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Barcelo Margaritas
Spain, Europe
Playa del Ingles
This beach hotel is situated in the tourist centre, around 1.5 km from the local sandy beach, Playa del Inglés. Gran Canaria Airport is approximately 30 minutes by car. Within walking distance, guests will find a great shopping centre with entertainment opportunities. The nearest public transport stop is in the near vicinity. There is also a big range of bars, pubs and restaurants in the near surroundings. This holiday hotel complex, housed in a 9-storey main building and an 8-storey annexed block offering modern rooms, fully equipped to ensure a pleasant stay with maximum comfort. This is a great place to spend a few days with the family as it counts with two children's pools and an entertainment programme for adults and children.
Facilities
- Wheelchair-accessible
- Car park
- 24-hour reception
- Mobile phone coverage
- Wi-fi
- Laundry service*
- Medical service*
- Air conditioning in public areas
- Currency exchange facilities
- Lift access
- *Some facilities may incur an additional fee
The Local Area
Tripadvisor Reviews
4.0 Very Good2,058 reviews
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Great Hotel!
Had a lovely holiday here ! Hotel spotless, room serviced every day. Staff where lovely and so hardworking. Shout out to the bar staff who where fab and the animation team who worked so hard. Food was great, bar was great! Only stayed by the bottom pool. Always got a sunbed, if you require an umbrella you need to be up by 9am. Towels where changed daily by the pool, but I believe that was changing to weekly as we left. Rooms where lovely and we never heard anything of a night. Really comfy beds. The only downside was the location, it's a bit far out. But saying that taxis are €5 to resorts and there is a free bus to the beach! Bars and restaurants not far from hotel. Overall a fab holiday and we will be back!
FIFA Corruption Water Polo
Thursday. Water Polo Day.
It all came down to this.
Two teams lined up for what would undoubtedly become the biggest game of their lives: a 5 vs 5 friendly. Although there was absolutely nothing friendly about it.
Tensions were already simmering after certain comments about Freeman’s sister, Tammy, the day before. To make matters worse, Freeman had been picked last—just like every PE lesson at school. He’d had enough. He wasn’t turning up to make up the numbers. He turned up thirsty for revenge.
The whistle blew.
It was end-to-end stuff. Mac was flying into every challenge. Cam gave absolutely everything. Wynnie was everywhere, glued to the ball. Mayo, meanwhile, put in one of the all-time goalkeeping disasters. He couldn’t catch a cold, let alone a water polo ball. By the end, the only thing he’d managed to save was his energy. And Luke… well, everyone forgot Luke was there.
The holidaymakers completely forgot they were on holiday. Every pair of eyes was fixed on the pool. The bar had never been so empty.
For a while, it was a close contest.
But one team was clearly superior.
Unfortunately, they hadn’t factored in the biggest obstacle of all: referee Alexandro.
The decisions became more baffling by the minute. I’ve seen less corruption in a game of Monopoly where the banker also owns half the board before the game starts. He made Gianni Infantino look like the gold standard of transparency.
Rumour has it FIFA are already considering him for the next World Cup final. If that’s true, football is finished.
The final whistle blew, and somehow the better team had lost.
One thing’s for certain…
We’ll never be playing under those regulations again.
Some changes in 2 weeks
I was on holiday here from the 18th June until the 25th of June and had a wonderful experience. All staff were great, place was spotless. We got fresh towels everyday at the pool (which is an important factor for me). We were also able to swap dinner to lunch on the last day to enable my daughter to eat something prior to flying home.
We found the location great, atmosphere was good around the pool. The rooms were modern and clean.
I enjoyed it so much that I booked to come back 2 weeks later.
Although the majority of things remained the same and we really enjoyed it, there was a couple of things that I was disappointed with. Fresh towels by the pool have now changed to one change in your holiday. (I appreciate some guests on my last holiday were taking advantage of the clean pool towels, but now I feel we are all being penalised).
Lastly, although I’m half board I never ate anything on the first evening due to arriving late. (They put on a cold buffet, but it is not great for children, so ensure you eat before you arrive). However, on this visit they would not let us swap our dinner for lunch on the last day unless we paid 26euro each!!! Although I have now read prior reviews stating that if you’re all inclusive or half board it starts at 12pm on arrival and finishes at 12pm on the day we leave. I feel when I book a 7 day holiday at a hotel, I am a guest until I walk out of your hotel and on to a bus home. This means you are technically not getting any food on a Thursday as you are not there due to flight times and no food (apart from breakfast) on a Thursday!!!!
I absolutely loved Gran Canaria and will definitely be retuning next year. I will however, seriously consider if I would return here again or look elsewhere.
Nice hotel
Very nice hotel, the food was amazing, the bed was amazing i had a very nice sleep every night, the room was clean
First time here half board
Stayed here for the first time and the hotel was beautiful. However, some things dissatisfied me abit. Firstly, no toilets outside, this meant that you have to walk from pool side all the way inside wich is abit of a game when ur soaking wet as your not allowed in wet
Secondly, we arrived late saturday night and missed tea time we was told they had a late arrival buffet in the restaurant wich was just fruit and bread however the bread was stale. so on the last day we was getting picked up around 5PM so i walked in the restaurant so i can take back my dinner that i missed the first day and i felt uncomfortable and left my food because the lady let me in and she knew i was leaving late that day so as i sat with my food the restaurant manager ( i think it was anyways bald guy) he came over and was understanding but was told no longer a guest after checkout wich i think is stupid check-in should be when you arrive so reason why i left my food was because of how uncomfortable i was
Thirdly i understand half board means just breakfast and tea with one drink the free drink was one water then you have to pay for the next glass of water. In my opinion you shouldn’t have to pay for water as i’ve never known anywhere like it as it’s essential.
Entertainment could’ve been abit better during the night as 2 out of 7 nights there was only a singer on and the indoor bar could’ve been opened as outdoor bar was extremely busy
and finally the food, it was nice however some parts of the food wasn’t cooked and looked near enough the same food every night
However the hotel was beautiful and maintained and the rooms were very clean and staff was friendly
Review by eb22072026 Wolverhampton, United Kingdom
