Margaritaville Beach Resort Playa Flamingo

Resort was beautiful, clean and relaxing. Staff was also really friendly and courteous. Restaurant Capracios in the resort is also a must go to in the resort. Waitress Fiona was a sweetheart,courteous and very professional. On the other hand, resort stated resort was 40 mins away from airport BEWARE it was an hour and 10 mins away from Liberia airport, false advertisement. Besides that everything else was good.

My first impression was did I make a mistake and should we have gone to a bigger adult only resort. After the first day I was pleasantly surprised and realized how special it was and will go back in a heart beat. Its a small resort and very family oriented. After the afternoon activities are over there isn't much going on except a small entertainment act at the 5 o'clock bar. This made the resort quiet and relaxing and exactly what we were looking for. Because the resort is so small the staff becomes like family really quickly; they all seemed to genuinely want to get to know you and make your time special. I was impressed the rooms were cleaned spotless and there were always staff cleaning or organizing the public spaces to keep it well kept. The beach is a public beach, so you have to cross the road, but you can stop at the security/activities gate and have them set up chairs and an umbrella wherever you like on the beach. Once afternoon food and beverages are available they have runners that will serve you on the beach which is awesome. Each day we were on the beach we had Angel running for us; he was nice, attentive, funny, and made really good drinks. There is only one pool, I suggest going down early to get one of the covered tables. The sun gets strong mid afternoon and having the shade to cool off can be key. We would often go eat lunch at either Banana Winds or 5 O'clock bar to be in the shade for a bit. Banana Winds has great rice bowls, 5 O'clock has a great burger, and for snack food I recommend the drinks and food at the swim up License to Chill Bar especially the garlic Parmesan fries and elote street corn. Veronica at the License to Chill Bar also makes a delicious spicy bloody mary. Check out the direct reviews of the restaurants also on trip adviser for additional comments. Special mention to Fiorella and Fabian from the 5 O'clock Somewhere Bar. We would frequent most evenings and they made us feel special. From the high five greetings, to the friendly banter over opposing sports teams, it felt like the neighborhood bar you've been going to all your life. They genuinely made an effort to get to know us and treat us so well; it was the hardest to say goodbye on the last night. Lastly, a comment about the all inclusive options. You could do a straight pay as you go or there is all inclusive. We choose to do the all-inclusive and we upgraded to the premium package (there are two all-inclusive packages). The regular all-inclusive will get you beer, wine, soda, and well liquor and the menus will have some items that require an up charge even for all inclusive (mostly only premium food items like filet instead of skirt steak, or cocktails that use cordials, etc.). The premium gets you everything. The premium was worth it for us as we did not want to have to worry about what we were having and we could just live it up and go for it. One note to all you die hard Margaritaville fans - No landshark yet (just switched to Margaritaville so maybe in the future?) but the Costa Rican Imperial is incredibly refreshing. Also worth noting, like Disney has hidden mickeys, the margaritaville resort has like hidden sailboats and Jimmy references. I thought it was fun and tastefully done (being a fan and all). Overall we had a fantastic time and can't wait to come back. Fins up!! Pura Vida!

Hotel was recently renovated and is beautiful and well maintained. The pool and pool bar (10-6) are wonderful! The employees are all very kind and will go out of their way to make your stay the best. There are 3 restaurants and also food at the pool bar. There is a lot of bar food type items on the menu. The breakfast restaurant also has an omelet station. Everything was delicious. Costa Rica beaches are public so there is a small road to cross but they will bring chairs for you if you ask. We would absolutely stay again. Thank you so much for a great vacation!