Barceló Aruba - All Inclusive

Perfect Island, The hotel is a great all inclusive with good dinners. People can complain about the buffet for lunch, but with the money you save on your stay compared to the other hotels and free drinks, you can go out and get good meals without feeling guilty.

If you can avoid this hotel, by ALL means do so! I would recommend that you book a hotel that is NOT all inclusive. I hardly leave reviews but this one was so bad that I had to. 1. The food was hardly edible. The food that is in the buffet in the afternoon is re-used. 2. A lot of the food in the buffet is the same food in the so called specialty restaurants - there is nothing special about them 3. We ate in the hotel the first day & the other days we went out for food as there were many great options outside the hotel 4. The royal club is a joke. The lady working there was rude. They told us we could check out at 1pm, then they said 12:30pm when we confirmed & when I went to the royal club, they said NO we never said that, the front desk made a mistake 5. At check out they loaded all our bags on our shuttle. When we got to the airport, we realized we had another guest's bag with our luggage. I made an international call to call the hotel & let them know about this & they asked if I could come back & deliver the bag. I got quite upset at them & told them that I was leaving the bag at the American Airlines counter & they can come pick it up since it was their fault. 6. Oh & check in was NOT a breeze. We had 5 rooms & the process was long & manual. It took 3 people just to get their paperwork sorted & at check out their system was so slow, it took them 30 mins to help us with that STAY SOMEWHERE ELSE! They do not know what they are doing & is hardly a 3 star hotel