Loco Gecko Beach Shak — Restaurant in Myrtle Beach

If I could give zero stars I would. Three of us walked to Loco Gecko from our hotel to eat dinner. We arrived at about 6:30pm. We were seated fairly quickly but fifteen minutes after we were seated we still had yet to see a server. When we got the hostess' attention and asked for a server she rolled her eyes. She took our beverage order then finally, a few minutes later, a server shows up and asks for our drink order again. Seeing as how this was taking longer than anticipated we asked if we would be able to order and eat before 7:45 since we had to be back at our hotel before 8:00pm for a function. Her answer was "Well, orders are prepared in the order that they are taken." To make things easy we did t let her leave the table and we ordered simple items right away. A grilled shrimp Ceasar salad, a chicken taco salad and a fried shrimp basket thinking these orders couldn't possibly take long to cook and prepare. It was just before 7:00pm when we placed our order. At 7:25 I stopped our server and asked if we could get our check to speed up our exit and if we would get our meals any time soon and she said that she would check. At 7:30 she comes back with our checks and says that they will be out soon. At this point I knew that we didn't have time to eat so I asked her to please make our order "To Go". While waiting I noticed that my bill was higher than anticipated and checked the menu prices against the check. According to the menu and how I read it the grilled shrimp salad was $9.99 but I was charged twice that amount. She explained that the salad was $9.99 and to add the shrimp was another $9.99. Maybe I am wrong, but I didn't think that a grilled shrimp Ceasars salad was worth $19.98. The menu was very misleading, but I didn't argue because of time. While we waited longer I noticed that there were about sixteen customers waiting out front to be sat at tables. Most of them had been waiting for more than twenty minutes. When I scanned the restaurant I also noticed that half of the tables in and outside were empty so there really was no reason for the wait other than poor customer service. At 7:40 she comes out with our bag of food and we left to walk back to our hotel. Our event started at 8pm so we had to wait about thirty minutes to eat. We sat down and began to get our meals to find that the lettuce was pretty brown AND they did not include flatware or any salad dressings for our meals. Needless to say, I was not surprised. I would not advise ANYONE to go to the Loco Gecko in Myrtle Beach. The service is absolutely slow and terrible, the menu prices are misleading and the quality of the food is certainly not indicative of the prices. A far better choice would be Dino 's Pizzaria just down the street. They are fast, they use fresh ingredients, their prices are accurate and they have...

MY GOD this restaurant!!!!! I had a group of 5 meet up on Saturday, September 30th for wings, nachos, pizza, and enormous margaritas. Our bill was $93 and it came with impressive servitude from the cool guy who waited on us. He deserves a medal for putting up with our shenanigans for 120 minutes. The food was sufficiently seasoned, plentiful in heat, abundance of quantity. They even let us take our margarita's with us, which was cool. We didn't have to show our ID's, which was a first for me! At the end of day I ordered a 12 piece bbq wing and water to go so I could take it to my room (attached to the restaurant) and watch the Clemson game at 8pm. It was around 7:15. My husband paid with a $100 dollar bill as we didn't have change. I didn't enter the restaurant. When the wings came my water was missing, so I asked for it when the gaunt, dark skinned hostess with bifocals and synthetic kinky curls handed the wings over. She brought it quickly, so I tipped her as a thank you for the expedience. I got to my room and enjoyed the game, my wings and let the ice melt in my cup. I took off the lid so I could drink the water all at once and what I saw was another ingredient in my water. SALIVA. Absolutely sick, illegal, and unacceptable right? WRONG. They still haven't called. No manager, no hotel staff. No one gives a hoot that I was assaulted with battery by someone's bodily fluids. I tipped your employee to spit in my Godforsaken water. My husband went down twice around 11pm first to tell them, and secondly to inform them what I was going to do about their offer from James, the petite, slim, clean cut, brunette male manager, James I think was his name. They offered me a free meal and my husband any beverage of his choice at the bar. We declined. Now it's time for civil action, since nothing was resolved, no one called, no one is concerned with communicable diseases that can be contracted by nasty people working in the restaurant industry. I even wrote to them & waited like a nice little sucker for them to make it right. Of course they wrote me with promises, no different than they're photos from 10 years ago of a clean, safe, new, legitimate resort. Ha Ha, funny. The joke shouldn't be on you, so don't let it. Don't come to their hotel just to save money. Avoid this place for their facades and criminal negligent...

So I'm guessing this is a place where your experience is completely based on luck of the draw as to who your server is.. based on majority reviews, people either love it or hate it. I, unfortunately was not impressed at ALL! Loco Gecko came recommended from friends in my home town when they heard I was headed to Myrtle. I was excited to try it with my family based on other's experiences but nah... The parking is not clear. The entrance is not clear. No biggie really but for an overwhelmed tourist with small kids I can see why someone would not appreciate those aspects! The service was a definite 1. She had an attitude, she was slow and rude and inattentive to say the least. I told her a few times that my son would need a cup with a lid because he would spill. She kept saying ok but never brought the lid. He spilled. Lol. She had the biggest attitude about it and said leave it, since it was outside it would melt. Hmm. Probably why there were flies and bees buzzing around. Sticky spilled drinks drying in the 90°heat. But anyway, our food was tasteless really. It LOOKED amazing when it hit the table and I couldn't wait to try that giant juicy burger! Until I did. It was just beef. I mean no real flavor other than beef lol I guess if you're a lion you'd love it. Their 12, maybe 16 oz glasses were chock full of ice so I needed a refill about 6-8 times trying to swallow that big beef pile. And with a waitress who was leaned up against the bar on her phone for 15 minutes at a time that wasn't happening so I ended up getting the attention of a different waitress and asking for to go boxes. Here comes my waitress with the boxes and shockingly enough- the bill. I about fell over! It was the single most expensive meal I had the entire time we were on our 8 day vacation! Me and my oldest daughter each had a burger and fries and my other two teens had chicken strip meals. My little guy had a kids chicken meal and my bill was almost $120. Either I got ripped on the bill or can't read SC-English on the menu or something! I paid and got the heck out of my paid parking spot and will definitely not come back! Ever. Won't recommend it either. For anyone curious- I gave the rest of my beef pile to some seagulls later...