Oranje Bay Oranjestad Beach

Small beach near the hotels

This is the small beach area near the hotels in Lower Town. with the closure of the slave path its much closer than visiting the windward side of the island.

Fun for swimming and exploring

I never did find a blue bead. Even though we went to this beach almost every day! I swam a few times, but I was more into exploring the shoreline, I loved the old ruins and walking through the ocean a...

Narrow Gray Sand Beach

This beach is gray sand with some rocky places, studded with rubble from the ruins of old buildings. The week we were there, the water was quite calm and pleasant except for a couple of days when high...

Turtle paradise

I went snorkeling every day around sunset and saw at least one or two turtles EVERY day for 5 days in a row. Its beautiful

Not much of a beach

As beaches go this one is pretty poor and you'd be sorely disappointed if you came here for a beach holiday. I didn't see anyone sunbathing on the beach and the only people swimming were locals. It's ...