Is Aruba safe for tourists?

Among the safest destinations in the Caribbean, and comfortable to walk at night on the hotel strip. Across 1 guides Aruba averages 5.0 out of 5; Aruba are rated safe or very safe. Every guide names the comfortable areas and the ones that want care, with the reason.

Which parts of Aruba need the most care?

None of the 1 guides in Aruba is rated below 3: the usual big-city attention — bags in front on transit, phones away at the kerb — is the whole of it.

Aruba travel tips

Is Aruba safe?

1 guide, each rated 1 to 5 with the reason — and two lists per place, where you are comfortable and where to pay attention. Nowhere is called dangerous; the specific thing is what helps.

5.0 average across 1 guide · Very safe

Aruba Very safe

Among the safest destinations in the Caribbean, and comfortable to walk at night on the hotel strip. Petty theft from beach bags is the common complaint. The north and east coasts have violent surf and undertow — the swimming is all on the leeward side.

Comfortable: Palm Beach · Eagle Beach · Oranjestad · Savaneta

Arikok National Park — and the north coast, where the surf and the undertow are lethal and there are no lifeguards
The natural pool road, which needs a real 4x4 and takes ordinary hire cars apart

The ratings are this site's own, from the guides' authors and the corrections readers send in; they are not an index. Read the general advice in travel safety tips.

The guides in Aruba

A divi-divi tree bent by the trade wind on Eagle Beach, Aruba

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