Margarita Hotel

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I really do not know where to start…. Worst hotel ever!!!
Laganas itself is the best holiday I have been on! I will always remember it, made such good mates and have so many good memories, sadly to say none of these great memories took place in Hotel Margarita!!!! There were 6 of us, all girls and all aged from 19 to 21…
We arrived in our room and from first inspection they looked okay apart from a clapped out old camp bed but again we quickly got over that… As the days went on we realised we were sharing our rooms with an infestation of ants which was really nice… even found a couple of the creatures in my bed!!! But still we didn’t complain!!! The bathroom door also got jammed and I had to call reception twice to come and get me out as my friends were down the shop (god knows why there is a phone in the bathroom??) The only good thing about the rooms is that we had them both next to each other so could pop in and out while getting ready…
Food – Breakfast was great and made sure I had that every morning because I never used to eat all day as lunch was the night befores leftover food and dinner was disgusting and the same thing every night! So I resorted to eating Milka chocolate and crisps all day from the shop next door! Also the tables were allocated and you may have to share with strangers… We ate out 4 nights of the 7 nights we were there.. so really worth going all inclusive – NOT!!!!!
In the day we sat round the adult pool at the front and once got told we had to get out of the it for playing with a ball.. This is what I mean JOKE! The pool at the front never got cleaned and in the end I resulted in cleaning it myself with photos to prove it, as it was full of wasps!!!
The hotel had an issue with wasps… there were nests everywhere and if you left your drink for 2 secs there would be wasps floating in it.. This was also the case at the outside bar… there were wasps flying round everywhere, this was where the snacks got made hence why I didn’t eat any snacks while I was there.. Me and my friend both got stung!!!! You was constantly running away from wasps and seeing as hardly anyone come out to clean up the cups and snacks leftover the wasp problem seemed to just be getting worse and worse!
Evenings – This is the best bit… All-inclusive??? You were allowed one drink at a time and the queue was so long that once you had got one drink, you had to start queuing again in time to get another one for when you had finished.. Think we had 3 drinks while we were there!!! The evening entertainment looked terrible although we never watched it… One night we started to watch it when they told us to go away as we were too loud. Nice!
Never mind because 10 mins down the road is where the fun starts!!!! Absolutely excellent! I had some of the best nights here!!!! The only downer was that we had to return to Nightmare Margarita!!!! The first night we returned we got chased round the hotel by some weirdo – turning out to be the woman that runs it lol!!!! We then got a warning eviction letter the next day so after that we were petrified of getting chucked out so we used to take our heels off and everything, only to receive a second letter a couple of days later, the rep sorted this though.
Overall my opinion is I wouldn’t let a dog stay in this hotel if they treated it like they did us!!! When we got back we realised we had been sent to a family hotel (by First Choice) as well as all the other young groups there… Why they would do this I do not know but the other thing that fascinates me is why families with young children would choose to go to one of the top 5 clubbing places in Europe??
Overall Zante is a great place for younger people wanting to party and have fun and it is absolutely wicked… just don’t stay in this hotel and choose somewhere else, Hotel Vivian down the road with Thomas Cook looked well good!
Oh yeah and the price we paid for this LOVELY hotel ------ £620 EACH!!!!! JOKEEEEEE!!!

Went to the margarita last year and wasnt going to write a review until I went to another all inclusive this year which was poor in relation
The food at the margarita was delicious. The lamb shanks were melt in the mouth. A large selection both for lunch and dinner. The evening entertainment, although mainly aimed for kids, was good, we enjoyed playing the bingo (and actually won twice approx 100euro each time) and we're 26 & 27!!
We ended up in a family room, with a double bed in one room, and 3 singles in another, then the bathroom seperate, with a huge balcony. Decor pretty dated but it was clean. Got bitten very bad by mosquitos, did leave patio door open on a night though. Had a dodgy lock on the door, quite difficult to open but other than that no complaints.
At mealtimes you're allocated a table, we were sat with 2 other couples, quite daunting at 1st if your not someone who is outgoing and chatty, but we became friendly with one of the couples and spent most evenings with them (playing bingo...) Found out they had paid £200 more than us, and had a small room with no balcony, so really I think its luck of the draw.
nice walk to the beach, which was quite hard to find at 1st. Nice walk to the main strip and bars and clubs, so if you want to stay away from all that you can, or if you do want to go there, you dont need a taxi.

I went here with a friend on girls,break away!
We paid alot of money for this holiday! and i have to say i'd never go back to this hotel! the room was dated and small,bathroom dirty and rely cleaned, always smelled!
Was never given clean towels through out the week as the staff said there not enough towels to change them everyday!!!
Entertainment stopped at 9 and was the same every evening!
food was terrible,again,same every day-lunch and dinner-same meals!
staff was rude and unhelpfull!
Would never go back to this hotel or zante for that matter! The only thing that was good was the weather,was hot,but didn't make up for the terrible hotel-would also not recommend this hotel if your planning to take a family-no way!!

My partner and i went to this hotel for 7 nights and both had the best time ever! hotel fantastic and we are booking up again for september this year too!! Close to the golden mile but not too close, quiet hotel, great food whenever you want it, plesant staff, clean rooms etc. This was one hotel that i would love to come back and stay at. Cant wait till we do again!!!

The holiday overall was amazing, nice beaches, mostly nice people and an amazing nightlife. The hotel was better than i had expected, we traveled as a group of 8, 18-22 year olds and managed to get all 4 of our rooms next to each other, which was a plus. The family pool was the most lively mainly as it had the bar next to it, which also served hotdogs and burgers throughout the day. The pool was never over packed if anything it was mostly empty, the same with the sunbeds and seating, there was always loads free. The families and young groups didnt have any trouble with each other at all. The only problem we saw was from the narrow minded older generation, with stuck up opinions of a stereotypical young group of adults; for example an old couple lounging around on sunbeds on the edge of the family pool complaining at getting splashed?! madness, especially considering there was an quieter adult pool at the front! The rooms were all kept very nice and clean, we had a problem with our door on the first night but it was soon fixed. The maids were polite although they spoke no english, we understood each other. You have to pay 50 euros for a weeks air-con and 20 for a weeks use of your rooms safe, annoying but you do need it! The food was good, if a little repetitive as with most all inclusives hotels; though there was plenty to choose from. The evening entertainment was mainly child focused, but there was a couple of more adult themed nights where a lot of the older couples got involved, which was very funny to watch. The bar stops serving at 12 and your only alowed 1 drink at a time unless your a parent getting drinks for your family, which seemed fair enough if not a little annoying having to constantly queue up individually. The nightlife in the mainstrip is in a word awesome! There are too many bars and clubs to name but the best were among, cocktails and dreams, rescue, rumours and g-spot. Our favourite bars which are a must are Wackabout (near the end of the strip) stunning DJ sets and pint glass cocktails and Wild Coyotes (middle of the strip) which is home to the devils chair in which you lay back and attempt to down a whole bottle of drink, brilliant! A quick word on the beach is that it is a bit of a walk, maybe 15mins from the hotel but its well worth it, the sea is lovely and warm and you can walk out a long way as it remains quite shallow.
Overall Hotel: 8/10
Overall Holiday: 9/10

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This hotel was the worst holiday experience of my life. This hotel is ment for families not under 24's on a clubbing holiday. The hotel put familes with small children in the same room blocks as groups of under 24's. I was in a party of eight girls all of the age of 18 and the hotel accused us of noise we werent making, we tried to reason with the management but they were too arragent to realise their mistakes. This eventually resulting in our eviction from the hotel. We were not the only groups to be evicted. The rep made no effort to accomodate eight girls stranded in zante alone, with little money, the hotel staff were rude, ignarent and insulting. I strongly recogmend any other hotel for under 24's and even families as the hotel had more groups of under 24's the families, and there will be noise in the early hours of the morning.
The food is repetative, cleaning staff are very intrusive, the manager of the hotel is extremely rude and i feel the rep for first choice at the hotel did nt do her job.

overall the holiday was good, thats when we was outside the hotel. the people along the strip were lovely and there were some good bars along there.
I would never go back to the Hotel Margarita again! i thought the staff were extremely rude and none of them were happy for anyone to be there. They never made conversation and the manager of the hotel Margarita herself was very ignorant.
The rooms were filled with ants and there was only 2 days that we had hot water in our room. This to me is bad hospitality and i would not consider going back to this hotel at all. The food was the same every day for lunch and dinner which got extremely boring. We ended up eating out twiceeven though we were all inclusive.
I would not recommed this hotel to anyone and would not consider going back.

The food was ok, typical of an all inclusive but very repetative. The pool bar food, however, I couldn't bring myself to eat. Chicken burgers were grey.
We booked rooms for three but what we found was two hard beds and an almost colapsed camp bed where you could feel the metal through the matress.
The cleaners would bang loudly on the door at 11am and come in without waiting for a reply and even when i explained one of my friends was sleeping and feeling unwell she pushed past me, opened the balcony door, and started chucking our shoes and clothes around whist muttering to herself. Of course we understand that they have to do their job but all other hotels I've been to, if there is still someone sleeping, the cleaner will come back later in the day.
The first night admittedly we came back late at night and were noisy. After we were asked to be quiet and realised how strict the hotel were, we didn't make another noise. We tried to apologise but were completely dismissed and ignored by the owner of the hotel. After that every slight bit of noise or disruption in the hotel was blamed on us. If we had had another night like the first then our eviction from the hotel would be understandable, but one morning we were awoken by the rep who told us we were out and we were shown a list of things that we had supposedly done to deserve this.
The rep was useless. She couldn't even recommend anywhere we could go and simply told us to wonder around zante with our cases asking each hotel for a room, but then told us that most places are fully booked. Well great! Thanks.
We then went and sat by an open pool at a hotel down the road where the escapades reps were discusted at the way we had been treated and were straight on the phone to the first choice office to try and help us. Nothing came of that either.
The Margarita claims to be a family hotel, a little strange in the clubbing resort of Lagana, but fair enough, this we were not told when we booked. During our stay there, with no exaggeration, we saw a total of 5 families. The rest were groups of friends aged 17-24. There are two ways of resolving the problem, either the Margarita accepts that, being in Lagana, they are bound to get groups of young people who have come on a clubbing holiday staying at their hotel. (Maybe they could separate families and youth into two different parts of the hotel) After all, we are where they are getting the majority of their buisness from. OR they could request that the travel agents not book groups of young people to stay at their hotel. Then see how much money they make.
I have never been somewhere with such a low standard of customer service. The staff were rude and frustrating to try and reason with.
If you are a family looking to stay here then you will probably enjoy it if you can accept there may be some disruption early in the morning.
If you are young and want a fun holiday with your friends, then i suggest you look somewhere else.

food was horrible and had the same for lunch and dinner everyday
ants everywhere in the rooms
maids only cleaned our room twice in one week
staff were extremely rude and didnt listen to anything we said
first choice rep was useless, after getting evicted from the hotel 2 days before we left she just left us to walk the streets didnt even help us find another hotel
would never go back to this hotel .. it says its a family hotel but was full of teenagers so obviously you expect there to be noise

Just got back from a weeks stay in Laganas at the Hotel Margarita with 6 of my friends, had a wicked time although I don't think I'd go back there.
All of the staff at the hotel were spot on, especially Brian who had to put up with us coming in at stupid o' clock and and chat with us until the early hours!
I started getting a bit tired of the food and loosing my appetite but there were no issues with the alcohol, the lager got me smashed!
The hotel was a nice place to relax after a hefty night and a good spot to sunbathe, but the reason the rating is a 7 is because of the food(bit too much of the same stuff everyday), the view from the hotel room(a concrete wall) and the fact that we'd booked a late checkout room but got chucked out of our rooms at 12noon meaning we had to wait a total of around 12hours in the lobby until the bus came to pick us up at 2.40am the following morning.
We met some cool ppl though,the girls from Kent were sound!