The room are nice, but the best part of this hotel is the little bar called "Uno Mas". It is a nice area to sit and chat with fellow travelers and the bartender. Definietly worth stopping in for happy hour or a night cap.

the rooms are small and dark.
they smell powerfully of a not too nice smelling antiseptic cleaner....good news is, the room seemed clean, bad news the smell is pretty nasty. there is a continental breakfast offered with the room price but if you don't get to the bar (where it is offered) early, the pastry is gone and not replenished. worst thing about staying here, however, is that they seem to be having trouble with their septic system and they ask you to not place ANY toilet paper into the toilet.
seems to be this isn't very sanitary. hotel is on the water, but don't mistake this for swimming access. the beach and water in front of the hotel are very dirty.......washed up plastic and cardboard, etc. Staff are friendly and the location is close to the town center, restaurants, etc.

My husband and I just stayed at the Seaside Cabanas last week for the last 3 nights of our honeymoon. The entire trip leading up to this stay was an adventure, so we were looking forward to 3 full days of complete relaxation. Boy were we disappointed!

We weren't informed prior to staying that there would be lots of construction going on - otherwise we probably would've rebooked somewhere else. It looks like they're working on a new room, so there were power saws and drills being used often, and lots of hammering. The noise was terrible on top of our rooftop terrace, and even worse inside our room - it sounded like they were drilling into the wall outside of our cabana. We went to the front desk on our first day to see how long they might be doing construction - we thought we might cancel and go stay somewhere else if it was going to be ongoing. We got to talk to someone who said he was the manager, who was very apologetic and said that they were doing the work because something had been overlooked the day before. Ok, great we thought - this will wrap up and we'll have a couple quiet days of relaxing.

Alas, the construction continued the entire duration of our stay. To their credit, the workers did keep the door next to our terrace closed so it muffled some of the noise, but it still was very obnoxious. The icing on the cake was the 3rd day we were there, when we got back from lunch and had no electricity in our room for several hours.

If the construction is complete, this place would be really nice - we just really didn't appreciate the way it was handled.

A couple other comments:
-The showers are warm, at best. I didn't really get a "hot" shower the whole time we were there, even if the water ran for 5 minutes beforehand.
-The rooms are really dark inside - luckily the weather was good so we spent all our time on our rooftop
-There aren't any coffee pots in the rooms, and the coffee isn't available in the bar until 8am. Boy was that hard for my husband. :)
-You really can't get a better location

Seaside Cabanas was great. The room was comfortable and kept very clean. We used the fridge to keep yogurt to supplement the good fruit and pastries for breakfast. The staff was very helpful in so many ways. We did not have one of the cabana rooms, but we didn't miss it because were on the upper floor with a great view and a small porch. The pool area is a real plus. There are cheaper hotels without pools on Caye Caulker, but the pool provides a natural social scene, especially in the afternoon when people return from diving, snorkeling, and other trips. The snorkeling and kayaking are both great on Caye Caulker, and we had a lot of good food there. There was construction going on to create a new suite, but it wasn't really a problem for us, and the new room looks as though it will be very nice when finished. And of course the location is perfect.