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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did someone say Aruba or am I thinking of another thread?  Would like to hear feedback on Aruba since we have a trip booked there this year.

If Aruba was unimpressive, what other nearby beaches would be better in July?[/quote]

Oh yes,  Aruba was really disappointing.  I was there in Jan 2020.  Most of the island is trashy.  Restaurants are cheesy and bad. 
The whole place is a flash back to the 80s.  Lots of drunk people from middle America.  [/quote]

Sort of agree with this, though not to the same degree. The beaches are beautiful. The Ritz is fine. We found one really phenomenal restaurant but it only seats like 10 people/night and needs to be booked way in advance. Couple cool bars on the water with a typical tiki bar, island drinks, Jimmy Buffet cover band kind of vibe. You could be in worse places.

But the island is a relatively unattractive desert. As far as we could tell there wasn’t much cool local flavor to be found. You just kind of stay at the resorts or go hang in the slums with the hookers. Like a lot of similar places, you arrive and get in a car and drive through what looks like urban sprawl in Jacksonville (90% of the island) before you actually reach the place you’d envisioned. To be fair I kind of feel the same way about Hawaii, though it’s only 50% sprawl and has cool places you can go find.

Overall, glad I went once but wouldn’t go back. [/quote]

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