I have not stayed or would not recommend anyone to stay at the hotel. However, Aruba Hotel is definitely a hidden joint where you can just hang out with friends and meet unique people at their lounge areas.
I have been to their drum circle events at the Club Aruba. There are a lot of "spiritual" and sometimes off the wall hippies that roams around and dance to their inner spirits. Entertaining but sometimes a little too much, but appreciatively fun!
My favorite which this review only applies to is....swing dancing! Yes!!
Before, I never experienced swing dancing until one night after getting tired of seeing all of the drum circle chanting and everyone just being so freely spiritual....so we went to the next lounge called the Thunderbird Lounge in the Aruba and there we found awesome 50's music and people swing dancing to the tunes.
I love to dance but I don't like dancing with others because I don't like to be touched. Watching the swing dancers looked so amazing and fun. After smiling and watching to a few songs, I noticed an overweight older man in his 60's get up from his table where he sat by himself and walked towards my way. I was a little petrified, but he respectfully came up to me and was such a gentleman and said, "Lady, may I have this dance?" I felt like I was in the 50's and very timid! I told him that I do not know how to swing dance at all. He assured me that it was okay and he will teach me. So, I trusted his sense of kindness, respect and danced with the fellow.
WOW!!! I had one of the best times of my life dancing. He taught me and I just went with it. I messed up a little but it was so fun and although there was physical contact; I did not feel uncomfortable or groped at all which was great! It was pure dancing in a non sexual way and all in fun! Then, people would switch partners in the midst of the song which was really interesting! Again, none of the gentlemen that I danced with that night made me feel uncomfortable at all.
The best thing which I have to try is that on Fridays and Sundays at 6pm, they have FREE swing dancing lessons for 2 hours and the rest of the evening is just PURE and FUN swing dancing! I am going to try the lessons and swing dance the night away so I don't step on anyone's feet next time!