Was it Le Meridian Hotel you were thinking of? We stayed there our first trip to SXM in 2004. The initial drive to the resort was quite a "first adventure" for us. I remember a large truck was stuck on one of the curves and had to inch back and forth for quite some time before being able to drive clear. The hotel stay was fine, a little isolated from the rest of the island - so we rented a car and the rest is, as they say, history...