My girlfriend and I were visiting Belize for her birthday and booked Mike's place to stay at for our first two days. We picked Mike's place due to the allure of the excursions that he offers: Cave tubing, ziplining, maya ruins. Little did we know know, it was basically a tourist trap.
To begin with, we had communicated prior to our trip on prices, excursions, and amenities, but when we got there the prices were completely different, and the excursions were no where near the quality of the price. Their "ziplining through the Maya heavens" was ridiculously short and seemed more geared for children. When we originally booked this airbnb the only filters and preferences we had were: airconditioning, the entire place to yourself, and wifi. Mike's place had none of this. The advertisement shows a two story house and a bunk house available but upon arrival we were only given the top story of the two story house, post booking the airbnb airconditioning had been removed from the listing, and the wifi worked for the first two hours that we were there and then cut out, making booking a new airbnb or getting in contact with people impossible because it was also a no service area. We were practically stranded somewhere that we were immensely unhappy, mislead, and uncomfortable.
On top of this, there seemed to be hidden charges for everything they offered, and if it wasn't hidden charges, it was simply just not worth the prices. On our first (and last) night at Mike's place he came to say hi and offered us to have his son drop by some rum for us because we don't drink beer, which is all the restaurant offered. He did not say that he was going to charge us money for his opened bottle of rum that he dropped off though, I mean really, $10 for your already drank out of rum bottle? Just don't offer it then! The transfers were $100 USD even though the cars they picked and dropped us off in were extremely run down and the driver made stops to his bank and to, very unprofessionally i might add, use the "outdoor facilities" and pee behind the car with me and my girlfriend in it. On the way back we even had a passenger, so it wasn't just us in the car, and are still being told to pay the whole amount. It was absolutely ridiculous and unprofessional.
All that being said, Mike and his crew however are extremely accomodating and hospitable, we really did think that they were great and that the area of the airbnb was beautiful, we are just extremely disappointed in the quality of the stay and the misadvertisements on the listing.