This place was a humble little hotel right on the sea in seine bight, about 8 miles from the village of Placencia. we loved it so much it was such a lovely and perfect vacation. This is not a luxury resort, so if you are looking for such accommodations you will be best suited booking elsewhere. If you are looking for a more laid back, authentic experience of Belize with an amazing view and comfortable accommodations that are far more affordable than most on the peninsula, this place will suite you fine.
We stayed 10 days with our 4 month old baby and we had such a great time. The thing that makes this room different from your standard, modest, slightly and delightfully dated hotel room is of course the ocean front proximity... I mean RIGHT on the sea. Maybe 30 feet at most from it. There’s a wonderful deck under some coconut trees that provide the shade, and that’s where we spent almost our entire vacation. We’d put our baby down for his naps with the door cracked and just sit out on the deck and read a book while enjoying the view and sunshine. Because the rooms are not fancy and the location isn’t in the center of the tourist hub it’s more affordable as well. Between the guests and staff, the hotel had a casual intimate comfort of staying at an old friends rather than a more formal hotel (which was one of our favorite things about it).
a word of caution though to those traveling in the tropics with infants: pack a battery operated travel fan. One night the power did go out for a couple of hours, and while that’s not something I hold the hotel responsible for at all as that is obviously out of their control, I am mentioning it for anyone who might be traveling with an infant because: those couple hours from 12-2am, in the tropics, without a breeze or any light or ceiling fan or a/c... brutal. I was so thankful I packed a tiny travel fan that ran on batteries for our baby as it was terribly hot and stuffy, and without any wind outside we couldn’t not even open a window or else we would let mosquitos in to feast on all our bodies. If we didn’t have a baby it wouldn’t have been a huge deal and nobody else we talked to seem to really even notice the outage at all, but with thin hotel walls having a screaming infant wake up in the middle of the night from overheating is no fun for anyone :(
Other than that brief discomfort, which again could really have happened anywhere and was not something I consider a negative against hotel itself, there were no issues and we had an absolutely lovely time. We hope to come again some day, thank you very much Gail!