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In the description it lists this excursion as strenuous. But it doesn't sound too bad - any comments?

The most strenuous part is walking the 10 minutes from the pier.

A lot of people just missed their flights...

Almost did on the 17th getting off, thought we'd be sitting around the airport waiting for our 1:30pm flight, instead made the gate 2 minutes before it closed.

I usually bring one of those universal travel 3 outlet adapters, and plug it into the 240 Euro style outlet. I use that to charge my electronics that handle 120V or 240V automatically. That'll leave the normal 120V for any other uses I have.

Just did 1570, which is under the solarium just behind the whirlpool overhang. Was pretty quiet. A couple of times, when everything was really quiet, I could hear carts rolling over head, but it was faint. Didn't hear any other kind of people traffic or noise, not even from the whirlpool.

I did this excursion mid April. It was about a 10 minute walk from the pier to the Jeep place. The Jeeps were all fairly new (ours had 600km on the odo). The trip was about 55km in length, 20 km on trail which is on the other side of the island, the rest on roads getting to the trail and back. The trail portion of the drive was lots of fun. 10 km in to the small ruins, and 10km back out (stopping at the beach which was about 6 km to the road as a guess). A regular 4x4 person would likely find it tame, but those that don't have the opportunity to 4x4 often, it was a lot of fun navigating the rock piles, the sandy ruts, and the paths through the palms that often had big palm leaves slapping the windshield.

The only real downside was the lack of restrooms anywhere. If you're too shy to find a bush somewhere, you might be in real trouble if you can't hold it for a few hours.

The only other cautionary note is that these Jeeps with the big off-road tires and sloppy off-road steering setup worked superbly on trail, handled like total crap on the paved roads. At one point we got caught behind and had to speed up to catch up. At about 80kph these Jeeps wander around on the road fiercely and requires some extra skill to stay in lane. There was so much drag on these big tires that even going over a mildly rough patch on the dry pavement caused the tire slip indicator to flash on the dashboard. (RC denied my review when I mentioned this).

Anybody finding there are mosquitos here and had any problems, daughter and her bf going on cave tubing tour, I not sure what we are doing yet just need to know because I have lupus and have to prevent infections and such.

I just did a cave tubing excursion 2nd week of April. We used repellent but frankly, it wasn't necessary, at least at that time. I didn't notice any mosquitos at all, biting or flying about.

But that said, it was very dry in Belize when we were there, I was told it was near the end of their dry season which I believe lasts until May or June. On the bus trip from Belize City the outskirts of the town looked like dry lake beds. I'm assuming from that appearance it does get quite wet some parts of the year, but as of a few weeks ago it was not. The caves are in the forest though but even there with all the people, pretty much no bugs.

My suggestion, check and see the weather and if it's still being dry, you're pretty safe (still do the repellent as precaution).