New home for water taxis at Tourism Village
It was part of the original plan for the Belize City Tourism Village, but is only just now being put into place. A number of water taxis, previously working out of other locations on the Haulover Creek, have joined together to form the Tourism Village Water Taxi Association. According to association president-pro-tem Joe Marin, getting to Caye Caulker and San Pedro will now be more convenient than ever.
Joe Marin, Tourism Village Water Taxi Assoc.
“We have modern facilities here, we have very good docking area, much better than what I have over there. And it’s a moving world, you’ve got to keep moving up.”
Stewart Krohn
“Up until this time, the main water taxi terminal has been the marine terminal just up the Haulover Creek. It there room do you believe for both that terminal and this terminal to operate successfully?”
Joe Marin
“Yes, I do believe because I had my clients over there and I advise everybody to come over here. We were operating, Andrea was operating there, and we are doing…but I think here is a much better place and we should attract more people. The parking area over there is good, a lot of people come by taxi and you know the problem out there in the centre of town, parking a taxi in the middle of the street to take off passengers. The run is only a minute more, the taxis can come in here, no hassle from the traffic warden hassling them to hurry up and people are blowing. They come in here, quite comfortable and unload their passengers without hassle.”
Tickets to Caye Caulker are fifteen dollars one way, twenty-five dollars return, while San Pedro sells for twenty-five dollars one way, forty-five return. The new water taxi terminal features its own restaurant and shops as well as offering access to the full range of attractions in the rest of the Tourism Village, including a newly opened Steakhouse. Bracketing the village on the north and south are two new restaurants, The Harbour View and Wet Lizard, turning the entire area into an increasingly popular entertainment centre for Belizeans and visitors alike.
