The staff from Luis on down work very hard to keep the grounds and the apartment very clean and organized. The location of the apartments is away from down town so it saves some of the noise. However San Pedro is noisy most of the day. Hummingbird is equipped with nice balconies and would be great to sit and relax but there is so much traffic you can’t even have a conversation much of the time and with so much construction going on right behind the apartment and the never ending power washer and noise from the cart repair and rental business right next door there is no quiet time to either the balcony nor the pool.
Water is an issue. We stayed 14 days and had to search daily for times to get water for dishes or showers. Often we left taps on in the showers for hours waiting for some water to come out so we could shower. Luis it appeared tried many things in his power but the situation only got worse with us having absolutely no water in our final three days there. Although apologetic all that was offered as a solution was they could bring us a bucket of water and offered us two free days stay if and when we return. Hardly acceptable.
I don’t feel this was one person’s fault but solutions should have been forthcoming. You will be told in Belize that you have to accept less as “this is third world” but what the businesses don’t accept here is they get third world Labour rates and other costs to do all the work but everyone in San Pedro charges high 1st world prices for everything like that you would see in Major cities but deliver third world service.