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Aruba’s Carnival & Festival Museum to be located in San Nicolas

Aruba’s Minister of Finance, Communication & Energy announced that Aruba’s Carnival & Festival Museum will be located in San Nicolas. The new to be built museum will showcase Aruba’s carnival including some of the best road pieces, videos, audio and much more.

International Press Swims Laps of Luxury at the Aruba Marriott

Accompanied by Lisa Schwartz and Taylor Cinalli of Diamond PR the group stayed at Tradewinds Club, Aruba Marriott’s hotel within a hotel, exclusively accessible for adults only.

Patrick Sydow and Gilberto Boerleider added to the ‘Wall of Fame’ in Paseo Herencia shopping mall Aruba

14 year old tennis player Patrick Sydow and the World Championship in his age division in the martial art of Tang Soo Do, Gilberto Boerleider received a place on the Wall of Fame at shopping mall Paseo Herencia in Aruba. The Wall of Fame is getting bigger and bigger as more island youngsters accomplished great achievements in their sport areas.

Aruba’s Minister of Tourism visited Boardwalk Hotel in Palm Beach

Aruba’s minister of Tourism Otmar Oduber visited Aruba Boardwalk Hotel for the first time after it switched owners and the property got completely renovated. After the sale was completed, twin sisters Kimberly and Stephanie decided to renovate the property to give it a Coastal-Living vive, which translated in lots of bright colors. The minister was pleasantly surprised with the changes the hotel underwent.

Aruba 2013 CSJF’s smashing line-up is ready!

The brand new location is booked and the impressive line-up complete. Only two more days to go before the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival brings Aruba into full swing.

Aruba video contest runner-up gets pampered in Aruba

Diane Patterson and her husband Ronnie from Dunmore Connecticut enjoyed a fantastic stay in Aruba at Paradera Park Apartments and a week of pampering with a whole array of activities that she won as part of her prize for achieving second place in the VisitAruba video contest.

Ruth’s Chris Steak House in Aruba earns 2013 Wine Spectator Award of Excellence

The Wine Spectator Award of Excellence is handed to restaurants worldwide that offer a list with a well-chosen selection of quality producers, along with a thematic match to the restaurant menu in both price and style.

Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival new venue setup at Renaissance Marketplace Aruba will start today

Due to the fact the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival has grown over the years, this year’s festival needed to move to a new venue and the organization of the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival picked the Renaissance Marketplace for the 7th edition of the festival. In order to have everything in place to host performances of internationals artist like El Gran Combo, Willy Garcia (from Grupo Niche ), Giovanca and Levi Silvanie, setup of the festival venue started early this year. The crew will work the whole week to setup the three stages, food court, art gallery and will make sure to be ready before October 4th, the first day of the Caribbean Sea Jazz Festival 2013 edition.

Mr. & Mrs. Kaasch returned to Aruba to celebrate their paper wedding

The couple got married at Aruba Marriott Resort & Stellaris last year and did not hesitate in choosing where to celebrate their first anniversary. Like a second honeymoon the lovebirds enjoyed an exclusive and adults only experience for their first wedding celebration.

Aruba’s Olympic Committee introduces Zymion Loopstok & Angelo Rodriguez: Aruba’s weight lifting & taekwondo athletes at the South American Youth games

The South American Youth Games will be held every four years in the year preceding the Olympic Youth Games and will comprise 17 sports modalities. One of the 17 sports modalities is weight lighting and Zymion Loopstok will be representing Aruba in this category. Another athlete to represent Aruba at the 2013 South American Youth Games is taekwondo athlete, Angelo Rodriguez. Aruba’s Olympic Committee interviewed both Zymion and Angelo about their preparation, motivation and more.

Live entertainment, high quality wine & food at LG Smiths Steak & Chop House Aruba

LG Smith’s Steak and Chop House introduces new weekly entertainment to accompany their mouth-watering Certified Angus beef. Quartet Live Xpressions performs every week from Friday till Sunday to entertain all guests with a mix of jazz.

Aruba welcomes LAN Airlines who will start operating flights out of Bogota

Aruba welcomes LAN Airlines who will start operating as of December 1st 2013. Twice weekly LAN Airlines will offer direct flights from Bogota, Colombia to Aruba. Also tourists from Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru and Ecuador will benefit from this addition, as it will offer them favorable connections via Bogota to Aruba.