Not long to go now for you lucky people , i`ve had over 4000 `hits` now on my Margarita photos so get yours onto a site when you all get back.
ENJOY MARGARITA , we all did.

hi greyman,
we are all very excited just 3 days to go, really enjoyed your photo's, I showed them to my friends who havn't been to margarita before.
We will post our photo's when we come back, that if i ever learn to work the new camera

Well folks this is the last sleep before we head off to Manchester for our flight to MI

Sunseeker will look out for you at the hotel, if craig and the scousers haven't trashed it

See you all (to) soon

Graham

Hope you have a really good holiday, tell us all about it when you get back!
Ellie

hi elouisa,
did you get booked up for margarita and where did you decide to stay.
we had a fantastic time at the costa caribe we met up with kiltman and had a great time, lovely hotel, hope you got booked up ok

Hi everybody

Good morning sunseeker, will meet you later at the pool bar for a drink, oops sorry we are back home aren't we

We all had a great time in MI and at the LTI Costa Caribe Hotel.

Elouisa, like sunseeker I am interested to know if you have booked up yet.

I have given the hotel a review in the hotel reviews section above or via this link.

http://www.holidaytruths.co.uk/reviews/caribbean/venezuela/margarita-island/lti-costa-caribe-beach-hotel/

Graham

It's so good reading about your fab reviews. We had the worst holiday ever when we went to Margarita. The hotel was not good (Hesperia) and I developed Impetigo, my suitcase went to caracas for a week and we never went into the sea because it was so rough. The beaches were dirty and the FC reps were appalling.

All in all a terrible experience and I spent the next few months fighting with FC about getting some money back for my lost case because the reps lied about the whole episode and of course FC believed them.......

I wouldn't go back but glad you all had a good time

SG

hi kiltman,
we might be back but havn't quite woke up yet, of course some people have had a week off to get over it
Scubagirl sorry you had such a bad experience, I always use first choice and only once had a complaint about the flight and they totally ignored it and there is nothing more annoying than no reply at all, better luck with your future holidays.

Thanks Sunseeker97. The experience with FC was worse than the holiday because you really do feel as if you're fighting a losing battle. The replies are all standard and I didn't feel as if they were considering my case on it's own merits at all.

They may well redeem themselves with the mess in Mexico?! Let's wait and see Should know tomorrow

SG

I have just retuned from the Hotel Costa Caribe Margarita and it was fantastic. The food was great and we had no problems the pool, it didnt turn your hair green. It is about 45 mins from the main town.

Hattie92

Hi hattie,
you are right about the blonde hair mine was fine and i was in the pool all the time.

just come back from laguna mar its the best by far

Hi all MI is great

What more can be said. Was there the 2 weeks before Kiltman and Sunseeker and loved it.

Now all thats left is to persuade Mrs Craig to go back next year.

PS for those wondering the bag is too big to fit as an AVATAR

Ah hello Craig, I see you have found sunseeker's and my little hideout then.

Couldn't agree more about MI, we all had a great time

Mrs Giraffe and I are celebrating our 25 anniversary next year (she really deserves a medal for putting up with me for so long ) and we are doing an Egyptian cruise / stay, but I think we will return to MI and the LTI Costa Caribe the following year.

Graham

ps Craig, I know you don't have the bag anymore because that big boy stole it from you

Its always "A big boy did it and ran away" but this time it was true.

I want my bag back!

My daughter turns 16 in the next few months and I am trying to persuade Mrs Craig that MI is the place to go for our last family holiday as its not like the Med and I know that if we are in MI and at the LTI I dont have to keep an eye on her and her mate all the time.

We visited Margarita last November for 1 day as one of the ports of call on a cruise. We chose this island to swim with dolphins as it was the cheapest of all the islands we called at (about £75 each) so booked the excursion via the Ocean Village desk.

We were a little disapointed to find the dolphins in an inland concrete tank, we weren't aware of being close to the sea, so there was no hint of a natural environment for the dolphins. In fact I've no idea where we were geographically * see below.
You need to be aware you are totally dependent on their poolside photographer for any photos of your experience, as the logistics mean that you leave your belongings (including your camcorder) in a changing area away from the activities.
In our case it means that we were held to ransom for the photos, since under normal circumstances you are supposed to be shown all the pictures of all your party (meaning the entire coachload - all in the pool at the same time !). Then you would naturally wish to choose only the pictures of your family and friends for purchase. Since it was late in the day and we didn't want to miss or boat sailing there was no time for this so it was a case of "Buy this $30 CD with ALL the pictures on (95% of them of strangers), or go home empty handed". The entire coach party was up in arms over this ! In the end only one or two of us bought the CD and we had to haggle with Ocean Villages Photography shop to provide pictures for everybody from these CD's. It was difficult and they didn't really want to help.

Thank good ness for the dolphins, at least you could trust them, they were wonderful, friendly and performed all their tricks as good as gold. Whilst we did enjoy the experience, in hindsight I would have chosen somewhere else for our first experience of swimming with dolphins.

Edit :- * We went to Waterland Mundo marino (it said so on the CD label)

We were in Margarita July/August this year staying at LTI Costa Caribe. We arranged through our tour operator to 'swim with the dolphins' It cost $50 to actually go in the pool with the dolphins and $7 to watch. The venue was in Porlamar at a centre call Divaland. We watched a film of the dolphins, met the resident seal who we were allowed to take photos of (for a small charge even though it was our own equipment). Both my husband and one of my grandaughters actually went in the pool with the dolphins and my daughter and I got loads of digi pics of them. They also had a resident photographer who took pictures of you with the Dolphins these we were able to purchase as we were leaving and were all individual shots and well worth the few dollars we paid for them. We thought that this trip was very good value and we all thoroughly enjoyed it. Don't know if there are a couple of places on Margarita where you can swim with the dolphins but if there are it sounds like we picked the right one!

Our party of 8 did the Dolphin excursion , we had a german couple tagged onto our swim who never spoke the whole time ,we bought the DVD and just made 4 copies when we got home and edited the other couple out ,well worth the money even though we had to pay for our own taxis there and back.

We weren't offered the DVD when we went last week. They must have stopped doing it!!