We had a wonderful time at Le Meridien. We used Starwood points and got a great deal on the room. The pools were beautiful and the crystal blue water was amazing. I highly recommend reserving a cabana by the pool. The staff was incredibly friendly and helpful. It is definitely worth it to pay the extra $100 per day to have access to the Royal Club. They are open in the morning for breakfast and from 5-7 for hors devours and cocktails.
We have never been to Cancun before and we will definitely go back next year. My kids loved it (8 and 9 year old) and said they would rather go back to Cancun than go to Disney next year....

We recently stayed for 5 nights (April 18-23) at the Le Meridien Cancun (used 4 nights worth of points and got 1 night free). Amazing deal for the points. It was our first visit to Cancun, and will NOT be our last. We loved it! And we don't have the swine flu so that is also positive news.

Positives:
1. Weather was beautiful. Even when it said it might rain, it didn't.
2. Pools are fantastic. 3 great pools with plenty of room to swim and lay out.
3. Very private hotel. Only 200 rooms and seemed like it was less than half full, so we received very good service the whole week!
4. Concierage service was one of the best I have ever experienced in any city in the world.
5. Front desk staff was very nice as well.
6. They originally placed us in a Deluxe Room with a balcony facing away from the construction as a nice gesture, but after one night on that side of the hotel, we actually decided we wanted a view of our own hotel's pools, so we switched to the other side and loved that view way more.
7. The construction was going on next door, but it really didn't bother us at all.
8. The sun shone on the pools all day long, no worries about the construction blocking the sun.
9. Bus rides were easy, cheap ($0.60 approximately) and quick.
10. Champions Sports Bar at the Marriott (3 hotels away) has great food and tons of great TV's if you are a sports fan.
11. If you have access to the Club Lounge for happy hour, the service is fantastic and the drinks flow steadily for 2 hours.
12. The workout facilities were top notch. Great machines and free weights.
13. Sand on the beach was so soft and the water was so blue. Way better than the West coast Mexico resorts!
14. Definitely tour the Westin Luganamar Resort. Really beautiful and they are offering some good promotions for sitting through a 90 minute presentation.

Negatives:
1. My wife and I are both Gold Starwood members, but they did not offer the Club Lounge to us for free. Only Platinum membes receive that benefit. We used 1500 points per day for the happy hour and the breakfast. Breakfast wasn't that great, but the happy hour was fantastic. So for the points, it was a pretty decent deal, but would have been better to just get upgraded to that for free.
2. The Le Meridien is a 1/2 block off the main street of the Hotel Zone. So it is a little annoying to have to walk to the nearest bus stop, but on the other hand, it is good to get a little more exercise.
3. The spa was redicuously expensive, didn't try it.
4. Drinks were a little expensive at the pool, but they were really good.
5. No swim up bar, but the bar was very close to the pools.
6. Beach was very small, but you could still walk up and down the beach from hotel to hotel. You could tell that several resorts were currently renovating or planning to redo their beaches due to the Hurricane from a few years back.
7. Getting from the airport to the hotel is a huge hastle. We ended up paying $50 for a larger taxi, but I'm sure we could have gotten one for around $30. We did not want to take a shuttle service and have to stop at 10 other hotels first. Taxi ride from the hotel back to the airport was $25 and was really easy.

Overall, a great stay and we will be back in Cancun in the near future (once the Swine Flu goes away)!

We were travelling to a resort on the mexican coastline about an hour away from cancun, and after a long flight from Birmingham we planned to stay in the Le Meridien for one night to break down the journey and also to see a bit of Cancun. We arrived at the entrance at was welcomed by a member of staff (don't remember her role) once stepped out of the car, at check-in was given fruit juice and a bell-man took our luggage to our room which was a deluxe room and consisted of two double beds and a large bathroom with seperate walk-in shower and bathtub. The room had tea/coffee, mini-bar, tv and was of a large size. Visited one of the swimming pools and was large and clean and warm but refreshing. Checked-out the next day at the latest possible time and was hassle-free (as was the check-in which i forgot to mention earlier) and headed to our resort.
Overall, this is a fantastic hotel and has given me a very good impression on le meridien, however i doubt i would stay here again ONLY because i was not too keen on Mexico itself and doubt i will return but has nothing to do with the hotel which again was fantastic!

The hotel is nice - rooms are reasonably big and stylish, everything works. But anyone interested in the beach should know that in this section of the hotel zone, the beach is more or less completely gone. Waves come right up to the seawall. Even at low tide it's almost impossible to walk on the beach without getting hit by waves. This is true for the Marriott, Ritz, and other hotels in this region as well. As others have noted, the pool area is now hemmed in between the Meridien's own building and the new one next door, which cuts down on the sun in the afternoon unless you move to the far corner of the area.