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Travel to Belize During COVID: PCR Testing and Safe Hotels

Our last sunset on Thatch Caye in Belize before we headed to the jungle

Belize re-opened for international travel on October 1st! Keep reading to learn how to travel to Belize during COVID, how to stay safe at a “Gold Standard” hotel, and how to complete the updated PCR testing requirements for entry.

Belize, Central America

Travel to Belize During COVID: Socially Distancing on an Almost Private Island

How to get to and from Thatch Caye, an almost private island in Belize

After assuming for almost an entire year that our November 2020 trip to Belize we would have to be cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, we were pleasantly surprised to learn that Belize is back open for tourism as of October 1st! Click here to learn about how to travel to Belize during COVID, and then keep reading below to see how we stayed on an *almost* private island to keep up our social distancing even while traveling.