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What is the best swimming beach near Belize City?


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The nearest "beach" to Belize City is a 20 minute cab ride. "Cucumber Beach is part of Old Belize. It's a manmade beach primarily for locals but if all you want is some sand between you toes and some salt water to take a dip in with a bar nearby, it will fit the bill.

 

http://www.oldbelize.com/

 

And there are a coupel of You Tube vids out there if you google them under "Cucumber Beach Belize".

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Do we want to go to San Pedro or Caye Caulker and how do we get there? How far is it and how long of a water taxi ride is it? How would I schedule this? Can anyone help me. We are on the Dream January 4th.

Here's the water taxi schedules.

http://www.ccwatertaxi.com/

 

http://www.belizewatertaxi.com/

 

The water taxis leave from two places just a couple of blocks from the tender pier and just a few blocks further up past the swing bridge.

 

You might wish to make reservations but you can probably just buy tickets there.

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I have stayed on Caye Caulker for a land vacation. It is a laid-back village, no paved roads, no autos. You can walk whereever you want or you can rent golf carts. There is a lot of seagrass in the water near the water taxi dock and pretty much everywhere else except at "The Spit", which is a fair walk from the taxi dock. Anyone can point you the way. Water is very calm there and shallow a long way out, very good for children. However, the water taxi ride is at least 45 minutes and can be very rough. No shade on the taxis I saw, tho' that might have changed. I would be a bit leery of trying to do this on my own, tho' I know some people do so.

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There are no beaches near Belize City except for Cucumber beach, about 20 minute taxi ride away. Have never been there but have read this is a man-made beach used mostly by locals. No RCI excursions to beaches currently. Island Marketing offers a private excursion to Goff's Cay which is very small, but I have read several positive reviews.

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