fair price of this place is less than 30 bucks, but they charge more than hundred bucks. Dont leave your visa at the front desk, when you check out they charge it with the official stupid exchange rate. you can get double amount of local currency on the black market for good cash (€ + $). they denied to cancel credit card opperation....worst service ever. My room smelled and was dirty. Employees are unfriendly when you mention the deficits. My tip : book any other place.....

Rooms are dated, what I would best describe as a typical older road side hotel you find while traveling along the Interstates in the US. Acceptable, but nothing special. The pool is nice and big, with music playing throughout the day and until about 10:00pm.

As indicated in some of the other reports, the staff is not very nice or friendly....but this seems to be the norm all around the island and not just specific to this hotel. My wife commented many times on how unfriendly everyone was. However, the second day at the hotel as we stayed friendly and smiling, tipping a little here and there for breakfast service, bar service, etc, the staff started to warm up.

When I booked the hotel, the daily rate came in around $160 with taxes...however, it was very easy to drop this price quite significantly.....here is my biggest tip pretty much to anyone traveling to the island - Use the "parallel currency exchange market"...more on this, read my tip posted under "Currency exchange" under the "Before you go section". I got 7Bsf to $1.00USD (the official rate is 4.3) when I conducted my currency exchange in Caracas, which brought the cash price per night down to about $98USD.

Overall, there is not much to do on the island....nightlife is poor. One of the positives of this hotel is its proximity to the little nightlife there is, i.e the "old Hilton" casino, the new shopping center with its couple of bars and nightclubs, as well as restaurants.

Most desirable beaches are about a 30 minute taxi ride from the hotel, like Playa El Agua. The taxi from the hotel to the beach typically averages about 80Bsf ($18USD at official exchange rate, or about $12 at the parallel exchange rate). It seemed difficult to find a taxi at the actual beaches themselves, so I would recommend setting a time with the taxi driver to pick you back up for the return trip to the hotel.

The people at the front desk were not very friendly, the rooms reminded me of the hotel in the tropics in the 70's, the soaps were "motel soaps" , the breakfast reminded me of the breakfast in a hotel in a communist country . I don't think it's worth what I paid.

We've stayed there for one week and it was one week too long.
It is the most unplesant stay we've ever had!
After 3 days we've just wanted to go home.

The hotel itself is ok - moist rooms with huge cacrotches are not too sexy though.
Food was ok, but not much choice.
There is not much outside the hotel, beside the Hilton Casino.
Beach is by Hilton hotel and it's kinda trashy and grassy - didn't swimm at all that week.

The most unplesant part of stay not only at the hotel but on Isla Margarita all together is the way staff and locals just about anywhere treat you!
Disaster! You feel so unwanted and ignored wherever you go that it's just shocking!
I'll never go back to Isla Margarita even if someone will pay me.

So be prepared that your request about anything needing to be fixed in the room will be ignored. You will also be ignorred at restaurants untill you get up and catch the waiter yourself. And in the end when they bring you food you've scarred to touch it cause there is this little thing you can sense ... that there might be something wrong with it (maybe they've spit in the food?).
Night out at the Casino ended up to be a slot night, as we've been so much ignorred at any table, that didn't even get to play!

The best day was when we've rented a car and drived on our own the whole island round, almost without any contact with locals.

All in all - better save your money for some other destination then go to Isla Margarita. If you've already planned to go there, please choose the north coast - it's much more "friendly".