So eat and rent elsewhere - and enjoy the good life Alaia! Again - good news is that loads of places on AC rent carts. Crazy - more than double any other place on island. And the golf carts rented Alaia are $80/day. While the rooms are reasonable enough, restaurant prices are pretty steep ($25 for a burger?), but at least there are so many options close to the hotel that you don't need to dine there often (tho the food IS totally yummy). Only downside we noted were the prices of some stuff Alaia. Maybe because the beach at Alaia (and on AC in general) is just okay - most all were doing cocktail by pool rather than beach - ah, life's difficult choices. But then that's why you go on vacay to an island w/ fab restaurants, right ? Odd thing to us was that the pool is THE scene. The kitchen is perfectly adequate for light meals, wouldn't say it'd work well for full, large meals. There are a large number of power switches it takes awhile to figure out.

Rooms are really lovely, spacious & well outfitted. A good sign when the people that make the magic happen are truly happy to be there - and their service is second to none.

As the resort has just been open a few months, i think the staff have done a great job ironing the wrinkles out - and we were kinda surprised to see how friendly & utterly happy all the staff were - from waitstaff to front desk to security. We woke each morning to the reef and slept soundly. We had a room on the 5th floor facing the sea and the view was simply amazing. I've stayed a number of places on AC, and Alaia is very differentiated here - though less 'local' and more 'posh' - as others have noted. We had the good sense to stay at Alaia in August-Sept and loved most every minute.

Alaia belize autograph collection