2025 editionNo. 73
Cayo Espanto
Ambergris Caye, Belize
Why Cayo Espanto is one of The Americas’ Best 100 Hotels 2025.
Cayo Espanto reduces the private-island idea to seven villas and exceptionally attentive hosting. Arrivals by boat, meals wherever one chooses and direct access to Belize’s marine world create an escape whose intimacy is genuine rather than merely advertised.
The essentials.
- Destination
- Ambergris Caye, Belize
- Property
- Private-island villa retreat
- Operator
- Independent
- Opened
- 1998
AddressCayo Espanto, BelizeOpen map ↗
Edition factsThe record at a glance
- Position
- No. 73
- Hotel type
- Private-island villa retreat
- Destination
- Ambergris Caye
- Country or region
- Belize
- Management in 2025
- Independent
- Opening year
- 1998