On the beach we used to rent in Placencia, Belize, about 1988.

Read more on this topic on the Huffington Post. The article was written by Joshua Berman, who has visited us out on Long Caye in the past.

A past guest on our Mayan Odyssey tour, at Caracol Mayan ruin.

You can view our Belize flights chart on our website, but the summary is right now if you fly from Dallas, LA, Miami, NYC or Washington, DC, the prices for Belize flights are very good.

If you love fly fishing, you’ll want to read their first-hand account of fishing on the reef in Belize (the section on Belize starts half-way down the page at the section titled Tarpon Caye Lodge. Here’s a sample about their pursuit of their most difficult prey, the permit:

“Casting to permit is like taking a freethrow to win the game with one second on the clock. The pressure is always on, you have one shot and if you miss your chance you replay the scenario over in your head a thousand times. God it is addicting.”

Last February Meg Griffiths, our kitesurf and advanced windsurfing instructor, kept track of wind speeds through the month of February. Sailors visiting us this February will be glad to see most days are plenty windy for Belize kitesurfing! (photo above by Pete McDermott)

Visit our Family Vacation web page for more info and special prices for kids at our island adventure resort.

There is one other exception: lionfish — anyone can spear them because they are an invasive species from the Pacific Ocean (the Caribbean is an Atlantic sea). Lionfish are very detrimental to the native species population, and killing them is encouraged. Watch this short video of our guide, Victor Myers, spearing one.

The lionfish, native to the Indo-Pacific region, have infiltrated their way into the Caribbean. Their introduction is believed to be a result of hurricanes and tank releases during the early 1990’s. They have been spotted along the eastern seaboard spanning as far north as Rhode Island to as far south as Columbia. Protected by venomous spines, lionfish are voracious predators. When hunting, they herd and corner their prey using their pectoral fins, then quickly strike and swallow their prey whole. With few known natural predators, the lionfish poses a major threat to coral reef ecosystems in the Caribbean region by decreasing survival of a wide range of native reef animals via both predation and competition. While native grouper may prey on lionfish, they have been overfished and therefore unlikely to significantly reduce the effects of invasive lionfish on coral reef communities.

Help us do something about this problem! Bring your spear gun with you on one of our island trips!

A week and a half ago I checked airfares and they had dropped from 5 cities only: Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, NYC, and San Francisco. So I blogged about it. Today, they dropped from every single city EXCEPT those 5 cities. They went up in those 5. Go figure.

The largest drops were from Philadelphia and Baltimore. Those flights to Belize on March 2, returning March 11, are $160 less than they were 10 days ago. The other 19 cities that I found lower fares mostly show a $100+ savings. The least amount of savings was from Phoenix. The rate to fly from there is $42 less this week than last.

To see the full list with current flights to Belize, visit our Belize flights page.