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Experience the biggest Halloween Party in Belize on Ambergris Caye

Each year on October 31 st many countries celebrate one of the world's oldest holidays-Halloween! The tradition originating from ancient times sees large celebrations with people lighting bonfires, children trick-or-treating and festive gatherings where everyone wears costumes impersonating ghosts, witches, and any eerie character you can think about. The popular holiday is also celebrated in Belize, the biggest Halloween party in San Pedro, Ambergris Caye. If you happen to be in Belize around that time and want to celebrate the holiday in grand style, then make sure you visit Ambergris Caye for the wildest and most spooktacular party of the year.

The fun event which has become a major attraction around this time is hosted at the iconic Holiday Hotel on Barrier Reef Drive (front street). The costume party is so popular that the entire block is closed, and a purple carpet is rolled out Hollywood-style to welcome the stars of the night in the most creative and elaborate costumes. Onlookers line up the street to get a glance of the participants and perhaps a picture with them.

Dress to Impress

The participants graced the purple carpet, model, and posed for photos as they make their way to the Holiday Hotel. Not only will you see some of the most creative costumes, but the reason is because there are fabulous prizes for the craziest, creepiest, elegant, most creative, and most spectacular outfits. Anyone can join, and if you think you can best some of the costumes that will be featured at this year's party, you are welcome to be part of the first Halloween party following the Covid pandemic. And guess what? You could win a prize!

As the entrances throughout the evening, inside the hotel's bar DJs keep the party going with the best of hits designed for the biggest costume party on the island. Now and then there will be some interruptions to announce a particular entrance. In front of the dance floor, there is a panel of judges perusing every outfit modeled in front of them. These can include zombies, superheroes, skeletons, witches, vampires, pirates, and even cannibals. It's a crazy but fun mix!

The party is paused for a bit as costumed revelers with the most outstanding outfits are presented with their prizes. Some of the winners walk away with flights, gift certificates, dinners, scuba dive and snorkeling tours, hotel stays, cash, and even all paid trips to extravagant destinations. The celebration then continues until the wee hours of the night.

If you did not know, now you know where to find the biggest Halloween Party in Belize; right here on Ambergris Caye. It's another island celebration you don't want to miss!

Dion Vansen for CaribbeanLifestyle.com

After 3 years the orange carpet rolls out again!

This Saturday 29th of October, you don't want to miss the biggest, most expected Halloween bash of la Isla bonita hosted by Holiday Hotel. All happening inside La Sanpedrana.

Here's a look at the their costume contest prizes!!

Holiday Hotel brings back Belize's biggest Halloween party

After a two-year hiatus, the San Pedro Holiday Hotel resumed its biggest annual Halloween celebration in San Pedro Town. Held on Saturday, October 29th, at its restaurant La San Pedrana, the anticipated event is considered the largest in the country, featuring islanders and visitors dressed in various creative costumes. The festivities saw several attendees walking away with fabulous prizes within different categories, starting from the craziest to the most creative outfit. The event included an orange carpet, contrary to the usual purple, that was rolled out at the entrance of the hotel's restaurant. There were over $10,000 in giveaways and prizes, and for the first time, door raffles were given throughout the night. Attendees with and without costumes graced the carpet and made their way inside La San Pedrana after being screened by police officers. The hotel restaurant quickly became filled with people dressed as different characters.

There were mermaids, friendly nurses, nuns, vampires, monsters, witches, zombies, ghostly figures, superheroes like Wonder woman and Cat woman, angels, and sexy bunnies. There were also aliens, a NASA space crew, skeletons and cunning thieves, female police officers, mummies, Egyptian princesses, and goddesses, among many others. The party could not go without the presence of important persons in society. El Salvador President Nayib Bukele, Elvis Presley, and famous painter Bob Ross imposters also attended the most spectacular celebration on the island. Other appearances included the Banana man, the Purge, and the Joker.

Click here to read the rest of the article in the San Pedro Sun