What is a sleeping pod, and will students actually sleep in one?
An individual hardwood sleeping compartment with its own privacy curtain, shelf and locker, in an air-conditioned dormitory. Twelve of them. It is a bed with walls, not a bunk in a room full of strangers.
Group leaders hear "dormitory" and picture a church hall with camp beds. That is worth clearing up before you decide.
The dorm holds twelve individual sleeping pods, each one built by hand from Belizean hardwood. Every pod has a privacy curtain, a shelf and a locker of its own. The room is air-conditioned and the bathrooms are shared.
The practical difference for a student group is that each person has somewhere that is theirs. Phones and passports go in a locker rather than a rucksack. Somebody who wants to read at eleven can pull a curtain instead of negotiating with the room.
They are $30 a night per pod. A bunk room attached to the dorm adds four more beds at the same rate, which is usually where the overflow goes.
If some of your people need a proper room — faculty, a married couple, somebody who simply will not sleep in a dorm — there are four private ensuite rooms as well, and a separate apartment on the compound.
Related questions
Where can a group stay in Punta Gorda, Belize? Where do faculty and group leaders stay? What does it cost to house a student or mission group in southern Belize?Bring your group
Twenty-five beds in the middle of Punta Gorda, one group at a time, meals cooked on site. Send your dates and a headcount and you will have a price back the same day.
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