Carolyn is soooo nice!! So is her housekeeper Dorva! Very trustworthy, hospitable!! We had a great stay in Belize and her place is amazing! Very safe & quiet neighborhood that has a good mixture of Americans that relocated to Belize & native Belizians.

There's a police station right across from her place, the housekeeper lives downstairs so no trouble there and wifi worked great so had no trouble calling locally! She sets you up w/ everything you need! My recommendation for staying here: Use either the taxi driver carolyn e-mails u about OR call Dorian from private belize tours as many of the local taxi drivers couldn't figure out how to get there. The easiest way to get to her place, if the cabby can't figure it out & u don't have her map, just tell them to go to the biltmore hotel and walk from there! it's a 4 mins walk, very easy. Also, the biltmore is pricey for household items & tours, just buy from Brodies or private belize tours run by Dorian, very highly recommended!!

We ate at the biltmore, the chicken place or Sahara Mediterranean food! The Atlantic restaurant is an Asian fusion restaurant & their food wasn't that great. Don't order burgers as they're not they way u would be used to in the USA. There's a Brodies supermarket and bank/atm close by so we bought a lot of food & cooked in the home to save money. The hotels don't have ATMs so don't bother looking. Also get change / small bills where ever u can, from the bank! We had trouble getting change as all we had were big bills, and Belize isn't very CC friendly yet. You'll be using cash for everything - either Belize dollars or USD. Also, ask what currency things are in as they use the same $ sign for both USD & BZD.

Keep in mind food there is much more expensive than the USA & there's no fast food places, it's all home cooking or taco stands. If U walk & head past Brodies supermarket for about 7 mins, u'll get to the Rum factory, some more bars & a very good fruit stand that has fruits waayyy cheaper than u find in Brodies! MUST buy/try cashew wine & blackberry wine, either the homemade version or factory versions!! best thing ever!
Her place is huge, I'm from NYC & u could easily fit my apt in her place 3x over!!!

To save on electricity just open the windows, you'll get a great breeze. The local dogs and cats may keep you up at night if u r a light sleeper but it's not that bad and we LOVE animals so it was great. Just close ur window if it bothers u. The small river in her back yard indeed has crocs in it but they mainly came out at night.

Definitely going to book Carolyn's places from now on! Thanks!