While staff were very nice, especially the restaurant and cleaning staff, they were not very helpful. Things like calling a taxi and such they would not help you with.
Rooms were not very clean. Like many hotels, rooms are only superficially clean. Would be nice if hotels actually deep cleaned the rooms between guests.
There is a guy at the pool that "cleans" the pool all day long. Except he is not really doing anything. All day, every day he is using the mesh to swish the water around, but not really doing anything. 1) the pool should be cleaned early morning or late night when guests are not there. To have him clean all day and the pool tools laying around the pool is not a good guest experience. 2) the hotel should be training this employee better. He is standing out in the hot sun for 5-7 hours a day doing nothing except pretending to clean the pool. Why not help him clean the pool quickly once per day early in the morning and then focus on other tasks such as removing all the trash that is in the bushes by the pool.
Hotel is very noisy. All day and night you can hear the elevators go up and down from your hotel room. You can also hear your neighbors.
Hotel allows smoking and does not separate smoking rooms from non-smoking rooms. Even if you are in non-smoking rooms, you can smell smoke all day long. It is 2022 - le meridien should not allow smoking at all inside the building or by the pool area.
