My family’s recent stay at The Level at Melia Caribe Beach was absolutely terrible. I feel that the experience was consistently poor on almost every level you can measure. Outdated, poorly maintained suites (holes in the wall, broken washing machines with repeated broken promises to fix), dirty pools with broken filters, rusty shower heads and cracked tiles. Spotty service (decent when you could find people, but frequent issues wasted time and frustrated, like nobody directing us to the proper lobby at check-in, lies about maintenance, lies from staff at checkout that I’d be contacted RE these issues I reported). Inconsistent food quality and service. Beach overrun with seaweed (partly just nature, but some hotels nearby kept their beaches much cleaner).
The biggest issue that made our experience a bad one was a serious injury to my wife’s ankle. We were leaving our 3rd floor hotel room on the evening of Aug 1. We were going down the stairs of the building and it was ABSOLUTELY PITCH DARK...no lights in the building at all. In the darkness, my wife badly turned her ankle on the stairs and was in a lot of pain. A few minutes later, all the lights came on. Clearly, the timers were set too late, which is unacceptable. After that, the remainder of our trip was very difficult, as my wife had trouble walking and was in pain. Also, when I reported this issue, the handling of the situation was very poor, including misinformation and unavailability of guest services staff.