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White timber colonial buildings with red roofs and colonnaded verandas lining the Waterkant, Paramaribo's riverfront street, under a clear blue sky.

Paramaribo · Suriname

A guide to Paramaribo built on sources, not impressions.

Suriname is under-documented online, and much of what is written about it is out of date. This site is an attempt at the opposite: a small number of places and answers, each one checked against a named source, with the date we checked it printed on the page.

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  • Hotel Krasnapolsky

    Accommodation · Centrum

    Long-established downtown hotel on Domineestraat, in the middle of Paramaribo's main shopping street and a few minutes from the Waterkant. The building houses several ground-floor food outlets alongside the hotel itself.

  • Regionale Gezondheidsdienst (RGD)

    Healthcare

    Suriname’s regional primary-health service, running some 45 health centres with pharmacies along the coast from Albina to Nickerie and publishing the official on-call (wachtdienst) schedules.

  • Republic Bank Suriname

    Banking

    Suriname arm of the Caribbean Republic Bank group, running the country’s largest commercial ATM network — and the network most likely to accept foreign Visa and Mastercard.

  • Hard Rock Cafe Suriname

    Food & drink

    The Suriname outpost of the international chain, open since April 2023 inside the International Mall of Suriname, with live music, a Rock Shop and a kitchen that runs to 23:00 — plus a second counter in the airport departure hall.

  • De Gadri

    Food & drink

    Creole restaurant at Zeelandiaweg 1 beside Fort Zeelandia, loved for honest Surinamese home cooking in one of the city’s most atmospheric corners.

The method

An absent field beats a filled-in guess. Where there is no source, the line is simply not there.

Every address, opening time and phone number on this site is stored with the source it came from and the date it was read. Nothing is written from memory, and nothing is written from another travel site.

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  • Guide

    Day trips from Paramaribo

    Suriname has two UNESCO World Heritage sites, and the second one is a day trip. Jodensavanne, Commewijne, Colakreek and Overbridge — what each one is, and which are worth a whole day.

    Updated 21 August 2026

  • Comparison

    Jungle lodges in Suriname compared

    Nine interior lodges compared on the things that actually decide the trip: how you get there, how comfortable it is, whether the community owns it, and who you book through.

    Updated 21 August 2026

  • Practical

    Is Suriname safe and healthy to visit?

    Suriname was certified malaria-free by the WHO in June 2025 — a fact most travel writing has not caught up with. Here is what the current official sources actually say about health and safety, and what they do not.

    Updated 21 August 2026

How this site works

  1. Sourced, and dated

    Each important fact — an address, opening hours, a phone number — is stored with the source it came from and the date it was read. Place pages show both.

  2. Sparse beats invented

    Where we have no source, the field is simply missing. There are no filler descriptions, no invented ratings and no reviews we did not collect.

  3. Paid placement is labelled

    Sponsorship never changes an editorial list. It appears in its own block with a disclosure label — read the policy.