Reply To: Anyone been to Belize?

[supergraeme]

Spent a night in Belize City before a week on the beach in Placencia last Summer. Loved it. That night was only required because of a flight change, otherwise we’d have gone straight to Placencia. Very much enjoyed short (but bloody expensive) flights on Tropic Air.

Placencia was safe as houses and lovely. Belize City was fine, although it was more like a city/town than a resort area (because it is!) – people hanging about, kids on bikes etc. Ate in a very ‘local’ restaurant in BC and the Polish chap who worked there and had lived there for years said that if any kids on bikes hassled us to tell them to go away or we’d call the Police. Later that night a kid rode alongside us for a while asking for money. He then said he was in the Taliban, so I told him to go away or I’d call the Police – and off he shot! We didn’t really feel unsafe though. Drank at a brilliant local ‘bar’ that was basically a shed overhanging the river where beer and “seagrape wine” cost pennies.