Le Méridien Phuket Mai Khao Beach Resort

Hotel is located at a secluded part of the island, food choices are very limited unless you take a taxi out.

We stayed here just for one night, unfortunately. (We chose this resort as it’s close to the airport and we left early the next morning.) I would’ve loved to stay longer. The location is absolutely incredible if you want to fully immerse yourself in the resort. (There aren’t a lot of things to do outside of the resort; convenience stores/shopping. The resort is also in a pretty remote location so getting taxis are not very easy) A few notable things about the resort. 1.The check in time is quite late and I feel it makes the customer lose a lot of time on the day of check-in. We arrived just after 2PM, check-in is at 3PM. Our room was still not available by 2:30PM and we had to hang around in the café while waiting for it. The room was absolutely beautiful and incredibly massive.  2. The staff didn’t let us know that on that day there would be a fireworks show and that the sunset is absolutely not to be missed as it is truly a fire in the sky because of the hotels cardinal direction.  I happen to be browsing the hotels Instagram around 6:45PM and noticed that a fire show was going to happen and we ran to the restaurant in order to catch it in time. 3. We had dinner at the hotels oceans kitchen restaurant. The menu options were plentiful and the dishes were all delicious. (the wait staff never returned to check if we were ok once all the food had arrived. It was quite difficult to flag someone down when we wanted to leave.)

The hotel is fabulous good for families. It has direct access to the beach, nice swimming pools and good kids clubs. However, the catering staff are not that friendly.