A wonderful spot for cruise port day excursion. We took a $20 taxi ride to near the Hyatt. We listened to other reviews and rented a couple of seasoned chairs with a large canopy for shade from Sandra at Marcel’s Watersport just south of the Hyatt. Nothing fancy but met our humble needs. Sandra was wonderful providing great advice for food and drinks nearby. We will definitely be back when we return to Aruba.

Palm Beach and Eagle Beach are both beautiful beaches. If you don't mind getting sand blasted, then Eagle Beach is for you. Because of the trade winds there is a constant wind on Aruba. We are going to be in Aruba for the first 2 weeks in February. Looking for the sun and sand.

Came here as a beach day on our Virgin Voyage. We bought round trip tickets for the city buss for $5 and it took us about 15-20 minutes to get there. (take any of the number 10 busses) We got off at the Hilton and were able to walk thru the lobby to the beach. We asked staff where we could rent chairs and umbrellas and they directed us to a place right between the Hilton & The Riu next to De Pier. It was a great spot and at around 10am we were able to get umbrellas and chairs with great views of the water. ($60 for umbrella and chair $10 each) The pier has public restrooms, a restaurant that serves great shrimp tacos and a couple gift shops that was probably one of the nicer gift shops we saw. Like other reviewers mention it is very very windy here. I know this beach is highly rated as one of the best in the Caribbean and we were by no means disappointed in our day but I wouldn't call it my favorite beach either. The PROS are that it does have everything you want near by, food, restrooms, bars, water sports. The CONS are the high wind, lots of people, some waves due to all the boats going back and forth and everything being fairly expensive. The strip in Aruba was filled with very outdated tourist trap gift shops. From our group of 12s cruise we liked this island the least. We still had a fabulous time here, we just liked Curacao & St. Kitts more.

I would rank palm beach 3rd behind Eagle and Baby. Its beautiful but if your not staying at one of the hotels which provides chairs then it is hard to not only get to the beach because of parking and also needing to go through a hotel to get to the beach. But also there is very limited space if you bring your own chairs. It wasnt worth all the effort for me. So we only went to the beach 2 times.

Our first time at Palm beach and we had a great time! After a mediocre cruise excursion last year in Aruba we decided this year to just take a taxi from the cruise terminal to Palm Beach and are we ever glad we did. Taxi for 4 was $19. We were dropped off near the Hyatt where we met Sandra at Marcel’s Watersports on the beach. $5 per chair for the day and she also told us where to get happy hour deals, food deals and use facilities. Yes there were a lot of people, but it was far from crowded. Lots to do and it didn’t smell. Sandra also arranged for us to get a taxi back which was $5 per person. We will definitely be back.

Amazing beach! We were well taken care of by Sandra at Marcel’s Watersports. My daughter got too close to the ropes in the water and was stung by jellyfish. Sandra was knowledgeable and happy to help out with the problem. * Definitely stay away from the ropes! *. Water and beach are clean, sand is beautiful, and aside from the ropes, never encountered any more jellyfish or had any other problems. Great place!!

The beach is very clean and safe with cool soft sand and a nice breeze almost every day. The water is incredibly calm - almost no waves at all. It’s the typical pretty blue Caribbean water, although not necessarily the bluest or clearest in the Caribbean.