Being that this is within 2 weeks from leaving for Belize, we have our transportation plans finally set in stone for our transportation to and from Ambergris Caye and to and from San Ignacio. What a relief!

Courtney called up RentalCarGroup.com and requested a Suzuki Jimni for our three day rental- Wednesday around noon until early Saturday morning of our trip. The Suzuki Jimni was no longer available and apparently they claimed that all cars that were within budget there were already reserved as well as with the other car rental companies in the area. Maybe we should not have procrastinated so much on booking the car rental?

We did make a reservation with RentalCarGroup and had to weigh in the pros and cons of doing so with them. The cons, a tad bit more expensive than the other car rental places we had looked at but the pros involved this company having two locations- at the Marine Terminal where the water taxi arrives/drops off and also at the Goldson International airport. The ease of taking a water taxi from Ambergris Caye and grabbing the car right there will be much better and worth the money of the headache of taking/paying a taxi to take us back up to the International airport to pick-up a car rental. All in all- we got the car rental for $195. And we are able to drop it off at the airport when we leave Belize nixing a taxi cab ride from the trip.

We have also decided to take a flight right from the International Airport when we arrive in Belize straight to the Ambergris Caye. While taking flights from the municipal airport is way cheaper, you also still have the headache of getting your bags, grabbing a taxi and traveling to the municipal airport and then waiting for the flight you booked there. Also, if you book with Mayan Islands Air and pay
with cash, you tend to get a 20-25% cash discount. A one way trip is $63 and add in the discount and you pay $53.55 each. If flying from the Municipal airport with Maya Airlines it would have cost $35 but with the discount at $26.25 per person but add on the cab fare of $25 and the time you waste doing it. We can fly out of The Philip Goldson International airport for an additional $15ish dollars each and save about an hour or more of down time and nix that taxi ride.

As for the water taxi, we found an express water taxi (San Pedro Express Water Taxi) that will take about an hour to San Pedro from the Marine Terminal near the Swing Bridge in Belize City. The price is the same as the other water taxi we were considering. We have decided that will be our method of leaving Ambergris Caye.