Had a stay at LeMeridien Noumea for 6 nights in December and the hotel is just OK but nothing spectacular.

I don't understand the comment: "Facilities are very good, especially the pool and beach" by avja above as the beach really sucks. It's a public beach and absolutely over crowded during weekends and holidays (we were there over Christmas 24th onwards) so we pulled back onto the pool area instead.

IMO the big problem here is the staff: Lazy, unprofessional with no eye for detail what-so-ever, inconsistency in cleaning etc... but miles ahead of Le Meridian Ile Des Pins service-wise (more to come)

Examples:
Dining: Food and/or paper pieces could be left on the dining room floor without anyone taking notice of it, or they saw it but apparently had more important things to do like, erh, doing nothing so it was just left there. Went to the restaurant/café/bar by the beach/pool outside of the lunch "rush" and were ignored. Tried to get the attention of the staff but got ignore so had to Leave. Breakfast not up to scratch if you're an American Style Breakfast fan (burnt / semi cooked thick bacon slices)
Room: The Cleaning staff would take towels we left hanging as we wanted to reuse them but never gave us any in return. Had to go to the reception and asked if we could get more towels and was promised it would happen... 5 hours later nothing materialised from the promise so had to go down again and waited for the person to have it fixed there and then. Some days we got bottled water other days we didn't.

On the positive side: Close to public transportation, walking distance to restaurants and bars (shortcut through the neighbouring hotels parking space rather than up through the Casino) and the pool guys are actually quite OK when you get "accepted" after a few days, the beds were very comfortable (we were on the top floor) with views out over the sea and the gym not half bad except dumbbells only went up to 10Kg...