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Harbour View Boutique Hotel & Yoga Retreat, is located in the Belize city’s hotel strip and semi-residential area, overlooking the magnificent Belize River and Caribbean Sea, it boasts two fresh water pools perfect for cooling off on hot sunny days, surrounded with beautiful lush gardens, inhabited by many species of colourful tropical birds. It’s an authentic gated oasis. Its location is also conveniently near the water taxi terminals, the city commercial center and the airport. We offer multiple room types to ensure that there is always an ideal one for you. Whether you are a single traveller, couple, or traveling as a group of friends/family, you will find all the services to enjoy a safe and full of comfort stay. ONSITE SERVICES We offer a state of the art Yoga studio, Ayurvedic Consultations, Jyotish/ Vedic Astrology (The Science of Light) Readings, Integrated Yoga Classes (Sattva Yoga), Workshops, Meditation Initiations, and Retreats. We also offer Holistic spa therapies at Om Shanti Spa with modern eco-friendly amenities. An organic on-site garden offering farm-to-table plant-based meals, Martha’s Cafe is overlooking the Belize River and Caribbean Sea, the best views for sunrises and sunsets. Highly trained professional tour guides await your adventure in Belize. Tour desk available onsite. We offer packages inclusive of unique accommodations, healthy meals, yoga classes, massage and other spa services, yoga teacher training and sea & inland tours within the beautiful country of Belize.
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HOTEL STYLE
Romantic
Boutique
Languages Spoken
English, Spanish
Location
14 Fort Street, Belize City Belize
Harbour View Boutique Hotel & Yoga Retreat
80 reviews
Getting there
Good for walkers
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The beautiful secret of Belize has an equally beautiful place to stay, and that is the Harbour View Hotel just on the easter tip 20 minutes from the airport.
A charming boutique style hotel with small distinctive lodges for each room, all beautiful coloured and named after the local wildlife and birds, they provide a restful place to stay in Belize, for a base to ids land hop, or a place to relax and enjoy the yoga and spa. Every lodge is clean, Cooley air-conditioned a has its own hammock to gently enjoy the chilled atmosphere.
Be sure to say hello to the delightfully charming owner, Martha who has created the nicest place to stay in Belize.
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Date of stay: April 2024Trip type: Travelled solo
Room Tip:Book direct with the hotel. Ask the hotel for a good driver. Wear sun screen.
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Responded 17 Apr 2024
We are delighted to hear that you enjoyed your stay and found our boutique style lodges, amenities, and atmosphere to be relaxing and enjoyable. We appreciate your kind words and are thrilled that you had a wonderful experience with us. We hope to welcome you back again in the future for another memorable stay. Thank you for choosing Harbour View Boutique Hotel! With gratitude, The Harbour View Team
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The faculties were clean and simple. The grounds were beautiful! We moved rooms during our stay from the hibiscus 🌺 to the hummingbird and both were pool front and surrounded by nature. We also did a body scrub and massage and after 2 weeks of travel we felt so fresh and relaxed. Can’t recommend enough!
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Date of stay: August 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with friends
Room Tip:Bring a towel for the pool
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Responded 19 Aug 2024
Thank you so much for your kind words! We’re delighted to hear you had a great experience with us. We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you back soon! With gratitude, The Harbour View Team
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Checking in at reception we were given a code for access to the closed accommodation area across a street and another code for the room. After that we never saw anybody from the hotel staff for two days until checkout with the same receptionist sitting behind her desk. And we hardly ever saw any other hotel guests as well. So my wife and me were also the only persons at the two swimming pools on the grounds (which was positive).
The Deluxe King Room we had been given was spacious enough, but with only one chair behind a small desk, with no armchair or sofa, with no place to put the suitcase and with just a narrow closet. Bathroom was okay and on the terrace outside the room was a round table with two chairs and a hammock with a view of a row of room entrances just opposite and a small, narrow swimming pool.
Location is good with a short walking distance to the water taxis. On the first evening we had drinks (excellent Mojitos) and an enjoyable dinner at 'Martha's Café', being taken care of by a very friendly lady, called Chris. It was our best experience here. Unfortunately due to our early departures each day we couldn't try breakfast nor have dinner on the second night, a Sunday, when the restaurant is closed.
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Date of stay: March 2024
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Responded 13 May 2024
Thank you for sharing your feedback with us. We appreciate your insights and we are glad to hear that you enjoyed your experience at Martha's Cafe. We hope to have the opportunity to welcome you back at our hotel in the future.
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We stayed here for one night prior to leaving from the Belize Airport. Great choice, It is a short cab ride or a 10 min walk from the water taxi. It is secure with a fence and a gate with a coded keypad for entry. Very nice garden with a relaxing vibe. Comfortable spacious room. When weighing our options for breakfast we found that the Radisson (now changed to Fort George Hotel) has a nice cafe by the pool with reasonably priced and fresh baked items. We opted for that over the very highly rated but costlier breakfast at Martha's kitchen at the hotel. We rode to the airport with a shuttle arranged by the resort for a fee and that was good.
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Date of stay: March 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with family
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Responded 17 Apr 2024
Thank you for sharing your experience of staying at the Harbour View Boutique Hotel! We are delighted to hear that you found our hotel to be a great choice for your stay in Belize. We hope to have the pleasure of welcoming you back in the future. Thank you for choosing us. With gratitude, The Harbour View team
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Most of the guidebooks about Belize that we read when planning our trip had nothing but scary things to say about Belize City.
We booked this hotel because it was connected to a vegan/vegetarian place (Martha's Cafe). We clearly overspent at the Radisson about 100 yards away. The location was fantastic (short walk to the ferries to get to the cayes and away from most of the hustle and bustle of downtown Belize City), the rooms were clean, and the cottages were safe (all of the cottages are behind a keylocked gate). We spent a few more dollars to get the unit with a kitchenette. It was definitely cheaper and simpler than trying to find a restaurant that might not have been open on January 2nd. The hotel staff were very responsive to queries from WhatsApp. They even had a HDMI in their TV for our Roku stick to watch some streaming channels from home. For those of you who are partial to Martha's Cafe, you can WhatsApp your order to them as they have a copy of the breakfast and lunch menus in your room!
We didn't take part in any of the yoga activities, so i can't speak to those. We were able to secure many of the tours at a lower price point than the hotel offers. But these are minor quibbles compared the experience this team provided.
As an additional bonus, the hotel was able to let us check into the room a few hours early when one of our day tours ended early unexpectedly. Good luck trying to get that type of service from one of the larger chains. The restaurant staff was kind enough to make us a few lunch trays before we left the hotel to catch our flight in the early afternoon.
We spent five days in San Pedro. Given the fact that we only planned to snorkel for a day, it would have made more sense to make the Harbor View Boutique Hotel and Yoga Retreat our base and then take the ferry to San Pedro for our snorkeling tour. All of the other activities we wanted to do were car drives from Belize City to other parts of the country. Even most Lamanai tours start from Belize City, not the cayes.
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Date of stay: January 2023
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Wonderful massage with Giselle. We did 1 hr the first time, then 30 min a few days later. Released muscles I didn't know I had! Wow. The massage was near the pool and our cottage, all surrounded by lush tropical flowering plants. Lovely. Only negative is that the food prices are very high, esp for off-season, both at hotel and at restaurants.
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Date of stay: August 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Responded 5 Aug 2024
Thank you for your wonderful feedback! We’re thrilled to hear you enjoyed Jisselle’s massages! We look forward to welcoming you back for another relaxing stay! With gratitude, The Harbour View Team
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This place is purely magical. From the moment we walked in to the time we left, we felt an incredible sense of peace and contentment. The location is completely in the middle of chaos, yet Martha has succeeded in making it a peaceful haven. The cabins are very homey yet tasteful, the grounds are special, the food (try the tapas!) is fantastic, and the staff are amazing to a person! I cannot say enough about Harbour View! We will definitely be back, but next time we will take advantage of the additional offerings (massage, yoga, etc.).
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Date of stay: March 2024
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Trip type: Travelled with family
Room Tip:Set aside time to enjoy the peacefulness fully!
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Responded 13 May 2024
Thank you for sharing your wonderful experience at Harbour View Boutique Hotel! We are thrilled to hear that you found our location peaceful and our staff amazing. We look forward to welcoming you back and hope you enjoy our additional offerings next time. Thank you for choosing us! With gratitude, The Harbour View Team
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First the good. Comfy beds, beautiful grounds, tranquil-appearing setting. Martha’s restaurant has great food, and there are other decent restaurants close by. Staff here is friendly and helpful. Beautiful pools.
But…. Arrived to find our room with overwhelming perfume scent. (Enough to cause headache.) We left the door open to air out but it was still awful after a few hours; luckily they had another room available and moved us for one night. (It had not been booked so was not pre-scented?) Back to original room next day, which although still perfumy was manageable. (Same strong scent in reception, so someone thinks it is good).
Then the noise… Our room faced the larger pool and backed up to the rear of the property. There was a dog barking incessantly starting at 4 am. Nothing the management can manage, sadly. Pool hours are supposedly 8-8 but a group was out there later having a rolling good time… it was right outside our room. Luck of the draw there, with room location and other guests —plus no one from management reminding them that this is (supposed to be) a tranquil place. So for a quieter room perhaps request one closer the street (farther from barking dog and the larger pool, and closer to the street/front of the property; street is quiet). And if you have any scent aversion whatsoever, ask them ahead of your arrival not to spray the room. (We did realize there is a bit of sulfur scent to the water so maybe they were trying to cover that up? But why not turn it into a marketing thing, sulfurous water is medicinal, or some such thing )
Martha’s has great food but on the weekend evenings there was loud music so we had to shout for the waitress to hear. Really unpleasant for “relaxing” with a drink. Then on another night, nice mellow music, not too loud.
Unfortunate incongruence between tranquil setting and noise/perfume overload, and inconsistent experiences day to day.
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Date of stay: February 2024Trip type: Travelled as a couple
Room Tip:Secure parking area.
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Response from Harbour View Boutique Hotel, Marketing at Harbour View Boutique Hotel & Yoga Retreat
Responded 13 May 2024
Thank you for sharing your detailed feedback about your stay. We apologize for the issues you experienced with the perfume scent in your room and the noise disturbances. We value your input and hope to provide a more consistent and enjoyable experience for all our guests in the future. Thank you for choosing to stay with us. With gratitude, The Harbour View Team
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We stayed in one of the cottages, and it was sparkling clean and well appointed. The bed was the biggest, most comfortable bed we've slept on in a while! My husband enjoyed the hammock, and I enjoyed relaxing on the porch.
Check in was quick and the clerk walked us to the room, showing us how to use the codes for the gate. We felt very safe behind the locked gate, and appreciated that the parking was inside the gate as well.
There are some restaurants in the area, but we did not explore them. There is an ice cream stand within just a few steps of the hotel, it appeared to stay pretty busy.
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Date of stay: January 2023
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Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This hotel was a bit of a treat for us as it is more expensive than we would usually go for but Belize city is a bit of a sketchy place so we decided to splash out on a nice, secure hotel. You certainly get what you pay for, the little cabanas and pools are absolutely stunning! Would highly recommend staying here. Very safe and secure. Good location also.
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Date of stay: November 2023Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Eugene, Oregon, United States39 contributions9 helpful votes
I’m not sure what your specific concern about young kids is but I don’t see why not if they have a room configuration that works for you. We had a large cottage with a king bed. There is a swimming pool. The restaurant across the street has good food and amazing views.
There are more places to choose from in the Belize City area.
PRICE RANGE
$193 - $302 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
FORMERLY KNOWN AS
Harbour View Cottages & Rooms Belize
LOCATION
BelizeBelize DistrictBelize City
NUMBER OF ROOMS
10
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