Today is our last full day at Lagoon Resort and Apartments. We need to go pay my dive tab and deal with the plus, our air conditioning for the time at Lagoon. They give a room rate but in their app they inform you that air conditioning is extra. We didn’t get the app until after we were here since we don’t just add a bunch of apps. The app also wasn’t that useful for us either. I understand that A/C can be expensive but add it to the room rate up front. they have meters on the units but ours hasn’t changed since we got here. The woman we spoke to this morning said that we won’t get charged for A/C since it didn’t track it. So that’s a plus. We are spending that money on gas for the rental as we didn’t find the closest gas station.
We have a few more pictures from our trip.
Well today is the last full day of this vacation. Overall it wasn’t bad, we’ve had better diving and snorkeling, my dive days were the days for being in the water. I really enjoyed my dives. Karl was very helpful and I got good practice with buoyancy and air consumption. I am good with 12 lbs of weight which isn’t bad, Karl uses 10. 52 minutes on a regular tank puts me in the same as most of the better divers I have dove with in the past.
There were some things we didn’t like about here, walking around where we stayed isn’t a thing. In the capital there would be more but then more people as well.
Needing a car, added expense to get around, scooters are cheaper and means things are closer and easy to find.
Food was better when we cooked than the restaurant here at the hotel. It was okay but expensive for what it was. The kitchen was small and probably could use a couple more pans. Not a lot of options and everything was a bit more expensive than other places. The only local food offered was a stew. Seems they eat a lot of stew and bread.
People mostly kept to themselves which can be a positive, but we do like to have a conversation with locals and they definitely kept to themselves. We did meet some folks from North Carolina. Karl was probably the most talkative person but we also spent the most time together.
If we were to come back here we would stay further east on the edge of the capital, probably the other side, there are some places there where there is supposed to be more coral and the ships that are there for diving are closer. I don’t see it happening but it may. I think we would still need a car and that’s a hassle.
I don’t know if it’s a complaint but the pool is 5 foot 7 inches deep, I can stand up in it but not Emily. There are two sets of stairs and two corners that have a place you can sit a couple people but otherwise it 5’7” deep.
They do allow smoking in the open air dining areas, I don’t know about closed areas. I don’t care for that while I’m eating.
The weather was perfect okay, it is the rainy season and it did rain some. It never really interfered with anything for us. Temps were good around 84 with a breeze. Sometimes very breezy. Slightly humid. A lot more greenery here than expected with that humidity.
I don’t have a strong urge to go back home tomorrow so that’s a good sign that we had a good vacation. I won’t be disappointed though either that I am going back home tomorrow. It was a relaxing vacation with good practice dives. Emily and I got to do some snorkeling and had time to not be caught up in regular home stuff.
We are partially packed. Our flight doesn’t leave until 3:30 tomorrow afternoon so we will have until lunchtime to finish up. It will be a late night getting back to St Louis but that’s normal.
Hopefully you have enjoyed our blog posts. We are going to probably try mainland Belize again but on the beach next time. We are hoping to combine both elements of what we enjoyed the last time in Belize without the long boat ride to the islands. But nothing is settled yet. There is some discussion about some classes we both want to do, Emily would like to do a free diving class and I am going to get my advanced open water. I will need it and a specialty to be a Master Diver when I get to 50 dives. I’m sitting at 29 so it’s coming up probably in the next few vacations.
I’m also thinking about a solo diver course then I would just get gear and tanks and go out with Emily as she snorkels and free dives.
Be good or at least good at it!
Traveling with Emily! 