Coral Princess .. Panama Canal cruise .. Aruba stop .. Excursion questions

[khartz89]

My wife and I are looking between 3 excursions for when this stops in Aruba.

For the following excursions, which all stop at a beach for an hour to 1.5 hours, the question I have is "what beach do they stop at"??

The 3 excursions are:

Best of Aruba: Island Highlights and Beach

Discover Aruba, Aloe Factory and Beach Getaway

Kukoo Kunuku California Lighthouse & Beach

 

ANyone that can provide some specific beach names would be very much appreciated !!

 

[Essiesmom]

You might go to the Ports of Call board for Aruba and ask which beach is usually used for excursions.   Most cruise lines will use the same companies to arrange excursions so cruise line might not matter.  EM

[nasa1974]

Do they still offer the trike excursion (3-wheel motorcycles)?  It's been a few years since we did this, but it was fantastic. I don't believe it was offered through Princess. I think it was called Trike Tours Aruba. I would have to dig through some old posts. We drove all over Aruba. We also stopped at the lighthouse. There was a group of us, and we followed a tour guide.

 

 

 

Edited April 25 by nasa1974

[WisCruiser2]

I would guess Palm Beach - that's the one with all the high-rise hotels. We've only done a ship tour in Aruba once (first time there) years ago and it didn't have a beach stop.

[CPs4591]

Following.  However we have also looked at the Aruba ports of call and seems like lots of both private excursions and also easy to get around individually.  

[capriccio]

16 hours ago, nasa1974 said:

Do they still offer the trike excursion (3-wheel motorcycles)?  It's been a few years since we did this, but it was fantastic. I don't believe it was offered through Princess. I think it was called Trike Tours Aruba. I would have to dig through some old posts. We drove all over Aruba. We also stopped at the lighthouse. There was a group of us, and we followed a tour guide.

 

 

 

 

We had a great time on that excursion in 2016.  We have a similar picture.  For that Christmas our son gave us t-shirts with the picture and "Born to Be Wild." 

 

They are still in business:  https://trikes-aruba.com/

[nasa1974]

10 minutes ago, capriccio said:

 

We had a great time on that excursion in 2016.  We have a similar picture.  For that Christmas our son gave us t-shirts with the picture and "Born to Be Wild." 

 

They are still in business:  https://trikes-aruba.com/

We did it in 2012. Once I got use to shifting left-handed it was easy. Although I kept forgetting to take off the handbrake.

[EDVM96]

On 4/25/2024 at 12:33 AM, khartz89 said:

For the following excursions, which all stop at a beach for an hour to 1.5 hours, the question I have is "what beach do they stop at"??

The 3 excursions are:

Best of Aruba: Island Highlights and Beach

Discover Aruba, Aloe Factory and Beach Getaway

Kukoo Kunuku California Lighthouse & Beach

ANyone that can provide some specific beach names would be very much appreciated !!

 

The Princess tour description (under excursion details) sais:

 

"Drive from California Lighthouse to the beach"

Travel time: 00:20 

 

and

 

"Drive from beach back to Cruise Ship"

Travel time: 00:20 

So it must be a west coast beach half way between the lighthouse in the north and the cruise pier.

So my guess is Palm Beach (where Hyatt Regency, Marriott and Ritz are located).

 

[EDVM96]

On 4/26/2024 at 1:33 AM, EDVM96 said:

So my guess is Palm Beach (where Hyatt Regency, Marriott and Ritz are located).

 

Addition:

 

In January 2022, the Princess Shore Excurison "AUA100A - Best Of Aruba: Island Highlights & Beach" dropped people off at Coco Loco Beach Bar, Eagle Beach (where the Captain Morgan statue is located).

 

https://maps.app.goo.gl/8WZsdmQYxB6gT4US8

 

Edited April 27 by EDVM96