My trips to Aruba, and some of the places I think you need to visit.

I haven’t been on an away vacation in sometime and well Covid sure did put a hamper on that, so when the Mister said it was time to go on vacation I couldn’t pinpoint where I wanted to go. Aruba, Barbados, St Lucia and Paris were on my list. It took him having to decide because I was taking too long and I’m beyond happy that he did. From the moment he decided I was happy and started doing my research about Aruba. I read just about every article that I could find, headed over to Google travel to pinpoint on a map places to visit and try to get an idea for what my vacation would be like. I was beyond blown away with my experience.

My Mister likes the Ritz-Carlton and likes to stay at their hotels whenever we travel, but he had us staying on vacation for only 4 nights, that’s not a vacation, so I said I think I could do better with the price and length of stay. So after much deliberation and research on my part, we opted to stay a the Hilton Aruba. I took a garden view room, because I didn’t need to view the ocean, if I was going to be on the beach or sight seeing, the ocean view would be a waste. I loved the hotel, the staff was friendly and the décor was perfect. I’m not a huge fan of lizards or iguanas or anything small, moving fast and has the ability to climb walls. They are around the property, but I think they stayed clear more of me than I did them. The hotel also has beautiful parrots or like tiktok said “fruit loop birds”. Now that I’m home I realized the Hilton has the best spot on the island, I only say that as I was looking at the video of the sunset and it was straight on. Definitely, I would stay at the Hilton again. I only ate breakfast at the hotel,  and it was good. I never tried the other restaurants on the property. Late night room service was great though. I got some ideas of places to visit also from the looped video they have playing on the television.

Without further ado, here are some of the places I visited and ate at while on my vacation. At the end of this, if you don’t stay at Hilton, I will leave the coordinates to another spot where I witness one of the best sunsets I have ever seen at the end of this post.

1.      The Aloe Factory/ Tour

2.      Baby Beach

3.      California Lighthouse

4.      The Natural Bridge

5.      Alta Vista Chapel

6.      Boulders

7.      Glass blowing factory

8.      Gold mine

9.      Market Place downtown

10.   Submarine Tour

11.   Restaurant- Lola

12.   Restaurant – Craft

13.   The Piano Bar

14.   Oniel’s

15.   Kamini’s Kitchen

16.   Amore

17.   Snow cone truck

While I was in Aruba I won a trip, I did have to watch a presentation, it was not a time share, but a travel club. It would have been great to join the life time membership, if I had $10,000 laying around. The sales person said after 5 times of visiting Aruba he decided to make it home, I didn’t need 5 visits to decide that this could be my forever home, it only took me one time to know I want to live on the happiest island in the world.