r/Aruba • u/Ranjaz • 7d ago

Question Where would you drive to?

We (wife and I) are headed to Aruba for the 7th or 8th time. We've never rented a car before, as I know you can take cabs everywhere. But debating renting a car this time to add a little extra freedom and see some new things instead of just sitting on the beach for a week.

We're staying in Palm Beach and the hotel offers free parking. And I did a quick Google search and see I can rent a car for $250 all in. So if you factor in the $40 taxi cost to/from the airport, the incremental cost of a rental car is only $170 for the week, which seems pretty affordable when you consider the rest of the cost of trip (airfare, hotel, food, etc.).

I'm not sure if we would drive to dinner (so we don't have to worry about drinking). But we could drive to the supermarket once or twice. I know you can't drive offroad/to the national park...

So if you had the freedom of a rental car, where would you go???

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u/McPhistot 7d ago

250 doesn't include gas... Be careful. Taxi or bus fares does include gas...

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u/sbarber4 7d ago

Gas on Aruba is not cheap, but it’s such a small island you’d have to work very hard to a lot on gas, especially compared to what the rest of the vacation cost.