Nestled at the tip of a sandy, narrow, 26-mile-long peninsula between the Garifuna settlement
of Seine Bight and the Creole fishing village town of Placencia (known for its friendly
guesthouses, cafés, and of course, the “world’s smallest main street” according to the Guinness
Book of World Records!) guests usually arrive at the remote 25-room seafront hideaway on
small ten-seater planes running out of Belize City, and recently started running out of
San Ignacio.
At turns enigmatic, haunting, intimate, and exotic, the Turtle Inn’s art, architecture, décor,
and furnishings are, in many ways, a nod to the owner’s personal travelogue, with many of the
materials bought in Bali by the film director and his wife, revealing Coppola’s penchant for
Southeast Asian aesthetics as featured throughout each of the villas, from hand-carved
wooden doors —many of them antiques—, to Indonesian sculptures and textiles, to Japanese
bath accents and fixtures.
Boasting three restaurants (one of which – The Mare – serves one of the best Dutch-Indonesian
Rijsttafels I’ve ever had), a pavilion home, eight villas, and 17 cottages, all steps away from the
unspoiled coral cay-studded beach, the Turtle Inn has all you need to help you unplug, exhale,
and escape into a story all your own.
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