Le Meridien ***** EP

[Steve]

Le Meridien

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Originally Posted by Travel Center

Le Meridien has built up an outstanding chain of over 110 hotels and resorts situated in some of the world's major cities and most beautiful tourist spots. Le Meridien Cancun is one of the recent additions to the Le Meridien family.

French flair and style flow throughout Le Meridien Cancun and this is reflected in every aspect from the decor to the cuisine. This combined with the hotel's respect for local culture and tradition guarantees an unforgettable luxurious stay. Bordered by the Caribbean sea's crystal clear waters and sparkling white sandy beach on one side and the Laguna de Nichupte on the other, Le Meridien Cancun offers the ultimate location for relaxation and enjoyment.

Le Meridien is rated as a top resort in Cancun with extensive leisure options such as three pools, a beach with aqua sports, two tennis courts, a world class spa, a pool restaurant, a Mediteranean restaurant, bar/lobby lounge, 24 hour room service, travel agency, car rental desk and shops. The hotel also features a Penguin Club for children 4 to 12 years and extensive parking is available.

Le Meridien Cancun has been awarded the "Gran Turismo" designation which is the highest degree of honor and achievement bestowed upon only to the most outstanding resorts in the world.

Located at Km14 it is a short journey by bus to the party center. This hotel is Ocean side. Downtown is a 30 minute bus journey away.

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[MYTVLZ]

Someone over on TA just returned from this hotel and it looks like they have all 3 pools open now and beach access is restored. From the report the hotel appears to be almost 100%.

[Ana]

Yes Le Meridein is almost 100% complete as in old times and with better sevice.

[mixz1]

This may change as the dredges get closer, but to those of us who live near the Meridien, they have been a very poor neighbor. Almost as soon as the recovery began, they roped off a major portion of the remaining beach in front of the hotel and put up No Trespassing signs, planted trees, palapas, tables, etc. and coopted all access to what remained of Playa Ballenas. They've even gone so far as to repeatedly remove the Beach Access sign on Retorno del Rey and have exerted pressure on the owner of the little taco and fish stand located there to tear down his little shack and leave.

I don't know who owns the large vacant field next to the Meridien, but what used to be public parking for Playa Ballenas has been fenced off and the familiar No Trespassing signs are up there as well. Hopefully the beach restoration will put enough sand on Ballenas so that it will be able to accomodate the public again. I'm not going to debate the fine points of how much sand belongs to a hotel, but I was led to believe that the public can't be barred from a beach. I wonder what happened here? I also know that I will discourage anyone who asks from reserving at Le Meridien.

[bsdstone]

Does anyone know if Le Meridien allows Topless or "european style" sunbathing?
Or their beach?

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[spalthof]

We caught a program on the Travel Channel last night called "Top Ten Mexican Beach Resorts." Lo and behold, the #2 resort was Le Meridien. There was a 3 or 4 minute segment on the resort and spa.

The program airs again Jan 11, 2008 6:00 pm if you're interested. I know it got my wife a little more excited for our trip coming up March 5-10.

http://travel.discovery.com/tv-sched...4993.82064.0.0

--Tom

[GCPSgirl]

spalthof,

Thats a good program, and one that is at least 5 years old now I believe. I wish the travel channel would update it, instead of re-running it year after year.

The flamingo was in the top ten as well. Yea, right.

Le Meridien isn't one of the top one's in Cancun in my opinion, but it is a very nice resort. On a great stretch of beach, wonderful pools, and usually good service.

[GoCancun]

Topless sunbathing is generally frowned upon in most places in mexico.