Bucuti & Tara Beach Resort Review | Aruba’s #1 Romantic Escape? - Know Before You Go Travel Show

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to the No Before You Go Travel Show show,
where we share all the latest travel tips, tricks and
insights to make your next vacation the best one yet.
So sit back, relaxed, grab a cocktail and enjoy the
show with Fennyac Travels, George Benyat, and our senior travel
consultant Janet Begnac.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
What is everybody? Hey everyone, welcome back to an audition
of the Note Before Your Travel Show. We've got a
show for you today, and we are back after the
busiest summers we've never Yes.

Speaker 3 (00:32):
I'm the busiest August. Sorry, we have missed you guys
for like three weeks. We thought we would have time
to get this done, but we didn't. We've just been.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
It's traveling, crazy, travel schedule.

Speaker 3 (00:45):
Yeah, we just got back from our second trip to
Europe this year. So a lot of good content though
that will be coming your way and stuff for us
to talk about.

Speaker 2 (00:55):
So yeah, and it is. We are excited to be
back in the podcastio. It feels good. Little bit jet lag,
but we're caffeinated. We're powering through it. And then we
have like the ultimate millennial show tonight concert tonight.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Yes, I'm excited.

Speaker 2 (01:08):
We are going to blank on A two and I
think I think the opener's Alkaline Trio maybe.

Speaker 3 (01:14):
Which I had never heard of, and then played a
song and I was like, oh, I've heard that.

Speaker 2 (01:17):
You know that song? I had that on a burn
CD back in probably two thousand and five or something
burn CD.

Speaker 3 (01:22):
Do twenty year olds even know what that is?

Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah? They know. I'm sure they know. Okay, I'm sure
they know. Man. But back when that was technology though,
I thought like burning a CD was the greatest technology
at the time, like it was a game changer. And
then everyone started down. Everyone was given their family computer
or Trojan Horse virus. Oh yeah, LimeWire, LimeWire, Napster, and
the American online AOL. That was the aim. It was

(01:45):
so good. What a time to be alive. And I'm
telling you, when you burn a CD, you're like, holy crap,
I can just like a whole new world opened up
to use now whatever music you wanted, instead of buying
the whole CD, which we do support artists, you know,
you want to like, I get it, like, you know,
it was kind of piracy, I guess, like burning a
CD back in those days, but everyone was like putting

(02:06):
music on the internet. And people were downloading it and yeah,
it was wild times.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, but now you just have Spotify or Amazon Music. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah. And then like I remember, like back in the day,
like to have like the coolest CD player in your car.
That was like a thing. Yeah, where if you could
have like videos or pictures on the on your CD player.
It was such a cool thing. And then I was
very late to Bluetooth. I remember, like I look back,
I had a bluetooth set up, like a CD player
that was Bluetooth enabled. Yeah, in my Rodeo. Remember I

(02:35):
had that at Zuzi Rodeo back in college. Oh, I remember,
And I didn't even know that was Bluetooth enabled. And
I was so dumb that I just didn't know, Like
I just was a dumb college kid. I didn't even
know it was bluetoth that been like the coolest technology
back in the day.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, Zuzi Rodeo is like the worst car you ever had.

Speaker 2 (02:50):
That was a bad Yeah, that thing. I think I
replaced every system component in that car. Yeah, I went
into debt to keep that car running. It was awful. Yes, Anyways,
I think it's why they're not the road you more today. But anyways,
We're not here talk about his user rodeos. We're not
here to talk about blinklin Ey too. We're here to
talk about travel and we have a big review coming today.

(03:11):
This is a unique resort. This is a little bit
different than what we normally do, and man, we had
a great time. The vlog for this resort is not
out yet, so I just want to go ahead preface
to set the table that now the vlog should be
out within a week or two. Yeah, so of the
release of this podcast, which we're gonna release this here
on September first, so if you're listening, probably September third, fourth, fifth,

(03:33):
sixth seven, something like that, it'll be out. So check
the link in the description for the vog on this
resort because it's gonna be a really good vlog. But
this resort was incredible, This island is amazing, had a
great time there. This is gonna spark a lot of
new fresh content that we're excited to talk about because
we didn't go to an inclusive resort. This is a
non on inclusive resort, right and it wowed us. Not
gonna lie, it wowed us. So we're excited to give

(03:54):
you all the details here So what are we talking
about today.

Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, so we are going to give you guys our
full review on Boukuti and Tara Beach Resort in Aruba.
So we stayed here at the beginning of August before
going to a different resort on the island. This resort
was simply put just amazing. In my opinion, it far
exceeded my expectations.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
Yeah, I mean it was you know what I call
this It was simple, elegant, small, I mean really small
for comparing it and the island. I mean, it's just
like everything fits together so perfectly with how like, because
you know, when you have a resort that small, it
can't be that upbeat. You know, you can't get too.

Speaker 3 (04:36):
Oh yeah, no, this is it's just it's just too small.

Speaker 2 (04:39):
But I kind of liked It's probably one of the
smallest resorts we've ever stayed at. And I'll say this,
it feels even smaller than you told me it was
because it has over one hundred rooms, right yeah, but
it even fells small.

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Just over it has one hundred and four room, one hundred.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
Four k just one four one hundred rooms and you
know the flow the resort, it only has one restaurant.
So I think this is one of the few resorts
went to that only had one restaurant, right, which I
was like, oh, it's a little weird. But also Aruba
has so much off resort dining that you should experience
when you're in Aruba, and it was a really interesting contrast.
So we went there for a few nights, and then
right after that we went to the New Secrets in Aruba,

(05:14):
which we're gonna talk about a different podcasts. And those
two resorts couldn't be for their apart.

Speaker 3 (05:17):
Oh yeah, they're so different, so different.

Speaker 2 (05:20):
And just having those experiences like back to back, like
leaving Bukuti and going to the Secret Resort, which is
like mega large. I mean, how many rooms is that
the Secret Store, Like four or five hundred.

Speaker 3 (05:30):
It's massive, yet the master plan for it is to
end up being.

Speaker 2 (05:34):
Nine hundred holy smokes.

Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, but like right now it's probably like three hundred.

Speaker 2 (05:40):
So yeah, and with the Secret Resort not we're not
going to get into a comparison though. It's a good
distance away from Bukuti, yeah, because Bukuti's kind of in
that hip area of Aruba, right.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
So a couple Yeah, I don't want to say too
much about the secrets. But so a couple of things
about this resort. Yeah, so it's fifteen and it's maybe
less from the airport. I mean it took like no
time to get.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
There, which we love.

Speaker 3 (06:04):
Yes, Plus this resort is on Eagle Beach and Aruba.
It is adults only. Uh So the main like happening
area is like downtown, which this is really close to downtown,
so like probably a eight to ten minute taxi ride,
or Palm Beach, which Palm Beach is where a lot

(06:26):
of like the high rise hotels are so like the Hyatt,
the Reuse, Ritz, Carlton's down near there, Marriotte, Hilton all to.

Speaker 2 (06:35):
Which we toured the Marriotte.

Speaker 3 (06:36):
We toured the Hyatt, Hiawa what do.

Speaker 2 (06:37):
I keep thing? I keep going We toward the Marriotte.

Speaker 3 (06:39):
Yeah, but so there if you're staying in Palm Beach,
I mean, you can like walk right out of your
resorts and there's like local restaurants and shops and bars
lots you know that you can walk to. So from
here from Bukuti, it's not quite as busy. But I
thought it was the perfect location because.

Speaker 2 (06:57):
It was a couple of restaurants right outside the right,
like literally across the street from the resort. There were
like a hub of great looking restaurants. Absolutely, we just
weren't there long enough to try them because I liked
the restaurant on property.

Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah, yeah, I was gonna say so. I thought this
was perfect because it was kind of in a quiet area,
but there was still like restaurants off property that you
could walk to. Multiple We also walked to a Starbucks.
It took us like what fifteen ish minutes. That one
was a little bit further away the Starbucks.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Was, but yeah, the Starbucks was like a longer walk.
We were like, Okay, we're gonna be super American here
and tourists, we're gonna go walk to the Starbucks. That
was a wee bit off more we can chew there.
It was a decent.

Speaker 3 (07:33):
Walk, it was like a mile, but yeah, ish.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
It felt like a felt longer. But the reason there
was there was like a little hub of restaurants, probably
three or four restaurants right there that looked really good
as like an Italian place, a pizza place, seafood joint,
but Mexican place. Mexican place. What I really love though,
is like just I wanted to. That beach is so amazing.
Not that we're gonna jump aroun here, I'm jump aroun
a little bit. That beach so amazing, and the sunsets
there were so amazing. I wanted to eat and dine

(07:58):
and watch that sunsit, which we did. Which we Yeah,
so like we couldn't really go to the piece place
cross the street because the view wasn't as good. We're
being picky, and yeah, I'm glad we did. I'm glad
we just stayed in that sunset somewhat. I mean, of
the most amazing, one of the best sunsets I've ever seen. Yes, so,
which is going to on the blog, It's going to
show so right.

Speaker 3 (08:17):
Absolutely, So, like Shorts mentioned, this is not an all
inclusive resort in every room. When you do book, it
does come with breakfast included, so you have that the
as far as like pricing goes for you know, drinks
and meals. So wine was like twelve to eighteen bucks

(08:37):
a glass, depending on and I would say the cocktails
were right around there. Yeah, and then lunch had a
great like pool and beach menu for lunch and stuff
ranged anywhere from like twenty to thirty dollars on average,
and then I would say dinner. It really just depends
on what you what you get, but like thirty to
fifty dollars, yeah, yeah, a not tree.

Speaker 2 (08:58):
Yeah, and do we what do we I'm trying to
remember what we paid for the room to give people
we can get to.

Speaker 3 (09:04):
The Yeah, we're going to that's gonna be at the end. Yes.
So But when you pull up to this resort though,
like it again, it's very small. It's a boutique style property.

Speaker 2 (09:14):
Like if you looked at from the outside, it's underwhelming,
like it has like a little entrance, but it's so
small that you're like, oh, you know. But then when
you get into it, I mean for when you get
your eyes on the beach, that's where the magic happens.
In my opinion, that beach is like it's it sits.
This resort sits on one of the widest stretch of beach.

(09:35):
And what I mean widest, I mean where the sand
starts to where the water hits. Yeah, it's a massive, massive.

Speaker 3 (09:41):
Way bigger than what you get if you're down if
you stay on Palm Beach.

Speaker 2 (09:45):
I mean, it's the law. I mean, I'm trying to
compare it. Maybe maybe Puntacana beaches are that wide. I mean,
I mean this was like just massive. I mean it's
hard to describe how big the beach is.

Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, So well let's get into the I'm bouncing around. Yeah,
the service and then the room. So, and the reason
I want to just talk about the service first is because,
like right from when we walked in the door, like
everyone was so warm, so welcoming. They immediately poured us champagne.
That lady she lived in Ruba for like over twenty years.

(10:18):
She was so nice, got us all checked in, told
us like everything that we needed to know about the resort,
including the chair reservation system, which we'll tell you about
in a little bit.

Speaker 2 (10:27):
That was awesome yet and then like you get champagne
right when you walk in, that cold towel, and they
give you the cold towels. So they give you like
the nice cities as soon as you walk in, and
the vibes are already high when you you give me
a glass of champagne right when I show up, game changer. Yes,
Like that little touch of service goes such a long way.

Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yes, So we there's two buildings of this resort, so
it's called the Boukuti and Tara Beach Resort, So the
Tara is like one building and then the Bukuti is
the other. So I had initially just booked like the
least expensive room, so like just a regular garden view
king bed. But I decided at the last minute that

(11:08):
I did want to upgrade to the terrace suite ocean
front because I'm like, if we're going all the way
to Aruba and we're gonna stay on this beach, I
want I want to see the ocean. So it did
upgrade to that. So those rooms are a little bit larger.
They're technically called suites, but it's not it's not what
you think of as a suite. It's just more like

(11:30):
the room's bigger, and then you just have like a
bigger sitting area. Remember we had like the couch.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, they had the large sitting area, have separate TVs
right for that, So it was like a little TV
for the sitting area, almost like a little called like
a living room the bathroom. So I would have had
the bathroom, I would have made that a little bigger
and had you know, a smaller sitting area. But it
was still fine, Like it was great. We had a
little welcome I think we had a welcome champagne or
something in there. We also did we also have like
a they had put a bottle of wine or something.

Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, there was a chocolate There was a bottle of
champagne in there.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
The bed was very, very comfortable. We were ocean front,
so we had a great view off our balcony. We
were on the second or third floor. On the second floor,
second floor buildings not very tall. All this resort, like
that's what I'm second, feels small and it is because
the buildings I think was like maybe three or four
maybe four stories five stories. Yeah, but the views were
really great. And one of the things you noticed that

(12:18):
I noticed from the balcony is the amount of beach chairs.
And when we checked in our I guess you can
call her, the hostess was very excited to tell us
that they had more beach chairs than they did rooms
or like more like and each beach chair had like
its own umbrella, like tiki umbrella stuff.

Speaker 3 (12:35):
So jumping ahead, okay.

Speaker 2 (12:36):
But I'm just saying, like, and then so when you
look at the beach, like, oh wow, there's all these
chairs everywhere. It's beautiful and that made it feel like
it wasn't ever crowded, because you know, that's the one
thing where resorts can feel crowded is where there's too
many people in one space so you can't find what
you need, like a beach chair. Like like the crews.
We just got off very good job of it, like
the way they balanced the ship. Never felt crowded.

Speaker 3 (12:59):
Yes, yeah, absolutely, So back to the room, to the bathroom.
There's no tub. That's the one knock I would give.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
Did want the tub?

Speaker 3 (13:06):
Yeah, yeah, to it. I love a good like whirlpool
or just soaking tub for two people. I just think
that that is lovely. They do not have this, so
it's just a walk in shower. And then the vanity.
It's like one large sink, but it has two faucets,
so you know, you can't have like his and hers.

Speaker 2 (13:24):
There another thing, I remember they had a TV in
the mirror.

Speaker 3 (13:28):
There was a TV in the mirror, which I thought.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
Was like, that's kind of like an older school thing.
It's like an old school thing, right.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (13:34):
I think that was like a very awesome thing back
in two thousand and five. Yeah, in twenty twenty five,
I'm like, oh, don't mind it. I don't hate it.
I think I cut on golf while I was taking
a shower one day and I was just watching golf
while I was showering. But you know, not something I mean,
I guess it was like a pleasant surprise. Yeah, I
don't know.

Speaker 3 (13:52):
So the room decor not anything like super modern, but
you know, totally fine classic Aruba. Yeah, I was just yeah,
like classic Aruba.

Speaker 2 (14:03):
Yeah, like maybe darker wood if I remember, but very
very clean, very nice.

Speaker 3 (14:08):
I loved our room location. I loved being on the
second floor because we could also just go up and
down the stairs super fast.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh it was super quick. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (14:16):
So and then we were literally right on the beach
and so we could be out on the beach in
a few minutes, like two minutes if that.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Yeah, And like it slept really great, Like the bed
was very comfortable. Those those all of those accommodations from
like comfort and what you would expect at a really
really nice resort. They delivered like the stuff like a
baby pillows were comfortable, bed was comfortable. You could call
housekeeping if you need something. I think they do room service, right,
I mean you can pay for room service, have food
brought to you and you have plenty of room to

(14:46):
eat in that living room area or on your balcony. Yeah. Yeah,
I mean i'd give the room. The room was great,
you know, it wasn't. It wasn't. It wasn't a room
that was like, oh my god, this is so special
just blows me away. It was just fine. It was yeah, yeah,
it was a solid room.

Speaker 3 (15:01):
Yep. So before we get into a little bit more
of the resort, I want to talk briefly about our
experience just getting there and then also leaving Aruba, because
I do think this is kind of important. So first off,
we took a private transfer. We booked through Fantasy Tours,
and it is it was sixty two dollars for a

(15:23):
one way private transfer, so not bad. And we did
not check bags and so we were literally well hold up,
let me tell you before that. But we did the
arrival FastTrack service and so that is one hundred and
fifty five dollars per person for the arrival. So basically
it's kind of like Club Mobai and Jamaica. There's someone

(15:46):
holding a sign with your name on it when you
get off the plane. Actually there was two people. They
took our luggage escorted us like all the way through
immigration and customs, we met the transfer. We were literally
in the van and probably like fifteen minutes from getting
off the plane.

Speaker 2 (16:06):
Worth it. Yeah, Now we do carry ons. We do
carry ons. We're carry on King Queen, which we recommend
all of our listeners do carry on King Queen. Don't
check bags. That's rookie. If you're listening to this podcast
or you're a client of Penetra, I will come on now,
carry on King Queens.

Speaker 3 (16:19):
My my carry on bag actually broke on that trip.
But it's okay. Oh god, and yeah, I was the
wheel came off.

Speaker 2 (16:26):
Yeah, and guess who. Guess who's dealing with the problem.

Speaker 3 (16:29):
Well, to me in the airport, I had no idea.
To me, luggage was so expensive.

Speaker 2 (16:34):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (16:34):
I mean I knew it was expensive. I knew it
was nice, but I'm thinking, like, okay, maybe two or
three hundred dollars. They wanted eight hundred and fifty dollars
for a carry on bag.

Speaker 2 (16:44):
Well, and that, in my.

Speaker 3 (16:45):
Opinion, is just absolutely insane. I will never pay that
for luggage. It just gets thrown and dragged around.

Speaker 2 (16:52):
Yeah, so your wheel, you're one of your wheels were
essentially falling off, and so what did I do, as
a good husband, said, Okay, take mine. My lugger's working fine,
I will tilt this thing on its side and drag
it on the two wheels. That work.

Speaker 3 (17:04):
Yeah it worked. Yeah, because I'm like, I am not
paying that kind of money. I can go to home
Goods and get one for between fifty and one hundred
dollars when I get home. And that's what I.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
Did to me is fancy and expensive. And think about it,
they gotcha. If you're at an airport and you're buying
a luggage, it's typically out of an absolute necessity. So
they're like, oh, yeah, you need a luggage and you're
at the airport. Yeah, the eight hundred bucks, that's how
they got you.

Speaker 3 (17:27):
I know.

Speaker 2 (17:27):
Now, I used to have a Tommy luggage and I
was given to me as a reward for sales performance.
And they are nice. They do last a long time.
We're not knocking the quality of Toomey, just a little expensive.

Speaker 3 (17:40):
It's just more expensive than I want to spend on.

Speaker 2 (17:42):
Very nice bag, though, very nice bag.

Speaker 3 (17:45):
But yeah, so we did Karen's. We were again in
the transfer, probably ten to fifteen minutes of landing, and
then at the resort like fifteen minutes later. So it
was super quick from the time we got off the
plane to when we were checking in at the resort. Yeah,
so I would highly recommend the fast track, especially if

(18:05):
you're going to be traveling during peak season. I will
say the line wasn't too long for immigration, but.

Speaker 2 (18:11):
Uh so, yeah, like it's still worth it though, just
in case though, because it was a for the size
of the island, it was kind of a busier airport,
Like it's definitely very busy, and like they need to
I think they are going to make it bigger. But
I remember that we had to walk outside right or no,
that was leaving. That was going home.

Speaker 3 (18:30):
Oh, which I'm about to Yeah, we're about to, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (18:32):
Going home. We had to like go inside, then back outside,
then back inside, and that was wild.

Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes, So the Ariba airport, when you're departing, it is terrible,
to be honest with you. I've seen so many horror
stories of like tiktoks on tiktoks of people literally waiting
for hours just to make it through in for their
flight home. And I've even seen where some have missed

(18:59):
their flight. It's because of this. So I was kind
of scared because it's George hates waiting in lines. I
do tou but I mean, I'm gonna blame it on George.

Speaker 2 (19:08):
Barty everybody I speak for the majority out there. Lines suck. Yeah,
there's no way around it. So, especially in twenty twenty five,
everyone's used to like instagratification. You just want to get
an out standing in the line of the worst.

Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yes, So I had a lot of heartburn over paying
for this departure service, and so I didn't book it initially.
I booked it the day before we left because I
was worried about it because it is expensive when you
combine the arrival and the departure, because the departure is
also one hundred and fifty five dollars per person, So
you're paying seven or six hundred and twenty dollars for

(19:44):
two people for the arrival fastcheck and departure fastcheck. I
will say the departure I think that's even more worth
it than the arrival.

Speaker 2 (19:53):
Oh yeah, because for sure.

Speaker 3 (19:55):
Like you have to go through so many different check
in lines, security lines, Like it's just insane and.

Speaker 2 (20:04):
It's very weird. We had people it's a different experience
than any other airport I've gone through.

Speaker 3 (20:08):
Yes, So we had people who they literally got to
the airport at the same time as US, and we
did end up doing the departure lounge, which I'll tell
you about in a second. But they got to that
lounge an hour after we did.

Speaker 2 (20:22):
Yeah, we couldn't believe it. They walked in and we
were like, I was like, you guys just got like
holy crap. Yeah, I thought they I didn't think they
were going to even see us. I was like, I
guess their flight took offers on the note, they were
waiting in line the whole time.

Speaker 3 (20:33):
Yes, So the departure took an hour to see you. Also,
a good thing about Aruba is you do clear customs
in Aruba, so it's like Nassau that they're the only
two places in the Caribbean that have this as of
September twenty twenty five. But you go through immig or
you go through US immigration and customs in Aruba, and

(20:54):
so you don't have to do it when you land.

Speaker 2 (20:56):
So yeah, and that's probably why there's an extra wait,
right that causes the slowdown on the departure side. But man,
it was like the departure lounge was fine, it was nice.

Speaker 3 (21:06):
The departure lounge added sixty seven dollars a person. I
wouldn't say that that was necessarily worth it, to be
totally honest with you. It was very small and then
you may have to wait if it's too crowded.

Speaker 2 (21:17):
Yeah, they have like a capacity limit. And also, I'm
just gonna say it, the little food they give you.

Speaker 3 (21:22):
Oh, it was terrible.

Speaker 2 (21:23):
That was awful. Yeah, I mean inedible. Yeah, I was
struggling to identify with some of the food they have,
like a little it's just little, like saying little Sammy's
and like, you know, I think they had meatballs and
I put one of the meatballs in my mouth and
it was kind of like tough, and I think it
had been sitting in that heating element thing for a

(21:45):
very long time. Yeah, and the heating on the thing
I think was way too hot. It was just pretty
much cooking, like cooking the food, not keeping it wrange,
just overcooking it. And so I was like, yeah, we'll
just eat and then.

Speaker 3 (21:55):
Yeah, I mean you get free drinks and like free
bottles of water. But for sixty dollars, person, I don't
know if.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
That's worth it, but it's not it's not.

Speaker 3 (22:03):
Yeah, if you pay for like priority pass, if you
already have that, you know, then I think you can
get in there for like ten or twenty bucks. That
would probably be worth it. But what I spend sixty
seven dollars a person on that Again, No.

Speaker 2 (22:15):
No, it's it's that's it's overrated. And you know they
have like they had, like I'm trying to remember the
restaurants they had. They had like was it a Qdoba?
They had a pizza place. Oh yeah, there's like little
places you can eat. Yeah, quick.

Speaker 3 (22:26):
The airport is very busy, but yeah, I mean I
would just rather do that, Yeah, just pay it.

Speaker 2 (22:31):
Definitely better than the Athens Airport, not Athens, Georgia, Athens.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Athens Grease.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
Yeah, we're not here to talk about that though.

Speaker 3 (22:40):
Yes, yeah, I was gonna say, wait what, No, we're
not talking about that. We just flew in from Athens
Grease a few days ago. Like I said, it's been
a world win month of travel.

Speaker 2 (22:48):
But I'm still jetlagged.

Speaker 3 (22:50):
Yes, so we uh needs to pace the podcast bills.
So stay tuned. We're going to take a quick commercial
break thirty seconds. We will be right back and we're
gonna get back into some more d details and the
nitty gritty of the resort. Bikuti and Tara Beach.

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where are we going? Next with this amazing resort.

Speaker 3 (23:50):
Yeah, so we kind of briefly touched on the restaurant.
So basically there's one main restaurant. They have a second
one for breakfast that is indoors that they just innovated
at the end of last year.

Speaker 2 (24:02):
It's essentially one though.

Speaker 3 (24:03):
Yeah, I mean we walked through there, but we didn't
eat in there, but it was nice. But otherwise, Yeah,
there's really just like one main restaurant, and then there's
a really beautiful beach bar, like right next to the restaurant, huge.

Speaker 2 (24:15):
Beach bars as a few TVs around it. You can
watch the sunset there, you can eat, I mean, just incredible.

Speaker 3 (24:23):
Yeah, and I will say, yeah, we ended up we
ate there both nights. We stayed here because we just
wanted to look at the beach in the view, because
the sunset was absolutely amazing from here, and the food
very very good. You can make a reservation if you want,

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or they do accept just walk ins as well, and
they do have like an indoor seating area as well,
but we sat outside both nights.

Speaker 2 (24:51):
Yeah, when you see the beach view from this place,
you're not gonna want to eat inside. You're gonna want
to sit there and just take this view in. I mean,
just stunning, very quiet, a very chill place, chill resort.

Speaker 3 (25:02):
They did have live music for dinner both nights, but.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Very elegant live music. Like it was just a guy,
a guy with an acoustic guitar just just strumming away
at classics and you know the whole ambiance they create
there with the small feel, small resort feel, guy playing
the guitar, very romantic. It was kind of a very romantic,
very chill, relaxing vibe. The food was really good, as
to be expectators were like this. Aruba's known for their food,

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so Ruba has a lot of culinary influences from other
parts of the world, and it really shined at the resort.
Definitely didn't have a bad meal there. The breakfast buffet
was really good too, so you can get the buffet
or they had an a la carte menu. A buffet
was fine. They had these cool little shots you do,
those little health shots. They had a bunch of those
out there. Get fresh made omelets, tons of fruit. Coffee

(25:47):
was excellent. I'm a kind of a coffee snob and
I thought the coffee was really good.

Speaker 3 (25:51):
Yes, yeah, and they'll make you lattes as well, So
I got ice lattes every morning and that was included.

Speaker 2 (25:57):
Yeah, it was nice, Like this is a really good
place for honeymoon. Like this is if you if you're
like super laid back couple and you just had a
really busy like the whole wedding, and the weddings are busy,
Like it's tough coordinating all that, and if you just
want to truly recharge and not be around a ton
of people. And that's what the other thing I kind
of liked about it. It's like the older I get, I

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like these smaller resorts and these like smaller experiences.

Speaker 3 (26:22):
Like super chill. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (26:23):
Yeah, Like I don't need a million options. If the
one if there's one restaurant but the food is awesome,
just give me that. Then I just go I pick
the same thing every night, and it like simplifies it.
So if you're simple and just like that, man, this
is a fantastic option for you. I'm trying to I'm
trying to.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
Well, I was gonna see and so you know one
thing I want to say too, And they literally tell
you this, like it if you go on their website,
it says like who we are and like you know
who we are for. So they don't do groups here.
So it's not a group place. I mean, you know,
if you wanted to travel like with one other couple
or something, or you know a few other couples, as
long as everybody's chill, like that's fine, but it's not

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you know, a place where you know you're going to
take a big group. It's also they say like no frills,
you know, so it's very relaxed, Like there's not a
dress code for dinner. You know, you don't have to
wear like long pants, which is super nice.

Speaker 2 (27:16):
Right up my alley. Yeah, I hate wearing pants in
the Caribbean.

Speaker 3 (27:19):
Yeah. And it's you know, it's nothing fancy, like super fancy,
but it's perfect.

Speaker 2 (27:25):
Yeah it's not. It's not fancy, but it's elegant. Yes, right,
it's very elegant. I think, like if I could think
of a word to describe it, it's not like.

Speaker 3 (27:34):
It's a Caribbean element, I guess elegant.

Speaker 2 (27:36):
It's not like overly luxurious. It's like luxury. It's Caribbean luxury.
It's like it's just elegant. Nice. But the food was
really good, well, prepared. The service was excellent, never had
bad service there. And it's definitely a beach resort, not
a pool resort, which we're gonna get to next. The
pool is very small and there's not like a ton
going on if you want to do like Sunrise yoga,

(27:57):
to have alt places for yoga.

Speaker 3 (27:59):
Yeah, there's a charge that.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
There was a nice gym too, but like it's that
kind of like very laid back, kind of Southern Caribbean
chill vibe. Yeah, you know, and I like your no
frills like the way you described it, because like you know,
just wear shorts. You don't wear shorts and flip flopped
to dinner, but get a great meal. You can do that.

Speaker 3 (28:18):
Yes, yeah, absolutely so the gym very adequate sized gym.
There was several treadmills, a StairMaster, a couple of benches.

Speaker 2 (28:28):
A lot of freeways, a lot of freeways, so squat rack,
pull up bar.

Speaker 3 (28:32):
I mean, I was actually like there was a great
gym for the size of the resort.

Speaker 2 (28:35):
You can tell they had recently added that gym, Like
that gym is not not recently, but it's not part
of the original building. Like it's like in the courtyard area.
And it's big and it's got high ceilings. It's definitely
not part of the origin, but they did a good
job with it. It's great. And we walked right by.
That was one of the first things I noticed, like, oh,
look at the size of the gym and for the
size of the resort, plenty like it was perfect.

Speaker 3 (28:56):
Yeah, so real quick. One thing, other thing I want
to mention on the dining too, and then we'll jump
into a little bit about the beach in the pool.
So I do think that some of the portion sizes,
you know, if you're not like you're not big eaters
for like breakfast and lunch, you know, the lunch, I
think you could get away with like splitting stuff.

Speaker 2 (29:18):
Yeah, it's really good portion, Like they're not skimping on
the quantity of food they.

Speaker 3 (29:23):
Get, no, so you could get away with that. And
then you know, then each having your own entree at
dinner to help save a little bit. And then they
also sell alcohol in the resort gift shop, so if
you have bottles of wine in there, so if you
wanted to buy like a bottle of wine and then
you know, go sit back in the room. That it
is is definitely an option There is also a pharmacy

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nearby that you can walk to that has some stuff
just be prepared. It is very expensive.

Speaker 2 (29:51):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 3 (29:52):
George got some pro autics there and there were forty
seven dollars.

Speaker 2 (29:56):
So I got a little thing of probotics. I just
like to take pro box I'm traveling and I take
them every day anyways, and I'm used to paying. I
don't know, like I get them on Amazon for I.

Speaker 3 (30:04):
Think it's like ten or fifteen bucks for bucks or
something maybe.

Speaker 2 (30:07):
And so I saw it. I saw like forty seven
dollars on the on the thing right, and I'm like
there must be some sort of like Eastern Caribbean. But
then the Eastern Caribbean dollar follows the US. I thought,
So I'm just looking at it was like it must
be some other I don't know what it's in. I'm like,
gotta be something else now. I rang it up US.
I was like, holy crap, yes, crazy. I made sure
to take every probot it.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
Absolutely.

Speaker 2 (30:28):
I can't let these things go to waste. It was
like a dollar a pop, right, Yeah. So I got
vitamins there too, which I just had a vitamin right
before Soth podcast.

Speaker 3 (30:37):
Yeah, we spent like one hundred dollars at this pharmacy.

Speaker 2 (30:40):
So but if you need something, if you need something, it's.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
At least walkable. You can, you know, get some snacks
and drinks from there too to take to your room
if you want to. But my point in saying all
of this is you can if you want it. If
you're worried about like, oh my gosh, how much am
I going to spend? You know when I'm there, there
are some ways that you can and save, you know,
if you wanted to, like have some drinks in your room,

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get some stuff. There's a fridge in the room as well,
split lunch and just a couple of ways to save.

Speaker 2 (31:08):
Yeah, absolutely nice.

Speaker 3 (31:09):
Yes, Now let's talk about the beach and the pool. So,
like we said before, I think this beach is probably
one of the prettiest beaches.

Speaker 2 (31:19):
Of most most of our travels. I'll just say it's
so large and there's not that many people, and for
a public beach, it feels very private, you know. It's
the neighboring resort is also very small too. I think
the neighboring resort to the left. If you're like sitting
on the beach looking facing the beach. To the left
is actually another resort about the same size Bokuti.

Speaker 3 (31:41):
It's called man Chibo Beach Resort, and we did walk
through there and it's a great resort too.

Speaker 2 (31:44):
Yeah, very similar, like very very similar vibe. And then
to the right, I think it was a private residence.
Maybe they're renting it out a little bit like an
airbnb thing, I think, right, and there's hardly anything going
on there either. Yeah, and then you could see people
walking the beach in is Aruba's one of those islands
where you can go run the beach, go run the
beach if you want to go walk the beach. You know,
it's it's it's very kind of free flowy like that

(32:05):
where you wouldn't you don't have to worry about walking around.
And yeah, like they had, I think down at the
other resort they had they had the beach volleyball going.
There was a beach volleyball at the Cootie, but I
never saw anyone using it and it was kind of
like pretty far back there too.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
But yeah, just like the stretch of sand and just
and then we did go float in the water a bunch.
Actually the water felt great because it was pretty hot. Yeah,
this is Southern Caribbean, guys, it's hot. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
We were there in August, so I definitely think you
could bring you bring a float to flow up and
like a like a small little pump. We need to
once again get our Amazon store.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
Oh I'm so bad. It's it's on the priority list.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
With number and then just float in the ocean because
the ocean was so calm. But it is literally like
bright white sand, crystal clear blue water.

Speaker 2 (32:54):
Yeah. So it's just incredible, Like it really like I
knew I knew Aruba, you know when we've toured it before.
It it has this desert feel to it. It really,
it really is. It's got desert feel and certain parts
of the island can have very rocky cliffs to the water,
high elevation, and then there's other parts of the island

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it's like beachy paradise. Yeah, so it kind of gives
you a mix of like a you know, terrain. That
was I was on the Beach show was pleasantly surprised
with how awesome the beach was.

Speaker 3 (33:28):
Yeah. So, like we said before, they have more beach
chairs at this resort than room. So they have one
hundred and eighteen beach chares for one hundred and four rooms.
So this is awesome because you never, yeah, you never
have to worry about getting a chair. I wish more
resorts would have what they have. So they have an
app like on the iPad in your room. I think

(33:52):
you can also put it on your phone. But basically
at five pm every day, the chair reservations open up
for the next day, and so you can go and
reserve your chairs at five pm, starting at five pm
the day before yep. That way you don't have to
worry about getting up at like six o'clock in the
morning or seven o'clock in the morning and worrying about,

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like you know, having good chairs.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
So and I think it's a great system. And like
each chair, each little tiki hut chairs are numbered, yeah,
and you can see it's literally looking at it looks
like they're on a map, so you can see where
they are in proximity and everything where they are approximate
the pool, the beach, the restaurant, all that, and you
just pick whatever one you want, yep. And it's so
nice and it's like, oh, I'm just going to have

(34:36):
chair thirty six today and it's right here near the
beach volleyball court, which is awesome where maybe near the restaurant. Yeah,
and then whenever you want to go, just go down
there and ticket yep, and you don't have to worry
about anyone else taking your spot.

Speaker 1 (34:46):
Right.

Speaker 3 (34:46):
And then they do also have the flag system at
this resort as well, so when you're sitting at your chair,
if you want to order a drink or food, you
just put your flag down or up, put your flag up,
and then somebody will come.

Speaker 2 (35:02):
Someone comes right by. And we had lunch. We had
lunch at the beach and it is definitely like And
then we did go to the pool. The pool's fine.
I think one thing this resort could add and you know,
I'm what I'm about to say, if they added a
just a little tiny it could be four to six seats.
They don't even anything huge here. They had a perfect
little corner for it in the pool too. To add

(35:24):
a swim, like they had a hot tub, I would
have taken away the hot tub.

Speaker 3 (35:28):
And I don't really care.

Speaker 2 (35:30):
This is me personally being you know, picky. I'm you know,
I like what I like. I think a nice elegant,
a nice elegant little uh swim up bar that Matt
would have like the tiki stuff at the top, which
matches the rest of the resort. That would have been
a nice little addition here. So the owners of Bikooti,
if you're listening listening, if you want to make me

(35:51):
a little investment, gohe and put a swim up bar there.

Speaker 3 (35:54):
I don't I don't think they'll do that.

Speaker 2 (35:55):
But now, the one thing the pool didn't have to
the pool doesn't have a really a rate view. It's
mostly behind the restaurant. Yeah, like it sits directly behind
the restaurant.

Speaker 3 (36:05):
So but you don't go to Aruba exactly.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I was just about to say that.

Speaker 3 (36:10):
Yeah, most at least most people do not.

Speaker 2 (36:12):
Lets you go to the Secret Store. They had pretty cool.

Speaker 3 (36:13):
Pulls, yes, which we'll we'll talk about that in another podcast.

Speaker 2 (36:16):
Great compare it's gonna be an awesome comparison episode. Yeah,
but because Secrets did a lot of things right too
that I like, really I love that, it's going to
be a different difference of opinion on certain things. So
it'd be interesting.

Speaker 3 (36:27):
Yes, now you know, so kind of a brief overview.
So who this resort is for? I mean, really, anybody honeymooners.
If you're looking for a special occasion, it's perfect for that.
But I would say you have to like quiet, but
you have to like yeah, just kind of quiet and
you just want to chill. But you know you have
the option to, you know, go into town. So, like

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I said, we did not do it, but we heard
some people do it and they took a taxi and
it was like twenty or twenty five dollars each way.

Speaker 2 (36:57):
Yeah, if I think if you're looking for a ton
of variety, you can still get that here, but you
have to go off the property. The room was one
of those places that welcomes you to do that, so
you know you can get especially where this reserve is located,
you can go to a hop in place and stay
out laid if you want to and just take a
cab back. It's not going to be on property. So
if you're looking for like localized, like I want to

(37:17):
be able to walk to you know, on property and
just go wild, this probably isn't the place for you.
It's definitely more laid back, low key, small, very small.
Usually the more hop in the resort it's usually has
to be a little bigger because you're like you know,
it takes a good crowd to get the party hop
in right. So if you're looking for a party, not
going to find it here. If you're not looking for

(37:38):
a party, this is the place for you, yes, because
it is just so quiet and so chill, and it's
so small that you eventually start seeing the same people
over and over again. So you'll meet people and yeah,
you know, socialize with the other guests. But man, just
like sitting there, I'll never forget. There's there's a very
there's very few like things that are ingrained in my
mind memories I have burned my mind from certain areas

(37:59):
we've tried. One is like Jade Mountain. Yeah, when we
went up to dinner for the first night in Jade
Mountain and they were playing that Acusa guitar and we're
overlooking the pitons. I had some moments to at Sugar
Beach where I was like, oh my god, it's beautiful
with the music, like music and stuff. And then this
one is another one watching the sunset, watching the sunset

(38:19):
with the acoustic guitar playing, And I think we have
a story of it. Maybe do you have a safe
story on Instagram? Go to our Instagram you might have safecore.
We'll get one up in. Yeah, And it was just
so elegant and peaceful and quiet, and you can hear
the beach waves, the breeze coming in, the sunset's right
in your face. It just sets right there and you're
sitting there getting amazing service. And the way they set

(38:41):
up the tables on their patio is they they're almost
all tables for two. You could do tables for four,
but pretty much the way they pretty much arrange it
is if you're two top, you're both gonna face the water,
You're both you know, you're you're kind of caddy corner
to each other. And man, it was just special, so special.

Speaker 3 (38:58):
Yes, So I have loved this resort. I mean, I
can't wait to go back. So a couple other things
that I want to mention, So as far as, like,
you know, activities off resort activities, what a root is
known for. It was mostly centered around the beach, but
then it the most popular thing to do is some

(39:18):
sort of like atv or dune buggy excursion through like
the whole desert.

Speaker 2 (39:25):
There's so many great lookout points. Yeah, and a lot
of history there too. Yeah.

Speaker 3 (39:29):
Yeah, which we've done and super cool. But otherwise the
majority of things are just focused around the water on
the island and then you know going out to the
different restaurants. Yeah, the food. So time of year. So
as far as this resort goes, I will say they
do have either three or five night minimums, and then

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over the holiday they have holidays like New Year's and
Christmas seven night minimums, and this resort stays booked up.

Speaker 2 (39:57):
Yeah, there's just so few little tour here.

Speaker 3 (40:00):
Yeah, so you definitely have to book this far in advance,
so that's one thing. And then in the winter months
like January through like May, they have five night minimum stays.
So but as far as like time of year, you know, weatherwise,
Aruba is great year round. It's also technically not really

(40:23):
in the hurricane belt, so that's a huge plus. Uh
there it doesn't rain much there, so you don't really
have to worry about that.

Speaker 2 (40:30):
It's gonna get hot though, so you know, it's very hot.
If you are affected by the heat, I would look
towards the latter months of the year, early spring, late winter,
but yeah, it's gonna it was hot. When we were there,
it was very hot, So something to prepared for definitely,
if you're used to travel to the Caribbean, if you're used
to traveling to maybe some of the northern islands like
Jamaica and Bahamas, this is hotter than that.

Speaker 3 (40:50):
Yes, yeah, And so you in typical fashion as far
as you know, pricing goes. You know, January through April
is considered season. It's the most expensive time of year
to travel outside of the holidays to the Caribbean. Aruba
is even a lot more expensive that time of year

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because it is so far south, like the ocean water
is still warm like to get in, you know, like
totally different than like the Bahamas. So your least expensive
time of year is going to be September through December,
not over a holiday. Now, to give you guys an
idea on pricing, So starting at and I looked for

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this is for May of next year, May of twenty
twenty six. So least expensive room was starting at six
hundred and thirteen dollars per night for two people, and
again that includes breakfast. The ocean view was starting at
seven eighty two per night, and then the room that
we had, the Arras Suite ocean Front was nine hundred
and thirty eight dollars a night.

Speaker 2 (41:50):
Yeah, so it's going to be pricing a little higher.
And I think Aruba in general is a slightly more.

Speaker 3 (41:55):
Aruba is just a lot more expensive of a destination.

Speaker 2 (41:59):
Absolutely so, but you are going to feel it's a
different vibe. It feels different. I mean, you are I
don't want to call it remote Caribbean, but you're on
a much smaller island. It's just a tiny Caribbean island.
Great people, awesome service. You know, you're so what you're
paying for, you are getting back in return and value
as far as like service and food quality and things

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like that. So it's just in such a cool island.
Also to another thing I noticed about Ruba is they
have a lot of casinos.

Speaker 3 (42:25):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:26):
It was like I was kind of forgot, kind of
forgot that little tidbit about a Ruba and I was like, oh,
the casinos everywhere the resort we toured, which we can
we'll talk about that maybe a different pod, but they
had a pretty big casino in there. I was shocked. Yeah,
I walked in the casino the Hiaot.

Speaker 3 (42:41):
It was a high Yeah.

Speaker 2 (42:43):
I was like, oh my god. And they didn't want
to take videos in there. So I got a little
video of the outside of it, but I was I mean,
it was like at a resort for like having a
captive audience. It was the biggest casino I've ever seen
in a resort. Yeah, like other resorts like Secretspoon Tocana
has a casino but small. I mean it was bigger
than the crusehip casinos, like some of the mega crusehip scenos.
This thing was way bigger. So I was like, man,

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you guys are making I'm looking around like it was
making a lot of money on this thing. The security
guard there, I was like, holy crap.

Speaker 1 (43:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:09):
So anyways, but yeah, great, great experience in Aruba. Can't
wait to go back. I can't wait to book this resort.

Speaker 3 (43:16):
Like I think you're gonna have already booked it since
we've been back.

Speaker 2 (43:18):
I think a lot of our audience will have a
lot of questions about it. And I can totally see
why this book's up. And I can also totally see
this is the type of resort where people go and
they like it and they repeat visitors out the world.

Speaker 3 (43:31):
Yeah, I was going to say that that this resort
has a very high repeat guest.

Speaker 2 (43:35):
I believe it because, like once you go. It's just
so the small vibe, the homie feel like. And they
had the little parrot. Remember the parrot was kind of cool.

Speaker 3 (43:43):
They had the parrot literally talked.

Speaker 2 (43:44):
Yeah, they have a parrot that talks to you near
the restaurant and he'll just start yet yapp and just
like you'll be eating and you'll hear him going off
same stuff and you're like, did he just say hello
or someone? Yeah?

Speaker 3 (43:54):
Oh. And then another thing just to kind of speak
on their service, is I left something there on the
day that we checked out, and a couple hours later
they sent me an email, which they knew that we
were going to another resort on the island and so
like we weren't just going straight to the airport to
fly home. But they sent me an email and you said, hey,

(44:14):
you left your you know, your hair flat iron here.
We'll put it up at the front if you want
to come back by and get it. And then I
went by the next day and got it.

Speaker 2 (44:24):
Very cool. Yeah, just great service, great service all around.

Speaker 3 (44:27):
But if you want any more information again on this
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more information coming up just on this destination in general,
because we're going to talk about secrets Baby Beach, which

(44:49):
we also stayed at on this trip. Plus, I've had
you know a few people reach out just regarding booking
Aruba but wanting it all inclusive, but wanting to stay
like in town and not out where the secrets is.
So I've got you know a couple of ideas for
that that we'll share with you on a future podcast
as well. But I think that now that is now

(45:09):
it's time for a question of to day.

Speaker 2 (45:10):
Yeah, we're gonna get a question da here in just
a second. By the way, guys, if you're enjoying the
content and you haven't reached out for a trip yet,
another great way to support the pod is a five
star review on Apple slapped that five star button, put
a few kind words out. We love giving shout outs
on the pod here. If you're enjoying the content, learning
something new, that's what we do, and I think we
have a great audience. That's a nice mix of people

(45:31):
that just genuinely love travel and they like their downtime
and they want to learn more. And then we have
a good travel Agentpinia that falls as well. And by
the way, you know, it was really cool. We got
a quote request the other day. This is a first.
This was awesome. I think it's so cool. I yea
Chatchept recommended us, and we got an email from a
potential client in Canada and they reached out and said

(45:52):
chat Cheapt recommended you guys as a great travel agency
that knows a lot about all inclusives and we were
just like wow. So the ais are listening, so they're there.
They must be listening to the pod too. So if
you're an AI bot, you're joining the content and you
can write a review. Hey, we're all for it. And
that leads us to question now of the day, Question
out of the day. All right, this is one off

(46:13):
ask bread just got posted. So I have no responses
from the redditors, even though I really would love that,
But we don't have any responses because they're they're like
the best commentors ever. Anyways, what do you hate the
most about social media? I think there's a lot.

Speaker 3 (46:28):
Of good that there is a lot of good I
can answer that very quickly. And it's not reality. It's
not real life.

Speaker 2 (46:34):
And I think you and I had this conversation that
I think people are on it so much that like, like,
what I really don't like is people people obviously post
the best part of their days in their life. They
don't post the stuff they go through or you know.
So I think there's a lot of quote unquote influences
out there that have other people feeling like that's how

(46:55):
life should be. Like one of the things that really
kind of I'm not a big fan of is like
these couples that will post and then like they post
themselves waking up in the morning, like literally someone put
or like like there's like a camera in the corner
and then they like wake up and they have this
morning like life's perfect. Like I feel like it makes
people feel like they're not good enough, yeah, or that

(47:18):
something's wrong with their life. And I think it makes
and especially the younger generation too, like you know, I
just think like it makes you feel insecure. So I
think like there is a downside to it. I think
overall social media is great. I think there's been It
does way more good than it does bad. Yeah, but
it's it's it's not perfect. It's not a perfect technology.
But what I think about this is really cool is
like it really when you boil it down, it is

(47:39):
just it is like literally what it is social media.
It's like socialized media and you can put whatever you
want out there, and you know, it's there's so many
people that are now famous that have come from social
media that wouldn't even be famous right now. Yeah, a
lot of TikTokers, there's businesses create on social media. It
does a lot of good. But I just don't like that.

(47:59):
Like obviously, I wish more people, especially young people. I
wish young people would realize that, hey, some of these
influences you're following, that's not how their real life is.
That you're getting a thirty second glimpse of the best
part of their day. So don't feel like less of
a person. And I think there's a lot of people
that kind of fake it till you make it on
there and they embellish their life or you know, or

(48:20):
they do it to make people feel less of themselves.
So anyways, yeah, okay, you giving me the finger.

Speaker 3 (48:24):
Wheel here, Yeah, I'm like, Okay, you're going on.

Speaker 2 (48:26):
Yeah, give me the finger wheel in a while.

Speaker 3 (48:27):
Well, yeah, you're really going on too much.

Speaker 2 (48:29):
I'm not going on. We're only at forty eight minutes.
I got I can keep going for another twelve minutes.

Speaker 3 (48:33):
Okay, guys, Well again, that sums up the show. If
you want any more information, please feel free to reach out.
We'd love to work with you and planning your next
vacation to this beautiful island, Aruba, which is also known
as One Happy Island, or any other destination that may
tickle your fancy.

Speaker 2 (48:49):
Yeah, and the Volge will come out soon, so chop
on over to the YouTube channel. Check it out, go
and subscribe to the YouTube channel. It will be coming
out soon. Getting everything over to my editing team. We're
gonna get this thing out. It's gonna be awesome. I'm
excited to get it out because we got a lot
of good content and I hope, I just hope the
vlog comes out as good as the trip experience was,
because like it's really hard to encompass how small and

(49:09):
vibe it was, you know what I mean? Yes, But anyways,
thanks for listening to us. Five star reviews. Request a quote,
come talk to us we gotcha, Love you guys, same time,

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