Private Water Taxi in Aruba (Oranjestad)

Most transfers meet at the Renaissance Marina dock in downtown Oranjestad, right by Seaport Village; pickup at a Palm Beach hotel pier or Surfside Marina can be arranged when the route allows it.

On a cruise-ship day the coastal boulevard through downtown can crawl; the boat crosses the harbor and bay in a straight line, so a hop to Palm Beach that takes twenty minutes by car in traffic is often a five-to-ten-minute run by water.

Prices start from around 90 € for a short downtown-to-Palm Beach hop and scale with distance and passenger count; a longer run to Baby Beach or a crossing toward Curaçao is quoted once we know your group size and dates.

Aruba's trade wind blows nearly all year and is normally no obstacle for a closed-cabin boat; captains adjust the route and timing on the windiest days of the May-to-August peak, and call it off only if conditions turn genuinely unsafe.

Yes, on request: it's an open-water crossing of a couple of hours between two different countries, so we plan it as its own private charter with a weather check beforehand — not a same-day back-and-forth — and every passenger needs a valid passport since standard immigration and customs checks apply on arrival in Curaçao.

Aruba and Curaçao are separate constituent countries, so the crossing is treated as an international trip: bring a valid passport for every passenger, and expect a standard immigration and customs check on arrival, the same as with any other way of travelling between the two islands.