Belize City Tour: Diving into the Historic and Cultural Hub of Belize
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Belize City
Explore the historic and cultural heritage of Belize City on a guided tour. Dive into its fascinating past and discover its vibrant present.
Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 1 day learn more
Highlights
  • Belize Tours - The historic Belize City tour offers an interesting insight into the history of what was once known as the British Honduras; now, Belize. The population of Belize City is 67,964; with neighboring suburbs adding up to about 80,000. This tour explores the highlights of Belize City’s brilliant and historical scenery such as Baron Bliss Lighthouse. Belize Town slowly improved its infrastructure and has been the object of numerous infrastructural projects.
What's Included
  • Inclusive of all fees and taxes
What's Not Included
  • Lunch
  • Gratuity
  • Items of personal nature
Additional Information

The Belize City historical tour provides engaging knowledge about the old seat of power in Belize. Belize City, the most populous in Belize’s Central American region, served as the British Honduras capital until the establishment of Belmopan as the new capital in 1970. It is home to 67,964 residents, with surrounding suburbs increasing this figure to approximately 80,000. Multiple cruise liners anchor outside the port and receive service from the locals.

Belize City, initially known as Belize Town, was established in 1638 by British lumberjacks. Its original identity was a minor Maya city named Holzuz.

Over time, Belize Town underwent infrastructure enhancements, playing host to various infrastructural initiatives. Nevertheless, much of the historical colonial-era streets remain narrow and crowded, with a sizable number of houses still vulnerable to fire and hurricane damage.

Location
8 Fort St
Fort Street
Our office is located at Fort Street Tourism Village 8 Fort Street, Terminal 4 Booth #1 Next to San Pedro Belize Express Water Taxi Or we can arrange a pickup location.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Garyl130
Mar 14, 2024
Great Last Minute choice (when your cruise excursion cancels on you) - Our Carnival Glory excursion was cancelled due to rough seas so we went ashore (tinder port) and just happened upon Belize Caribbean Tours. They gave us a deal (15% cheaper than Carnival) on the City Tour (about 1 hour) with Beach Time (2 hours). Even when we bought this, we could tell there were VERY conscientious about getting us back to port prior to "last tinder". Our tour guide Phillip is very knowledgeable about Belize City and showed us many places in the city as well as answered all questions about culture, lifestyles, finances and life in general in Belize City. We felt totally safe and encountered no issues at all. Then on to Kukumba Beach - salt water beach right on the ocean but also separated from the ocean by natural rock and a little engineering. Live DJ, food, water slides, large floaties, rope swing, plenty of shaded and unshaded beach chairs - no problem with having your choice. Plenty of bathrooms and changing facilities and showers to rinse the sand off. There is also a historical museum, gift shop (does take cards) and full restaurant (Phillip even ate here). We were returned promptly as promised as had absolutely an enjoyable time. One additional must add comment - I had left my cellphone in the tour van and this company went out of their way to find and will be shipping the phone back to me - big big kudos to Phillip and Tanizia, two of the more important people that work for this company..
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Andrew
Mar 9, 2024
School Group Belize Study Trip - Phil was a very great guy! Super helpful and informative. He was kind and always on time to get my group around to many fun activities throughout the week. Thanks Phil! And I would definitely highly recommend! 😁 he provided us with delicious home cook meals multiple times!
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Jessicado2065dc
Feb 24, 2024
Jungle Joe is the best guide !! - Although we booked the baboon sanctuary and didn’t really see / interact with any baboons, our tour guide Jose, others known as “jungle Joe” gave us a day out that we will never forget. He was super knowledgeable and so nice! He stopped at a few places we asked him to (the Belize sign and a shopping store). He was so accommodating and just proud of his country. We drove through the city and jungle Joe was all over the microphone, pointing out so much. It was such a wonderful tour overall. We saw the city, old church and shared many laughs in the car ride! BOOK WITH JUNGLE JOE !!
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Nielsenr2019
Jul 22, 2022
Excelent Experience - Wonderful experience. Ask for Jimmie and Cynthia. Nice people. Very goof knowledge about history and culture. I strongly recommend them.
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Tbhersh
Jan 25, 2022
Big John's Tours - Gregory, from Big John's Tours, gave us a phenomenal day. He went totally above and beyond to make our day spectacular. Felt very safe. He was so fun & friendly.
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Northstar794981
Jan 1, 2022
Fabulous Tour Guide (Dennis the Menace)! - Dennis Hislop Jr. (Dennis the Menace) was such a wonderful tour guide on our recent Belize City Tour!! He was so enthusiastic, fun, and very knowledgeable of the places that he took us to! It was a wonderful excursion because of Dennis!! He was so proud of his country and it showed. He spoke with such exuberance and excitement and made the tour very enjoyable. He answered all our questions and was a delight to be with. I would highly recommend this tour and be sure to ask for Dennis!!
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Karenhy9150of
Mar 2, 2020
Best Excursion Ever! - We talked with Jason on the pier and decided to tour the city and visit the ruins. "Jungle Jim" was our tour guide and driver of the air conditioned van. His historical knowledge as well as understanding of everyday little things that peek tourist interest was AMAZING! We even stopped at a rum distillery and got a sample! "Jungle Jim" stopped several times for us to make photos of things of interest.. . Such as an iguana on a fence . So happy we talked with Jason at the pier! This was the best excursion we have ever taken. Hope to get to go back to Beleze one day and take another excursion with "Jungle Jim"!
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Destinhousewife
Oct 6, 2019
Excellent City Tour! 2 hours for $25 - We walked out of the Cruise Terminal #2 and booked directly with Belize Caribbean Tours. It was a 2 hour tour of the North and South sides of the country - it is not an island as our fabulous tour guide Dennis told us. We also had an opportunity to take a 2 hour excursion to this great beach stop along the way for $10, but opted not to because we already had too much sun the day before. However, our adults kids stayed and LOVED it. We continued on to the rum factory for samples. We purchased a local bottle for $10. We were very pleased with their professionalism and knowledge. It's much cheaper than booking a tour with the cruise ship.
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Melaniesv9199rf
Dec 30, 2023
Ehh. Should have skipped - The best part of this excursion was going to a park where a local woman prepared wine, cornbread and candy to try. Otherwise it was a ride through a dirty city on a bus. Our guide was well spoken but there was just not much to see or learn about.
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