TINA'S Backpackers Guesthouse ( hostel), ON CAYE CAULKER BEACH

TINA'S BACKPACKER HOSTEL is the place for adventures. From here you are in the center of all the village and island action. You can go to the Blue Hole of Light House Reef Atoll scuba diving, or off Half Moon Caye at the same ocean atoll for wall diving at the channel. Popular are trips to the NW wall diving side of Turneffe Atoll. Hol Chan channel is a very popular local marine reserve with lots and lots of fish. Then there is SHARK RAY alley, where people feed and stroke the sharks and sting rays. Snorkeling day sailing trips along the barrier reef are done every day. Windsurfing and kite sailing are run by Tina's sister Diane. Lots of plain old partying and meeting people from all over the world.

Looking out front door to the Barrier Reef

great place to socialize

Garden entrance from the beach to guesthouse

Tina's Backpackers Hostel on Caye Caulker

This guesthouse is on the beach facing the Great Coral barrier reef.

There are about 300 people a day come to Caye Caulker, mostly by water taxi from the mainland, and via small airplane. Accomodations at Tina's Backpackers Hostel are usually done through the day, by walking up and asking if any beds are available? You will notice there are several hammocks out front under the trees and there is a shaded roof by the foot of the dock with a couple more hammocks to lay relaxing and reading, or watching the barefoot crowd pass by. The bathroom is shared by all. Beds are limited as the facility is small. Tina's is funky and a favorite. In busy times, there is a long waiting list from people in other accomodations around the village.

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Tina's guesthouse on Caye Caulker beach

Tina Auxillou on Caye Caulker

Tina is very laid back. She often arranges trips down the Great Barrier Reef camping on sailboats for small groups. Camping on various islands enroute and taking about 3 days. Ending usually in Placentia, another lobster/tourist fishing village on the Placentia peninsular. Tina had just built herself a house on the beach in Placentia. When she is not using it, you might be able to make some sort of arrangement to use it? Ask Tina! Tina is also a PADI DIVE MASTER and occasionally works for diving scuba cruise ships out at the Blue Hole and the deep water off the three offshore Atolls.

This is in 2005. An update for the 2007 is that Tina is building another Tina's Hostel in the Bay Islands, three islands off the coast of the country of Honduras. It has become a fabulous tourist resort in the last two years. It's a FREE ZONE now also. Tina's hostel here is on the island of Roatan. The other sister hostel to Tina's on Caye Caulker is FALCONVIEW TOURIST BACKPACKERS ADVENTURE HOSTEL in the town of Santa Elena out in the foothills of the Belize Alps in Western Belize run by her retired DAD. Some really very exciting adventures out here. ZIP LINING, tubing down Caves Branch river through caves, major pyramid Mayan ruins and so on. XIBALBA and skeletons and pottery back a mile underground in the ACTUN TUNICHIL MUCKNAL archeological preserve.

ADVENTURES IN WESTERN BELIZE AND FALCONVIEW HOSTEL LINK - click here! Owned by Ray and Silvia Auxillou, her 70 year old DAD.

This url shows inside photos of Falconview Backpackers Hostel in Western Belize. CLICK THIS!

inner hallway for bunk rooms

Tina's guest house, or hostel on Caye Caulker

CLICK HERE: For those of you repeating trips to Caye Caulker, Tina had a Bak Pak Hostel for five years down the beach. She has since moved and built this Backpackers Hostel of her own, on the Auxillou Compound. She was leasing the previous location. This was the old advertising web page, no longer valid. But should bring back fond nostalgic memories of yesteryear? CLICK HERE!

Guesthouse kitchen

Tina's Guest House on the beach