Well what can we say we truly enjoyed Ambergris, Elena & her family (house caretakers) during our stay at Casa Redonda. Elena & Alex were extremely accommodating, available and attentive during our entire 7-day trip. Barb was also very attentive weeks before before we landed and even after. She was thoughtful enough to go above and beyond and provide us recommendations and updates on the island, since we visited during a time of curfew. Week of Sept 19-27 curfew was at 9 pm. Barb gave us recommendations and updates on where to take COVID tests before returning to the US which was extremely quick, efficient and very convenient - they were able to come to the house, quickly give us the test, results and paper printed results literally in 15 mins/ea.
Barb also hooked us up with our flights from Belize City to San Pedro, which was another great accommodation plus!
We also utilized Ms. Marfa, the chef associated to the property, that you can hire for a nice authentic home made Belizean meal and she also baked us a birthday cake!
Because we went during rainy season the mosquitoes were out of control... literally. We probably went through at least a can a day of Off between 5 people. Elena & Alex helped with the mosquito coils which were life savers! But the mosquitoes were awful.
We rented the first floor of the house which was nice, especially location & the pool. No one stayed in the 2nd floor during our stay. The house is located 3.5 south from the airport & their “downtown”, which would take about 15 mins to drive the golf cart there... so far enough away but close enough to everything. We rented 2 golf carts from Avis rental for about ~$350 for the entire trip.
I was super excited to stay in this house because ironically friends and I stayed here about 8 yrs ago... and I can share that not much has changed. Which is good and bad... the pool area is still great (overlooking the sea), the bedrooms are accommodating and living area is a decent size. But the house is still a bit outdated and there were issues with pipes leaking from the apartment/unit upstairs.
Unfortunately in one of the occupied rooms there was water leaking from the ceiling and onto the bed but thankfully we had an extra room open so there needed to be a room change but I would hate to think what if we didn’t. There was also some leakage from the ceiling in the larger bathroom but again Elena/Alex were able to help in both instances and Barb quickly offered us a $75 credit. Ultimately the house is just older and repairs are needed but sounds like the owner is looking to sell so therefore major repairs are on hold. Outside of these issues with the house I’d say the value of the house was so-so but the overall experience we had outweighed the negative sentiments of the house. The description on the listing is pretty accurate and very detailed.
Although I’m not sure we’d stay at this specific property again, we’d love to visit Ambergris for a 3rd time (the people & culture are lovely), definitely work with Barb to help us with accommodations/rental properties and lucky enough to see Elena, Alex & Aaliyah (daughter) & Reef (really smart & clever dog) again! Thank you for a wonderful family vacation celebrating my mom-in-laws 60th birthday.