Hi, I haven't visited the island but we experienced very bad customer service from the beginning and i would like to warn anyone who is even considering booking this place!.
Booking the accommodation has proved extremely difficult, despite the numerous forms, phone calls and emails sent to the resort, they NEVER acknowledge any of them. My husband eventually managed to book a room after weeks of persistant phone calls, giving his credit card number over the phone (only way!) just to discover a week later that we have been charged more than double what agreed. Now, numerous phone calls later, we still haven;t received a receipt or acknowledge of what the charges are for, neither a confirmation email for the payment. We suggest to stay away from this very poorly managed resort. We are starting fraud proceeding against them.

Glover's Reef is a family-run place and it has a list of "regular" visitors who know that they're not there for a beach resort treatment. This isn't a "resort" and is more like a camp ground, and so no one will put chocolates on your pillow or change your sheets every night, etc. The boat only arrives once a week (unless separate arrangements are made) so plan on staying for the full week. You will probably arrive at the family's compound the night before you set sail for the island, and will have to stay in one of the rooms provided by the family in their compound by the Sittee river. You'll set off the following morning *usually bit later than scheduled. This is by no means a fancy place. There are mosquitoes and shared toilets etc. The island itself if beautiful. Yes, plastic garbage occasionally floats onto the beach (you're free to pick up a rake and clean it up) and there's no flush toilet and showers are outdoors fed with collected rain water. Yes, a real family owns and runs the place, not like an impersonal polished, full-service five star hotel resort. And I love the place for all these reasons, not to mention the peaceful isolation of staying in a thatched roof hut built over coral reefs and watching the great big star-studded skies at night, all for MUCH less money than you'd pay for similar experiences anywhere else. You have the option of buying the meal plans (the cooking is done at a central building on the island -- the term "building" very loosely applied) but each cabin has its own very rustic and basic cooking facilities, and you can catch plenty of fish. Some people bring their own large drinking water jugs, others buy water on the island. There's also the utterly fantastic diving (both scuba and snorkel) that's available too, and Warren (the family's son) will take you fishing at the barest request, and you'll haul in tuna and barracuda in less than an hour (lobster season is great too.) This is a particularly fun trip for kids around 7 who like to explore (campfires, coconut trees, all sorts of fish and marine life, and lots of hermit crabs all over the place) a group of friends who want to hang out and have fun fishing or diving, as well as couples who want calm, tranquil privacy. The family has a couple of large dogs on the island who are generally sweet and harmless.

I recommend that you stay anywhere else in the area, where you don't have to worry about being ripped off by the hotel! I see others are making similar complaints, and I am here to add to the warnings.

We are seasoned, reasonable travelers and have never had an experience like this (in fact, I've never complained about any hotel's treatment). But this place? Very sketchy. The manager hung up on me twice when I tried to call about billing us for a huge unauthorized charge - I never even got a chance to discuss anything with her, she just hung up when I first called. At least my bank is trying to help, and they are outraged by the management too.

I'm glad we can warn other travelers on Trip Advisor. I think that there are enough similar concerns expressed about this hotel that readers will know what they are dealing with.

Our trip to Glover’s Atoll Resort was really different from any travel vacation either of us had ever experienced.

We had stayed for a week and really enjoyed ourselves. Some of the reviews we had read had us a little concerned but I have learned in the past few years that a few bad reviews on Trip Advisor can cause a lot of unfounded concerns. Also in my travels I’ve met a lot more bad guests than poor hotel staff. Pictures will show Glover’s Atoll to be a tropical paradise, and it really is. However beautiful idyllic this remoteness may seem when looking at pictures and reading reviews you’ll find that when your ice runs out and you tire of fresh fish you may feel different. I’m not trying to be negative but it is really important that people understand that this place being called a resort is using that term very very loosely.

We found the staff was all quite nice and the negative things we read turned out to be just not true. For what it’s worth we were told Marsha-Jo now lives on the mainland. You can snorkel, scuba dive, kayak, suntan, read and that is about it. Hot showers, room service or needing some smokes are just not gonna happen. Personally I found it to be indeed idyllic and a tropical paradise but camping and remote places are things we love.

We, and by we I mean my girlfriend, cooked all our meals. We found this saved us a lot of money and we really enjoyed the meal prep activities even though dinner was cooked in the dark as it is dark by 6:00-6:30. With no island night life making meals was a part of our entertainment, it was fun to have a new kind of fish daily and then figure out how to best prepare it. We were able to get the majority of our supplies on the mainland at Belmopan but could have accomplished this almost as well at Hopkins village. Be sure to pack food that can stand not to be refrigerated and take some bio-degradable dish soap as well as a washcloth and tea towels. Fresh fish was always available on the island and although I love fresh fish I understand that not everyone does, or not every day anyway. You can rent a cooler and have it filled with ice before you leave. The ice should last until Wed and I would strongly advise to rent a cooler and buy some ice.

We stayed on a hut over the water and had brought our own snorkel equipment. We never did bother to rent a kayak either as we found we could swim to great snorkeling spots every day just off shore. I did go scuba diving three times and thought it was a great deal at $50 per dive. Brian is a great dive master and the quality of diving and the condition of the reef were amazing. DO bring some good water/diving shoes with a hard sole. The beach and coral are all pretty rough and natural so being barefoot in or out of the water is not recommended A dive skin or rash guard is also recommend as you can get sunburned

As a result of being pretty self sufficient our on island expenses were pretty low, needing only some fresh fish, water and bread. If you had all your meals prepared, rented a kayak for the week along with snorkel gear I think your costs would escalate pretty quickly.
The huts are really really basic and you really don’t get a lot for the hundred dollars a night it works out to for two people but then again this is an experience that is hard to put a price on. The darkness comes fast and tends to get people to sleep early. If I went again I’d take more candles and be better prepared with bigger brighter LED lamps. The kerosene lamps supplied were hard to keep lit well with the constant breeze in our hut. We had brought our own mosquito net but found bugs were not a problem with the constant ocean breeze.

As stated in numerous other reviews the boat did not leave from Sittee river until close to 11:00, we were ready for this so it was not so bad. Coming home however rather than leave at 9:00 we never left until 2:30. This would not have been so bad if the time we would be leaving had been stated to us as such in the morning, we could have then done some snorkeling or something rather than just sit with all our bags packed and at the pier for 5 hrs. Because we were so late leaving, we got back to the mainland about 30 minutes before dark. A number of guests had trouble getting connections to their planned destinations and ended up spending the night in Hopkins. My advice is to not make any plans for the return day beyond getting to either Hopkins or Sittee river. If you’re thinking of leaving the island in the morning and catching a plane in Belize City later that day, forget it. Plan for another night on the mainland and save yourself a lot of stress.

All in all we found the trip to be a good time. Diving and snorkeling are as good as anyone could ever ask for and the lack of any crowds or man made noise or man made anything made it even better. Accommodations’ are primitive but if you enjoying camping or the outdoors you’ll enjoy it so long as you take sufficient supplies. The following list of things to bring might help you. One thing you won’t need much of is clothes. With few people to see and no where to go a few pair of shorts and t-shirts is as much as you’ll need other than bathing suits.

Buy in Belize

Rice oil wine
Pasta butter rum
Sweet potatoes Cheese ice
Potatoes eggs beans
Hot sauce candles mayo
Pancake mix milk and juice in box chips
Pancake syrup Onions canned potatoes
Sugar Garlic tomato sauce
Avocados canned tomatoes Cilantro
Tomatoes tortillas’ Lemons limes
Chorizo sausage Green peppers jalapenos
Mangos Carrots Ginger
Cabbage pineapples oranges
Grapefruit matches candles
Cooler rental from store cheese (laughing cow)

Buy at home

Dried mushrooms salt and pepper Beef jerky
Dried tomatoes spices Chocolate
Veg flakes cereal bars cheese sauce from pizza
Dried berries mixed nuts Onion flakes
Tai chili Tin foil Coffee filters
Large plastic bags coffee Dried mango
Powder milk sharp knife Dried onions
Cutting board canned cream Sealable bags big and small
Soup package dry Garbage bags salad dressings
Frying pan packaged ketchup from fast foods
cous cous packaged soya sauce from fast food
dehydrated veg lots of dishwashing detergent
Benadryl hat pot scraper
rubbing alcohol rain coat dish towels and wash rag
ear plugs book rum (Belize made rum is cheap)