Warm weather. Vacation. Aruba. Beaches. Sunshine. Starbucks. There are two Starbucks on the island of Aruba, and the one featured in this blog post (the second one) is located adjacent to Renaissance Mall in Aruba. This “Renaissance Marina” Aruba Starbucks, has water taxi access to it!
A loyal reader of this site went on a cruise this past November. Her boat left Florida, and traveled to a number of little islands including Aruba and much to her surprise, she discovered a Starbucks there. The first opened in November 2009, in the “Renaissance Marketplace.” The “Renaissance Marina” Starbucks opened in 2010. It is located in the lobby of the Renaissance Hotel very near the waterfront in Oranjestad (that’s Dutch for “Orange City”). I tried to figure out exactly when this second one opened up, and I don’t know for sure the answer. The best I can estimate is that this second Starbucks first opened its doors in the Summer of 2010, perhaps July or August. If anyone has better information, please let me know.
My apologies that the photos are a little blurry, but nonetheless, I thought it would be great fun to show off this store, and the Aruba Starbucks mug given to me by the reader who submitted these photos to me!
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This is exactly what I needed to see after that snow storm we had, good timing. I feel warm and toasty already. Water taxi access, that is better than a drive-thru window!
Surprised to see a SB in Aruba. Also nice to get there by water taxi. Daughter just back from St. Lucia and Martinique and no SB there. As with the other international stores, the design looks great! USA design team are you paying attention?
Wonderful!! Thanks so much to both of you for this blog post!!! I enjoyed it so much…:D
The Caribbean to me offers a few of the most beautiful stores and locations in the world…I was surprised that there are now 2 stores on Aruba. I remember a website with photos that reported about the opening of the first store back in 2009. I didn’t notice the opening of the second one. Great that I can see it now here! 😀
The store looks just AMAZING! I am jealous…beautiful new design with the big wood table. You don’t find that too often.
I think I can spot Anniversary Blend on one picture…interesting that they sell it there. But the market seems to be very American due to many tourists from the States I think.
Furthermore, I’d be interested in the offering in this store. Which drinks…anything special…also the prices…are they very high or low?
Lots of questions I always have when I see new stores…:D
warm weather, ooo (ice and snow here) and starbucks! i do like to try to go to a starbucks whenever i am on vacation, never one on a beach though!
BEAUTIFUL MUG! Yet another reason to visit ARUBA. Makes me want to sing that old Beach Boys song, “Aruba, Jamaica ooh I wanna take ya To Bermuda, Bahama…” Wonder if any of these other places have Starbucks locations?
Another great tour of the ever growing world of Starbucks.
I do wish Starbucks bean-counters (and I am refering to the financial types) would look at some more basic/foundational/domestic ways of increasing business (good bean counters don’t just report).
What blurry photos? You just have not had enough Starbucks this morning 😉 .
@SuzanneC – You are good. I did time this blog article to go with the weather. I had had a really boring store review planned of a Snohomish County, WA store, and late last night switched what was in my scheduled content thinking this would be much better and welcomed by those in the cold!
@Sebastian – You are right! Anniversary Blend! The person who took this vacation went like one or two weeks before Thanksgiving, so I think there might have still been some Anniversary Blend on the shelves at that time.
@DadCooks – I remember hearing that when Starbucks opened in Hungary this year that that was its 56th country. WOW. By the way, my stats show that I have a global readership, and that is why! 56 countries! Thank you Starbucks!
@GAstarbucksgirl I have that song in my head now too (even before I read your post lol)
Thanks for sharing this melody! love the mug (of course!)!
@CaBarista and @GAStarbucksGirl –
I was totally thinking about that song when I wrote this blog post!! I found a you tube video with that music (not sure what the visuals are)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ChADh1zt5I
@Melody — regarding your global reach, IMHO, responsible global companies with a following of happy customers who can connect through Blogs like your’s can do a lot to foster global understanding and tolerance.
DadCooks – Since we are now at the very end of 2010, I was checking out what my stats with Google Analytics were for this whole year. Over the course of the past 12 months there have been over 90,000 absolute unique visitors have visited from 158 countries. That really speaks to the global nature of Starbucks. Not only do they operate in a million countries, but so many countries want a Starbucks! 🙂 Though having said, overwhelmingly my visitors come from the United States, and Washington and California are by far the two biggest states for the readership.
I’m wondering if and/or when Iceland is going to get a Starbucks!
A water taxi to the espresso bar beats a swim-up bar any day in my book. Hmmm, what does that say about me?!? 😉
Melody- two things- One great song loved listening to it.
Two- interesting to see where your readership is from. I wish you could brake it down even further.
@purple1 – Oh one more thing (I love these kinds of numbers, but please stop me if I totally bore you!!) – The United States readership comes mostly from Washington.
WA is #1. Calif #2, Ill #3, TX #4, NewYork #5, Pennsyvania #6, Florida #7, AZ#8, NorthCarolina #9, NewJersey #10. At the bottom, like almost no one visits this site from South Dakota, Vermont, or North Dakota – Those states are oblivious nearly oblivious to this blog, except a few visits now and then.
Melody just love your answers to my question re the numbers. Totally fascinated by it and nice to see we made the top ten! LOL. I also love your statement about finding a neighborhood and staying. So true. This community is great. Never looked into starbucks gossip and MSI has (as noted before) changed. Thank you again for creating such a vibrant and informative blog. Happy new year!
This post is great! The Starbucks in Aruba is absolutely beautiful. Much better than half the stores we have here in Japan. I especially like all that wood!
All your statistics regarding your blog are super interesting, too! Does the count include access from cellphones, too? It’s great to see how popular you are in Japan, we really do love all your fun posts here ;D
I LOVE seeing the stats about your readership actually more than the Aruba store 🙁
Very interesting…I’m glad that got asked and answered. I like IL. being #3, at least. I would expect WA as #1 and CA as #2, since they seem almost inseparable….from here!
Another interesting blog post….it is really mind-boggling how huge Sbux is!
Stayed at the Renaissance from Jan 22-29. Looked down from my window daily at my favorite coffee shop. Had at least one coffe daily with a scrumptious sweet. There’s not even one in my town of 40,00 people! I do love Starbucks and having that one nearby, made my vacation even sweeter!!
I only wished that I had purchased one of those lovely Aruba coffee cups with the tree on it. Is there a way to order it from you and pay for shipping?
Debbie- i am leaving for Aruba a week from today. When i was there last year they did not carry the mugs at that time.. If you havent gotten one as of yet i would be more than happy to pick one one for you..
Does anyone know how to contact them in Aruba? Any mail or sth?
Or maybe someone goes there and could be so kind to bring one?
Regards
Moby
Hi Moby. Thank you for stopping by the blog. Not sure exactly what you’re wanting – It sounds to me like you want an Aruba mug?? I think ebay is going to be your best bet! Good luck!
~Melody
I hope to meet any one who loves trade STARBUCKS mugs.
I love Starbucks, but do they have the ingredients to make Green Tea Latte’s yet, last two years I stopped in both Starbucks, neither one could make them. Very disappointing when that is all I drink at Starbucks and when your on vacation you want your favorite things….
There are three starbucks in Aruba. 2 in Oranjestad, and one at Paseo Herencia mall.
I was there last July 2014, and enjoyed a delicious Frappuchino late perfect for Aruba sun and nights. There is a third Starbucks in Palm Beachs in “Paseo Herencia” mall, almost in front of Hollyday in Resort, I drunk a Frappuchino in all these, and bought my Aruba cup like the picture on this site.