Luxury Belize Holiday: Coast, Rainforest and a Private Island
Eleven days of beach villas, a rainforest spa lodge in cacao country and four nights on a private island with a butler: Belize at its most beautiful and its most private.
Your trip
Your 11 days in Belize
This is Belize slowed right down. A small plane carries you down the coast to a beachfront villa on the Placencia peninsula, where the only plan is the sea. Then a short hop south to Toledo, the green, quiet end of the country, for a rainforest lodge with a spa, a river at the door and chocolate made from the cacao the Maya farmers grow around it. The last four nights are on a private island off Ambergris Caye, with a handful of villas, your own stretch of water and a butler to arrange whatever you want: a dive on the barrier reef, a day on a boat, dinner in San Pedro or a private flight over the Great Blue Hole. Every flight, transfer and boat is private or arranged around you.
At a glance
11 days
Private tripJust your own party
Easy to ModerateActivity level
Flights includedATOL protected
Flexible datesYou choose when you go
BelizeOur destination guide
What makes it special
Highlights
The Placencia coast
A beachfront villa on the Placencia peninsula, reached by a short flight along the coast
Cacao country
Toledo, the cacao country of the far south: chocolate from pod to bar
A rainforest lodge
A rainforest lodge in Toledo, with a spa and a river at the door
A private island
Four nights on a private island off Ambergris Caye, with a butler to look after you
Your own boat
Private boat days to dive, snorkel or fish the barrier reef
The Great Blue Hole
The Great Blue Hole from the air, on a private flight
Flights from the UK
Return flights from London, so the whole holiday is ATOL protected
Day by day
Your itinerary
Day 1Arrive in Belize, fly down the coast
You land at Belize City, where you are met and taken to a small plane for the short flight south along the coast, the reef on one side and the rainforest on the other. By the time the bags are in your beachfront villa on the Placencia peninsula, you are on Belize time. If your flights land late, we book the first night near the airport and you fly on in the morning.
Day 2Placencia
A day with nothing in it. The villa has a pool, the beach is at the end of the garden and the kayaks are free to borrow. Breakfast included.
Day 3A private boat to the cayes
Your own boat and skipper for the day: out to the little cayes and the barrier reef to snorkel, with a picnic lunch on an island of your choice. Breakfast and lunch included.
Day 4Fly south to Toledo
A short flight to Punta Gorda in the far south, and a drive into the rainforest to a lodge in the hills, for three nights. Toledo is the least visited corner of Belize and the most beautiful to many who know it. Breakfast included.
Day 5Cacao country
Toledo grows most of the cacao in Belize, much of it on small Maya family farms. With a guide you see the pods on the tree and follow the beans through fermenting, roasting and grinding to a bar of chocolate you make yourself. The afternoon is for the spa. Breakfast and lunch included.
Day 6Rainforest, river or ruins
Your choice for the day: a walk with a guide in the rainforest, an afternoon on the river, or the Maya sites of Nim Li Punit and Lubaantun nearby. Or simply the spa and the pool. Breakfast included.
Day 7To your private island
A flight north to San Pedro on Ambergris Caye, where a boat takes you out to a private island with only a few villas. Your butler meets you on the dock. Four nights. Breakfast included.
Day 8The island and the reef
Your butler can arrange any of it: a dive or a snorkel on the barrier reef, a morning bonefishing on the flats, a massage on your deck, or nothing at all. Breakfast included.
Day 9The Great Blue Hole from the air
A private flight out over the reef to the Great Blue Hole, the dark circle of water more than 300 metres across that every photo of Belize seems to show, and back over the atolls. Dinner tonight in San Pedro, if you would like a change of scene. Breakfast included.
Day 10A last day on the island
One more day of sea and sun, with a boat to Hol Chan for a last snorkel if you want it. Breakfast included.
Day 11Fly home
A boat to San Pedro and a short flight to Belize City for your flight home, arriving in the UK the next day. Breakfast included.
Your price covers
What's included
Flights
Return flights from London to Belize City, changing planes in the US or Canada (other UK airports on request)
We can also book other airlines, including flights with one stop, to suit your dates and preferences.
Accommodation
Ten nights: a beachfront villa in Placencia, a rainforest spa lodge in Toledo and a villa on a private island off Ambergris Caye, named in your quote
Meals
Breakfast every day, and lunch on the private boat day and the cacao day
Internal flights
The domestic flights in Belize, private transfers and boat transfers throughout
Boat trips
A private boat and skipper for a day off Placencia, and a private flight over the Great Blue Hole
Guides and tours
Every trip in the itinerary with a licensed local guide
ATOL protection
ATOL protection on the whole holiday
Not included: Travel insurance · Meals not listed · Drinks · Tips for guides and drivers · A US ESTA or Canadian eTA for the connecting flight · Personal spending · Spa treatments · Diving and fishing on the island, arranged on request
Your next step
Dates and price
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Before you book
Frequently Asked Questions
We price every Belize holiday to your dates, the lodges you like and the flights on the day, so there is no set price on this page. Tell us when you would like to travel and we will send a full quote, with flights, hotels and every trip included. Nothing is booked until you are happy with it.
It is one of the best we know. The three stays get quieter and more private as you go, and the island at the end is made for two. Tell us it is a honeymoon and we will make sure every place knows.
No. Snorkelling on the reef is wonderful on its own, and the island can arrange a try-dive with an instructor if you want a first taste. Certified divers can dive every day.
There is no direct flight. Most routes change planes in the US, often with a night on the way, and on winter Sundays one route via Montréal lands the same evening. The days on this page start when you land in Belize. We book the flights with the holiday, so the whole trip is ATOL protected, and you will need an ESTA or a Canadian eTA for the connection.
The dry season, February to May, is the best time for the reef, the caves and the ruins. June to December is the rainy season, with heavy showers that tend to come in the afternoon, and the hurricane season runs from June to November, with most of the risk from August to October. It is warm all year, around 29 degrees.
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Photo/Video courtesy of the Belize Tourism Board
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