Taxi fares in Aruba are set by the government through the Department of Public Transportation (DTP) and published on an official rate sheet. The system itself works.
The rate sheet, on the other hand, is a dense PDF — fine if you're sitting at a desk, harder when you're trying to look up a single fare from your hotel to a restaurant with sand on your hands and the sun behind your phone.
We made it simple. Type in where you're going, see what it should cost. Not zones, real places.
This site is free, independent, and not affiliated with any taxi company, driver, or government agency.
Why we built this
We love Aruba. Not the postcard version — the actual one. The Sunday afternoon on Eagle Beach. The taxi driver who got talking about the new hotels going up on the strip, then drove the opposite direction for ten minutes so we could actually see them — turning a ten-minute ride into a twenty-minute one because he thought we should. The bartender who knows your second drink before you ask.
The regulated fare system is part of why visitors get treated well here. No surge pricing, no negotiating, no race to the bottom. We built this site to make that strength easier to take advantage of — so the fare is one less thing you're guessing at on a trip that's already supposed to be easy.
What's under the hood
The official rate sheet covers a preset set of zone-to-zone routes — fine in principle, awkward in practice if your hotel and your dinner spot don't both happen to land on the same row and column.
We modeled the whole thing.
The real rate sheet, right there. When you look up a fare, we render the official rate sheet with your route highlighted. You see the number, and you see exactly where it comes from.
The things that actually move the price. Night surcharge, Sunday and holiday premium, extra luggage, additional passengers — the math is built in. You don't do the surcharge arithmetic in your head.
Hundreds of real destinations, not a fixed list. A restaurant in Savaneta, a dive shop in Malmok, an Airbnb in Paradera — type the place name and the system resolves the zones underneath. Real addresses, real businesses. 303,050 routes today. Sounds like a lot for a small island — turns out there's a lot to do here. Appears people love staying at Aruba Beach Club Resort, eat at Papiamento Restaurant, visit De Palm Island Ferry Terminal and soak up the sun at Palm Beach.
We know what visitors are actually doing. Which beaches get searched, which hotels generate the most lookups, which routes spike on cruise days, when a new restaurant starts pulling enough traffic to add to the map. Anonymous, aggregate, real-time. If you run something here and want the data, get in touch .
The full picture, not just the fare. Some trips are obvious taxi rides — the airport run, the dinner across the island, the late-night ride home. Others have alternatives worth knowing about: a restaurant a few hundred meters from your hotel might just be a walk, a multi-stop day might be cheaper as a rental, a south-island excursion might run smoother with a guided tour. We surface those options when they fit. You decide.
Independent. No flag to wave. We're not a taxi company, not a tour operator, not a tourism authority. We don't have anyone to flatter. If a rule's strange, we'll say so. If a route is better off not in a taxi at all, we'll say that too.
How we keep it accurate
Our fare data is based on the government's published rate structure. We regularly review the official rate sheet, cross-check our zone boundaries against known routes, and update our location database as new businesses open across the island.
On May 20, 2026, the government released a new price list — the first major rate update since 2018, with rates changed across the board and entirely new zones added to the map. We pushed our own update within hours. Not just the new prices: we remapped the new zones, reworked our rate sheet display to handle the changed table structure, and validated routes against the new pricelist before the day was out.
If something looks off, let us know — we take accuracy seriously.
Who's behind this
We're not a taxi company, not a tour operator, not a tourism authority. We don't run a fleet, we don't take anything from drivers or dispatch, and we don't get a cent from the government for any of this.
We've built software, brands, and tools for two decades — apps, websites, data systems, the works. We know how to ship something that works and how to spot when it doesn't. We also know Aruba — the kind of knowledge that only comes from being on the island long enough to have opinions about which beach bar pours an honest cocktail.
The idea showed up one afternoon at West Deck — a few hours in, if we're being honest — when we were trying to look up a taxi fare on a phone screen in the sun. Someone should really fix this. Turns out that someone was us.
Speaking of West Deck — we put together a list of restaurants, bars, and places we keep going back to. No affiliations, just honest picks. Check out our Aruba travel resources page.
Want your location added?
If you run a hotel, restaurant, bar, beach club, dive shop, tour outfit, or anything else worth getting a taxi to in Aruba — tell us. We'll add you.
This is free. There's no ad package, no premium tier, no paid placement, no follow-up sales call. We don't take money from businesses to be in the database. Being listed isn't something you buy — it's a public service. The more complete the location data, the better the tool works for every visitor arriving on the island.
Get in touch with your business name, address, and a contact for any updates. We also welcome input from transportation officials and community organizations — accuracy beats ego, and we want this thing to actually work.
Questions or feedback
Let us know . We read everything.
