Ambergris Caye Belize Resort Development - Department of ...

The resort facilities include:
(i) Eighteen 56 units hotel rooms;
(ii) Eight pool cabanas;
(iii) Thirteen beach palapas;
(iv) Six spa cabanas;
(v) Twelve over-water cabanas;
(vi) A specialty restaurant;
(vii) A business centre.
The residential facilities are to include:
(i) Fourteen beach-front villas;
(ii) Twenty-five beach cottages;
(iii) Eleven bungalows;
(iv) A centralized owner’s club.
Supporting infrastructure and amenities are to include:
(i) An employee dorm;
(ii) An extensive boardwalk;
(iii) A utility zone;
(iv) A swimming pool;
(v) A children’s play park;
(vi) Three piers that are to be coincident with the overwater cabanas and dive center;
(vii) 4.5 miles of road leading from Nova Pier to
The project is to be developed over a two (2) years time-frame: it is to be subdivided into
two phases with a concentration on the resort and infrastructure facilities in phase I [See
Table 1].
The ABR facilities have been designed to accommodate 967 persons: Apart from tourists
and home owners, this includes 289 workers [See Table 2]. Almost all of these workers
are to be Belizeans.
The Utility Zone is to house energy generation facilities, potable water storage and
harvesting infrastructure, sewage treatment technologies and solid waste sorting, storage
and disposal facilities.
The primary source of energy is to be from diesel generators, supplement by solar panels
and wind turbines. The latter two (2) sources of electricity are to be integrated with banks
of batteries for energy storage purposes.
The primary source of potable water is to be ferried from Reverse Osmosis: This is to be
complimented by rainwater harvesting. Both of these sources of potable water are to be
integrated with cisterns installed in the Utility Zone.
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