Hotel Baia Lara

Baia Lara Beach Hotel is one of the best hotels we have had the pleasure to holiday at. It is 5 Star! Everything is 5 Star! TUI advertise the hotel to be part of Lara Beaches Las Vegas strip with themed hotels. Fantastic! But what they fail to tell you is that each hotel competes with its out door music! Who can be the loudest and with the bass turned to maximum. Great if the beat is altogether but ear drum damaging and not a pleasant sound if not. There are small snippets of music being played throughout the day which make Baia Lara a wonderful place to be. But when the beat is on throughout the hotels it just becomes a noise of sounds rather than music. TUI fail to advise that there are night clubs close to Baia Lara which are outside! Understandable that they are in Turkey’s summer heat but for someone who has never been to Turkey before, who knew? We rely on you TUI to get the descriptions accurate not just for the hotels description but also about it’s neighbours! Baia Lara’s night club is inside the hotel and doesn’t disturb its guests. Guess we assumed the same for neighbouring hotels. The out door clubs ‘sounds’ mix into one big noise! Shame really, could be so much better. We have children but thankfully we don’t have small children and aren’t early to bed type of people but the sounds from the out door clubs really do spoil the 5 Star classification that Baia Lara and all its staff truly deserve. Baia Lara Hotel is wonderful. The staff, rooms, cleanliness, food, pools, beach, spa.............. but bring your earplugs if you want to chill around the pool, get and early night or don’t like full on ‘bass’ when your having dinner outside! TUI, might be best to review your description so it is a more accurate review of the surrounding hotel ‘outdoor’ nightclubs? And the hotels competive music playing throughout the day. Overall a fantastic holiday and sure we will return to Turkey but not sure we’d return to Baia Lara purely because of the outdoor nightclubs and daily competition with music. The hotel has great overall capacity in its summer months so I’m sure our comments won’t put anyone one off. Maybe ask for a central room facing the sea or the road and you won’t hear the nightclubs so much?

Having heard so many good reviews from Lara beach we picked this hotel not cheap either coming in at over £2300 for a couple no children. I am gluten intolerant and the staff although thought they knew what this meant they had no clue about cross contamination, on four occasions i was given non gluten food, only to be sick and ill the following day...... pool side service not good one member of staff trying to serve the whole site, no service at meal times and when i complained a lad served coffee on a filthy trolley that was used for dirty dishes, Just not enough staff for holiday makers, there was really good entertainment but even that was ruined by a Russian visitors complaining they were not playing enough Russian songs and when the band accommodated every body stopped dancing or left.... i went to customer relations on many occasions and as hard as they tried to make the food and service better it just never happened, the staff really struggled to understand English so even ordering a drink was a mission. The adult pool children kept entering, I complained to the TUI rep who said speak to the english TUI rep tomorrow she may help me better...All in all i would not go back to this hotel, when i left they did say if i return they would give me a free a la carte, take into account i am all inclusive, this is NOT a Five star hotel, the food, service, and behaviour of other guests really let it down