Category: Aruba News

In a rare event, Aruba and Curaçao were rocked by an earthquake for the second time in two consecutive days.

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After seeing this high-definition drone video of Aruba, you’ll want to travel to Aruba right this moment. Just sit back and relax, make sure you turn up the volume, set the video to full screen and grab some popcorn.

After watching the video, we are confident you’ll agree:

There’s only One Happy Island.

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Great news for fans of the Hilton hotel chain: renovations at the Hilton Aruba Caribbean Resort & Casino are almost finished.

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Aruba News: Hurricane Matthew is currently impacting Aruba with heavy rain and wind. It will affect the weather for the ABC Islands in the coming days. Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao (the ABC islands) are part of the Lesser Antilles. Matthew became a hurricane on Thursday south of Puerto Rico, reaching maximum sustained winds of 120 kilometers per hour. In Aruba, it is a rare happening when a storm that is in the area develops into a tropical storm and eventually becomes a hurricane. Today Mathew is still located above the Eastern Caribbean Sea. Later in the day it is expected that Matthew will have become a hurricane and that it will affect the weather of Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao quite heavily.

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Over forty new recordings of the national anthem of Aruba, “Aruba Dushi Tera,” have been made in collaboration with the Philharmonic Orchestra in New York. The aim of the musical project was to hand over the new master tapes to Governor Fredis Refunjol.

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Tickets for the Aruba Jazz Festival 2016 are for sale now!

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The four-star Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort Aruba has entered the Top 10 on the list of the best of 2016 top 25 hotels worldwide traveler choice awards by TripAdvisor. Chosen for its beauty, the outstanding level of service and for its location on Eagle Beach and for its amenities, Bucuti reached the 8th place on the list of best of 2016 top hotels worldwide traveler choice awards by TripAdvisor.

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The construction of the Blue Residences Condominium Resort, located along Eagle Beach and close to the Bubali Bird Sanctuary, has been completed.

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Divi & Tamarijn All Inclusive Resorts announced the opening of a Mexican Restaurant called Pure Lime and a 60 room pool view building that will open this month. The addition of the new building with patios or balconies overlooking the step-down pool with floating lounge chairs and cabanas will give guests a broader selection to choose from when they are making their reservations.

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Hadicurari Beach has made it to the top of the list of The Caribbean’s Sexiest Beaches, which was recently published by the CJ Caribbean Journal website.

They write:

Also known as Fisherman’s Huts, this isn’t Aruba’s most famous beach, but it’s the original hangout beach on the island just past the Aruba Marriott accommodation. It was sexy before there were big hotels, and it remains so today. Aruba’s beaches are seductive for their remarkably calm quality, and this one is one of the top spots to visit.

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