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Aruba

One Happy Island, sorted before you land

White-sand beaches, steady trade winds and almost no rain — Aruba is the Caribbean trip that rarely gets rained out. File your ED Card in minutes so the only thing left to plan is which beach.

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ReferenceADK-40128-KX
  • DestinationAruba
  • DocumentEmbarkation / Disembarkation Card (ED Card)
  • TravelerM. ALVAREZ
  • Passport••••••4192
  • Details receivedMon 09:14
  • Checked against passportMon 11:02
  • Filed with the authorityMon 11:40
  • Document emailed to youTue 08:26
DocumentED CardEmbarkation / disembarkation card
When to fileBefore arrivalA few days ahead is comfortable
Main airportAruba (AUA)Queen Beatrix International
LanguagePapiamento & DutchEnglish very widely spoken
Best monthsDec – AprThough sun is reliable year-round

Requirements can vary by nationality. Your destination page links the official source so you can check your own case.

Why go

What makes Aruba worth the trip

Eagle & Palm Beach

Two of the Caribbean's most consistently ranked beaches, both a short walk from the hotel strip.

Arikok National Park

Desert landscape, cactus-lined trails and hidden coves that look nothing like the postcards.

Year-round sun

Outside the hurricane belt with steady trade winds — one of the most weather-reliable islands in the region.

Easy for English speakers

Dutch, Papiamento, Spanish and English are all in daily use, so getting around is straightforward.

Where to go

Worth building the trip around

Four places that between them cover most of what people come for — pick two if you have a week, all four if you have a fortnight.

01Beaches

Palm & Eagle Beach

The two headline stretches of west-coast sand. Palm Beach is the lively one, lined with hotels, bars and watersports; Eagle Beach is wider, quieter and dotted with the wind-bent divi-divi trees that end up on every postcard.

Calmest water early morning

02Town

Oranjestad

The capital, and a genuinely walkable one — pastel Dutch colonial facades, a free tram along the main street, and the island's best concentration of restaurants once the day-trippers head back.

Best in the late afternoon

03Nature

Arikok National Park

Nearly a fifth of the island, and nothing like the resort coast: cactus, volcanic rock, wild goats and hidden coves. A 4x4 or a guided tour is the sane way to see it — some tracks are rough.

Go early, it gets very hot

04Day trip

San Nicolas & Baby Beach

The island's south end, where a former refinery town has turned itself into an open-air street-art gallery. Baby Beach nearby is a shallow, sheltered lagoon — the one to pick if you are travelling with small children.

Pair both in one day

On the ground

What the trip actually feels like

Aruba runs on a slower clock than most Caribbean stops — long beach mornings, an afternoon in Oranjestad's pastel streets, and dinner that starts late and lasts longer. It is a compact island, so a rental car or the local bus system covers everything in a day trip.

Before you fly

What to have ready

None of this is complicated, but every one of them is a reason people get stopped at check-in. Worth five minutes now.

  • A passport valid for your whole stayCheck the expiry date against your return flight, not just your outbound one.
  • Your return or onward ticketCommonly asked for on arrival, and the ED Card asks for your departure date.
  • Where you are stayingThe address of your first night's accommodation — hotel, rental or a friend's place.
  • Your flight detailsAirline and flight number for the flight you arrive on.
  • An ED Card for every travelerOne per person arriving, infants included — not one per family or booking.

We are an independent filing service, not a government agency — the official source is linked on every destination page.

How it works

Filing your Embarkation / Disembarkation Card (ED Card), start to finish

  1. STAGE 01

    You fill one short form

    Plain questions in plain language, about four minutes per traveler. No government jargon and nothing to print.

    About 4 minutes

  2. STAGE 02

    A specialist checks every field

    Names against passport spelling, dates against your itinerary. We email you if something looks wrong rather than filing it anyway.

    Same business day

  3. STAGE 03

    We file it through the official channel

    Submitted inside the window the authority actually accepts, then tracked until it clears.

    Within the published window

  4. STAGE 04

    It arrives by email

    Ready to show at the border, on your phone or printed. Trackable by reference the whole way.

    As soon as it is issued

The service

Why travelers file with us instead of going it alone

Checked before it is filed

Every field is checked against your passport — the most common cause of a queried application.

Tracked, not just submitted

You get status updates as it moves, not silence until the document lands in your inbox.

Refund if we caused it

If a document is refused for a reason on our end, you get your service fee back.

Filing for Aruba, at a glance

24–48h Typical filing time

30 days Maximum stay covered

100% Fields checked against your passport

Questions

Before you apply

Yes, including infants — Aruba requires a card per person arriving. Add a traveler block for each person on the application form and we file all of them together.

Filing is usually ready within 24–48 hours, but we recommend applying at least a few days before departure in case any detail needs a correction.

You can — Aruba's own portal is free to use. Our fee covers having a specialist check every field against your passport before it is filed, plus support if anything comes back queried.

Ready for Aruba?

It takes a few minutes, and every field is checked before it is filed.

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