Villa Michelo - Modern suites near the beach in Placencia, Apartments Belize

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South America

Belize

Stann Creek District

Caribbean

Placencia

Belmopan

4 Persons / Studio

US $ 40.- / day

Object Description

Our concrete constructed appartment villa offers agressivelly priced accommodation steps away from the beach and some 1/2 mile (800m) from the tourist office. We are located in Harbour Place, the residential part of the village (free of night life noise). In building it in 2007, we put a lot of emphasis on hygiene (virtually bugs free), safety (solid burglar protection + alarm) and comfort. The 4 suites of 330 sqft (30m2), which can cater up to 4 people, have 2 fans, a kitchen with fridge and microwave oven, bathroom with shower, television, a queens bed and a fold away single on demand, a counter and 2 to 4 stools and a table with 2 to 4 chairs for inside and outside use. All suites have AC and WiFi, premium suites have a queen sofa and their own porch with hammock to enjoy lazy moments after an active day. We offer breakfast and lunch in the café upstairs on the huge veranda overlooking the sea, lagoon and Maya Mountains. The roof top sun deck offers breathtaking views and unforgettable sunsets; it can also be used as "private" sun deck. You can get picked up for your fishing and diving at our dock in the lagoon.

Interior of the accommodation

Rooms | Suites:

1

Bedrooms / bathrooms:

1/1

Kitchen:

1

Outside:

covered terrace

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AC, TV, Wi-Fi internet, coffee shop with sea and lagoon view for breakfast and lunch, at 1/2mile-800m (out of noisy night life area) from bars, restaurants and supermarkets.

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not allowed

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available

Parking spaces:

available

Crib/Cot:

not available

Distance Restaurant:

near, about 500 meters

Distance shopping centers:

near, about 500 meters

Distance beach:

200 meters

Location and surroundings:

central location for diving on coral reef, fishing, sailing and excursions to rainforest and Maya temples.

Getting there

Coming from USA or Canada, you can easily fly into Belize City via Dallas, Miami, Houston, Atlanta and Charlotte. From there you have the choice between an airplane (12 flights a day) or a bus (4 departures a day) into Placencia.
From Europe you have the choice over America, usually with 2 to 3 connecting flights resulting in a 30 hours plus journey, which is most of the time more expensive than flying into Cancun, Mexico with a charter company. From Cancun you can catch a flight to Belize City for 199 US$, allowing you to arrive the same day in Belize City. The next morning you can fly to Placencia for some 75 US$.
From Cancun you can also take a bus through Chetumal into Belize City (50 US$) and further onto Placencia by bus or by plane. We advise you to stay over for the night in Playa del Carmen (a charming place 50km south of Cancun airport with regular bus service to and from) before undertaking the journey to Belize City by road.
If you are 2 or more, it is usually quite economical to rent a car in Cancun (some 40 to 50$ a day) for which you get additional comfort and freedom and you save on excursions. Make sure you use a car rental company (e.g. Europcar) which is prepared to give you the authorization letter to cross the border with Belize. A car high on wheels is the better choice, keeping in mind you will have to use a dirt road to get to Placencia, but a normal sedan will get you there as well when you drive carefully on the dirt road.
Playa del Carmen to Placencia is 700km on well maintained roads except for the last 25mls/35km, which is a dirt road. It can be done in some 10 hours with stops of half an hour each 200km and a probable 1 hour delay at the border to comply with the administrative procedures; you have to get complementary third party liability insurance for Belize which is not expensive, you have to have your car sprayed against mad cow disease, you have passport and customs control and you have to register your car.
Those who want to visit some impressive Maya sites en route can elect to travel 2 days towards Placencia. A worthwhile stop is Tulum in Mexico, which is some 50 km south of Playa del Carmen. Leaving there at the latest at 12 noon will allow you to cross the border with Belize before dark and have a stop at Corozal, 10 km south of the border. There's a comfortable hotel Tony's Inn along the lake. The next morning you can call onto the Lamanai temple off the road to Belize City not far from Orange Walk.
Approaching Belize City, you should turn right in the direction of Burrel Boom right after an army checkpoint. Stay on that road till the next roundabout and head for Belmopan; this way you avoid the traffic of Belize City. Go all the way to Belmopan and ignore the Placencia sign post on the western highway; it is a shorter route but includes 40mls/60km dirt road.
Once in Belmopan, Belize's capital, you head to the south east over the enchanting Hummingbird highway through the Maya Mountains. Before entering Dangriga, turn right onto the Southern highway and drive another 50km till the junction with the dirt road into Placencia. On this road keep right at all road junctions. Pass the village of Seine Bight and proceed till you arrive at the Placencia airport. Michelo's flats are at 1 km from the airport on the main street into the village on the left hand side just after the Atlantic Bank.

Sport, Activities and Attractions

The Placencia peninsula is fast becoming the "Key West" of the western Caribbean for holidays en residence, and this old fishing village is the home of numerous resorts, hotels and guesthouses and an impressive number of ocean going catamarans that are available for charter. The peninsula also has the largest beach on Belize mainland and is strategically located for land and sea tours. Pictured below are the major attractions (click on picture underneath to obtain more information). The local cabanas along the famous sidewalk create a colorful patchwork of shops and restaurants. Everything is within walking distance in the village: a gym and yoga centre, massages, internet cafés, grocery stores, ice cream and coffee shops. Live entertainment and karaoke make a festive night life. There is also a disco and bowling north of the air strip.
More and more visitors from all over the world, who want to give a spiritual value to their holidays, flock to Placencia for the recently built universal energy dome for healing of traumas and spiritual rejuvenation in symbiosys with the adjacent Mayan culture.

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