Manatee Lodge is a little piece of Heaven. My husband and I traveled all over both the Cayes and Cayo district of Belize during our recent May honeymoon. During this time we saw a number of lodges and varying places to stay and out of all of these, Manatee Lodge is one of the few that really stood out. The... more

Gales Point was the first stop on our honeymoon after getting married in Cayo and spending a few days on Caye Caulker with friends, and our only regret was not having more time there. While we loved every minute of the trip in Belize, Gales Point was the one place where we felt more like travellers than tourists. Tourism hasn't... more

The location of Manatee Lodge couldn't be better. The website looked better than the actual place however. Maintenance needs to be done on the facility in order for me to highly recommend it to others. Screens with big holes in the windows are unacceptable in a jungle environment. We had to ask for towels for our room, and we were... more

To begin a very ambitious 2-week honeymoon tour of Belize, we reserved a room at the Manatee Lodge for our first night in the country. Due to some plane delays, we had to drive our rental car at night down the Manatee (Southern) Highway. It was sooo dark and it made for a very nervous, bumpy ride! Driving into the... more

Our experience this December (2007) was a little different. The lodge is much more rundown than the website implies. The room was very dirty, as was the bathroom. No fan. The screens on the windows had rips, bringing in mosquitos. Leaks in the roof. all the equipment and amenities are broken. We had a pretty miserable night. We were the... more

The Manatee Lodge has a beautiful location at the end of a peninsula. We were a little hesitant about staying in a lodge with no air conditioning but were pleasantly surprised with the nice breeze that blew through our windows. They also provided 3 fans in our room. We stayed in a unit on the 2nd floor which had windows... more