Best value
Kia Picanto
Kia Picanto or similar
4 seats2 bags5 doorsAutomaticA/C
The easiest car to park in Oranjestad and the cheapest on fuel.
from$50/day
Rest of the year$50/day
High season 15 Dec – 20 Jan$95/day
OneHappyIsland · Aruba
Pick your dates, choose your car, and explore Aruba on your own schedule. Beaches, restaurants, viewpoints and the quiet corners the tour buses miss. You pay 13% online to hold the car and the rest when you collect it.
Where you collect
4.6 out of 5 from 110 Google reviews
Sabana Blanco 69A, Oranjestad
Our fleet
Prices are per day in US dollars. Every car is automatic with air conditioning and unlimited mileage, and includes basic insurance. Minimum rental is 3 days.
High season is 15 Dec – 20 Jan. Cars cost more in that window, so every card shows both rates. Pick your dates and the price you see is the one for those days.
Kia Picanto or similar
The easiest car to park in Oranjestad and the cheapest on fuel.
Hyundai Accent or similar
A comfortable step up with room for four and their bags.
Kia Rio or similar
Spacious enough for the family and the beach gear.
Kia Forte or similar
The most capable sedan in the fleet, ideal for longer stays.
Kia Sportage or similar
Higher up and happy on the road to Arikok and the north coast.
Jeep Gladiator or similar
Off-road ready with an open tray for boards and gear.
Ford Edge or similar
Roomy SUV with a smooth ride.
Cadillac Escalade or similar
Seven seats, full luxury.
At pickup you leave a $300 refundable security deposit on a credit card in the driver name. Additional CDW insurance is available at $20 per day if you want to reduce your excess. All of it is itemised for you before you pay anything.
Step by step
Pick your dates and your car and send the request. No card details needed yet.
We confirm your exact vehicle is free for those dates, usually within 4 hours.
We email you a private link. You add your driver details, upload your licence, sign, and pay a 13% reservation fee to guarantee the car.
Meet your car at the airport or at our Oranjestad office. The remaining balance is settled there.
Four options, chosen in the booking form. The airport is the usual one, but if you are coming off a cruise ship or you only want a car for a couple of days mid-trip, the others save you a taxi.
Put your flight number in the booking and someone meets you on arrival. The office is a couple of minutes from the terminal, so most guests are on the road well inside half an hour of clearing customs.
The closest pickup if you are in for the day off a ship. Tell us the ship and what time you are alongside, and say when you have to be back on board — we would rather build the day around your all-aboard time than have you watching the clock.
Brought to the hotel instead of you going to fetch it. Give us the hotel name and a time when you book. Handy if you only want the car for part of the week rather than from the moment you land.
Same as Palm Beach — the car comes to you. Eagle Beach is the one stretch where having a car genuinely changes the trip, because almost nothing is within walking distance of the low-rise hotels.
Dropping it back is the same list — you do not have to return it where you collected it. Say so in the notes when you book.
The honest version
You book with us, you pay us, and we are the ones you call. No overseas contact centre and no third party in between.
It is not added on top. You pay what you would pay at the counter, and the rest is settled when you collect the car.
We are on the island. We know which car suits Arikok, which suits the high-rise strip, and what a week really costs.
If we cannot get the class you asked for on your dates, you owe nothing.
Before you book
Good to know
Short answers to the things guests ask us most, so nothing catches you out at the desk or on the road.
Aruba drives on the right and you overtake on the left. Speed limits are posted in kilometres per hour: 30 in town, 60 outside town and 80 on the open roads. On a roundabout the cars already going round have priority. At a crossroad with no markings, the car coming from your right goes first.
A foreign or international driving licence issued by a country in the Geneva Convention is valid in Aruba, so for most visitors there is nothing to arrange in advance. Bring the licence itself, your passport or ID, and a credit card in the driver's name for the security deposit.
On the main roads, no. They are paved, well signed and easy to follow, and a small automatic is the cheapest way to see the island. The north coast and the rough tracks inside Arikok National Park are a different story: those are unpaved and want a high clearance 4x4. UTVs and ATVs have not been allowed into Arikok since 1 November 2020.
Fuel is sold in litres at a price set by the government, so it costs the same at every station, and at most of them an attendant fills the car for you. Oranjestad has parking meters, and you may not park along a yellow line.
You pay a 13% reservation fee online, and that is what locks the car in. It is not refundable. Everything else is settled at the desk when you collect: the rest of the rental, the refundable $300 security deposit, and the damage waiver if you decide to take it.
Third party insurance is included in the daily rate. A collision damage waiver is optional and lowers what you would owe if the car is damaged. You decide at the desk, and the cost is spelled out to you before you pay anything.
We do not hold stock, so nothing is automatic. When your request comes in we check the exact class for your dates and come back to you, usually within 4 hours. If we cannot get the vehicle you asked for, you pay nothing.
At Queen Beatrix International Airport when you land, at your hotel on Palm or Eagle Beach, or at our pickup desk in Oranjestad. Every car is automatic with air conditioning, and the shortest rental we take is 3 days.
Aruba is 20 miles end to end, so a car turns the whole island into a day trip. These are the guides our guests read before they pick their dates.
The places a rental car actually unlocks — all of them awkward or expensive to reach any other way.
Both have free parking, and both are a long walk from anywhere you might be staying.
What to do with the car once you have it, and how long you actually need it for.
What it costs, what you leave as a deposit, and what happens at the airport — before you commit to anything.
Where to stay decides whether you need the car for the whole week or only part of it.
The north coast trails are rough enough that most rental contracts here do not cover them.
No card details now. Once we have your car held you pay a 13% reservation fee online, and the rest at pickup.
Run by locals and booked straight with the operator, never through a reseller. Reserve online in two minutes — each card says what you pay now and what you pay on the day.
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