In February 1994, on the occasion of her second visit to Belize, Queen Elizabeth and her husband Prince Philip were guests of honour at a luncheon hosted at the San Ignacio Resort Hotel [REF].
In 2007, Chayben Abou-Nehra, the fiancé of hotel founder Escandar Bedran's granddaughter Evita Bedran, was found dead of a gunshot wound in a room they shared at the hotel.