I have just arrived back in the UK after a 10 night stay at this hotel. For reference I have been to Turkey 4 times before. Without doubt this hotel is stunning and the facilities are all intact for the hotel to succeed but small issues let the hotel down. 1. Staff - The hotel is majorly understaffed in every major area. My room most days wasn't cleaned to the expected standard. Bed sheets not changed regularly and towels not refreshed and some days we arrived back at the room after 4pm with the cleaner not arriving at our room until nearly 5pm, clearly understaffed. Some bar staff are rude and slow creating huge queues. A lot of the staff are so blatantly looking for tips and its quite annoying and it can be quite awkward as the service you receive goes down and waits get longer once no tip is given. Around by the pools drinks are being left by the outside of the pools, straws paper cups, plastic bottle, plastic cups, for hours with no one cleaning them up until the one guy who goes round doing the whole premises cleans them up! This then results in wasps being everywhere, chilling on my lounger and one stings me foot 😂 2. Food - repetitive... same thing 99% of the time and queues are huge. Food is self serve meaning hundreds of people are touching food grabbers, hot plates, plates, lids and this cannot be healthy or clean. The queue for 1 scoop of ice cream one night was genuinely as long as the restaurant. To be honest I didn't like the majority of food on an evening and eventually resulted in eating outside the hotel as I was genuinely starving. When looking for a table the tables are cleaned sufficiently they are literally wiped over with a paper towel, no disinfectant no sanitiser nothing 3. Drinks - Paper cups..... terrible idea and small causing huge queues in 40 degree heat, again this isn't good or healthy. Coke often tasted really poor and if you asked for more than one coke they would give you one diet coke... Drinks are rammed full of ice and one mouthful and you need another drink and causing excessive waste with paper cups stacked high everywhere. No self serve which is unheard of for me in a five star hotel and its causing massive queues. Alcohol drinks i.e Efes majority of the time tasted bad and flat and just not good enough. My partner tried the cocktails again hit and miss. I tried one whisky and coke and that was enough never again 4. Water slides - be warned if you have booked this hotel for the water park and your child is under 7 years of age and under 120cm they cannot use the water slides they can only use the kids baby water park. Very disappointed in this as this was one of the major reasons we booked this hotel. I argued the toss and manager stated no multiple times. No one manages the use of the rubber rings provided so children are waiting for a turn on some of the slides and adults and children are hogging the rings until they get bored, get more rings or police the rings and stop this as it isn't fair. The non slip mats leading up to the stairs are genuinely like walking on nails they killed my feet they need to be changed 5. Prices - the hotel grocery shop doesn't display any prices, the prices change daily and they are extortionate and are blatantly ripping people off. A sure for men roll on... 10 euros please, they are literally £1 in the UK. Can of coke 4 euros, next day 4.50. Madness. My advice go to the small supermarket opposite the front of the hotel. We enquired about hiring a bed/lounger on the beach pier through the advertised WhatsApp number.... 120 euros!!!!!!!! 6. Wi-Fi - Terrible.... constantly drops out. Have to reconnect every single day and for a five star hotel it isn't anywhere near acceptable 7. Information - Nothing is sign posted properly, its a big hotel and finding stuff can be difficult, it really lets the hotel down. Finding out on the last day there are toilets at the entertainment area is disappointing after walking across bridges every night wasting time Overall we have had a brilliant stay and a great holiday, the hotel is beautiful it really is but the above needs ironing out for me to pay the sums of money out and return. The above when listed as I have done looks bad but that isn't my intention, my intention is for it to be noted and tackled because it would be a top top hotel if so. We did visit in the UK 6 weeks holiday and there are kids absolutely everywhere so maybe things would be better in a less busy period I'm not sure Lara is a really nice friendly and safe place and I would recommend to anyone looking to visit