Marriott's Aruba Ocean Club

Very clean and modern villas. Kitchens are fully equipped with everything. All rooms have a great view.

location and property is beautiful. unfortunately they were dishonest on the wedsite. I picked an ocean view room and I got a view of a rock wall. I inquired about the ocean view and was told all the rooms are ocean view which is also dishonest cause it's not. I will not stay at this property again.

Always need call for bath Towels 😭

The receptionist are very rude and did not give me the property I paid for. I paid for ocean view and was told I would not get an ocean view is that is the way reservations go. Then was told no more rooms above 3 but walked downstairs after my room was not ready to the front desk and the same receptionist gave this white woman a higher floor 3 floors above mine. After they saw I witnessed this, they gave me the sixth floor

Aruba is safe and you can walk everywhere but there's no sidewalks near this property and we had to take a cab even to go to the Palm beach center which would otherwise be a 15min walk. No other shops nearby but the ones inside the property. The hotel itself is in very good condition. It is a TIME SHARE property, so no room service! Even towels can be exchanged only ONCE per stay! What ruined it for me is getting up at 7AM each day to get a palapa or pay $25-30 each day to reserve one. Who wants to get up at 7 AM on vacation and stay in line for 30 min?

The only negative is the beach side cabanas. Unless you are 1st or 2nd row there is no view of the ocean.

Liked the cleanliness and everyone extremely friendly,,, would have been nice to have known that 3/4 of the pool was going to shut off,,

The staff shine here, at the Malmok bar Edward, Max and Bianel were wonderful examples of warm and welcome people and are a credit to the Marriott. The down side was the pool area being refurbished, but that has to be done and I won't knock the for it as I didn't really use the pool. The two onsite restaurants are a little too similar to each other in food offerings so choice wasn't as high as you would expect. This is a Vacation Club hotel so the expected sales pitch for a timeshare that goes with the "Free Gift" was brushed a side and not brought up again. Reserving the beach Palapas was cumbersome as you have days where being inline at 5:35am doesn't get you in to 1st place (the towel hut opens at 7am for reservations) and you have to play redail games on the phone at 10am if you want to reserve in advance. Room was big, clean had all that we needed and almost everyone respected the covid mask rules except one guy who was checling out and thought he was better than everyone else and loudly protested against the very nice security people.

Loved everything about the property and the employees!! Loved that it had a full kitchen and you felt like you were at home than in a hotel room! Outside pool area is under construction and hopefully it will be up and running next year - it wasn't a real issue still plenty of space at the pool.

I love the Marriott generally speaking. The room is what you would expect of a basic 1BR Villa. The room was not ready at check in time, but we fortunately had friends with us so we stayed in our room while they finished getting ours ready. The ceiling fan in the bedroom didn't work and there was no in-room laundry, which I have come to expect from a villa. There were however 4 washer/dryer setups per floor, which were free to use as available. Staff was helpful and pleasant. The walkway was being resurfaced on one side of the pool so the hot tubs weren't available all week, and we had to enter the pool area from the lobby instead of the door near our elevator. I suppose they have to do that work sometime. Had I known I probably would have booked at one of the other properties.