Superior Jungle Tree House at Vanilla Hills Lodge

A one-bedroom treehouse cabin on the Vanilla Hills Lodge grounds outside San Ignacio, hosted by the same family for eleven years and sitting on a near-perfect 4.98 rating from more than a hundred stays. The bed is a king under floor-to-ceiling glass on three sides, which is the point: the listing promises you wake up in the middle of the tree canopy, and the reviews agree. There is a modern outdoor shower with a rain head, air conditioning and ceiling fans for the afternoons, and a veranda with a hammock for watching the howlers and, after dark, a sky with no light pollution. The lodge has a shared pool, rare in Cayo. San Ignacio town, the Xunantunich ruins and the ATM cave are all short drives.