I like the location, that is if you have bikes to get into town (not included in the rental). But overall I didn't care for Finca Placencia Private Beach House. The yard was overly shaded with no beach to relax and enjoy the sun. They need to take out a few of the junk trees and allow some sun into the property. The water out front of the beach house did not make for enjoyable swimming. It was shallow for a long way out and choppy not making for any decent swimming. The beach house was ok but the floor was stained and dirty looking. I guess I am used to staying in a place that has some housekeeping services. We were there for 11 days with no housekeeping done. No towels or bedding changed, no sandy floors swept, no kitchen and BR shined up. It was a little too much like living at home with a bunch of chores to do, not like I was on vacation. Eleven days was too long in this location. Placencia just does not have enough to offer to make a vacation out of a long stay there. We took off from the beach house after a week (even tho we had already payed a non refundable $87.00 per night and spent a few days over in the town of San Ignacio three hours away. We had an awesome and very interesting experience there, of couse we had to pay for lodging while we were there. One of the worse features of the whole experience were the noseeums, or the sand flies. By the time we left after a week we were covered with bites. Literally hundreds of very itchy, bright red bites all over our legs and arms. It looked like we must have measles or some dreaded disease. The itchiness lasted 2 weeks and was virtually unrelieved by anything we tried, keeping us awake scratching during the night. Sorry to say, but I would not go back to Finca Placencia Private Beach House nor can I recommend it.