Melas Lara Hotel

The hotel is small so good for people with mobility issues and/or smaller kids. We had a great room on the 10th floor with an amazing view from the balcony. They were able to accommodate 3 people in a room with a roll away bed. The air conditioner automatically shuts off though when the balcony door opens even for a minute. The staff was friendly but most did not speak English very well. Majority of the tourists were Germans so German was the primary language spoken. I loved the night entertainment. The shows were all professional and fun to watch. The food was very good if you are a meat and sweets lover. There wasn't a big variety of seafood at all. They had themed nights at the buffet, and my favorite was Turkish but they really need to get rid of Asian night. Everything was just terrible and not even close to Asian cuisine. Another thing that was very disappointing were the cocktails. I tried very basic cocktails, and they were all very poorly made. It would be nice to add mimosas during breakfast as well. My other complaint is the hotel not having a single converter available for guests! Bring your own if you are from the US! Overall, it's a good, basic hotel for families and older couples.

I have both positive and negatives regarding this hotel.The hotel building itself is beautiful a really pretty hotel and the grounds are beautiful ! straight away upon arriving we were disappointed to be told we had a 4th floor room despite me sending 3 emails prior to booking and arriving to request a ground floor as I was travelling alone with two children and was nervous to have a room with a balcony and also the hassle of climbing stairs every day with two children and a push chair (I told them my son also had a fear of lifts )they eventually moved us to a second floor which was better but also not great especially after they told me they would meet my requirements, they also revealed they actually did not not have a ground floor in the hotel and the first floor is infact on a level so this should have been told to me when emailing as I would never have booked this hotel at all! cleanliness was definitely not 5 * the tables around the pool were filthy and every morning putting our towels down I would notice cigarettes in the ashtray from the day before and drinks spilt on tables where they hadn’t been cleaned! Our room itself on the day of arrival wasn’t clean the floors felt so dirty to walk on like really sticky…we had a long black hair in the bath and the mattress in the baby cot was stained! During the holiday I have to say the maids cleaned our room really lovely and left it looking nice! The food was amazing there and a lot of variety…unless you have allergies, unfortunately my son has a severe allergy to nuts sesame and milk I made the hotel aware and they wasn’t that bothered, any other hotel have stayed at always produced us with allergy cards to show restruant staff but melas Lara provided nothing , neither did they have any ingredient/allergy information in front of any of there food something again there has always been at any other hotel we have stayed!because of this my son had to have plain pasta the whole holiday as we couldn’t chance what was in any of the other food! They had no other milk available other than cows milk ,again any other hotel in turkey have offered alternatives! This really ruined our holiday as my son after a few days just wanted to go home for normal food! After about 4 days of going up and down stairs carrying a baby and a pushchair my son said he’d try go in the lift (he’s been petrified for years!but he done it we were so proud and it made the next couple of days so much easier…until one day we were going down for dinner and suddenly a big bang and pitch black and we were stuck!both my kids were screaming,I got the torch on my phone and pressed the alarm again and again and no one came! In desperation I put my hands in between the small gap in doors and managed to pull them open…when i confronted the reception the lady( I think a manager) was very relaxed about it and said she was about to send someone to help us! This was very traumatic for anyone but for my son that has such bad anxiety about lifts was terrible and they didn’t seem to care! Although there are a lot of negatives from our stay at melas Lara i have to highlight how amazing the entertainment and bar staff were…they made such an effort with the kids and were so friendly!