There are a few grocery stores in town as i posted before it's the snack things that are really costly. There is a great bakery in town but it's called a pandera think thats how you spell it. Has good bread ,Cinnimon bread,rolls and so on. You can get all your fruit at any of the small stores just ask if it's fresh they were always helpfull and great at picking it out for us. Mango's ,pineapple and so on, we picked them up daily as needed. In some off the small stores they had these small pie's that were fresh every day were a little spicy but good like a Jamacain meat patty but smaller.
On the middle street in town about half way is a really small resturant only has 2 tables,the owner sells tacoas from a little wagon outside if you want good food give her a try, the food was great and she will make just about anything you ask for as long as you speak spanish. Everyone mostly speaks English.
Trip go to Tanisha Tours they were very good and have a great reputation.
If your thinking about Tikal ask at the airport in San Pedro they had a great price way better than the tour operators. Lamani was a great trip as was the cave tubbing and zip linning.
All the dive operators will pick you up at the peirs out side were your staying which makes it easy. We liked Amego's smaller groups.
Shark ray alley for a snorkelling trip we used Little Alfonse had a great time.
You will be way north of the water tower but the croc's were great to see and free starts about 4.30 every day kids work them for tips. And yes there wild.
You can see the reef from the beach if the wether is good take out a kayak and explore look for the large sandy area's in the sea grass thats were you'll find everything from nurse sharks to rays. Also look out for the orange spots in the sea grass there really big starfish.
We were there 12 days i could go on and on sorry if this is long, we had a blast.
PS do take repellant we used BUGNSUN for our boy and off Botanical lotion in the evening and the jungle. We also had spray off but it would sweat off really quick the lotion worked much better. We had some rain so there was a hatching while we were there. We also took the coils with us they worked really well on the patio. Wasn't a big problem but they were there.
We stayed south off the cut so can't say if town is a fair ride or not.
Do go to ambergriscaye.com a great web site with a message board ask anything and you'll get ton's of replys.