Drive your own UTV
UTV & ATV North Coast Adventure
Drive your own UTV or ATV to Blackstone Beach, gold mill ruins, and more.
· 4 Hours · from $162.40per vehicle
Book hotels and transfers
Book it the way we book it
Every hotel, flight, transfer, and ticket we'd line up for our own trip, in one place. Search live prices here, then book direct.
The Palm Beach strip, where most first trips stay0 of 7 trip essentials arranged
Tick things off as you arrange them. This list stays in your browser.
Start here
Search it like a local would
The two searches we run first for any Aruba trip. Live prices, English and USD, set to the island.
Where to stay
See what your dates cost
Pick a side of the island, set your dates, and read the real numbers on Agoda before anything is decided.
Dates and travellers start on a sample week for 2 adults in 1 room. Change anything above and the prices follow it.
Prices compare right here on the site. Or browse every Aruba stay. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
Getting here
Find a flight to Aruba
Search live fares into Aeropuerto Reina Beatrix (AUA), the same way we price a trip.
Round trips to AUA
What a flight actually costs right now
Prices load live here. Open the flight search for Aruba.
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Chapter 01 · Stays
Where we book the stays
Palm Beach for the action, Eagle Beach for the quiet, Oranjestad for value. The dated search at the top of this page is the one we run first. Everything below is here for what that search does not cover, each with the reason to reach for it.
Agoda
Our pickEvery bookable stay on the island, from the Palm Beach high-rises to Eagle Beach low-rise suites.
Part of Booking Holdings, with its published Best Price Guarantee Program on the same rooms the brand-name sites list: find the identical booking cheaper elsewhere and they match the difference. One place to read reviews, compare the two beach strips, and hold a free-cancellation rate while your plans settle.
Choose this if: You want one search across both beach strips, and a free-cancellation rate you can hold while the rest of the trip settles.
Other ways to search staysA whole villa for a group, a second set of rooms, or the engine where your points already live.
Vrbo
Our pickWhole villas, condos, and beach houses across the island, the part hotels do not cover.
For families and groups the math flips: a kitchen, laundry, and space to spread out often beat two hotel rooms on price. Eagle Beach and Noord have deep villa and condo stock, and Vrbo lists whole homes only, no shared rooms.
Choose this if: You are a family or a group, and a whole villa with a kitchen and room to spread out beats two hotel rooms.
A second set of rooms
Different engines hold different allocations, so a room that reads full on one is sometimes open on the other. Worth a look only when your dates come back thin.
Your dates, live availability
Find your Aruba stay
Pick the strip you want and your dates. Rooms and current prices open on the booking site with your search already filled in, so nothing has to be typed twice.
This search carries your dates and adults only. Children, their ages and extra rooms are added on our booking partner's own screen, where availability and prices are shown, or you can compare family rooms here first, where children and their ages travel with the search. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you, and it never changes which stays we recommend.
Already loyal somewhere? Same rooms, your points
Booking.com
The biggest hotel platform, with the deepest review archive on the same Aruba rooms.
If you have Genius pricing or gift-card credit there, keep it: the rates and rooms match what we surface elsewhere, and your loyalty level can shave real money off the same stay.
Choose this if: Your Genius level or gift-card credit lives there and would come off the same room.
Expedia
Hotels plus flight-and-hotel packages, with One Key earning across the trip.
Bundling the flight and room in one checkout sometimes prices below booking them apart, and One Key members earn on both halves. Worth a comparison click when you are booking the whole trip at once.
Choose this if: You are booking the flight and the room in one checkout, or you collect One Key.
Hotels.com
The same Expedia Group rooms, under the Hotels.com account and One Key wallet.
No extra inventory over the Expedia card, so only worth it if you already keep credit or One Key status here. If you do, that balance is real money against an Aruba room.
Choose this if: You already hold Hotels.com credit or One Key status. The rooms are the same as the Expedia card otherwise.
Chapter 02 · Airport
Getting in from the airport
Aruba has no Uber, and airport taxis run on government-fixed cash fares. Plan the ride here and land with the price already settled and a driver holding your name.
Our pick · Welcome Pickups
Set up your ride before you fly
Tell us where you land and add your details. We carry all of it into Welcome Pickups, so you pick up where you left off and just confirm the exact price.
Your trip details, and the name and email you choose to type here, are carried into the Welcome Pickups booking page so you do not retype them, which puts them in that outbound address. We keep your email only if you tick the itinerary box. How we handle your details.
Why prebook, honestly
Aruba has no Uber. Airport taxis are fine, but fares are government-fixed and cash: about $40 to Palm Beach, $38 to Eagle Beach, $26 to Oranjestad, plus $5 at night, on Sundays, and on holidays (official tariff, taxi.aw). A prebooked car costs in the same range, takes cards, tracks your flight if it runs late, and the driver is at arrivals with your name, so nobody is negotiating anything after a four-hour flight.
Opens Welcome Pickups with your trip and details carried over. You confirm nothing until you see the price. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
Airport transfer
Book a ride from arrivals
A fixed-price car from AUA to your hotel, sorted before you land. No taxi-rank scramble.
Chapter 03 · Activities
The days worth booking
The part of the trip you actually remember. These are the three most looked-at tours from our vouched-for list; below them sits the wider catalogue, listed from the supplier, not ones we have tested.
Two-stop snorkel sail
Dolphin Snorkel Sail with Open Bar
Three hours, two snorkel stops, open bar, rope swing, and a water slide.
· 3 Hours · from $69per person
Natural Pool by 4x4
Natural Pool and Indian Cave Jeep Safari
Guided open-air 4x4 to Conchi, the Indian caves and Dos Playa.
· 4.5 Hours · from $99per person
Beyond our picks: tickets & extras
More things to do
Tours & tickets across Aruba
Our hand-tested picks live on the Activities page. This pulls the wider catalogue, listed from the supplier, not ones we have tested.
The wider activity search loads only if you want it, so this page stays light until then.
Chapter 04 · Cover
Cover for the what-ifs
Medicare pays nothing outside the US, and the island hospital asks international patients for a deposit before admission. Run your own numbers below; the quote itself takes about two minutes.
Two-minute check
What is actually on the line for your trip
Put in your own numbers. This is the math we would walk a friend through before they wave insurance off.
The honest math for your party's 7-night trip
- Money gone if you had to cancel uninsured$4,038
- What Medicare pays toward care in Aruba$0
- Medical evacuation to a US hospital, if it came to that$15,000 to $25,000
The island hospital is good, and it bills international patients directly, with a deposit before admission. Nobody plans for the reef cut or the ear infection on day two; the policy exists so a bad afternoon stays an anecdote instead of the most expensive part of the trip.
Opens the VisitorsCoverage trip-insurance wizard, about two minutes to a real quote. Prefer comparing marketplaces? Insubuy lines them up side by side. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you.
Figures: medicare.gov, the US Consulate for the Dutch Caribbean, Horacio Oduber Hospital, and the Aruba Tourism Authority 2025 spending survey (USD 2,019 average spend per person per stay).
First, the honest check
You might already be partly covered
Some credit cards include trip-cancellation cover when you paid the trip with the card, and some US health plans reimburse emergency care abroad (Medicare itself does not; some Medigap plans add a capped emergency benefit). Five minutes with your card benefits page and your insurer tells you what gap is actually left, so you buy cover once, not twice. What usually is not covered anywhere: medical evacuation, which is exactly the $15,000 to $25,000 line item in the estimator.
Insubuy
A marketplace that compares plans from multiple travel-insurance providers.
Worth a look if you like to line up several plans side by side, or if you need something specific like longer-stay or visitor medical cover.
Chapter 05 · Practical
Land ready to go
An eSIM so day one is smooth, a rental car to open up the island, and a local to plan the rest if you want it.
Holafly
Our pickUnlimited-data travel eSIM for Aruba, sent to your inbox.
Buy it before you fly and the eSIM arrives by email, so you install it at home and switch it on when you land. It runs alongside the SIM you already have, so your own number keeps working while the data comes from the eSIM.
Rent a car
Aruba is small but spread out, and a car turns the whole island into your day. We compare 50+ agencies through DiscoverCars, with free cancellation on most cars.
Compare Aruba car deals Or read the car guide firstPlanning the days?
The free planner sets out where to stay, how to get around, and what to book, in the order that actually works on the island.
Plan the week yourself (free)The local team
Want the week laid out in the right order?
The free planner turns a few honest questions into a day-by-day Aruba week, in English or Dutch. Prefer to hand it over? Personal trip planning by our local team starts at $149.