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Sunset sail on Rumba
One of the more popular activities in Aruba must be doing a sunset sail along Palm Beach and Eagle Beach area on a catamaran. Yesterday I took a trip on Red Sail Sports’ Rumba catamaran, which left from a pier, located between Occidental Grand and Hyatt Regency.
After signing the typical release
Palapas on Palm Beach at Westin Aruba [image by Westin]
Westin Aruba has been in the news several times in the last few months. Some things were positive while not so much. Positive is the recent renovations of the rooms at Westin. The resort has increased its luxury factor quite a bit.
Recently Westin has added
Tropical Storm Danny moving away, another system forming
After Hurricane Bill now Tropical Storm Danny seems to be threatening the east coast of the US. According to calculations of National Hurricane Center (NHC) this storm might make landfall somewhere in Canada. Interests in north east US and Canada should remain vigilant. Tropical Storm Danny isn’t expected
AirTran’s coming to Aruba [image by airtran.com]
A couple of years ago low fare airline JetBlue Airways appeared onto the scene with flights from New York City, going head-to-head against American Airlines. JetBlue is the only low fare airline from the US – American Airlines has become more competitive with better fares between
Another system forming far away from Aruba (circled in green) [image by NOAA]
Hurricane Bill formed last week and it missed populated areas. Briefly it threatened the island of Bermuda and the north east shores of the US and Canada. Some areas had to cope with massive surf.
Currently there’s another system brewing in the Caribbean.
Just the other day I read an article about how brick and mortar travel agencies are making a comeback. Good for them. I don’t think they’re necessarily making a comeback, rather they’re finally finding their place in the internet driven travel industry. Some like to purchase travel packages face to face
