La Cabana & Renaissance

April 27 - May 5, 2005 by Andrea

Aruba Forum Profile: andrea

Will try to be brief.
We stayed at Lacabana 7 nights and Renaissance 1 night.
Used Priceline for our night at Renaissance.

Water Aerobic instructor at Lacabana was terrific.

Andrea and Paul 05/05/05

Paul's dinner at Madam J's

natural bridge area

We didn't venture far. We did make a drive to the Natural Bridge one day and on Tuesday Paul and Charles did the Atlantis tour.

Bought next to nothing but did a little browsing at the shops on May 4th, the day we stayed at the Renaissance.......of course I "eyed everything" in Little Switzerland. Love those enamel tea pots and the gem stone world globes. Eyed some earrings at Bijoux, but did not buy as I chose to use my $$ at the casino (big mistake).

In the San Juan airport, we did buy some Kahlua @ $10 per 750 ml.

Weather ideal.
Warm, windy, sunny humid.

Casinos were unkind. We certainly tried! Alhambra, Crystal, Seaport, Hyatt and Marriott. Aarrggghhhh.

a mini bb party

Renaissance Marina pool

great view of Aruba

Restaurants.............thank God our one bad meal was on a gift certificate

• "Captains Table" @ Lacabana. To say it "stunk" is a compliment. It was bad!

Other restaurants that were great.

• Tulip = delicious and inexpensive, service slow. MJ's = delightful
• Cleos = good sandwiches very smokey room
• Old Fisherman = delicious and very inexpensive. Very good fish.
• Alfredos = good, inexpensive, very reliable and consistent.
• Tomato Charlie = surprisingly good. Pizza yummy.
• Paddock = yum! inexpensive, service seemed slow as my husband was antsy and exhausted from a day of travel.

Andrea and Charles

Cruise ship "Infinity"

camera lens was foggy

Flights: AA on time in both directions, meals were palatable.

Just how bad can airline coffee taste?

Cheers,

Andrea