Is Satan the manager at the Hotel California?

Yes. Hotel California is about hell.
Read the lyrics.
And if you look @ the album cover,
you'll see Anton Lavey in the window
of the hotel.

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I thought it was about drug addiction...

Nah, it was some lady. She was nice.
www.hotelcaliforniabaja.com...

I thought it was about lonliness and being a prisoner of your own mind,

"I was thinking to myself, this could be heaven or this could be hell"

The song is talking about life itself.
"you can check out, but you can never leave"

I don't know if he managed Hotel California or not but I know he managed my house when I was married to my first wife.....lol...

The band, more than once, confirmed that the song was about excess and materialism. Don Henley for instance said in the London Daily Mail “It was really about the excesses of American culture and certain girls we knew. But it was also about the uneasy balance between art and commerce”

The underlying theme of the song is the corruption and decadence of the Los Angeles music industry which is described as a prison that artists seek and freely enter [And she said ’we are all just prisoners here, of our own device’] to later discover that they cannot escape it anymore [But you can never leave!]

hotelcaliforniameaning.com...

It is NOT about satan. hell, or anything religious at all. It's about the dark side to success. You could leave the Eagles, but Glenn would always be Glenn and everyone would always remember who he was and what he did with the band. Or Don, or whoever.
Glenn Frey's words about the album: From the same site as above....

That record explores the under belly of success, the darker side of Paradise. Which was sort of what we were experiencing in Los Angeles at that time. So that just sort of became a metaphor for the whole world and for everything you know. And we just decided to make it Hotel California. So with a microcosm of everything else going on around us.

'We haven't had that spirit here since nineteen sixty nine'

And she said 'We are all just prisoners here, of our own device'
And in the master's chambers,
They gathered for the feast
They stab it with their steely knives,
But they just can't kill the beast

'We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!'

all of these lyrics sound pretty much to describe hell to me!!!!

Last thing I remember, I was
Running for the door
I had to find the passage back
To the place I was before

possibly talking about trying to escape from hell???