Boardwalk Hotel Stimulates Guests to Support Local Community

In their guest communications, both in person at the Front Desk, as well as via the recently launched Stay Web App, Boardwalk Boutique Hotel Aruba highlights various initiatives to its guests as a way to give back to the local community and support Aruba’s environment.

The five main initiatives mentioned to hotel guests to participate in or actively contribute to, are:

I. Food bank; upon check-out from their casita with private kitchen, guests can leave unopened food items in a donation box that will be taken to Aruba’s Food Bank for local distribution

II. Adopt a Donkey; guests are made aware of the Donkey Sanctuary and how they can help support the efforts of this sanctuary by adopting a donkey, or do volunteer work on site

III. Bula protects; guests are informed that Bula, the local surfshop in Oranjestad, makes an effort to help keep the beaches and North Shore clean, and how guests can contribute by purchasing merchandise with all proceeds going to environmental protection efforts.

IV. Plastic Beach Party; guests are notified that Plastic Beach Party offers a shop downtown where products made out of recycled plastic waste from our beaches can be purchased

V. Arikok National Park; it is highly recommended to hotel guests to pay a visit to Arikok National Park, not only to indulge in Aruba’s natural beauty and diverse landscapes but also to contribute to nature conservation by paying the Arikok admission fee.

In addition, Boardwalk Boutique Hotel has always promoted island exploring, buying from local suppliers, dining at local restaurants, discovering hidden gems, while at the same time educating its guests how to protect Aruba’s ecosystem. Guests are advised to not enter the ocean with any kind of vehicle, stay off beaches and sand dunes and to keep Aruba’s beaches clean. As for Aruba’s sealife, guests are educated not to touch starfish, turtles and other sea life, not to feed fishes or turtles, nor take shells from the beach.