Casa Gonzo Description

Our caretakers, Marie and Armando, should be able to assist you and answer any questions once you are down there. However, there are a few things you may need to know before your arrival.

You WILL need your passport upon entering Belize. Fly into Belize City (BZE). Once through customs, you'll take the trip to San Pedro airstrip on Ambergris Caye. The inter-island commuter airline is Tropic Air, which flies approximately every hour, and takes 15 minutes to get over to the island. Reservations with Tropic Air can be made by fax (011-501-26-2338) or email at reservations@tropicair.com. Just let them know the date, time, and flight number for your arrival in Belize City, and your return flight information. The round trip fare on Tropic Air is approximately $100 per person.

If you call the house when you are at Belize City airport, Armando will order you a cab and be waiting at the airstrip in San Pedro to take you and your luggage to the house. Since Casa Gonzo is a couple of miles from town, we suggest renting a golf cart during your stay. We recommend Moncho’s Rental Carts, phone number 011-501-26-3262. Armando can drop someone there to pick up the cart and follow him home from the airstrip.

When you arrive Marie and Armando will be happy to do your grocery shopping to stock the house. You will just have to give them some indication of what you wish to have on hand. Marie will be happy to prepare meals for you while you are our guests. She will need some guidance with menu planning and which meals each day you would like to have at the house. Chicken and seafood are abundant entrees there, other choices are limited. You will also find excellent restaurants with a variety of good food on the island.

San Pedro Distributors will deliver cases of beer, cokes, etc. if you call when you arrive. Of course there are plenty of liquor stores fairly well stocked on the island. There is an excellent shop called WINE De VINE, right near the air strip in town. Mary Ellen has an incredible selection of wines and cheeses for you - a true gourmet shop! There is also a wine merchant in Belize City who has a fabulous wine selection, and his wine list is in the desk drawer. His name is Richard Price, Premium Wines & Spirits, 011-501-23-4984. He can send an order over on the airline if you want to call and order it.

If you have any questions you may give me a call at 512-477-0036. Mari and Armando should be able to assist you with anything you need during your stay.

Designed by international award-winning and Harvard educated architect Dick Clark, this tropical paradise for singer-songwriter Jerry Jeff Walker, "Mr. Bojangles," and his wife Susan reflects a truly symbiotic relationship between design and surroundings. Nestled among a stand of palm trees on a remote stretch of beach on Ambergris Caye, just off the Belize coral reef in the Caribbean, this simple yet elegant composition captures both the Mexican tradition in building and vocabulary of form, and the Walker’s desire for a getaway vacation home which opens up and becomes integral with its site.

Native mahogany was used exclusively both to form the exposed ceiling and to construct finely crafted louvered doors and shutters which open up the house completely to outside view and breezes. Mexican tile was used throughout the home and out to the deck creating a seamless link between indoors and out. This palette of materials both roots the design regionally and provides a durable yet aesthetically pleasing composition which responds to the Walker’s needs for outdoor living and the climatic conditions of the site.