i went to aruba.....its AWESOME...we met my fsil and fbil on their honeymoon..we went the second week..we stayed at some regular hotel..nothing too fancy..it was the allegro..next door was the hyatt...sooooo nice..if you are looking for something nice i would go with that..we did an all inclusive..aruba was great!! good luck
I can not say enough about how wonderful Aruba is!! Definitely, the best vacation FH and I ever went on!! We stayed at the Wyndham. Feel free to FM with any questions!
Posted by lishbone
i went to aruba.....its AWESOME...we met my fsil and fbil on their honeymoon..we went the second week..we stayed at some regular hotel..nothing too fancy..it was the allegro..next door was the hyatt...sooooo nice..if you are looking for something nice i would go with that..we did an all inclusive..aruba was great!! good luck
Posted by susieandsteven111905
Ok I have narrowed the search for the honeymoon down to Aruba or St. Lucia..
If we do St. Lucia it will probably be a Sandals not 100% sure yet.
But has anyone been to Aruba, hotels etc. any info would be great.
We went and stayed at the HYATT. The room we stayed in was small and had a small balcony (you could only stand on it, not sit), but the grounds are AMAZING. The weather was also PERFECT.
Posted by jozieb0925
We went and stayed at the HYATT. The room we stayed in was small and had a small balcony (you could only stand on it, not sit), but the grounds are AMAZING. The weather was also PERFECT.
Posted by curliegirl
Aruba is beautiful, and the weather is always great, sometimes a little....'breezy'
I always said that when I went to Aruba and stayed there (not with a cruise) I would stay at the Hyatt, because the grounds were so beautiful. However, I have heard from a few people that the rooms need a well deserved makeover.
We are seriously considering the Bucuti Beach Resort. It's a low rise hotel, no kids, very quiet, and reportedly has the most beautiful beach, however you can't get a bad beach in Aruba, but the Bucuti doesn't allow people who are not hotel guests on their beach.
If we don't do Bucuti, we may stay at the Radisson, I have heard great things about it.
Aruba's night life is great, plenty to do. If you go, eat at El Gaucho's, it's great!
Posted by dpli
Posted by curliegirl
Aruba is beautiful, and the weather is always great, sometimes a little....'breezy'
I always said that when I went to Aruba and stayed there (not with a cruise) I would stay at the Hyatt, because the grounds were so beautiful. However, I have heard from a few people that the rooms need a well deserved makeover.
We are seriously considering the Bucuti Beach Resort. It's a low rise hotel, no kids, very quiet, and reportedly has the most beautiful beach, however you can't get a bad beach in Aruba, but the Bucuti doesn't allow people who are not hotel guests on their beach.
If we don't do Bucuti, we may stay at the Radisson, I have heard great things about it.
Aruba's night life is great, plenty to do. If you go, eat at El Gaucho's, it's great!
The Bucuti definitely has the best beach. We stayed there for our honeymoon and are thinking of going back for our 1st anniversary. If you are looking for a quiet, romantic place, with a beautiful beach, it is perfect. The other hotels are nice, but we got a suite with a full balcony (with 2 chairs and a table on it - lots of room to sit and look out at the water) for the price that the Hyatt and the Radisson wanted for a regular room. In my opinion, the only down side to the Bucuti is that there is not a lot of water sports and restaurants that you can walk to, but we just took cabs to wherever we wanted to go. They allow children, but have no activities for children, so you don't see too many there (I think we saw one the whole week....) there were a lot of Europeans and honeymooners.
Posted by curliegirl
Posted by dpli
Posted by curliegirl
Aruba is beautiful, and the weather is always great, sometimes a little....'breezy'
I always said that when I went to Aruba and stayed there (not with a cruise) I would stay at the Hyatt, because the grounds were so beautiful. However, I have heard from a few people that the rooms need a well deserved makeover.
We are seriously considering the Bucuti Beach Resort. It's a low rise hotel, no kids, very quiet, and reportedly has the most beautiful beach, however you can't get a bad beach in Aruba, but the Bucuti doesn't allow people who are not hotel guests on their beach.
If we don't do Bucuti, we may stay at the Radisson, I have heard great things about it.
Aruba's night life is great, plenty to do. If you go, eat at El Gaucho's, it's great!
The Bucuti definitely has the best beach. We stayed there for our honeymoon and are thinking of going back for our 1st anniversary. If you are looking for a quiet, romantic place, with a beautiful beach, it is perfect. The other hotels are nice, but we got a suite with a full balcony (with 2 chairs and a table on it - lots of room to sit and look out at the water) for the price that the Hyatt and the Radisson wanted for a regular room. In my opinion, the only down side to the Bucuti is that there is not a lot of water sports and restaurants that you can walk to, but we just took cabs to wherever we wanted to go. They allow children, but have no activities for children, so you don't see too many there (I think we saw one the whole week....) there were a lot of Europeans and honeymooners.
Do you feel like you missed out because it wasn't a high rise hotel? Does it have less of a view? This is really my only main concern. That and the pool, FI really likes pools.....he's afraid of touching 'creepy' stuff in the ocean, what a baby!![]()
We went to Aruba for our HM and stayed at the Radisson. It was the first time EVER that it got hit by the hurricane's, but even with all the rain we had an amazing time. There was plenty to do...we enjoyed it so much we are planning on going back to catch the good weather - since the rain we experienced was totally out of the ordinary!
