I haven’t been to Aruba, so I can’t speak to that location, but understand from others it’s a great beach vacation resort. In Florida I’ve been to Ocean Pointe, Oceana Palms and Beach place Towers.
IMHO Beach Place Towers is great if you want a more metropolitan vacation. It’s close t9 the airport, has a lot of shopping, restaurants and night life within walking distance. However, the beach is across the street. It’s a high rise in a small foot print and has a tiny pool deck. More of a hotel feel than resort feel IMHO.
Ocean Pointe has a much larger foot print and a resort feel to it. Ocean side units, if you’re on a low floor (anything lower than 4th floor), will have a lovely parking lot view. Ocean front lower floors will have the view blocked by palm trees. The resort has a nice bar/restaurant, great pool deck and is steps away from the ocean. The beach changes with the yearly weather. Sometimes wide and flat, sometimes it has a sand cliff where the ocean has taken a bite out of it. You need a car as there’s not a lot of restaurants, shopping or night life close to the resort.
Oceana Palms is the newest of the three. Smaller foot print and has a boutique hotel feel to it. Large two bedroom units with one of the best balconies if the MVC family. All units start on the 7th floor so everyone will have some sort of unobstructed view. Ocean front has the best view of course but ocean side still has some great views. Steps away from a wider expanse of beach with the resort providing free beach chairs. A smaller pool deck but a lot nicer than Beach Place IMHO. For my money, if you want Florida and the beach is your primary objective, this would be the resort I look heaviest at followed by Ocean Pointe.
We’ve owned at Ocean Pointe since 2001 and return every year. We love the resort feel and we own ocean front. We’re not big beach people and enjoy the resort feel, so it works better for us the Oceana Palms. We also stay in December and, as owners, have always been able to get a higher floor view. We always make our weeks reservation 12 months in advance, so this probably helps a little.