Placencia Resorts - Reviews and Rates

Reluctantly we left San Ignacio taking a lift from the Canadian couple staying at the guesthouse, to Belmopan. At Belmopan we just managed to catch a bus heading down to Placencia. With the radio blasting out Caribbean music, we headed down the Hummingbird highway to Dangriga on the coast, where we stopped for 10 minutes before carrying on to Pl...

Juliana and I arrive in Placencia after a watertaxi from Caye Caulker to Belize city port, a taxi to the bus station and then a 5 hour chicken bus journey to Placencia passing the towns of Dangriga and Hopkins and on the way. In the south of Belize there is not much to do than laze on the beach (as its one of the few places in Belize with reason...

Today was a good day. I enjoyed a nice, solo walk down the entire length of the beach and ran into only two other people during that time. Afterwards, I went to a little bar near the water and helped two local women with paper art projects for their children's school. I didn't mind one bit. Actually, the conversation was quite welcoming. Peace i...

Today I am moving on from Placencia, but not before I became a local. When we got here Tuesday, we almost immediately became locals. We met Greg, an older ex-pat on the beach, and from there we began hanging out with him and Japs and other locals. We've spent all our time on the beach or with our new friends, drinking and eating good food. Two d...

It may be a neighbouring country of Guatemala, but Belize is another world. The big bellies and even bigger smiles of the Creoles, Garifunas and any other wanderers who came to Belize is a welcoming sight. Combine this with the fact that the official language of Belize is English, although the *******ised English dialect of Creole is not easily ...