Great location, great view. Couldn't live there full time, as there was no closet space, but for vacation, it was fine. We were here to scope out a possible real estate purchase. There is still an 8 pm curfew in all of Belize.
The first day we arrived late, and hunkered down with streaming Netflix to check out our WiFi connection. It worked great. Day 2, we tried to check out some listings in the morning, but found the internet was out. We had heard it could be spotty at times all over the island. We met friends for lunch, discovered that they had no internet interruptions, We returned home after, and ours was still out. (yes, we unplugged, rebooted the router, all to no avail.) So, we went exploring around the condo on foot because we liked the area so much. We found lots of "for sale" signs, taking photos of the property and the listing agent so we could check out amenities, photos, and prices online. Then we returned to the condo after supper. We had eaten at a place with wifi, so we utilized the restaurant WiFi to send a message to our hostess at the condo that we were having problems. She said she would talk to someone to fix it in the morning. By the time we got home, it was up and running already! We sent a message to our hostess, said it was a false alarm, and she cancelled the service call. From 8-8:30pm, we looked up some listings to see what all was available, hoping to drive by over the next three days. Then the connection was lost for the rest of the 6days. We couldn't contact our hostess because we didn't have an internet connection. Our phones were locked to other SIM cards through our provider. We didn't have even roaming capability--no signal. The Digi-store suggested we buy their $250 phone and treat it like a disposable smart phone. We just couldn't justify that $$ when the internet might be up that night. When we ran into an acquaintance, we told him we were trying to get hold of our hostess, and he contacted her. She couldn't get through to us until day5 when we had wifi at another restaurant. She tried to get someone over to address it, but they couldn't come until day 6. The morning, we moved on to Hopkins/Placencia and had great WiFi reception to look online. We found our best fit, tho, was back on Ambergris Caye with three different properties that, thru their listings, we could get an idea of features, inside appearance and prices. But our trip wasn't going to take us back to Ambergris Caye to see the properties firsthand. We are now going to leave a day early from Hopkins, forfeiting a $200 a night prepayment home rental, drive back to Belize City, forfeiting a $50/day prepaid rental car and insurance, get two extra round trip water-taxi rides ($120) to Ambergris Caye, spend another $100 on a room (Brahma Blue has great prices) to see the three properties firsthand. Guess we should have spent the $250 on a throwaway smart phone for four days. BTW, roads to the last mile of the condo from San Pedro on the first three days were atrocious--potholes filled with water of unknown depth sometimes appeared impassable, except no telltale stranded carts were seen. Use the Caye Caulker motto: GO SLOW! They regrated them on day 3, and were much better.