Belize · Placencia Peninsula

Belize

A timber house on a sand spit, with the reef a short paddle out.

12
sleeps

4
night minimum

USD 680
per night

Sixteen miles of peninsula with water on both sides. The house sits near the quiet end, five minutes from the village and a long way from anything resembling a resort.

The building is old-growth hardwood on stilts, rebuilt in 2019, with a wraparound deck that catches the trade wind all afternoon. Six bedrooms, all of them with their own bathroom, and a kitchen big enough that cooking together is the point rather than a chore. Mornings are the reason people come. The barrier reef is the second largest in the world and it starts about twenty minutes out by boat; the closer patch reef you can reach on a kayak from the dock. Afternoons nobody schedules. There are hammocks, there is a bookshelf, and the village has one very good bakery. This is the least polished of the three houses and the one people ask to come back to.

Getting there

Fly into Belize City (BZE). A 45-minute hop on Tropic Air or Maya Island Air lands you at Placencia, and the house is nine minutes from that airstrip. We meet every arriving flight on the first day. The road transfer is four hours and we do not recommend it. US and EU passport holders do not need a visa for a stay this short. Bring reef-safe sunscreen; the regular kind is not sold here on purpose.