2018 Points Beyond - Aruba

For those who qualify, the 2018 Points Beyond destination will be at the Hyatt Regency Resort, Spa & Casino in Aruba! Aruba is a small island just 19 miles long by five miles wide and is extremely clean and safe with glorious white-sand beaches. You don’t have to worry about drinking bottled water only and there are no fears as to where to eat if you venture out. The hardest thing is deciding where to go with so many wonderful options.

The Hyatt is one of the best places to be on the island. It has gift shops, restaurants, bars, an 8,000 sq. foot three-level pool with a two-story waterslide, a freshwater lagoon stocked with tropical fish and wildlife, Zoia Spa and beauty salon, Fitness Center, two lighted tennis courts, a Beach Tennis court, casino and near-by an 18-hole golf course designed by Robert Trent Jones II.
The rooms at the Hyatt are comfortable and United has contracted run of the house rooms — we negotiated with the Hyatt to block out any standard room which would have had just a tiny window to look out of. Instead, with the Run of the House, you can expect a garden view, partial ocean view or ocean/pool view. It all depends what they have open when you check in. Kind of like “Are you feeling lucky today?” No matter what type of room you receive, believe me… it will be the last place you will want to be.

Since the Hyatt is situated on the shores of the Caribbean Sea, there are unlimited water sports right at the pier that is in front of our resort. Just think, if you feel like getting out there for some fun, you don’t have to go far. Here’s a list of some of the activities that are available to you;

• Catamaran Cruises
• Snorkeling Cruises
• Sunset Cruises
• Tube Rides
• Banana Boat Rides
• Fly Board
• Freedom Flyer & Jetovator
• Waterski
• Wake-boarding
• Private Boat Rides
• Deep Sea or Bottom Fishing
• Wave Runners
• Parasailing
• Sky Diving
• Jeep Tours
• Horseback Riding
• Wind and Kite Surfing
• ATV Tours
• Kayak Tours/Rental
• Scuba Diving

If you want to step away from the beach and want to check out the island, here are some places of interest:

• Archaeological Museum to the Aruba Aloe Museum
• Historic Gold Mill Ruins
• Donkey Sanctuary
• Ostrich Farm
• Historic Fort Zoutman
• Rock formations at Ayo & Casibari
• Indian petrography in the Fontein Huliba and Guadirikiri caves
• Arikok National Park
• The Butterfly Farm
• Lourdes Grotto
& more

You don’t have far to go for a shopping adventure… step out of the resort and you can go right or you can go left and find many different types of shops from the little huts on the street to some really interesting and unique boutiques to shopping malls and they are open late, since the island really comes alive once the sun sets.