TUI Blue Belek — Hotel in Serik

5 stars to the Hotel||1. As it is clean and well maintained. ||2. Food is excellent at all eating locations. ||3. Staff are beautiful, will go out of their way to help you. ||4. Entertainment was good. (However - we were not given a programme or on any noticeboard of up and coming acts/events)||5. Pussy cats that the hotel go out of their way to look after, are adorable, especially the kittens.||6. Swimming pool, everyone was in it, as it was not cold - A good walk or swim round, as it is not deep. ||7. Aqua sports, Yoga, and exercise classes always on. ||8. Gym was excellent, but not open at the times that would fit out schedule which is before breakfast. It should open at 6am, not 9am.|| 9. Shops onsite are well stocked, however, the food shop, items are not priced, and we were charged £15 for 2 pks of pringles, which is very expensive. Theres also a hairdressers, doctor and spa onsite.||10. Theres a Coffee and cake bar on site, which is beautiful, but there is a miserable member of staff on there from time to time, just ignore her. ||11. I bought a beautiful bag from the bag shop, which all items are priced, as is the clothes shop.||12. The gent who sells the sunglasses, absolute lovely guy - always says hello and smiles, has a wit as well.! ||13. Also the Turkish shoe polisher, lovely guy. ||14. The lady who cooked the local pide pitta bread by the pool cafe, OMDs delish!||15. The pool cafe serve burgers, chicken kebabs, fish and chips, saleds etc etc - and is beautiful.||17.Lounge bar staff - adorable 'darlings'.||Lounge bar staff were very funny, sorry we missed you on the day of us leaving, else we would have tipped you.||18.Beach is beautiful, but stones, so take some beach shoes with you.||Plenty of sunbeds around the pool and beach.||19. The pool is constantly cleaned and side pot bins emptied regular.||||So, here's the critical points, and not the hotel or staffs faults, as Tui have just taken over.||The hotel is on the beach which is fantastic, however, there is nothing in the area to venture close by, the roads and infractstructure is dreadful and barren. Also noisey at times, but most noise is from the other hotels after 12pm. ||The majority of guest are from Germany, only a few Brits we came across.||There was lovely French we spoke to, and Polish. The local Turkish guest are helpful and funny. ||The hotel consist of old and young, and some oldies were just dam right rude and arrogant, also putting their towels on the beds as early as 6am, and the towels are not moved. Ive wittnessed this from a certain clientele since 1980, and the never change! Maybe the hotel should stick by their policy and remove all towels from the beds before 8am, as it became unfair for a lot of guest as they could not get a bed.||||The sun beds are old and need replacing.||||Not the hotels fault, but needs to be mentioned, as they do need to act with clientele of this nature, and very quickly. Unfortunately, there was an incident, and the manager defused the German lady's attitude, who was quite arrogant towards me, and later I found out she was to others as well. Basically, a lovely evening, 2 days into our hols, I'm sat at the bar, on a stool, no handbags, drinking classes, all stools are empty, as I always check, a habbit/manner you are taught, and this German woman comes up behind me, speaks in my ear, standing right agains me, and states I'm sat on her chair, get off it now! And she was trying to push me off the chair. Needless to say I was shocked, but being a proffessional oldie .... I just said, I dont think so! and I just told the barmaid and she brought the manager across, and sure enough he defused the situation to a tee. However, he asked me to move to the other side of the bar to avoid more conflict, which really, she should have been asked to leave by security. Apparently, I was informed afterwards that she had done it to others. One lady, she got aggressive with.||||Would I come again, no, as there is nothing in surrounding areas, shame really, as the staff are best, as is the food, and Im a fussy eater when it comes to taste! ||If the surrounding areas infractructure became accessible and more in the area to venture, and I am still alive, then, of course, at a drop of a hat I...

We go to turkey quite a lot nowadays. However our 2 previous visits was not relaxing at all because of the numbers of children (may I say children not a problem just the volume) and if my children was young then turkey is the place to take them because the Turkish no how to cater for them.|So this time we chose adults only and it was bliss at the TUI blue. Requested sea/pool view on booking and got what we asked for. Great start to holiday.the higher floor the better.|The hotel it's self is clean throughout |The rooms are cleaned to a good standard.|Absolutely great service from all staff|The food was good lots of choices|The breeze snack bar good but a bit samey each day|The sun loungers always available not allowed to reserve before 8am was good . However if you like to go down before for a spot you like it's not a problem as long as you are occupying them until 8am that was great for me being a early riser takeaway coffee down with me(bliss) |Come down late if you have a lie in you will always find some vacant.|Animation lads were just fab dedicated. Janre(shaggy) as he is nicknamed was a wonderfull guy from Belgium.|He would often carry on playing his games through is dinner hour if the guests wanted to carry on a credit to the hotel. Also izmet a lovely lad who had time to chat to all the guests|It's because of all the staff that we will not be considering where to go next the TUI blue wins hands down|Previous reviews have said some staff are anti English and that the German guests were also|What a load of utter nonsense from morons|Yes many Germans but lots of Brits and other nationalitys and got on great with all of them.|It's very simple give people respect regardless of nationality and you get the same respect back|One little nit pick was the entertainment at night it was always good however it was inside the beach bar and after clearing a few tables in the centre of the room it could get a little cramped.|The beach bar great for a drink in the day a welcome sea breeze |The pool bar great in the evenings|The lobby bar outside on the terrace was fab loads of seating great service from the girls great view in fact we you could hear and see all the the entertainment in the beach bar|If you want a relaxing holiday don't hesitate BOOK It you will not be...

Loved this hotel||ROOMS|we paid extra for the over pool rooms and was worth ever penny, spacious room overlooking the pool, the sun was on the balcony from around 9.30 until it sets (depending what side the glass wall your on) room was very clean and keeper tidy and restocked everyday, yes shower water always ended up outside the shower but put the foot towel down and was fine, ac works perfect. ||POOL|very large pool, it's roughly the same depth all way round with a few ramps to get in, |Sun loungers all round most people tend to head out after breakfast to place their towels, but normal always space somewhere. ||ENTERTAINMENT |pool has volley ball everyday, pool fitness everyday, there was games at certain times to join in, we had cocktail making one day. They had wine tasting but got cancelled as no one booked on. |Night time Entertainment was always good, live music, shows, quiz, bingo, dancing starts at 9pm finish at 1130 so always quiet after 12 ||FOOD|restaurant food was lovely lots and lots of choices, the pasta bar was my favourite.|Snack bar only went once had pizza and chicken was good a bit greasy. |Traditional pancake was a must most days watching her make it was Entertainment enough I always had a sweet one with sugar and cinnamon but most people have the savoury with meat and cheese.|Biscuits in the coffee cafe was nice |Ice cream yummy and a must everyday ||STAFF|All were nice, but I see what people mean by prefer German speaking, but mostly they were all polite a few bar staff just doesn't listen and looks at you like dirt if you correct them. |Entertainment staff are fab and with getting to know.|Tui rep yep not keen on UK people, it could just be his nature but he's not much help best do things yourself or book though the app, |Cleaning staff so friendly all polite and happy to help.|Photographer is a must some amazing pictures we got.|In the salon I got a lovely pedicure and felt so much better and relaxed after.||BEACH|plenty of sun beds, it's gritty and pebbles to get in and out will be hard on the feet.|Waves are a bit hard to get out off so be careful. |Water is nice and warm and lovely to swim in.||Overall this is amazing place and would...