Arashi Beach

Great Beach, gets a little crowded so it's best to get there early and find a spot for yourselves. It's also near a Lighthouse and trail you can explore.

Beach was really nice, some rocks that are easily avoidable if you glance down. Overall a busy beach but not impossible to get a spot even if you come in the early afternoon. Would recommend driving past the beach hut restaurant and going down like you're heading to the lighthouse then taking a left onto the sand road. Then coming back towards the beach you'll almost always find better parking and parking that you can basically unload your car straight onto the beach.

Still my favorite beach on the island. My 4th time here and I keep going back. Who needs shade? The wind is so nice, you’re always cool. The waves are nice and large. Don’t go here if you don’t like waves. I’d take this beach over Eagle every time.

At Arashi beach it was super awesome snorkeling over the coral. I saw a lot of fish. Best time was around 8-11 AM, but all day you can see fish.

Arashi beach is not that big, it has free parking lot, and you can park at the side of the road also. There are palapas that are free, but they are mostly taken. Even if you take palapas there are rude people that will just sit with you without asking if they can join, and take most of the palapas. There are also few palms that can give you some small shade and there are maybe 2 bushes as well, but for me bushes are unsanitary because i saw what some people do in the bushes (like blowing their noses here, yuck). You can find wasps in some bushes and animal droppings. You can rent umbrellas but i din’t ask about the price, i think is 35+ dollars like everywhere else, for only umbrella. Sunbed is usually 10$. Water is nice color if it is sunny, but bad if it is cloudy. It gets deep quickly and most of the beach is full of rocks. But it is better on the right side of the beach because there is a small strip where water is shallow. But current is strong and there can be strong waves. Winds are super strong, like everywhere else, and they are making it impossible to enjoy being in the beach or even in water- getting your hair wet is hard task because you will be cold. Also internet here is the worst. We paid e-sim card and carried it with ourselves but no internet here. Even wifi from the beach bar is bad. Baby beach was my favorite beach on island, and Eagle beach is better choice than Arashi, but Arashi is my 3rd choice.

Great beach but can get very crowded late morning and early afternoon, especially during the weekend. Tiki hut is needed for the intense sun so get there early! Great place to watch the sunset and snorkel.

Beautiful beach but get there early if you want shade.

The beach is beautiful and the water is calm enough little ones can play in the waves near the shore. Snorkeling was ok, the water was gentle enough but the reef did not have much variety of fish species. Do not let the rental folks bully you. Palapas are for everyone to use. The chair rental folks are scammy and creepy. Would not leave my kids and I alone, kept harassing us from the moment we got onto the beach, especially when my husband went out to snorkel. They said we could not sit under the (public) palappa as they placed their chairs there and the chairs were "already reserved." The best part was that they placed their chairs under every palapa, essentially forcing people to either rent an umbrella or their chairs under the palapa. We didn't touch the chairs, we had brought our own and weren't trying to even move theirs. It was entertaining to watch them harass every couple and family that came in and didn't rent from them. The big boy rental guy went and lunged at a woman trying to take her phone when he started arguing with her about something. I later heard him laugh with a local about it, saying he told the woman he would take her phone and through it in the ocean. Trashy guy.