Los Porticos was quiet, peaceful, beautiful, immaculately clean, and a 5-minute golf cart ride from Placencia, which was brimming with great restaurants, music, and shopping. We spent our first week in Belize in San Pedro, which was crowded, bustling, very busy, and we were ready to exhale and lie by the pool in Placencia. We did some great day tours (chocolate factory, Mayan ruins, Monkey River) and danced all evening at Cha Chi's. We had no issues with power failures due to the generators at Los Porticos, plenty of ready hot water and just every little (and big) thing we wanted. We loved it.