The best eco friendly stays in Bonaire, hand picked from off grid solar power, lower water and energy use, and native reef and plant protection. Find and book your sustainable stay.
Best Sustainable Hotels, Resorts and Eco Friendly Stays in Bonaire
These stays offer different locations, room setups and environmental features. Compare the property details below before choosing your dates. Check the exact energy system and current certification rather than assuming every stay has the same arrangements.
How we decide the best place to stay in Bonaire
Each top rated stay in Bonaire is hand picked and checked for sustainability features.
Bonaire is one of the windiest, sunniest and most dive obsessed islands in the Caribbean, so we judged these stays on how seriously they take the things that actually matter here: clean power, the reef offshore, and what the island gets back. We start with the energy, like Belnem House Bonaire running entirely off grid on solar power stored in a 430 kWh lithium battery bank that carries its studios and apartments right through the night with no diesel backup humming away.
On a flat, dry island that imports nearly everything, we wanted to see real water conservation rather than a card on the pillow, like Auriga & Gecko Ecolodge being built from the ground up to teach guests lighter water habits and recycling much of its waste back into the property.
Because the reef is the whole reason most people fly to Bonaire, we looked hard at what each stay grows and what it refuses to use, like Captain Don’s Habitat keeping part of its grounds as a nursery for local plants and leaning on local sourcing decades before farm to table was fashionable, with commercial fertilisers banned outright so nothing leaches out onto the coral.
We also weighed up the wider impact each place has on the island, like Delfins Beach Resort Bonaire protecting the island’s wildlife by planting one native tree for every housekeeping clean a guest skips through its Bloom Back Bonaire scheme, funding 1,499 trees in 2024 alone.
The boutique resort, eco lodge, dive resort and beach resort on this list of best places to stay in Bonaire have each proven, in their own way, that they are making a real effort to protect the island while taking care of its guests.
If diving’s beloved capital has set the bar for your Caribbean travels, our guide to the best sustainable hotels across the Caribbean brings the whole region together in one place, or drift west to sister island Curacao, further west again to Aruba and south toward the eco stays of Trinidad and Tobago.
At a glance
| Stay | Why it stands out |
|---|---|
| Belnem House Bonaire | Belnem House Bonaire is a fully off grid boutique resort on the EEG Boulevard near Kralendijk, the first hotel on the island to run entirely independent of the public grid and h… |
| Auriga & Gecko Ecolodge | Auriga and Gecko Ecolodge is an owner run, off grid pair of timber lodges set in a quiet patch of nature outside Kralendijk, self catering and deliberately built to teach guests… |
| Captain Don's Habitat | Captain Don’s Habitat is a dive resort near Kralendijk in Bonaire. The resort’s own account describes solar water heaters, energy saving equipment and landscaping designed to reduce runoff into the neighbouring marine environment. Those are specific features to consider alongside the room and diving arrangements. |
| Delfins Beach Resort Bonaire | Delfins Beach Resort is a beachfront resort just outside Kralendijk running on solar power throughout the day, with panels fitted across all available roofs and a goal of carbon… |
Top Picks, Where To Stay in Bonaire
- Belnem House Bonaire: Solar powered and off grid
- Captain Don's Habitat, Captain Don’s Habitat is a dive resort near Kralendijk in Bonaire.
- Auriga & Gecko Ecolodge: Female owned eco lodge
- Kralendijk, Bonaire
Belnem House Bonaire
Belnem House Bonaire is a fully off grid boutique resort on the EEG Boulevard near Kralendijk, the first hotel on the island to run entirely independent of the public grid and holder of the gold Bonaire Blue Destination certificate.
Solar panels supply all of its power into a 430 kWh lithium battery bank that carries the 13 studios and 18 apartments through the night, solar boilers heat the showers and a magnesium pool replaces conventional chlorine, earning it a National Geographic mention along the way.
- Kralendijk, Bonaire
Auriga & Gecko Ecolodge
Auriga and Gecko Ecolodge is an owner run, off grid pair of timber lodges set in a quiet patch of nature outside Kralendijk, self catering and deliberately built to teach guests lighter water and electricity habits.
Solar and wind energy power the site, much of the waste including human waste is recycled, and the surrounding terrain has been replanted with endemic Bonaire flowers and trees to bring back native plants and wildlife.
- Kralendijk, Bonaire
Captain Don’s Habitat
Captain Don’s Habitat is a dive resort near Kralendijk in Bonaire.
The resort’s own account describes solar water heaters, energy saving equipment and landscaping designed to reduce runoff into the neighbouring marine environment. Those are specific features to consider alongside the room and diving arrangements.
- Kralendijk, Bonaire
Delfins Beach Resort Bonaire
Delfins Beach Resort is a beachfront resort just outside Kralendijk running on solar power throughout the day, with panels fitted across all available roofs and a goal of carbon neutral, energy neutral operation.
Through its Bloom Back Bonaire scheme with the Tera Barra Foundation it plants one native tree for every housekeeping clean a guest skips, funding 1,499 trees in 2024 alone, and its beachside Brass Boer kitchen comes from three Michelin starred restaurateurs Jonnie and Therese Boer.