Your day, step by step
08:00
Collect a tender ticket as early as your ship allows; ship tours go ashore first.
08:45
Ashore at the Fort Street Tourism Village. Meet your licensed driver or operator and confirm the return time.
09:00
Drive north to Altun Ha, about an hour.
10:00
Explore Altun Ha: Plaza A and Plaza B, then the small site museum. Allow about an hour and carry water.
11:30
Drive back to Belize City.
12:45
Lunch near the Tourism Village or in the Fort George area.
13:45
Walk to the Baron Bliss lighthouse and the Museum of Belize (closed Sundays).
15:15
Back towards the village for last shopping inside the gates.
16:00
Join the tender queue, 90 minutes before all-aboard.
- Latest you can leave Fort Street Tourism Village16:00
Where to leave from, and when
on foot bus, train, boat taxiPins show when to leave each place. Lines: route back to your ship.
Going further? Leave by these times
- Fort Street Tourism VillageBe inside the village and in the tender queue16:00
- Museum of Belize / Swing Bridge (Fort George area)Walk back, about 10 min, then tender queue15:50
- Altun HaTaxi or tour, about 1 hr, then tender queue14:30
- Nohoch Che'en cave tubingTour vehicle, about 75 min, then tender queue14:15
- Caye CaulkerWater taxi about 45 min plus walk, then tender queue; land back 2 hours before all-aboard14:30
Where people get Belize City wrong
Trying to fit two inland trips, or a late Caye Caulker boat, into one call and missing the last tender.
Built from our Belize City guide, checked against 15 official sources (October 2026). Nothing here is guessed. Read the full guide or see the sources.
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