The Club Mina Beach Club at Le Meridian gets a resounding two thumbs down. It’s probably an ok place for families with kids, as we saw a lot of those there, but that doesn’t excuse the poor service and the unimpressive beach, food, decor and view.
The entry cost is around $100 per person for that money you have to walk around the outside of the hotel and through and back entrance behind the parking lot to access the beach, because got forbid you use the hotels main entrance and mix with the exclusive clientele of the Westin and Le Meridian brands. For that money you get a lounger and two towels if you’re willing to wait 10 min for the towel guy to show up. Then you might get a fine server like Binod who is under the strict impression that smiling to a paying customer would literally kill him, but giving customers attitude, rushing them when taking an order and repeatedly moving a tray with the receipts and credit card machine to your lounger despite your best efforts to move it to a nearby lounger so you can rest comfortably while he takes the 15 minutes to prepare the receipts and run off midway on a random errand, is totally ok.
There was more to raise my ire but I think you get the idea.