As in all decent establishments, everyone at some point ends up in the bar. The restaurant next to the bar serves serves superb meals from an ex-New York chef. Very pleasant dining, despite occasionally being seated with couples from the U.S., who can do nothing but talk about their investment portfolio and the problems of interior decoration. Don't worry about locking your door at Chaa Creek. You don't get a key anyway.
Crime appears to stop at the Belize city limits.
While at Chaa Creek, a must-do is a canoe trip down the Macal River, to the village of San Ignacio. The trip takes roughly two hours, depending on how energetic you feel with a paddle. The Macal river flows past trees groaning under the weight of enormous lounging iguanas. Occasionally a more careless iguana will lose it's footing and drop to the forest or river below. Besides iguanas doing the backstroke, the Macal River is home to piranhas.