 The 200-room hotel was designed by the Puerto Rico architectural firm of Toro Ferrer, in association with Ben Smit, a local Curaçao architect.Toro Ferrer had previously designed the first Hilton Hotel outside the continental United States, the Caribe Hilton Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico (opened in 1949), while Ben Smit had been involved in the design of the Hotel Curaçao Intercontinental (currently Plaza Hotel Curaçao).The Curaçao Hilton was the third seaside hotel to open in Curaçao, after the Avila Hotel was inaugurated in 1949 and the Hotel Curaçao Intercontinental in 1955.