Avis Half Board on the Beach

Do not utilize the tourism center associated with this property. Paid for a 4 hour snorkeling trip and received a two hour snorkeling trip.

Your excellence in friendliness, your happy attitude, and cleanliness was an absolute 12/10 service. Thank you for treating us like family! You were very welcoming and kind with a smile and open arms. We will definitely be coming back to La Isla Bonita to come visit with you again. It was an absolute pleasure meeting you. I hope you enjoyed the key lime pie we left for you. I would also hope that if someone else would ever need the aloe or rash cream, it would be available to them. Thank you for taking care of us! We hope to come belizeit with you guys again soon. ❤️

Location is quiet and clean. Cabanas were comfortable and clean. Staff was friendly and helpful with anything we needed. Beach area was not great due to the sea grass situation and we had very windy weather.

The property was very cute, secluded, not crowded at all, but because it was the off season, things typically offered like on-site breakfast, coffee, bike rentals, golf cart rentals were not available. Additionally, the name of the property is known as "The Royal Caribbean" NOT "Half Board on the Beach" so none of the local taxi drivers or anyone really knew what we were talking about!

The cute little cabins are all private cabins within feet of the water. Our cabin had a queen bed that was comfy and a living room complete with tv, Wi-Fi, and a kitchenette. The kitchen was small and had a mini fridge, microwave, coffee pot and upon request a hot plate and pan (which became essential when we tested positive for Covid and had to stay another 5 days on the island in quarantine). The property is located south of the town of San Pedro just about 1.5miles. An easy walk or you can rent a golf cart or get a taxi into town. We walked every where for the most part. You can walk the roads or along the beach front. There are several restaurants within a few minutes walk and town is full of options. There are many small grocery stores, a bakery and wonderful fruit stands located all along the streets and with pharmacies very accessible. There is a wonderful little bar called Toast right on property that we had many a cocktail at! The people working there were very friendly and kind. The food was bar food but very tasty. They had some kind of entertainment there every night from live music to karaoke and trivia. The beach front at the property is sadly in need of sand. It apparently was washed out and nothing has been done to restore this. I’m hoping this will be taken care of because it is definitely a draw back since we came to Ambergris for the beach! Otherwise the property is well maintained with an abundance of palm trees and beautiful flowers. Also something to consider is the Sargassum algae bloom which of course was natures deal and the resort dealt with as efficiently as they could. They kept the sandless beach pretty clear of it but the smell and the off gassing from this algae is horrible. I strongly recommend checking on the status of this during your travel dates so you won’t be surprised at just how terrible this is and how it can affect your stay. What I do want to praise is the staff at the Royal Caribbean Resort. We were treated like family especially by our very favorite staff member Miss Marcie. She greeted us every day with a smile and did everything she could to make our stay memorable. She saved us once we were put into quarantine by getting us water, groceries, had food delivered to us and even medicines. We will be forever grateful for her care and attention. The people on Ambergris are very friendly and kind. We did some wonderful diving! We dove with Blue Heaven and also Ramon’s. I highly recommend Blue Heaven!

Everything was fine about the property, the casitas are cute and are bigger than they look. The only thing is that if you are staying by yourself it is dark and quiet at night. If you are ok with that then this is a great place!