Cruise ports in Aruba

Practical basics

• Currency

  Aruban florin (AWG); US dollars accepted universally

• Language

  Dutch and Papiamento are official; English and Spanish widely spoken

• Time zone

  Atlantic Standard Time (UTC−4), no daylight saving

• Getting ashore

  1 port with a berth, 0 where ships tender

Drawn from the individual port guides below. Currency, language and berthing can differ between ports in the same country, so the detail that matters is on each port's own page.

Every Aruba cruise port

• Aruba

  Ships dock · 8–10 hours, sometimes with a late departure

  A dry, cactus-covered Dutch Caribbean island below the hurricane belt, with a pier in the middle of its pastel capital.

Regions Aruba sits in

• Southern Caribbean

  7–10 nights · Sails year-round, busiest November – April

  The ABC islands, Barbados and the Windwards — the driest, most culturally distinct corner of the Caribbean.

Other countries with cruise ports

• Antigua and Barbuda 1 port
• Bahamas 9 ports
• Barbados 1 port
• Belize 2 ports
• Bonaire 1 port
• British Virgin Islands 1 port
• Canada 1 port
• Cayman Islands 1 port
• Croatia 2 ports
• Curaçao 1 port
• Dominica 1 port
• France 2 ports
• Greece 5 ports
• Grenada 1 port
• Guadeloupe 1 port
• Honduras 1 port
• Italy 5 ports
• Jamaica 3 ports
• Malta 1 port
• Martinique 1 port
• Mexico 8 ports
• Montenegro 1 port
• Puerto Rico 1 port
• Sint Maarten 1 port
• Spain 2 ports
• St. Kitts and Nevis 1 port
• St. Lucia 1 port
• St. Vincent and the Grenadines 1 port
• Turkey 2 ports
• United States 6 ports
• US Virgin Islands 3 ports