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Hotel Margarita

2.5 star property
Colonial hotel with a full-service spa and a lazy river

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Luxury Double Room, 1 Bedroom, Accessible, Partial Ocean View | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished
Luxury Double Room, 1 Bedroom, Accessible, Partial Ocean View | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished
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Popular amenities

  • Spa
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Air conditioning
  • Laundry

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Standard Double Room | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished

Standard Double Room

10.0 out of 10
Exceptional
(3 reviews)

Highlights

Balcony
Individually furnished
Individually decorated
Air conditioning
TV
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Daily housekeeping
  • 36 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Twin Bed and 1 Double Bed

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Luxury Double Room, 1 Bedroom, Accessible, Partial Ocean View | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished

Luxury Double Room, 1 Bedroom, Accessible, Partial Ocean View

Highlights

Furnished balcony
Separate sitting area
Individually furnished
Individually decorated
Air conditioning
TV
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
  • 45 sq m
  • Partial ocean view
  • Sleeps 5
  • 1 King Bed, 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Sofa Bed

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Superior Triple Room, 1 Bedroom, Mountain View | 1 bedroom, in-room safe, individually decorated, individually furnished

Superior Triple Room, 1 Bedroom, Mountain View

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Exceptional
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Highlights

Individually furnished
Individually decorated
Air conditioning
TV
Separate bedroom
Private bathroom
Daily housekeeping
In-room safe
  • 35 sq m
  • Mountain view
  • Sleeps 5
  • 1 Queen Bed and 1 Double Bed

About the neighborhood

Map
200 meters west of Drake Bay school, Drake Bay, Puntarenas, 78654

What's nearby

  • Playa Colorada - 6 min walk - 0.6 km
  • School & Soccer Field - 8 min walk - 0.7 km
  • Drake Bay Beach - 8 min walk - 0.7 km
  • Drake Bay Hiking Trailhead - 11 min walk - 1.0 km
  • Corcovado National Park - 15 min drive - 7.8 km

Getting around

  • Drake Bay (DRK) - 18 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Restaurante Casa El Tortugo - ‬10 min walk
  • ‪La Choza - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Mar y Bosque - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Restaurante Delicias Bahía Drake - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Roberto's Marisquería - ‬4 min walk

About this property

Hotel Margarita

Hotel near Drake Bay Beach
Located close to School & Soccer Field and Drake Bay Hiking Trailhead, Hotel Margarita provides a terrace, a garden, and dry cleaning/laundry services. Adventurous travelers may like the boating at this hotel. Treat yourself to a massage at the onsite spa. Free in-room WiFi is available to all guests, along with a restaurant and a snack bar/deli.
You'll also enjoy the following perks during your stay:
  • An outdoor pool with a lazy river
  • Free self parking
  • Cooked-to-order breakfast (surcharge), a roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge), and smoke-free premises
  • Luggage storage, a reception hall, and a 24-hour front desk
  • Guest reviews speak highly of the helpful staff
Room features
All guestrooms are individually furnished, and offer comforts such as air conditioning, as well as perks like free WiFi and safes.

Languages

English, Spanish

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Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and transportation

  • Roundtrip airport shuttle (surcharge) from 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM on request
  • Free self parking on site

Food and drink

  • Daily cooked-to-order breakfast available 5:30 AM to 8:30 AM for a fee: USD 9 for adults and USD 7 for children
  • A restaurant
  • Snack bar/deli

Things to do

  • Boat
  • Full-service spa
  • Lazy river
  • Outdoor pool

Family friendly

  • Lazy river
  • Outdoor pool
  • Refrigerator on request
  • Rollaway/extra bed (surcharge)
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Luggage storage
  • Safe at front desk

Guest services

  • Concierge services
  • Dry cleaning/laundry service
  • Housekeeping (daily)

Outdoors

  • Garden
  • Terrace

Full-service spa

  • Massage
  • Spa open daily

Accessibility

  • No elevator

More

  • Colonial architecture
  • Reception hall
  • Smoking not allowed

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Bedsheets provided
  • Rollaway/extra bed (surcharge)

Bathroom

  • Free toiletries
  • Hair dryer (on request)
  • Towels provided

Entertainment

  • TV

Food and drink

  • Refrigerator on request

More

  • Air conditioning
  • Individual decor
  • Individual furnishings
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in time starts at 11 AM
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 10 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival at the property
This property doesn't offer after-hours check-in

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

No pets or service animals allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
Rollaway/extra beds are available for USD 10.0 per night
Cribs (infant beds) are not available

Important information

Optional extras

  • Fee for cooked-to-order breakfast: approximately USD 9 for adults and USD 7 for children
  • Airport shuttle fee: USD 10 per person (one-way)
  • Airport shuttle fee per child: USD 8
  • Rollaway bed fee: USD 10.0 per night

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts cash
Safety features at this property include a smoke detector and a security system
This property has outdoor spaces, such as balconies, patios, terraces which may not be suitable for children; if you have concerns, we recommend contacting the property prior to your arrival to confirm they can accommodate you in a suitable room

We should mention

This property does not have elevators
No pets and no service animals are allowed at this property

Property is also known as

Hotel Margarita Drake Bay
Margarita Drake Bay
Hotel Margarita Costa Rica/Drake Bay
Hotel Margarita Hotel
Hotel Margarita Drake Bay
Hotel Margarita Hotel Drake Bay

Frequently asked questions

Does Hotel Margarita have a pool?

Yes, this property has an outdoor pool.

Is Hotel Margarita pet-friendly?

No, pets are not allowed at this property.

How much is parking at Hotel Margarita?

Self parking is free at this property.

What time is check-in at Hotel Margarita?

Check-in begins at 11 AM. After-hours check-in is not available.

What time is check-out at Hotel Margarita?

Check-out is at 10 AM.

Does Hotel Margarita provide a shuttle to the airport?

Yes, there's an airport shuttle that runs 8:30 AM–3:00 PM on request. A fee of USD 10 per person applies.

Where is Hotel Margarita located?

Situated near the airport, this spa hotel is within a 10-minute walk of School & Soccer Field and Drake Bay Beach. Drake Bay Hiking Trailhead is 0.5 mi (0.8 km) away.

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Hotel Margarita Reviews

Reviews

9.2

Wonderful

Rating 10 - Excellent. 58 out of 92 reviews
Rating 8 - Good. 29 out of 92 reviews
Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 92 reviews
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 92 reviews
Rating 2 - Terrible. 0 out of 92 reviews

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.2/10

Staff & service

8.6/10

Amenities

9.0/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.0/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

8/10 Good

Christina

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Overall fairly good accomodation, great experience with birds around hotel.
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2025

10/10 Excellent

Louise

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
A comfortable place to stay, and a reasonable price.
Stayed 6 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Kelly

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Birders paradise, friendly staff always there to help!! Highly recommend if you are staying in Drake Bay!!!
Stayed 8 nights in Jan 2025

10/10 Excellent

Colleen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Wonderful place to stay, we loved it!
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2024

6/10 Okay

Emily

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
There was some confusion at check-in which made it a long process after 36 hours of flying. The first night we were exhausted but woken up by loud motorcycles circling at 2:30am. Otherwise everything was great. Staff was very nice and accommodating. Breakfast was delicious. Bed was comfortable and room was nice. Pool was a nice benefit. The filtered water was nice to have.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Jeron

Liked: Cleanliness, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Disliked: Staff & service
Close to restaurants and has a good pool area. The wildlife just outside the window in the morning made this a memorable stay for sure!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

10/10 Excellent

Liliana

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
The restaurant has delicious options of meals and the staff are friendly
Stayed 3 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Mark

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great hotel and location for the price. Simple and clean, functional, nice staff. Highly recommend for this budget!!!
Stayed 3 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Chris

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Great stay at Hotel Margarita in Drake Bay

Best stay in Drake Bay. Rooms were clean, cool, and comfortable with great beds. Pool area and back porch were perfect for afternoons following tours. Front desk was super attentive and helpful with reserving taxis and answering all our questions.
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Hilary

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We loved our 2 nights at Hotel Margarita! The room was large, loads of windows to watch the birds, private patio, air conditioning, and the pool were great features. Friendly helpful staff as well.
Stayed 2 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rosanna

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort

Clean, friendly, natural

Perfect spot to base in Drake Bay. Casual and well maintained. Shower was great! And from the pool you can see so many birds, it's almost like a little wildlife tour.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2024

10/10 Excellent

Jacqueline

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This hotel is a gem in this remote little town adjacent to Corcovado National Park. It has a lovely pool plus a large terrace and decks where you can watch colorful birds in the surrounding trees. The hotel restaurant is very good and the staff were extremely helpful in setting up tours for us and helping us with other recommendations. We would definitely stay here again.
Stayed 6 nights in Feb 2023

10/10 Excellent

Elizabeth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We had a great stay at Hotel Margarita. The staff were so helpful and nice. For example, they gave advice on how to get there as we weren't sure whether to drive or boat, then booked the boat for us and transported our luggage and us from the beach. The rooms spacious and clean and had everything we needed. The pool is nice to cool off in. We stayed 4 nights with our 2 teenagers and we all really liked it. Nice relaxed vibe.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2024

6/10 Okay

philippe

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service

Nice but

Nice stay. The best was the Chef Dixon. The meals he prepared were great. The downside was the air conditioning unit on the top of the bed with cold air on us.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2024

10/10 Excellent

Scott

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Great stay at Hotel Margarita. From getting picked up from the boat (a mini-adventure itself), to a easy check-in, made for an stress-free arrival at Drake Bay. The quiet pool was glorious after morning tours. The only issue was wifi reception in the room was poor, but decent by the pool/office/restaurant area.
Stayed 3 nights in Jan 2023

10/10 Excellent

Judy

Liked: Amenities
We were met from Drake Bay upon arrival and took us up the road to our hotel. The kitchen was very accommodating for breakfast and made us early breakfasts several days. The pool was beautiful and the room was air conditioned. Very nice. We also had a great view from the balcony of the trees and mountains and toucans on a nearby tree one night.
Stayed 4 nights in Feb 2024

10/10 Excellent

Rich

Liked: Amenities
Mauricio was very helpful when we arrived, even gave us a better room as ours was on the second floor. And, carrying luggage upstairs would have been difficult. The location was good too as we had a whale watching tour the next morning and were able to leave our bags with Mauricio and walk down to the beach. Would recommend staying here!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jason

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Mauricio the property manager is very helpful with information on tours in the area and anything else you may need during your stay. Laundry service on site is reasonable and quick. I was a week into my trip when I arrived at Hotel Margarita and I dropped off laundry in the morning and it was ready when I returned from my excursion. I highly recommend Hotel Margarita and will stay there again when I return to Drake Bay!
Stayed 5 nights in Dec 2023

8/10 Good

Susan

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Hotel Margarita has the best pool so far on this trip. Unlike other pools it was refreshing, (but not cold). The hotel staff was wonderful and very helpful. The only negative for me is that their standard rooms have windows that gave the common hallway. When closed for privacy the room feels like a cave. Although it was very comfortable I need natural light to truly be content.
Stayed 4 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Steven

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
My whole family loved our stay at Hotel Margarita in August 2024. The area of Drake Bay was pretty, but it is very rustic (dirt roads, limited dining, restaurants are open-air with no A/C, etc). However, Hotel Margarita definitely exceeded our expectations. We stayed in Room #1 (Luxury Double Room with 1 King, 1 Queen, & 1 Twin bed). The room was updated and the A/C worked great. We were pleasantly surprised to see lots of small toucans right outside our room on multiple occasions during the daytime. We also saw scarlet macaws flying from a distance. The hotel staff were very friendly, and they even came to knock on our door once to let us know that some larger toucans were right outside as well (the kind from the Fruit Loops box). The breakfast was $9/person, but the food was very good and it included such things as fresh fruit, pancakes or an omelette, coffee, and orange juice. The staff will make reservations or arrange tours if you want (they arranged a night tour for us). Overall we loved our three nights at Hotel Margarita.
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

6/10 Okay

Timothy

We spent 5 nights at Hotel Margarita and our experience was up and down. We arrived on the boat from Sierpe and unfortunately the hotel had made no arrangements to pick us up. When I walked up to the hotel the staff were clueless. When they put us in a room the A/C and fridge weren’t working. They did move us to another nice room. It was very comfortable with nice beds and it had a beautiful bathroom. We liked the views and they have a lovely patio area with hammocks where we could read, relax and watch the birds. The pool looks great but unfortunately they use some type of chemical that’s not chlorine and it stings the eyes and tastes terrible. It was very hot while we were there and we would have spent more time in the pool if not for the chemicals. The little bar and restaurant are run by Dixon who is a great chef and made a wide variety of dishes that were delicious. Even if you’re not staying here, it’s a nice option for dinner. The property was well kept up except sometimes dishes were left lying in the common areas for too long. Overall it was a nice, comfortable place to stay and a little more care from front desk would make a world of difference.
Stayed 5 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

Janon

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
We stayed 5 nights at Hotel Margarita. We had them (Alberto) book our tours and found that if you pay cash (dollars or colones) you save some money on your tours. We did the snorkeling (well worth the money!) - 4 different snorkeling stops, an island stop and a wonderful lunch at a local restaurant. Corcovado Park tour - make sure and take shoes to get wet getting in and out of the boat, as well as shoes to wear while touring the park (they provide a lunch at the part and you are not allowed to wear your hiking shoes in the facility). And the surprise wonderful tour that we took was horseback riding! The horses turned into a river and actually walked in and out of the river - your feet get wet often (very nice as it cools you down), you then hike a little bit to a wonderful waterfall - wear your suit! You get to swim and it is SO refreshing! As far as the hotel, we loved the pool, room, and the location! Our room had a great deck and so many beautiful birds were constantly out there on the nearby trees - download the app Merlin - it will identify birds by their call. The hotel is a short walk to the boat pickup for tours, etc. and just around the corner from the row of awesome restaurants in Drake Bay. We ate at a different place every meal and loved all of them! Overall, we loved everything about our stay at Hotel Margarita!
Stayed 5 nights in Apr 2025

10/10 Excellent

Katherine

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 2 nights in Feb 2025

10/10 Excellent

CARMEN

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

rudi

Liked: Cleanliness, room comfort

leuk hotel bij fantastisch corcovado NP

Prima hotel, leuk kleurrijk ingericht met zwembad. Grote familie kamer met 5 grote bedden, lekkere douche en Airco. Drakebay is leuk plaatsje, restaurants op loopafstand. De omgeving NP, stranden, cano island zijn prachtig Er moet wel langzaam wat onderhoud aan het gebouw gebeuren.
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2024