Difference Between Palm Beach And Eagle Beach
05/27/2007 | eagle beach · palm beach
Palm Beach Aruba
There is always the question about what the differences are between Palm Beach and Eagle Beach. In this post I’m going to address this, beyond the obvious.
Let’s start with the obvious.
What kind of resorts are to be found in Aruba?
On the Palm Beach strip there are the high rise resorts, big hotel chains, meanwhile on the Eagle Beach strip there are low rise resorts – not higher than 5 storeys – and generally timeshare units. Currently a new form of construction is rising fast at the Eagle Beach: condos.
Which resorts exactly are there at Palm Beach?
High rise at Palm Beach (from north to south):
- Marriott Resort & Casino
- Marriott’s Ocean Club
- Marriott’s Surf Club
- Holiday Inn
- Playa Linda
- Hyatt Regency
- Occidental Grand
- Radisson Resort
- Riu Palace
- Westin
- Divi Phoenix
Low rise at Eagle Beach:
- Amsterdam Manor
- La Cabana
- Paradise Beach Villas
- Marine Verlofcentrum
- Costa Linda
What type of beaches are Palm Beach and Eagle Beach?
Both Palm Beach and Eagle Beach have clean, smooth, white and cool sand. Palm Beach is notoriously hard to park for non-guests. If you are a non-guest of a high rise resort somewhere remote, to walk then to the beach. Eagle Beach on the other hand is very easy to reach. There is parking space just in from of the beach and you can easily walk onto the beach and into the sea.
What’s the sea condition?
Palm Beach tends to have calmer waters and less wavy, plus the wind is less of a problem. There have been reports of a rocky sea floor by the Marriott as opposed to a pretty smooth sea floor from there on southward.
Eagle Beach is wavier, windier with a substantial more water scooter activities. This happen outside clearly marked safe-swim areas.
Following, the not-so obvious information – own research -.
How busy can it get at Palm Beach and Eagle Beach?
Amount of rooms at Palm Beach (from north to south):
- Marriott (all three buildings) # 1353
- Holiday Inn # 600
- Playa Linda # 216
- Hyatt # 360
- Occidental # 395
- Radisson # 355
- Riu Palace # 451 (not included in statistics, resort not opened yet)
- Westin # 481
- Divi Phoenix # 101
Total amount of rooms at Palm Beach: # 3861
Low rise at Eagle Beach:
- Amsterdam Manor # 72
- La Cabana # 449
- Paradise Beach Villas # 80
- Marine Verlofcentrum # 19
- Costa Linda # 175
Total amount of rooms at Eagle Beach: # 795
According to my measurements and estimates:
- Size
- Palm Beach: 1,089,179 sq. ft.
- Eagle Beach: 1,162,308 sq. ft.
- Open beach/occupied by hotel facilities
- Palm Beach: 34% open/66% occupied
- Eagle Beach: 80% open/20% occupied
According to official statistics on any given day Aruba has an average of almost 14,000 visitors. This amount of visitors divided by the total rooms on Aruba (around 7000) gives an average of roughly two persons per room. The yearly occupancy rate for the rooms on Aruba is 81.7%.
Conclusion.
After given you all this valuable information, I won’t draw a conclusion as to how much people are using the beaches at any given time. Sorry. There is a reason for that. The amount of time people stay on the beach varies too much. Additionally, pool areas are highly popular as well. Others prefer to go on an excursion while some opt to go out shopping. Then there are those who just stay all day in their room watching TV, believe it or not. They suffered sunburn perhaps? Be that as it may, there are too many variables.
To draw somewhat of a conclusion, I have a final thought in the form of a question.
If Palm Beach has about 7,722 visitors on any given day, that can use only 34% of 1,089,179 sq. ft. of beach available and Eagle Beach has 1,590 visitors on any given day, that can use 80% of 1,162,308 sq. ft. of beach available, which beach do you think is going to be generally crowded?
Update: Since the article was written, the amount of rooms at Eagle Beach has increase quiet a bit due to new construction of condos. Palm Beach has remained steady, however, a new large condo project is currently being build and Marriott International is going to develop a new 320-room resort in Palm Beach. Riu Palace inaugurated in June 2007.
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