What an amazing cottage!! We rented it for our family of three, my 14 year old slept on the couch and really enjoyed the pool. I liked that we had a washing machine and could hang our clothes out to dry in the sun. We brought down a few laundry pods in our luggage so we didn't have to buy on the island.
I emailed a few days before we came and asked for a few cases of local beer to be delivered and it was stocked in the fridge when we got there! If you drink wine or bubbly I HIGHLY suggest you get it at the airport duty free when you land in Belize. We had cary on bags for our clothes and packed our fins and snorkels in our checked luggage so there was plenty of room to fill it with wine and bubbly! The cost difference was insane from the island to the duty free and I could not just drink beer all week! Bug spray is the most important thing ever. We all got bit pretty bad sitting by the pool. The sand flies come up from under the deck and you don't even notice them because they are so small.....until your legs are covered in bites!! Allergy meds are the only thing that worked to calm the itching. We brought several different kinds.
You HAVE to eat at the Suggestion Gourmet resutrant down the street. Hands down the best pizza I have ever had and the deserts looked out of this world.
You have to do as much snorkeling as you can do! We where over whelmed with the different tour groups you could go on. I lovely couple was in the pool one morning and told us they went with French Angel Tours. We took their word for it and man did they ever blow us out of the water!! Its a smaller group so you are not waiting forever to get on and off the boat. They need a min or 4 people but they took our family of 3 out once all alone! We went out three times and never had more than 6 people on the boat. Our tour guild Zac was so nice and amazing that we used him each time. Very respectful of the ocean and corals. We saw other big tour companies riding sharks and grabbing at the turtles. Zac made sure before we left the boat that we knew how to respect the ocean so that nobody got hurt and we didn't damage the coral. Also Zac asked where we where staying and at the end of the tour dropped us off right at our dock!! Not walking through town tired and wet!!
The dock that comes with the cottage is amazing as well!! Lots of chairs and there is a place to by drinks right there!
Take the free ferry to the north part of the island one day!! You can rent a private cabana and the beach was amazing!! I got so many jars of small shells and dead coral to bring home right off the beach!!
There is a crazy rooster that lives at the airport......be prepared to laugh your butt off at him.