Ambergris Caye is a busy little island. The streets are constantly bustling - but not with a lot of cars. The main forms of transportation on the island are bicycles and golf carts! While there are a few cars - particularly taxis, there are HUNDREDS of golf carts and bikes.
Xanadu is fantastic and offers free bikes for guest use, and they also offer golf cart rentals. You can rent one for a half day, full day, or a week. If we had planned to get out more and hit the local nightlife, it would absolutely be worth it to rent a golf cart. While the island is only a couple of miles long, there are no sidewalks in a lot of areas, and walking (or pushing a stroller, in our case) was a little treacherous at times! Especially when we tried to make the walk into town for dinner, returning after dark!
Not only is walking not convenient, but once you are even just one block in from the ocean, the breeze that makes the shoreline SO lovely is completely gone - and for Montana folk like us who are coming off a dry, cold winter, that island heat and humidity really got us! Our poor kids (who were just riding in the stroller, mind you) looked like they had run a marathon! We are definitely not cut out for island heat!
There are a ton of great little restaurants, ice cream joints and neat places to check out, and with a golf cart, you create your own breeze and shorten the travel time to just a few minutes in each direction!
If you’re staying on the half of the island north of the airport, the main strip of town is shut down to traffic (even golf carts) during busy season and on weekend nights - so during that time, pedestrians take over and enjoy full run of the road!
Xanadu Island Resort - Taxi into town (Erin Correia)
And if you don't want to rent a golf cart or hop on a bike, taxis are reliable, cheap and readily available, as our children quickly learned!
Whether you decide to hop on two wheels or four, it's easy to make your way around the island!
Jess was great. Our plans changed and we had to make some adjustments and she was super helpful. Finding us a cost-effective alternative to our original trip plan.
Glenn
3 weeks ago
Jessica was wonderful! She made every effort to ensure our trip was just what we wanted.
Celine Krafft
3 weeks ago
Erin was easy to work with and very helpful. She was patient and helped us figure out the adventure tour we were hoping for in Belize. Can’t wait to go on this trip!
Sam Wedll
3 weeks ago
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I've worked with Adventure Life before in planning trips and appreciate the quality of trips they put together. They use knowledgeable local guides, comfortable lodgings, and assist with transportation. I find trip planning stressful, so am happy to turn it over to them. They work within our parameters of time, budget, activity level, and types of activities to give us great experiences!
Kaesa Footracer
3 months ago
Jess was so helpful in talking me through some of the trip options I'd told her I was interested in, and then also bringing up similar alternatives with more flexible dates. Now that everything is booked I realize all the extra things she figured out for us as well, besides booking the transfers from and to each location, she realized that we wouldn't make it to my desired flight time on three departure date and was able to easily add another day so that even our departure day is stress free!
