--- title: Rio 2016: Simone Biles Reveals Final Five Belize Trip description: The Olympic gymnasts will take 'a couple' vacations — Belize is on their map — before launching their tour with Kellogg's for the next year. canonical: https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-08-19T15:21:18.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:35:41.047Z og:title: Simone Biles Reveals What's Next for the 'Final Five' og:description: A couple vacations are in the works, and then it's on to their Kellogg's tour. og:url: https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6345c33ca851e8/6988a2f397cdff59bf6ad7ff/final-five-gymnasts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 5568 og:image:height: 3132 og:image:alt: GYMNASTICS-OLY-2016-RIO-PODIUM og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Simone Biles Reveals What's Next for the 'Final Five' twitter:description: A couple vacations are in the works, and then it's on to their Kellogg's tour. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6345c33ca851e8/6988a2f397cdff59bf6ad7ff/final-five-gymnasts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Simone Biles Reveals How the 'Final Five' Is Going to Celebrate Together > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 19, 2016 3:21 PM UTC  (R-L) US gymnasts Alexandra Raisman, Madison Kocian, Lauren Hernandez, Gabrielle Douglas and Simone Biles celebrate with their gold medals on the podium during the women's team final Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 9, 2016\. / AFP / Ben STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) (R-L) US gymnasts Alexandra Raisman, Madison Kocian, Lauren Hernandez, Gabrielle Douglas and Simone Biles celebrate with their gold medals on the podium during the women's team final Artistic Gymnastics at the Olympic Arena during the Rio 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on August 9, 2016\. / AFP / Ben STANSALL (Photo credit should read BEN STANSALL/AFP/Getty Images) Ben Stansall—Getty Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Aug 19, 2016 3:21 PM UTC They’ve [put in the hard work](http://time.com/4445766/rio-2016-olympics-womens-gymnastics-usa-wins-team-final/?iid=sr-link4). Now it’s time for Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and the rest of the Final Five superstar Olympic gymnasts to reap the rewards of their gold-medal success. First priority? They’re going to fit in some hard-earned time off. Biles told [ABC News](http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/simone-biles-return-rio/story?id=41509433) that they’ll go on “a couple” vacations. And there’s one place that’s already on their list. “We all want to go to Belize together and then after that, we’ll probably do family vacations,” she said. Belize isn’t a random choice; Biles is [actually a dual citizen](http://www.nbcolympics.com/news/belize-simone-biles-second-favorite-country-offers-final-five-free-trip) of the U.S. and the small Central American country, and has visited many times before. But the Belize Tourism Board went above and beyond during this Olympics, offering to host the whole group after the Games. > [](https://twitter.com/belizevacation/status/763910378753359873) To which Biles responded in fashion: > [](https://twitter.com/Simone%5FBiles/status/763915760863318016) They won’t be out of the public eye for long. As the new faces plastered on Kellogg’s cereal boxes, they’ll have a [joint Kellogg’s tour and victory lap](http://time.com/4450219/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-kelloggs-box/?iid=sr-link1) to take for the next year. Biles said that Raisman — who’s been through this before with fellow ‘Fierce Five’ veteran Gabby Douglas — has told her to expect to be “really busy.” “We’re just going to enjoy the time because like Aly keeps telling us we deserve it,” Biles said. Here’s hoping they get a chance for some [more internet-breaking meet-ups](http://time.com/4455340/rio-2016-olympics-zac-efron-meets-simone-biles/?iid=sr-link3) with their [extended squad of celebrity BFFs](http://time.com/4446396/2016-rio-olympics-gymnastics-friends/?iid=sr-link8) and fans, too. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/"},"headline":"Simone Biles Reveals How the 'Final Five' Is Going to Celebrate Together","datePublished":"2016-08-19T15:21:18.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:35:41.047Z","description":"First up: to the beach","url":"https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/","keywords":["Newsfeed","olympics","celebrities","Summer Olympics","2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6345c33ca851e8/6988a2f397cdff59bf6ad7ff/final-five-gymnasts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt6d6345c33ca851e8/6988a2f397cdff59bf6ad7ff/final-five-gymnasts.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GYMNASTICS-OLY-2016-RIO-PODIUM","caption":"GYMNASTICS-OLY-2016-RIO-PODIUM","creditText":"Ben Stansall—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4459027/rio-2016-olympics-simone-biles-final-five-belize/","name":"Simone Biles Reveals How the 'Final Five' Is Going to Celebrate Together"}}]}] ```