Why should one choose the host Hotel ME By Melia?

     Cancun is a worldwide known first-class resort center. Most of its hotels are located in an elongated peninsula, and face the sea on one side and a lagoon on the other one. The hotels are connected by a 25 km north-south boulevard (called Kukulkan), meaning that transportation requires some cost and time. The host hotel is in the middle (km 14.5) of this boulevard. In most hotels, the one-day tours and excursions are organized so that the tourists are picked in front of the hotel after breakfast and returned at the same place before the evening dinner, meaning that these meals are not wasted in the "Hotel Package".

     Keeping in mind that the beach and the sea sight are important attractions per se, the idea of staying in the Host Hotel is to attain a reasonable compromise between convenience and cost in the light of a wide variety of technical, social and touristic activities.

     Here are as reference some data for typical separate accomodation and meal options in similar medium-priced hotels, restaurants, and coffee places: i) the per night-person cost of a single room ranges from 125 to 165 USD, and for a double room from 130 to 170 USD, (ii) the cost of lunch and dinner ranges from 35 to 75 USD (for instance, see Restaurants in Cancun and View Menus and Prices Online, in the "Cancun Restaurant Index" at http://www.cancunmenus.com), and (iii) the costs of a coffee plus bread breakfast in a shopping center ranges from 8 to 12 USD, and the costs of drinks from 6 to 8 USD.

     In the "Hotel Package" with room and meals we have: (i) the per night-person cost in a single room is $187 USD (about 145 for accommodation and 42 for breakfast, lunch, dinner & beverages during 12 hours), and (ii) the per night-person cost in a double room is $ 130 USD (about 81 for accommodation and 49 for breakfast, lunch, dinner & beverages during 12 hours).

     Participants outside the Hotel Package will have access only to the Official Conference Dinner offered for all the event participants, but not to the rest of the dinners that will be offered exclusively, in one of the hotel restaurants, for participants in the Hotel Package. Participants outside the Hotel Package may have their meals, at normal prices, in another restaurant of the host hotel.