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Your got to be kidding me!!! There are no Pros. Obviously, you may have visited AC before, but you've never really BEEN to AC. Your proposal is so ridiculas that at first I LOL! If I want that I would go to Disneyworld! I second yank the thread!!

As I said haters, will be haters... and the pros emails keep coming in, but not at the rate you guys post, it's about 3 to 1, if anyone cares.

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To be realistic for a moment, you would have great difficulty attracting enough guests to your new resort to make it viable. Existing resorts are lightly used much of the year. I think you'd find the payback period to be very long indeed. And as to the monorail, from where to where? Perhaps you'd rather build a bridge or at least a causeway from AC to the mainland?

I'd also like to see the generator sufficient to power a substantial monorail - I think it's more commonly termed a "power station".

If your investors have the odd 1/4 billion dollars to spare I suspect there are some more attractive investment opportunities out there.

Come on, you don't get that part yet, the monorail is a 'ride' not a mode of transportation, it would be perhaps 1 mile long or something like that total, half a mile into the forest and back, and yes it would operate off the Mexican power grid and yes, if the grid shut down, emergency generators, or to address pedro2 erudition and keep him happy, and/or also known as 'power stations', would be plenty enough to bring back the gondolas to home base. If you build it, they will come, is not the general consensus here, but adding a golf course, a casino and a jungle tour as described, certainly would add to the menu of activities for the tourists that already know about the magic of AC, and it would tap into a completely untouched demographic, i.e., golfers and gamblers, and not to mention the eco tourist with our jungle tram concept. Bring on the comments, it's OK, we can take it, we get it all the time, it all start with a vision...

Where will you get the jungle? Grow it? The area is presently covered with low bush...but of course you know all that don't you?

I think our GUY is back, pulling our chain as they say.

Ok, since I am already considered in the "haters" group, I may as well continue to give you my opinion! What part of take it somewhere else do you not understand? You WOULD destroy the charm & ambiance that is Ambergris Caye. If the people that live there and those that visit wanted cruise ships and big casinos they would go to the places that have them. People are upset enough at how many cruise ships are in Belize City allowing people to destroy nature. Big Casino=more crime. More ships= more destruction to the reef. Have you not read there is already more than enough? A road from Cancun? If we wanted to go to Cancun we would. WE DO NOT!!! THAT IS THE DIFFERENCE!!!

Money hungry mongers need to look elsewhere for your investment. You will loose your shirt! However that would be sweet justice!

His vision probably will come to pass, even the freeway to Cancun, but it'll be at least 50 years in the future.
You're wasting time and energy opposing him as he has many, many hoops to jump through and "advisors" to pay.

It's still just too funny. And this troll has got everyone up in arms, and swears he's getting positive emails about it.

An "eco" monorail? An "eco" 300 unit hotel? An "eco" cruise docking? LOL. A mile of jungle at Mexico Rocks?

And I do golf but I'm well aware that golf courses are not "eco" friendly. My golfing aside, I would never support a golf course in Belize, not even the existing course.

I'll play along even though I think you're full of it:

If you do pull it off it will be the first of many grandiose ventures to succeed.

"I offered an anonymous AOL email address which was already used by 5 of you to send me different opinions than most so far on this board, and evidently they felt more comfortable emailing me directly"

I'd love to see all of your "positive" e-mails posted.

"I'm shock that no one said anything about what it would do for not only Ambergris economy, but for the entire country's economy, the job creation, the improvement to the infrastructure, the creation of another airport at the old landing strip, not one of you is thinking about the unemployment"

It would do little for AC except put added pressure on an already stressed infrastructure. Most of your employees would not be Belizeans (pretty much the case right now for much construction) in the construction phase. They would have to be housed on site and therefore would spend little money in town. Once construction was complete they would be unemployed and probably competing with Belizeans for jobs. You would buy few if any supplies in town as it would be cheaper to have everything barged in from Belize City. The barges themselves would inflict incredible damage to the environment (just as they have 3 miles north) during the construction and operation phases. Hope you factored in that you'll have to create a new town to house your employees (pre and post construction) as you'll find few willing to commute that far by water everyday and weather plays a huge factor in how many will show up for work. Don't think a road will help you it isn't wide enough for 2 way traffic with trucks and I'd bet if you tried you'd be hung and quartered by home and resort owners alike.

It's all a moot point any way, you don't seem to have a grasp on what it would take to complete your project in Belize. In the US you'd be done in 2 or 3 years, here it'll be more like 10 or 15. I can't think of anyone who would take on such an investment risk and if they would please put me in touch with them I've got lots of schemes floating around.