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Eat 'n Sleep in Belize :: Amor y Cafe and Tina's

Where: Caye Caulker, Belize

9/05/2007 at 12:35 PM
Tags: Belize Travel, Caribbean Travel, Eat-n-Sleep (all tags)

Our Eat 'n Sleep feature profiles a restaurant in a random city and a hotel nearby. It's kinda like that old show "Dinner and a Movie" but you know, with restaurants and hotels. And better jokes.

Hostels, bungalows, and cafés line Front Street on Caye Caulker, the tiny island off the coast of Belize. Amor y Café is the perfect place to drink morning coffee and watch "downtown" wake up. The narrow dirt path serves as the one-mile island's main drag. While over-the-top Italian restaurants along the strip indicate the locals are catering to what they think travelers want, Amor adheres to the island's backpacker tradition. The new owners pay attention to details, from the still-warm homemade breads to the still-tacky homemade granola.

Brightly-painted clapboard houses line the ocean shore on Caye Caulker. Visitors find a range of prices and amenities, but general no-frills, yet comfortable accommodations. Before we visited, we heard a resounding recommendation for Tina's Backpacker's Hostel--the red building on the far right of this picture. Sure, we usually shun low-budget sleeping arrangements, but no visit to Caye Caulker is complete without hanging out and cooking dinner with some fun-loving Germans. The rooms are clean, the hammocks comfortable and the water surprisingly warm. If that's low budget, we don't mind it a bit.

Related Stories:
· Amor y Café [Frommers]
· Tina's Backpacker's Hostel [Official Site]
· Belize coverage [Jaunted]
· Belize Hotels [HotelChatter]

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