If you have a choice of the time of year, the first week of January is a very busy time to stay. The small beach access for swimming was crowded and were private for the motels people to use free. If you stay elsewhere the motels will request you pay $25 American or $50 Belize to use facilities like beach chairs and shelters. There are a lot of good restaurants to try. Just have lots of money along for food and souvenirs as everything that is on the island is brought from mainland which makes things costly. Bring some snacks or easy to make food from Belize city. There were about 5 spices left at the house to use, some coffee, sugar, pan spray. Also be sure to bring along some OFF spray for the mosquitoes. There are some china stores a couple blocks from the house that I found little packets of spices for about $.75. They have lots of other size spices also. I only needed enough for 1 meal tho. We rented a bike for $7. US for 24 hours, but with that is required a $60. Deposit that they keep until the bike is returned. It rained lots while we were there so it would have been nice to have enough ponchos for all of us to wear. We loved snorkeling and had good guides! Ash and Rash and Zach. There is a laundromat a few blocks away. They did our laundry for us but it was stuffed in a bag warm out of the dryer and not folded so was very wrinkled. The next time I arrived when it was just ready to take out of the dryer. That was a lot better plan. It is a wonderful place! Cool in January so we didn’t have any issues at all of being to hot. At night we were wishing for more blankets. Adrienne and Bruce were very hospitable in making arrangements for our stay. I would definitely recommend this place.