Blue Marlin Beach Resort

This place is amazing!! We popped in without a reservation after arriving at South Water Caye. Eddie and the entire team welcomed us with open arms. It was early in the season and due to the short notice they only had snapper and grouper available. But the palapa dining room on the water was so beautiful, the bar so friendly and accommodating and Eddie so enthusiastic that we decided to trust the chef and go for it. The meal was amazing! The best prepared fish I have ever experienced at any restaurant. But that wasn’t even the best thing! We ordered dark and stormies - which Eddie MADE BY HAND!! No ginger beer? No problem. Eddie muddled fresh ginger, simple syrup, soda water, and a splash of coke into the most memorable dark and stormy ever! By the way, the resort is gorgeous and the wildlife off the dock is incredible!

Leaving a review for restaurant only, didn’t stay at “resort”. Came to eat at Blue Marlin from a bareboat charter. Food was good but dinner was $68 a person, including kids, on a set menu, which was a total ripoff. I don’t care how good it is, that’s just stupid to charge that much in Belize, would tell anyone to just cook aboard. Not a fancy place whatsoever with stray dogs walking around, can’t use the island excuse cause Hideaway Caye was 10x better for way less. Maybe others are cool with paying that but will never go again. A day later, had dinner at Reef’s End on Tobacco, also “14 miles” from mainland, even more secluded than Blue Reef. Set menu plus 3 other dinner options, less than half the price, and I ordered Lobster. Keep making excuses for overpriced dinner, as long as everyone knows you charge $68 a head before they sit down to eat.

This resort was amazing!!! We had a family of 30 and they made everything so special for us. We did scuba, fishing and snorkeling while there. There was a great 50th Anniversary celebration for Mom and Dad with dinner, dancing and music. Our room was always clean and nice to come back to after long days of fun! Thanks to Eddie, Santi, Richard and Amir just to name a few. We loved all the staff!

I have taken students to Belize and the Blue Marlin for 12 years. Every year has been outstanding. The food, staff, facilities, and general atmosphere is amazing. Hosting large student groups is challenging for any lodge/resort, but Blue Marlin has gone above and beyond making our trip the best it can be. This includes everyone from the kitchen staff who welcome us in to learn about local recipes, the boat crews and snorkel guides who prioritize safety, and the housekeeping staff who somehow manage to keep up with a large group of students. My annual field course would not be possible without the Blue Marlin. I highly recommend the resort for anyone (family or solo), not just educators, who want great service, beautiful views, and excellent facilities right on the edge of the Belize barrier reef!

Call us crazy but my wife and I took our entire family - 15 adults, 6 teenagers and 8 grandchildren under 7 to Blue Marlin to celebrate our 50th Wedding Anniversary. It was absolutely fantastic. The snorkel guides, especially Thors, were wonderful; they spent endless hours teaching our grandchildren to snorkel right off the dock with rays, sharks and other assorted fish. They also took the adults and teenagers to the reef for snorkeling. The scuba guides, especially Amir and Jael, were equally exceptional. The food under Chef Cur and his team was absolutely perfection. Winsor even gave one of my sons a t-shirt. Service at the bar and meals with Eddie, Santiago and Ayanah was faultless. Even maintenance and yard upkeep by Nermo, Pablo, Kenny and Jose was terrific. There was not a bit of debris on the ground the whole time and anytime we needed something taken care of they were right on it. Bri and Ilana were great at coordinating all guest services with Bri spending hours reading to our little grandchildren. Also a special shout out to Richard who set up fishing poles to fish off the dock and coordinated deep sea fishing where we caught Barracuda, Tuna, Mackerel, Red Snapper and other fish which Chef Cur and his team cooked up every day for snack or dinner. Imagine eating excellently prepared fish that had been in the Caribbean that morning. And finally Brianna Camelia kept our rooms cleaned and supplied every day. Also several enjoyed superior massages by Shanika. Finally a special shoutout to Carlene who helped my daughter-in-law in the almost 2 years of planning that went into this absolutely fantastic week. Congratulations to Roselia and Bo for taking wonderful care of us.

A week at Blue Marlin is a true escape! I stayed in a cabana steps from the water. A hammock on the porch was perfect for mornings and evenings and afternoon naps. The food was excellent everyone on staff was fun friendly and so attentive. Snorkeling excursions were a highlight I saw so many fish a large turtle rays of all kinds and nurse sharks . You can snorkel off the dock and the end of the island as well. If you are looking for a secluded getaway live to snorkel dive or fish this is the place. Like everywhere it will rain some when it did I still got in the water, took a 90 min massage w Shanika who was amazing! Worked out several back and neck issues I was having, and don’t forget to just relax I read a whole book in my hammock one rainy day. Thanks to Amir Nelson Shaq Tommy and Stacey for my water adventures . Cliff and Gilberto my attentive friends at every meal the chefs for always preparing a meat free alternative and all the delicious food the girls who cleaned my house it seemed several times a day everytime I came back it was freshened up! Bree and Mariel are there planning your day with you making suggestions and just generally making everything as perfect as they can! I traveled alone on this trip and enjoyed my space and quiet time but also never felt alone as all the staff quickly felt like friends and always stopped to chat and check in with me. I honestly miss them all! I rarely travel to the same place twice but I will return to blue marlin!!!

Blue Marlin Beach Resort is a beautiful, idyllic, island resort that hosted my wife and I in January 2025. The resort is magnificently managed and run by a multi-generational, extended family of Belizeans that quickly included us as part of the family. They took exceptional care of us from our very late weather delayed arrival to our last day on the island. The coral island, covered with palm trees and continuously maintained, has several lovely, well-spaced private cottages. ||The family knows the reefs and guides with first hand knowledge. Snorkeling for a week, a couple times a day, with these guides and dive masters, was amazing and like snorkeling in an aquarium. ||The food was tremendous and the cooks and staff were lovely assuring we had whatever we wanted. We wanted fresh food, and the snapper and lobster were the freshest. We wanted to relax in the afternoon with a nice cool rum drink, and we had many to choose from to enjoy with our chef prepared afternoon snack. We wanted to hang out near the crystal-clear, azure-blue water of the Caribbean, and we were surrounded by it. Blue Marlin is a place to return to.||The sun and moon rising and setting over the Caribbean are a beautiful site to behold every day on South Water Caye. One evening, on a January night with a rising full moon over the Caribbean, the cooks and staff prepared and served us our evening meal at a table they brought to our cottage and placed near the palms and the water’s edge. That evening created memories we will always hold.||The cottages were beautiful with great, comfortable beds, clean bathrooms, fresh water coolers, air conditioning (which we only needed once) and hammocks hung on the wrap around porch. Perhaps a green heron will walk by your cottage in the evening, or a small army of fiddler crabs may walk by in the night. The bonefish are pets.||The island is fully run on solar power and has a desalinization system. The Belizean family that owns and operates the Blue Marlin Beach Resort has invested in the resort to maintain forward-looking island systems and a viable business to support the family.||The only real beach on the island is at the south end, a very easy ten minute walk away through a university research facility and another small resort to the open beach. My snorkel directly from the beach out to the coral reef was another of the many amazing snorkeling trips we took.||Cell service is mostly available. Wi-Fi is mostly available in the dining and bar area.

The Blue Marlin Beach Resort was an absolutely perfect place for our honeymoon! My wife loves scuba diving but gets kind of seasick on long boat rides - being able to get to truly phenomenal reef dives in 5-10 minutes was a game-changer for her. Amir is such a remarkable dive master - calm, knowledgeable, observant, thorough - it made the whole experience an undiluted pleasure from start to finish. The resort itself could not have been more ideal. It was so peaceful and quiet, and the food at every meal was delightful, without exception - Cus is a very talented chef. We had some of the best massages of our lives right out next to the water, with the sound of the waves the whole time - really magical. The entire staff was friendly, open, and welcoming. We were very sorry to leave and eager to return!