The pool was great, the studio was big enough, the hotel was located next to a supermarket and only nine minutes walk to eagle beach. The studio provided everything for us to cook. If you choose to eat at the restaurant there are plenty near as well.

My six year old loved the pool! It was a very relaxing vacation. Everyone was very nice. It was the perfect getaway.

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I completely did not enjoy this apartment. It made my vacation on Aruba miserable! Luckily, I reserved this place only for 3 nights. You can not imagine how happy I was to finally get out of there!
Let’s start from the apartment’s location. It is not super far from a wonderful part of Eagle Beach, the distance is walkable, and it would take you like 8-10 min to get to the beach. BUT you have to walk through a long shopping mall parking lot, after a dangerous highway (and people drive crazy in Aruba, some drivers just ignore you in the cross walk and do not stop), some little backstreet, which I barely noticed at first and one additional block of hotels. Not the prettiest walk! The apartment building, by the way, is hidden right behind a big food market, right next to a super trashy looking Chinese apartment. It is nice to have this grocery shop across the street, but even this doesn’t help the whole situation. It feels completely ghetto! Another thing I did not like was the gate to enter/leave the apartment building. It is a code system, so you have to memorize a code (or always make sure that your phone is charged) to get it and out, which is ridiculous! Why would you need to enter the same code on the way out??? I do not get it at all! Absolutely stupid system! Just put one button to open the door from inside and make life for your visitors a lot easier! Next step is the door code to open the door of my apartment. Just 4 letters! Come on! So unsecured! Even do 6! Anyway, even if you can not hack the 4-letter code, you can easily break the door, because it is light like a regular door inside of an apartment. It did not feel secure at all! The next issue I had was noise. I got apartment #4, which was basically the first apartment when you enter through the gate. I always heard people’s steps, voices, music, also sometimes sounds of big trucks passing by the road right next to the building. My apartment had 0 soundproofing. By the way, the toilet in my apartment was located near the side of a walkway, so people who passed by could clearly hear everything that was going on in the toilet. The next problem for me was the day light situation in my room, which barely existed. I can not say that the room was completely dark, but it definitely needed more day light. And for me it is a big problem because I like to stay in bright places. In general the apartment was not really big, plus, super outdated. All the furniture was crappy, had scratches all over it, the sofa felt greasy and dirty, everything seemed just dusty. I must mention, that they did a nice job with cleaning the floors etc, but cleaning does not really help if the place’s core is a bit of a mess! The apartment had a little kitchen, but I was disgusted to use any of it amenities. Even the refrigerator inside seemed dirty and had an “old used food” smell. The bed was super uncomfortable, including awful pillows! Also supposedly it must be Queen Size, but it felt little smaller than this and it barely fit me and my partner. The bathroom was super small, shower was absolutely tiny and uncomfortable, moreover, also felt kind of dirty, plus, actual shower top was broken! It was just a hole there from where water came from! Sorry, but even many public beach showers have these tops and actually look like showers. To be honest, whenever I showered, I felt like a prisoner in jail! An awful experience! The actual toilet was yellow in the inside, disgusting too. Luckily the bathroom amenities were a good quality, they used a local popular brand called "Aruba Aloe", which is nice, so even something in this place was not trashy. Wi-Fi was awful! It was impossible sometimes even to upload an Instagram post! Another sad thing, there is no washing machine and dryer on a site. This place should have them both.
One more thing I would like to mention is the bad communication with the hotel’s staff and housekeeping. Because I stayed for only 3 nights, I asked the front desk person right away not to send a housekeeper to my room, which she confirmed. Luckily I travel with the mini-cameras and always set them up when I leave my room for a long time. So on the last third day of my stay, I got a notification from the camera that somebody was in to my room, and of course it was a housekeeper. I called to front desk right away and asked them to immediately remove her from my room, which luckily happened pretty fast. But when I finally came back to my room I noticed that the housekeeper stole 2 white towels, which belonged to me. Disaster! By the way, about the towels! They are super cheap in this place and calculate every single towel! They do not give extra. So make sure that you always bring back your towels from the beach because they charge like $30 for a missing towel, which is absolutely crazy! Finally, I have to mention that I paid $250 per night for this place (because it was right after Christmas Day) and this money is absolutely crazy for the poor quality I got! This place’s price must be not more then $50 per night! $30 roadside motels look a lot better sometimes than this crappy apartment! I absolutely recommend not to destroy your vacation in Aruba and do not stay at this place. Trust me, you will regret it! By the way, if the place’s manager is reading my review, I would ask them to communicate with me and do a partial refund!

The accommodations and service provided met and exceeded our expectations. Cozy vibe with a beautiful area near the pool to enjoy Aruba and the great weather. Would defiantly book a stay here again as it it is close to the Eagle beach and all the amenities required for an enjoyable stay.