Caribbean’s safest island has direct UK flights and 30C winters

IF you're wanting a Caribbean vacation without the interest of safety, past information experts person said Aruba is the champion option.

The beauteous land has nonstop flights from the UK, aft British Airways launched the twice-weekly Gatwick-Aruba flights backmost successful 2023.

While you volition person to halt successful Antigua, thankfully you won't person to get disconnected the plane.

And according to question information website Travel Safe Abroad, Aruba came retired connected apical of Caribbean islands.

Scoring 90 retired of 100 - compared to the lowest being 34 for Puerto Rico - it is ranked 1 of the safest crossed the islands.

In fact, it is lone beaten by 4 different destinations, which includes Iceland and Denmark.

Not lone is it known for it's safety, but it is besides dubbed 'One Happy Island' by locals.

Expect 30C highs adjacent successful winter, and a unsocial adust climate, compared to the different Caribbean tropical climates.

This means it besides avoided the hurricane play that plagues different islands, sitting conscionable extracurricular the hurricane belt.

Also famed for it's achromatic soil beaches, it is Flamingo Beach which is astir loved - due to the fact that you tin spot the celebrated pink animals relaxing there.

Expect locals to talk English, arsenic good arsenic Spanish and Dutch, though the section Creole connection is Papiamento.

Despite being colonised by the Dutch successful 1634, they were besides colonised by Indonesia - which is wherever overmuch of the nutrient is influenced from.

This means you tin expect nasi goreng - a atom and ovum crockery - arsenic good arsenic the nationalist crockery of Keshi Yena, akin to a casserole.

Make definite to sojourn successful May if you privation to spot Soul Beach Music Festival, the largest of it's benignant successful the Caribbean, oregon successful December for The Dande Festival, different euphony festival.

And marque definite to spell to Charlie's Bar, 1 of the astir celebrated connected the land and tally by locals for 3 generations.

The cheapest flights with British Airways are recovered successful March, with instrumentality fares for astir £508pp.

Or you tin publication a TUI vacation which starts from £1,144pp, which includes instrumentality flights and 7 edifice nights.

Want to spell all-inclusive? Thomas Cook person seven-night deals from £2,223pp.

The airdrome is adjacent undergoing a immense expansion, aft welcoming 1.5million tourists past year.

Called Gateway 2030, the airdrome is adding caller cheque successful facilities arsenic good arsenic much gates which volition let treble the capableness to 3 cardinal tourists.

Some of the newest hotels connected Aruba see the St Regis Hotels & Resort, which opened past week with infinity pools, backstage cabanas and a 9,000sqft casino.

Another caller edifice was the JOIA Aruba by Iberostar, with 240 rooms and rooftop infinity pool.

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