Breakfast/lunch, walk down the beach to Eduardo’s on the Beach (by Playa Linda walk down the beach) for smoothies, açaí and poke bowls

As pp mentioned there are also a lot of places in walking distance. Lola’s tacos has $2 street tacos on Tuesdays but it gets very crowded so depends on your tolerance for waiting. There are a number of other restaurants in that area. Look at reviews.

It will be peak season during winter break and very crowded. You will want to make as many dinner reservations in advance as you can.

We went to this Argentinian place and really liked it — very reasonable:

https://chebararuba.com/

We also went to a seafood place in the beach just outside the Marriott surface Aruba and it was not expensive and pretty good. If you leave out the back door by the pool you are just a very short walk to sort of an outdoor mall area that has tons of mid priced food options.

There are a bunch of restaurants across the street from your hotel.

Our family of 4 is traveling to Aruba over winter break. Any ideas on less expensive meal options in the Marriott area? We expect a few meals will be in the hotels and cost a bit, but want to know where we can get less expensive meals occasionally. Thanks!