Aruba Sailaway Beach & Snorkel Cruise AR06

Has any done the Aruba Sailaway Beach & Snorkel Cruise AR06 on Royal Caribbean?

Was the sailboat nice?

Was it crowded?

How about the snorkeling?

Was the food worth the money?

Yes, I just got back, and did the Aruba Sailaway Beach & Snorkel Cruise - AR06 - through Celebrity Cruises. Since Celebrity is owned by Royal Caribbean, I'm sure it is the same excursion. IT WAS WONDERFUL!!

The excursion was with Pelican Adventures, and we sailed on the "Pelican Too" Catamaran. It was not too crowded...the crew was nice. They served non-alcoholic drinks before snorkeling, and after snorkeling, they served rum punch. The catamaran has steps and ladders that make it really easy to climb back on the boat. The lunch was good BBQ, and after lunch you could either stay at the open-air pier restaurant, or go to the beach.

We stopped at two snorkeling places. At the first place, there were not too many fish. The second was the shipwreck Antilla where the snorkeling was GREAT!! Lots of colorful fish everywhere!! It was really amazing! The water was a little more choppy at the shipwreck site. I was glad to be on the catamaran boat, because I could see another pirate excursion boat seemed to be really rocking back and forth in the choppy water, and I wondered about those people getting a seasick! I think the catamaran provides more stability because of it's design.

Pelican Adventures picked up up right off the ship, and delivered us right back to the ship. Afterwards, we had time to shower and change clothes on the ship, then walked around town and shopped for awhile.

It was a really good day, and I would defininately recommend the excursion.

Yes, I just got back, and did the Aruba Sailaway Beach & Snorkel Cruise - AR06 - through Celebrity Cruises. Since Celebrity is owned by Royal Caribbean, I'm sure it is the same excursion. IT WAS WONDERFUL!!

 

The excursion was with Pelican Adventures, and we sailed on the "Pelican Too" Catamaran. It was not too crowded...the crew was nice. They served non-alcoholic drinks before snorkeling, and after snorkeling, they served rum punch. The catamaran has steps and ladders that make it really easy to climb back on the boat. The lunch was good BBQ, and after lunch you could either stay at the open-air pier restaurant, or go to the beach.

 

We stopped at two snorkeling places. At the first place, there were not too many fish. The second was the shipwreck Antilla where the snorkeling was GREAT!! Lots of colorful fish everywhere!! It was really amazing! The water was a little more choppy at the shipwreck site. I was glad to be on the catamaran boat, because I could see another pirate excursion boat seemed to be really rocking back and forth in the choppy water, and I wondered about those people getting a seasick! I think the catamaran provides more stability because of it's design.

 

Pelican Adventures picked up up right off the ship, and delivered us right back to the ship. Afterwards, we had time to shower and change clothes on the ship, then walked around town and shopped for awhile.

 

It was a really good day, and I would defininately recommend the excursion.

Great information, thanks for posting. My fiance & I are interested in this excursion, but she wanted to know how long it took to get to the snorkle sites on the boat (worried about seasickness if it is a long boat ride).

Thank you!

I think you would be fine if you're on a catamaran. (Maybe not so on a "pirate boat," because the pirate boats are much narrower on the bottom than they are on the deck, and the deck is much higher, so they tip back and forth quite a bit.) The ride was about a half-hour long from the cruise ship to the snorkeling areas,...and very beautiful. No one got seasick at all even though it was a little choppy over the shipwreck. It was a very pleasant boat ride. The color of the water was just so incredibly blue and turquoise. Although all of the Caribbean water is a beautiful color of blue, the water around Aruba seemed even more so. Our guide told us that it is actually the whiteness of the sand that makes it look so blue in that area.

There's a Holland excursion that sounds similar, but it also talks about time on a beach? Was the beach worth while? How long were you there?

I think it was Palm Beach. We stepped off the catamaran onto the pier and directly into the open-air restaurant at the end of the pier, where we were immediately served lunch. After eating, we had about another half hour before we needed to be back on the catamaran. Some people just stayed in the shade of the restaurant and relaxed. I walked down the short pier to the beach, and walked down the beach and back. At the beach, there were a good number of people. There were chairs and umbrellas for rent, and lots of water activities. It was a pretty beach with nice white sand...but not a lot of time there.

What did they serve for lunch? We don't eat meat.

I see the comments on a good lunch, but what do they serve? We eat fish but not meat.

Has anyone done this recently? that would like to give an update?

We haven't doe this excursion but I have read recent reviews on Carnival and it seems very favorable. The lunch was grilled on the beach and consisted of ribs, chicken and grilled corn. Carnival.com has many reviews on excursions.