We stayed in Bellevue back in December 2003, for a couple of weeks. We were on a budget so worked out very well, I think we payed about £26 a night.
The hotel is situated on the south side of the swing bridge, overlooking the sea, and although it is easy access to the shops, if you haven't been to Belize before I would suggest you stay on the other side of the water. (On a budget check out Bayview Guesthouse)
The room was very big, in what would have been a lovely building many years ago. But this hotel has needs alot of work and I think for most people this would not be an ideal place to stay.
It has a private pool out back, which is normally empty as the hotel is normally empty! I would end up cleaning the pool of leaves etc, as no one else seemed to do it.
Nice little outside bar next to the pool. Also has a nightclub in the basement. Actually didn't realise until one of my Uncle's took us there, on New Years Eve. Was not bad!

I have stayed in some rough places and honestly dont know where to start. Here is my Belleview Top 10.


10. The ONLY lock on our door was the chain.

9. No hot water..ever. Cold water occasionally.

8. Bed in Room #117 slopes to one side at about 30 degrees. We tried sleeping at an angle to stay off the floor.

7. Funky nursing home smell.

6. $87 a night, really??

5. Not clean. Welcome to Belize City. Not a town for tourists.

4. Truly a "Roach" motel. They were friendly roaches though.

3. "Sea view" room included a poster of the sea. I have pictures.

2. Karaoke until all hours of the night. I still can't get 'I got you babe' out of my head.

1. Armed carjacking in front of the hotel

All in all, Belize City is a GREAT place to go for mission work, but thats about it.

Where to start!
There are limited good things that can be said about this hotel. It was conveniently located from the boat terminal to the cayes.

Now the numerous complaints.

We must have had heat stroke on the way back from the Cayes to have agreed to stay here. We even did the sensible thing and wanted to see the room before agreeing to stay. But one of the owners talked so much we found ourselves staying just to get him to stop talking.

The reception area is perhaps the nicest part of the hotel. The walk to our room was through swampy sludgy carpet that squelched. We travelled through dark corridors - which we found did not have any lights. (Possibly so you don't see quite how bad the place really was).

Our room door did not lock properly. There was at least a two inch gap after we "locked" the door. There was a cockroach infestation. This, supposedly one of the best rooms, had not been cleaned for a while.

We were told that all rooms had a TV with over a 100 channels. Our room did not even have a TV. We had task 3 times to get one and when it arrived there were two channels. Both local ones. Actually one channel was a permanent Belizean home shopping channel. When we enquired at reception about the other channels the staff looked confused then laughed at us. Clearly we had been lied to and were not the first to go through this pantomime.

The hotel dining room consisted of two ramshakle tables in a closet of a room. And the one day we ordered room service we got pizza that tasted like it had died a month ago and had been mumified in salt.

A terrible place to stay - we are grateful to have survived a night in this hell hole of a hotel without contracting anything life endangering.

My trip to Belize was fantastic... Except for my last night before heading back home. I stayed at the Bellevue hotel. I still don't know how I survived this horrible experience.
I got there, the guy at the front desk gave me a room that had no light in it, I realized it at 6pm when the sun went down and I couldn't see anything in my room. I called the front desk, they said they would send security, an hour later, I called again and the front desk employee came to my room, as he said, "security" was to busy, and made me move to another room. Everything about both rooms was disgusting, it stunk, the bed was falling appart, the windows were broken and held by tape and cardboard. There was also a loud karaoke going on in the hotel bar/night club until late a night.
But my worst disappointment about the hotel is that the restaurant was no longer there. I had pick this hotel just so I wouldn't have to get out at night time. So for dinner, the employee sent me to a restaurant around the corner which happened to be closed that night. When I got back to the hotel, the only solution that was presented to me was to order some chinese food which made me sick all night long. For your own good, I suggest you never go there.