The accommodations at the headquarters/trailheads are rough but manageable and really really really inexpensive. The composting toilets are environmentally appropriate (as opposed to injecting hundreds of gallons of contaminated water into the ground like most toilets). The showers work but have no hot water which is pretty unnecessary in the tropics anyway. The mattresses are incredibly cheap. Imagine summer camp... more

Just got back from staying here for 2 nights. I stayed in one of the dorm rooms (3 sets of bunkbeds per room) it cost US$18 per bed per night. Although the whole camp sleeps about 50 people when I was there there was 1 other the first night and 2 the second (there are the dorms, private cabins and... more

We stayed at Cockscomb for 3 nights in the WhiteHouse in the reserve. This was easy to book through the reserve website and cheap. There were only 2 of us but the house slept 7 ($54). You have to take your own food in though. There were other accommodations there but ours was in the middle of nowhere and we... more

Of all the travels and tours I have done around the globe, (and Central America) this is bar none the BEST adventure experience of my life! I'm so glad I took the advice of a friend who recommended I go with licenced guide Doyle Gardiner, of Nite Wind Tours in Placencia. He is the only guide in Belize that offers... more