' closets (one in each of the bedrooms, one on the patio, one in the kitchen). The guest shower has a handrail for accessibility. There is ample storage space for guests in our newly renovated closets. The washing machine is locked but can be made available for longer term rentals, at an additional fee.

Other things to note
Perhaps the best thing about our condo is the location and design of the resort. It is in the middle of the island, thus it occupies the most convenient location for diving up and down the coasts; and you can look out in wonder at the ocean from almost all rooms save the bathrooms (unless you keep the door open to the master bathroom) and the second bedroom. The ocean feels like it belongs to you, and the sky as well. And even though our condo is part of a resort, Sand Dollar is a quiet, peaceful, and private paradise. We love the choice of socializing with guests and residents or just keeping to ourselves. What a joy to be able to walk out our screened-in porch and jump into the sea at any time of the day or night for a swim, snorkel, or float. Our kids love it here, too. They like to go back and forth from the sea to the pool to the beach and to the condo (usually for food). They can disappear for hours and we have no worries at all about them. What a joy to see them waking in the morning with plans to spend the entire day outdoors using their imaginations, hunting for sea glass, sporting with the iguanas, and playing with other kids in the resort, making life-long friends. They too appreciate the soul-expanding, upward-looking vistas.

Sometimes a herd of goats comes marauding through the grounds of Sand Dollar, and we help to usher them away before they nibble away at the work of the many owners (like us) who take pride in their gardens; and sometimes a few wild donkeys wander through, seeking their own version of paradise.

So yes, the condo has the amenities you will need to enjoy your stay comfortably and amply, but the real reason to be here is the direct and broad access it affords to the ocean, through eyes, ears, and touch. They say you ought not to touch the marine live, but after a while the sun and salt and breezes and the dust blown over from the Sahara will touch your senses and you will undergo a 'sea change,' as Shakespeare calls it, into something richer and better than before. But that usually takes more than a week to happen. It happened to us when we lived here for a year. So come and stay as long as you can. And come back year after year, as some of our guests do. We will do our best to make this possible for you. We offer increasing discounts on longer stays, and we are willing to negotiate these discounts further. For our aim as owners is to cover our expenses and invest in the condo by making improvements, so that your next stay here will be even better. So tell us what you think would make this condo and the life it affords approach the perfection that our dreams are made of.

And let me not forget to mention how much we like living in our bathing suits or a pair of shorts and without shoes much of the time as we move in and out of our condo. And no wristwatch either: for there are two times on Bonaire, day and night, and two places, sea and land. Life is simple here, but elemental and close and real. It is not for addicts of the man-made, but for those who have the soul of the Psalmist and accept the gift of leisure put to many good uses.