This Budget Airline Is Launching $85 Flights to Lesser Known Caribbean Paradise

Feeling like one thing completely different in your subsequent journey?

As a lot as we love Mexico’s main resort metropolis, Cancun, and right here at Journey Off Path we have lined it extensively for years, generally all you want is one thing a little bit out of the unusual. You realize, straying off the crushed monitor a little bit.

When you’re planning on a Caribbean journey, however you do not need to go the place nearly everybody else is headed, you need to know Spirit Airways is launching direct flights to Belize, a small, lesser-known nation simply south of Mexico, for under $85.

Belize has these white-sand seashores, turquoise seas, and even Mayan ruins, and most significantly, it feels far much less commercialized:

The place Even Is Belize?

The primary nation you move by means of while you depart Mexico and enter Central America, Belize is a small nation of 8,867 sq mi, solely barely bigger than the U.S. state of Massachusetts, characterised by its lush jungle and unspoiled Caribbean coast.

The latter is, with out query, the nation’s main attraction, with unruffled sands extending for what looks like limitless miles, and laid-back islands that haven’t but succumbed to the pressures of overtourism, although they’re open to foreigners.

Suppose Caye Caulker, simply off the mainland, dwelling to a vibrant essential settlement, distinguished by its vibrant-colored wood homes and vigorous seashore bars, or Ambergris Caye, Belize’s largest island, and a extremely sought-after vacation spot for snorkelers and divers worldwide.

In spite of everything, Belize’s maritime borders embrace the 124m-deep Nice Blue Gap, a deep-azure sinkhole ringed by teal-colored seas, and Ambergris Caye specifically presents quick access to the attraction.

Wait, Do They Have Mayan Ruins Right here Too?

To the tradition buffs on the market, Belize has a wealthy native Mayan tradition that is typically overshadowed by its way more well-known neighbor to the north.

Tucked away within the nation’s jungle-clad hinterlands, San Ignacio is an attractive riverside city dwelling to the ruined Mayan city of Cahal Pech, deserted as early because the ninth century, and largely preserved from looting.

Belize’s crown jewel, nonetheless, is Caracol: one of the crucial spectacular historical pre-Columbian cities, with over 100,000 residents at its peak, it’s dwelling to the ‘Sky Palace’, a monumental pyramid that also holds the title of the tallest constructing in Belize, rising 141 ft tall.

When you’re visiting Caracol, San Ignacio is a good base, as most roads resulting in the archaeological zone begin from there, and there are quite a few tour operators you’ll be able to choose from. Costs for this in style Caracol & Big Rock Waterfall tour begin from solely $130 per individual.

For extra equally fascinating Mayan ruins, lookup Lamanai, well-known for its quaint lakeside setting, and the paranormal Altun Ha, simply exterior Belize Metropolis.

Fly Nonstop To Belize Metropolis From Fort Lauderdale With Spirit

Talking of Belize Metropolis, although it’s not the capital, as many have mistakenly claimed within the blogosphere over time—that title belongs to inland Belmopan—it’s the place Spirit Airways will probably be flying to beginning November 21, 2025.

In spite of everything, it’s the largest conurbation within the 417,000-people-strong nation, with over 65,000 residents, and although it isn’t the nation’s administrative middle, it performs host to its largest worldwide airport.

Quickly sufficient, Individuals will be capable of board nonstop flights in Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport (FLL) touring to Belize Metropolis’s Philip S.W. Goldson Worldwide Airport (BZE).

Flights will probably be obtainable thrice every week, on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays, and introductory fares have been set at $85 one-way from South Florida to Belize, and $180 one-way for the return journey. Tickets go on sale August 11.

Within the phrases of John Kirby, Spirit’s Vice President of Community Planning, Belize is an ‘unbelievable addition’ to their worldwide service, owing to the nation’s ‘world-class water excursions and delightful landscapes’.

How To Put together For A Belize Vacay

When you’ve by no means actually given Belize an excessive amount of thought, you should be questioning what to anticipate in relation to, nicely, Belize as a vacation spot.

How secure is it? What are the entry necessities that apply to Individuals? Does it have a type of annoying Entry Journey Necessities that you must get earlier than flying out? What does the U.S. State of Division advise that Individuals do?

Digging up all this data on-line is not at all times straightforward, particularly when you do not even know the place to kick issues off, and people official authorities websites? Straight-up not possible to make sense of at instances.

That is why we launched the Traveler Instruments, Journey Off Path’s assortment of user-friendly, interactive devices that assist you resolve it in beneath a minute, with out opening all these tabs, and all of the pointless fluff.

Test it out for your self right here.

Vinicius Costa

Vini, our senior lead author at Journey Off Path, has over 60+ international locations beneath his belt (and at present weaving tales from Paris!), and a knack for turning off-the-beaten-path experiences into informative tales that may have you ever packing your baggage.