Esmeralda Escape - Your Private Oasis

Overall, we had a very nice stay at Esmeralda Escape.

Positives:

Very large private back yard.

Comfortable furniture throughout the property.

Very comfortable beds and nice bedding/pillows.

Efficient air conditioning.

Property is very close to the major points of interest on the island as well as Superfoods.

Property very well equipped with beach supplies, pool toys, sheets, towels, coolers, etc.

Very helpful owners.

Negatives:

Hot water. The house has a tankless water heater. In the main house you had to run the water for several minutes in order to get hot water and the back house never had hot water, just tepid at best. Being that we're supposed to conserve water we felt bad about how much water we were wasting in order to get hot/warm water. I would recommend installing a regular hot water heater and ditching the tankless one.

Dishes - would be nice if more dishes matched. I would recommend buying matching dishes from a restaurant supply place and shipping them to the island.

Management Company - We were led to believe that we had to be checked out on our last day so they could check meter readings, get keys, etc. We requested they be at the property at 6:15 a.m. but they did not arrive until almost 7 a.m. They told us they would read the meter and charge us if we owed anything. Although we still made out flight with time to spare it was a bit of a stressful way to end our fabulous vacation on Aruba.

Way too many keys to carry around. I would definitely recommend trying to rekey some doors so they use the same key. It just doesn't look very professional to hand guests a jumble of multiple key chains attached together with 25 keys on it.

I would stay at this property again as long as the hot water situation is fixed.

Bruce Robertson