Большая территория и просторные номера, но шумно и есть недочёты в ремонте номеров Large territory and spacious rooms, but noisy and there are shortcomings in the repair of rooms

In January of this year, I was vacationing at the Le Meridien hotel. January is approaching again, so it may be useful for someone to read about this hotel and about the weather at this time of the year.
If you like big hotels, Le Meridien is for you. This is the highest hotel on the Dead Sea - 17 floors. An impressive lobby, a spacious restaurant, spacious rooms with sea views, rather big balconies, a large area for the resort of Ein Bokek.
A huge area, respectively, a lot of vacationers. I lived in Le Meridien for the 2nd time. But this time, during my stay, a large group of pensioners from Haifa and several corporate groups stopped by. And on the Dead Sea, you want silence and relaxation ...In the morning, a queue lined up at the entrance to the restaurant to enter. At breakfast there was a real buzz from the voices of a large number of vacationers ...

In a restaurant in which the waiters did not have time to replenish cutlery, remove dirty dishes from the tables and broken dishes from the floor.
I lived on the 16th floor in a suite consisting of a living room and a bedroom. The room is no frills, everything is simple and concise. It would be desirable, of course, that obsolete switches and doors be replaced, the carpet was cleaned and shabby furniture was replaced. The room shows traces of cosmetic unfinished repairs.
The weather in January was cool, with a dust storm. Several umbrellas were scattered by the wind in different directions. The sea is cold for swimming, although some have taken courage and entered the water...
Since there is nothing to do in the sea and on the beach, everyone spends time in the SPA center. And “everyone” is the tourists of LeMeridien and the neighboring Leonardo Inn 3 * hotel, because they have one SPA center for two. There were almost no places near the pool to lie down on a sunbed. There was a queue in the shower to bathe or wash off the salt water. In the SPA center you can change in a small dressing room, where there is also a shower and toilet. The sauna didn't work.
In addition to free pools, jacuzzis and saunas, there are paid hydrogen sulfide pools and treatment rooms.
The Dead Sea is a resort where people from all over the world come for healing and treatment. This time I saw especially many people with joint diseases.

The hotel has its own beach 5 minutes walk from the door of the hotel. The beach, as well as the SPA center, is used by tourists of two hotels - Le Meridien itself and the neighboring Leonardo Inn 3 *. There is a golf car service to the beach. Lots of people use this ride. Travel time - 3 minutes to the road. Then everyone goes out and walks to the sea for 1 minute. On the beach there are free sunbeds, umbrellas, showers. The beach looks typical for a resort - there is no bar, even a paid one. But on the other hand, there are no food vendors or excursions either.

In general, I like this hotel. This is not a 5 * deluxe, but a massive five, but the food is delicious, the rooms are large and there are regular special offers for stays of 7 nights or more.