TUI BLUE Barut Andiz

Fantastic hotel. The staff are amazing. I have been to this hotel before and it was very clean but the different covid additional cleaning and procedures are brilliant. I felt total self. I cannot recommend this hotel high enough.

We have found this hotel amazing. All staff are extremely friendly and can not do enough for you . When you are lying around the pool or on the beach staff bring you drinks to keep you hydrated . ( the only thing they don't bring on the beach is alcohol). The food is outstanding , plenty of options to choose from and different every day. We would certainly come here again well done to all. Thank you for a most enjoyable stay.

A great hotel for a real chill out. Swim up room was great particularly during really hot weather. Main pool was good. Staff and management were brilliant. Location was about 80 metres from private section of beach and about 1mile along the promenade path to old town of Side, with its Roman remains. Night entertainment on the roof bar was low key but enjoyable. Would we go back ?.... Yes!

Staff 0/10 Facilities 8/10 Dangerous place! Constant harassment from different staff members (from the chef to the hotel manager). We had to leave the hotel with the police. Think twice before coming and ONLY with a man. The story Once we returned from the beach and our room keys were BLOCKED. At reception the hotel manager SHOUTED and THREATENED us ( 2 women) with the hands near my face. We had to go to police as our passports and phones were in the rooms. They literally blackmailed us. It all happened after I rejected the suggested gift from the hotel manager (free update to the suite, champagne and flowers). He shouted at me “you should be happy for me you should smile” after locked himself with me alone in the room. I shouted at him as I was scared and left to the beach. Afterwards our rooms were blocked. The hotel manager basically blackmailed us. We had to go to police, it took us 4 hours in the beach clothes without food to get our keys back. Best part is that the hotel manager told police that we (young girl with mom) disturbed the guests (LOL!), but could not provide any proofs (like complaints). To summarize: hotel manager wanted to bribe me with a gift, felt hurt when I rejected it, blackmailed us with BLOCKING the keys and lied to the police that we disturbed other guests not having any proof of that. Police kindly helped us to pack and leave the hotel safely. For the rest if you like to risk? Terrible - Reception Not competent at all. The girl hardly speaks English and does not speak German. They forget stuff, you have to constantly remind them. Messed with our reservation at a la carte restaurant, with the upgrade room I asked for and was going to pay for. Cherry on the pie: Yana from reception told me “I did my job perfectly this is not my fault that the other staff in the hotel is so slow”. - Drinks What they call champagne and cocktails is not drinkable, but I guess this is expected in Turkey. One great guy in the lobby bar and his Aperols only saved us. - A la carte restaurant Not tasty, arrogant waiter. Messed with our reservation: we had 2 people in separate rooms. At the restaurant they told that we have only 1 reservation for 1 person. The waiter than told that he “will be very kind and help us anyway”. They messed and afterwards showed misplaced indulgence. - Some of the evening entertainment Boring Saturday live music - Most staff does not speak English - Obsessive staff communication Once the waiter stole my spoon while I was eating as a his way to “flirt”. Constant pushing “why are you not happy”, “smile now” etc. someone might like it though but I found it wildly inappropriate. - You may be bothered by the sounds from mosque if you have the rooms towards it (I constantly woke up at 5am). Ok - Rooms, cleaning The rooms can be refreshed, the cleaning not the best ever but fine. - Fitness I visited yoga and meditation. Was nice but short (30min). - Massage Mom took full body massage, said it was ok. Fantastic - Beach and beach experience From bags with the towels in your room to Kerim (beach guy) it is the best part of the hotel. Kerim was literally the guy who made our stay there. Clean beach, water, ice cream there, everything is super clean, sandy beach with convenient water access. - Food at the main restaurant Great quality, great choice, not too fat or too much meat focus as you might expect in Turkey. The problem was only with waiters;( Resume If you are traveling without the man and this is your first time in Turkey: don’t go;) Unfortunately this region is full of sexism and verbal harassment.

Average I rate good and would reccomened hotel, but give 4 stars because duting our stsy (previuos week) if you come 10am to the beach you will hardly find free place.Beach is small and amount of places is limited, but people are leaving towels like reservation and thats all ( first few lines are booked already at 8 and people coming to use them at 11-12) it shouldnt be like this, people are forced to book otherwise they have no place when they want and should come later. Beach worker however kind and helpful. Room cleaning service was good, as well as hotel stuff in restaurant, tasty coffee from coffee machine in pool bar. Reception lady very helpful as well as other guys working there. To Side old town you can go by walk it takes only 20 minutes .

This hotel and its staff and management are truly incredible. We had a fantastic holiday and after day 2 the staff at tui blue barut andiz felt like family. We truly miss the team there and have already made steps to come back in June 2022. Keep up the great work!!!!

Overall, it is a 4 star european hotel. I can recommend it because of: - Top-quality service and very friendly staff (most of them speak good English). - Excellent SPA. - Relax atmosphere (adults only). - Covid 19 measures are in place. I had a great time over one week here and will definitely come back.

We were in October. Friendly and helpful stuff. Almost everyone knows English. I don’t know how they do it ?they are smiling and happy from the earlier morning till night. Lovely music nights in a roof bar. Clean. Safe. There ya table tennis and a gym The beach is clean (in front of the hotel) If you want to be drunk and have a whole day party- please, get out of this place- don’t spoil my weekend! this place is for cultural time spending.