Trip Advisor 2015 Winner – Traveler’s Choice Award

Trip Advisor 2014 Winner – Certificate of Excellence

Trip Advisor 2014 Traveler’s Choice Award

Foder’s Southern Belize 2014

Trip Advisor 2013 Traveler’s Choice Award

Best Service and Best Small Hotels

International Hotel Awards Americas
Highly Commended Small Hotel Belize

Fox News Travel
Best of Belize Eco Resorts

2012 Best Belize Resorts

Belize Guide – Where to Stay – Placencia Choice

Trip Advisor 2012 Certificate Of Excellence Award

Trip Advisor 2012 Traveler’s Choice Award:
“Winner 2012 Traveler’s Choice Best Family Resort – Central America”

Chabil Mar

Trip Advisor 2010 Traveler’s Choice Award:
Best Luxury Hotel, Central America
Best Service, Central America

Trip Advisor 2009 Traveler’s Choice Award:
Best Luxury Hotel, Central America
Best Service, Central America

Featured in Gordon’s Guide
“Top 10 List” of Destinations

Foder’s Belize 2012
“Villas are tastefully designed and luxuriously furnished… all upscale… gorgeous beach… Highly Recommended.”

GQ Magazine March, 2009
“While no one would blame you for wanting to hole up at the luxurious Chabil Mar Villas…you’d be missing out on the village [of Placencia] itself.”

American Way (Official Magazine of American Airlines) June, 2009
“Of course, you can find anything you want around the country, including many places to power down and relax,” says Kim Simplis Barrow, the First Lady of Belize, who joins us in Placencia. “But this is where I like to come for my vacation.” The posh Chabil Mar Villas resort…oceanfront setting and secluded villas perpetuate a laissez–faire approach to vacationing. ” The First Lady of Belize, the wife of the Prime Minister, graces the cover of this issue and is pictured lounging on the beach of Chabil Mar, with the Village seen in the background.

Owner, Larry Smith, Seafront Inn, Punta Gorda, Belize – February, 2010
“What a wonderful place you have. The details were bountiful and a feast to my eyes. It is by far the best Private Resort I have ever seen here in Belize.”

About.com Rating: 5 Star Rating

ByKirsten Hubbard, About.com Guide

“The Chabil Mar Villas Resort in Placencia, Belize is one of the Caribbean country’s most luxurious beach resorts, enticingly set on one of the best beaches in Belize — if not the best beach in Belize. . . Chabil Mar Villas Resort is a visual treat, inside and out. The Placencia resort’s blue-roofed villas cradle two bright blue infinity pools, and the dynamically landscaped grounds overflow with bougainvilleas and other tropical plants. Look out for iguanas lunching on fallen flowers! Enjoy a row of lounge chairs, free kayaks, and seating on a private dock. Just beyond, the Caribbean beckons.”

www.oliverarusuphoto.com/blog/ January 27, 2011

“My first wedding for 2011 was in January, 07, and was absolutely fabulous!

Jacqueline & Travis I loved your intimate wedding!!! The location, Chabil Mar Villas – amazing resort, amazing staff… everything was all about pampering! Bride & groom…. told me that they feel like a queen and a king. And this is the right way to be…. special for your wedding day and honeymoon!

Fantastic experience! Only + and I’m extremely picky. I have to say that Chabil Mar Villas, located in Placencia, is one of my favorites resorts from the country!

Chabil Mar Villas is every photographer’s dream.”

Luxury Living International

Top Resorts in Belize

By LLI StaffPublished: November 5, 2009

On the Placencia Peninsula is the Chablis Mar Villas Resort, our pick for the place to stay in Placencia. This place is just very tastefully done, including beautiful landscaping from the front gate to the beach. Great place to stay whether your a couple or an entire family.

Tropical Opportunity – Belize is Primed

by Skip Knowles: September, 2009

There is luxury to be found. Purple flowers lined the walkway to my luxury villas at Chabil Mar, an intimate-sized upscale vacation lifestyle development widely regarded as the most luxurious in the small fishing village of Placencia.

Hotel Picks in Belize

For Views of the Caribbean

by Megan Wood: May 26, 2011

Chabil Mar literally means beautiful sea in Kekchi Mayan and is one of the most beautiful properties I’ve seen in Placencia, with a white sandy beach and clear blue water. You know when you see ad copy for a hotel, and you think it’s too good to be true? Chabil Mar honestly looks like a magazine ad for tropical paradise.

TravelWritingPro.com

by: Larry Waight, Marketing Advisor, The Lodge at Chaa Creek, San Ignacio, Belize

Chabil Mar Resort – I stayed at Chabil Mar Resort and Villas. In the Mayan dialect Chabil Mar means “beautiful sea” and yes the sea is beautiful. This resort is one of the best places I ever stayed in Belize . . .