Baia Lara Hotel 

This was our seventh time in Antalya and I think Baia Lara is the best hotel we’ve stayed in. There are however a few things that stop it from being perfect. The hotel itself is brilliant. Rooms are great, although shower water pressure in our room on the 8th floor wasn’t good. Really helpful staff, perfect grounds, lovely pool area and the jetty is great too. Breakfast was really good every day. The choice for lunch at the various different snack bars is the best in any Turkish hotel I’ve stayed in. Evening meal lets it down a little but we always found something. Drinks options were brilliant, various different bottled beers, premium spirits and really good cocktails. The guys on the roller skates keeping us refreshed all day work their nuts off. Semet in particular looked after us. The lad is brilliant and has a great personality. He could easily be part of the entertainment team! Speaking of which, some of the entertainment team were brilliant, Mehmet, Murat and Stefan in particular. There wasn’t much interaction with the rest. That’s one area I think could really be improved. The biggest letdown is the water park. It’s tiny in comparison to so many of the other hotels in Lara. And I genuinely think this would make families with teenage kids consider elsewhere. Evening entertainment also isn’t great, feels like a bit of an afterthought with the stage being tucked out of the way at the front of the hotel. All in all, despite the flaws (and maybe I’m nitpicking) we would definitely go back.