Aruba Happy Hours: Times and Deals Across the Island

An Aruba happy hour can start as early as noon and run as late as midnight, and most bars on the island run their deals somewhere between 4pm and 7pm. Palm Beach has the most choice, Oranjestad has a cluster around the marina and Surfside Beach, and Savaneta and Baby Beach have a couple of options too. Below are the times for 28 venues, sorted by area.

How we checked: the times in this guide come from venue websites, resort dining pages, the Aruba Tourism Authority’s venue listings, reservation listings and island guides, all checked in October 2026. Bars change their hours and drink lists without much notice, so confirm before you go. Where sources disagreed, we say so in the table instead of picking one.

When is happy hour in Aruba?

There is no single island-wide time. Specials run in different windows from noon until midnight depending on the venue, but most spots run deals between 4pm and 6pm or 5pm and 7pm. A handful of places run two windows a day, often one in the afternoon or early evening and a late one for the night crowd.

That pattern is useful for planning. A beach afternoon on Palm Beach lines up with the 3pm to 6pm deals at the resort bars. A sunset dinner lines up with the 5pm to 7pm windows. And if you’re heading out late, Mambo Jambo, Azzurro and a few others have a second happy hour that starts at 10pm or 11pm.

Aruba happy hour times by area

“Not listed” means the source gave a time but did not say what the deal is. Ask at the bar what’s included. Where days are “not stated”, the source gave times without saying which days they apply.

Venue	Area	Days	Times	What’s on
Nos Clubhuis	Palm Beach (by Hadicurari pier)	Daily	12-1pm and 5-6pm	2-for-1
MooMba Beach Bar	Palm Beach	Not stated	6-7pm (aruba.com also lists 10-11pm)	2-for-1
Pelican Pier Bar	Palm Beach (Pelican Pier)	Daily	4-6pm	Not listed
The Beach Bar at Playa Linda	Palm Beach	Daily	From 12pm; end time listed as 6pm or 7pm, check first	Not listed
Bugaloe Beach Bar & Grill	Palm Beach (De Palm Pier)	Times vary, check first	Times vary, check first	Not listed
Azzurro Ristorante Italiano	Palm Beach (Playa Linda Beach Resort)	Daily	1-4pm and 10-11pm	Not listed
Mambo Jambo	Palm Beach (Arawak Garden)	Not stated	7-8pm and 11pm-12am	Listed drinks $5 on its 2025 happy hour menu
Gusto Nightclub	Palm Beach (L.G. Smith Blvd 95)	Daily	6-10pm	Not listed
Shore Club at Hilton Aruba	Palm Beach	Not stated	3-5pm	Not listed
Wave Shack at Divi Aruba Phoenix	Palm Beach	Daily per the resort (one blog says closed Saturdays)	3-4pm	Not listed
purebeach at Divi Aruba Phoenix	Palm Beach	Daily	2-3pm and 5-6pm (times from a 2026 blog)	Daily specials and a 2-for-1 menu
The Barn Aruba	Palm Beach	Not stated	4-6pm	Not listed
Pega Pega Beach Bar & Grill	Eagle Beach (Manchebo Beach Resort)	Not stated (bar open daily)	5-7pm	Special-priced drinks and cocktails
Horizons Lounge at Amsterdam Manor	Eagle Beach	Daily	5:30-6:30pm, plus a late window (times vary, check first)	Lower prices on selected drinks
Beach Bar at Divi Village and Divi Dutch Village	Druif Beach	Not stated	2-3pm and 5-6pm	Not listed
Tiki Pool Bar at Divi Dutch Village	Druif Beach	Open daily	3-4pm	Not listed
Infinity Bar & Grill at Divi Village	Druif Beach	Open daily	4-5pm	Not listed
Mulligan’s at Divi Village	Druif Beach	Open daily	5-6pm	Not listed
BarTapas at Divi Village	Druif Beach	Thu-Mon (closed Tue and Wed)	5-6pm	Not listed
Surfside Beach Bar	Oranjestad (Surfside Beach)	5-6pm daily; days not stated for 12-1pm	12-1pm and 5-6pm (some listings add a late window)	50% off selected beers, cocktails and wines
Reflexions Beach Bar & Restaurant	Oranjestad (Surfside Beach)	Daily	4-6pm	Not listed
5 O’Clock Somewhere Bar & Grill	Oranjestad (Renaissance Marketplace)	Daily	5-6pm	Margaritas and boat drinks at $5, 2-for-1 beers at $5, house wine at $7 (per its website)
Hoya	Oranjestad (Plaza Daniel Leo)	Daily	4-6pm	Drink specials
SharQy’s Bahia	Oranjestad (L.G. Smith Blvd 94; one 2026 guide places it on Eagle Beach)	Not stated (closed Sundays per a guide listing)	12-1pm and 6-8pm	Not listed
Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar & Restaurant	Oranjestad (by Renaissance Marina)	Mon-Fri	4-7pm	Not listed
The Restaurant at Tierra del Sol	Noord (Tierra del Sol)	Daily	6-7pm	“Dollars become Florins”
Terrace Bar & Restaurant	Savaneta	Daily	7-9pm	2-for-1 cocktails
Rum Reef Cocktail Bar & Grill	San Nicolas (Baby Beach)	Not stated	1-4pm	Not listed

Happy hour on Palm Beach

Palm Beach is where most of the high-rise resorts sit, and it has the longest list. The pier bars are the classic pick. Pelican Pier Bar runs 4pm to 6pm daily, out over the water between the Holiday Inn and Playa Linda. Nos Clubhuis, by the Hadicurari pier, does 2-for-1 twice a day, at lunch and again at 5pm.

If you want the earliest start on the strip, The Beach Bar in front of Playa Linda opens its happy hour at noon. Both aruba.com and an island events calendar call it the longest happy hour on the island, but one says it ends at 7pm and the other at 6pm, so ask before you settle in for the afternoon.

For a later night, Mambo Jambo’s 2025 happy hour menu lists its happy hour cocktails, beers and house wines at $5 during its 7pm and 11pm windows, and Gusto runs a long 6pm to 10pm happy hour. Older guides quote specific Gusto prices from a few years back, but its own site doesn’t list them now, so we haven’t either.

Bugaloe, at the end of De Palm Pier, is trickier: the sources we checked give three different sets of times. The venue’s Facebook page (facebook.com/bugaloearuba) is the best place to confirm the current hours. We cover the strip in more detail in our Palm Beach happy hour guide.

Happy hour on Eagle Beach and Druif

Eagle Beach is quieter, with low-rise resorts and fewer stand-alone bars, so most of the happy hours here are at resort bars and restaurants. Pega Pega at Manchebo Beach Resort runs 5pm to 7pm, which covers sunset. Horizons Lounge at Amsterdam Manor runs 5:30pm to 6:30pm, and lists a second window later in the evening, though sources disagree on whether it starts at 9pm or 9:30pm.

Just south, the two Divi resorts on Druif Beach stagger their bars through the afternoon, according to the Divi Village and Divi Dutch Village dining pages. Start at the Beach Bar at 2pm, move to the Tiki Pool Bar at 3pm, Infinity at 4pm, then Mulligan’s or BarTapas at 5pm. One thing to know: a 2026 travel blog reports that the Divi resorts and Amsterdam Manor are cashless, so bring a card.

Happy hour in Oranjestad

Downtown and the Surfside strip just outside it have plenty of choice. Surfside Beach Bar runs 50% off selected beers, cocktails and wines from noon to 1pm and 5pm to 6pm, according to its website. Some listings mention a third window later at night, which isn’t on the official site, so treat that one as unconfirmed. Next door, Reflexions runs 4pm to 6pm.

In the Renaissance Marketplace, 5 O’Clock Somewhere has the most detailed deal list we found: $5 margaritas, $5 boat drinks, $5 2-for-1 Balashi, Chill, Amstel and Heineken, and $7 house wines, daily from 5pm to 6pm. Hoya on Plaza Daniel Leo runs 4pm to 6pm, and Lucy’s Retired Surfers Bar by the marina has a long weekday window from 4pm to 7pm.

Happy hour in Noord, Savaneta and San Nicolas

Away from the beaches, The Restaurant at Tierra del Sol in Noord has a clever deal from 6pm to 7pm: “Dollars become Florins”, meaning you pay the florin menu price in US dollars. Since a florin is worth less than a dollar, that works out cheaper.

On the south coast, Terrace Bar & Restaurant in Savaneta does 2-for-1 cocktails from 7pm to 9pm daily, one of the later happy hours outside the tourist strip. Down at Baby Beach, Rum Reef runs 1pm to 4pm, which suits a day at the beach better than a night out. If you are down that way, Zeerovers in Savaneta is the classic stop for fried fish and a cold Balashi.

Listings that disagree

A few popular spots have conflicting times across sources. We’ve marked them in the table, but here’s the short version:

• Bugaloe: listed as 5-6pm and 10-11pm by newer sources, 5-7pm on one aruba.com listing. Check its Facebook page.
• The Beach Bar at Playa Linda: starts at noon, ends at 6pm or 7pm depending on the source.
• Horizons Lounge: the late window is listed as 9-10pm in one place and 9:30-10:30pm in another.
• ZIMA Rooftop Bar at JOIA Aruba: a venue-supplied OpenTable listing mentions a daily sunset hour with 2-for-1 on selected signature cocktails, but the times differ between sources, so we left it out of the table.

We also left out bars whose only happy hour information comes from low-confidence sources or from guides last updated several years ago. Happy hour prices you see quoted in older articles are often stale, so treat any price that isn’t on the venue’s own site or menu as a guess.

How to check this week’s happy hours

The most current island-wide listing we found is the myarubaguide.com events calendar. It says it’s updated weekly, and when we checked it in October 2026 its happy hour entries were dated for that same week. It shows times but not the deals. For anything else, the venue’s own website, menu or social page beats any roundup, including this one.

If you’d rather someone else handle the route, Kukoo Kunuku runs a “Happy Kukoo Hour” bar tour from 5pm to 8pm, Monday to Saturday, stopping at three local bars. The price differs between the listings we saw, so check when you book. Our party bus guide has more on how those nights work.

Happy hour back at the villa

Bar-hopping is fun, but a lot of groups staying in villas or condos end up wanting a happy hour that doesn’t involve finding a taxi for eight people. That’s what we do. Bartender Aruba delivers cocktail jugs mixed by a professional bartender to villas, hotels, homes, boats and beaches across the island. Each 1 gallon jug pours roughly 8 to 10 cocktails, and they’re batched fresh the same day.

The jugs arrive ready, so nobody has to buy liquor, juice and mixers, measure, shake, or wash a pile of bar tools. The Sunset Duo, two jugs of Aruba Rum Punch and Classic Margarita for 16 to 20 drinks, is built for exactly that 5pm slot. You can see all the cocktail jug packages and sample prices on our booking page, and our guide to sunset happy hours in Aruba has ideas for where to watch the sun go down.