This hotel is in a great location. The staff are friendly enough until there is a problem and then they refuse to speak English or refuse to read an explanation from a phrase book. for example some members of staff couldnt be bothered to change a travellers cheque.

we stayed in 2 different rooms neither had hot water, the water temp was a little above cold.

we were offered a free breakfast our first morning there unfortunatly this was a ruse to get us to go to a time share sales pitch. the woman used very high preasure tactics, she spent 15 minutes explaining cancun and pointing out places of interest and became furious when we refused to go to the pitch throwing the help she hoisted upon us back at us. very suprised the hotel allow her to be there.

This is not your Marriot, Hilton or (put any hotel chain name here), but it delivers. I booked this hotel to stay in Cancun while attending a congress. I only needed a place to sleep. This hotel is located in downtown. It's not on a main avenue so the impact of traffic or noise is very small. The rooms are clean and average in size. No luxury but nothing is missing. The bathroom had some crappy looking fixtures but everything worked. The service was good in general. There is a restaurant on premises with a nice selection. However, within walking distance (3-4 blocks) I could count not less than 20 restaurants and night clubs. You can also find phone cabins and Internet access around the place. Taxi to the beach can be a little bit expensive (10-15 USD) but you can walk three blocks and take a bus (less that 1 dollar) that takes you to the beach zone.
My only two complains were: Hot water takes an eternity to come out (last day I actually timed it and it took close to 5 minutes of running water to get it warm enough for my taste) and noisy A/C (but I turned it off and that was it).

For 50 USD/night it's more than I asked.

My boyf and I stayed at this hotel because we wanted something for a cheap price for a one night stay in Cancun before we headed to our rented condo the next day. I actually liked Downtown Cancun, so location wise, it wasn't a problem.

I booked online for $51 w/ tax included.

We got to the hotel around 1 a.m., due to flight delays. After we dropped our bags in the room we were thirsty so decided to walk down to the store nextdoor to buy some water. When we came back up to the room, the door wouldn't open w/ the electronic key! The manager on duty said "None of the keys are working right now. You just have to let us know when you need to be let back in." So they sent a maintenance guy up to try to pry the door open. He started using a clothes hanger to try to open it, making a lot of noise during the process, yet it still wouldn't open.

After 15minutes of working w/ the hanger, he decided to get a flathead screwdiver and was able to finally pop the lock open. We finally got into the place and we were ready to go to bed when my boyf realized the toilet wasn't flushing. The same maintenance came up and worked on it for 30minutes and never got it working correctly.
We just dealt w/ the fact that it would flush, but take 30minutes to refill the toilet bowl.:-) So no back-to-back toilet use. haha!

The room was furnished well, but the room we had was next to the street. It was kinda noisy, but we were tired so it didn't really bother me.

The next day, while I was downstairs looking at the breakfast menu, I
complained to the day manager about what happened the night before and he actually comped us for the breakfast buffet. Finally, something decent out of this place!

When we went back to our room after breakfast, we had to wait for someone to try to open the door. I decided to shimmy the door open w/
the door cardkey, and lo and behold it popped right open. Safety concern?

Overall, I felt $50 might've been too much to pay for this place! If
you walk-in, the price is almost $80!! I would not pay that much for this place.

The Downtown area is exciting and fun though. Wish we could've hung around there more, but it was raining so we didn't get to walk around
too much.

We stayed at the Margaritas on 12/20/06. I found it to be a fairly standard Mexican 2+ star hotel. The rooms were clean, but nothing special. The airconditioning worked, but smelled so moldy that we had to sleep with it off. We were charged an extra $15.00 each for our two children, which we were not expecting.
Other than the annoying time share salespersons in the lobby, the staff was helpful. Did not eat at the restaraunt, there are better ones down the block.