TUI BLUE Ephesus

Amazing stay at Ephesus! Friendly staf, delicious food, clean rooms and perfect atmosphere for families. We really enjoyed the aquapark and aii facilities. Highly recommended.

Brilliant holiday, so clean and staff were wonderful. Air con in rooms. Good selection of food. All enjoyed our stay, age ranges from 2 to 68 years old. Very generous on the drinks! Beautiful hotel. Would love to stay again

Just returned home after a 7 night stay here. Before anything else, I do want to mention how helpful and polite the staff are here and the cleanliness of the hotel is outstanding, but onto a few negatives, the entertainment was poor, one night there was a show which was not great, that started at 9pm ended at 9.45pm and there was nothing else after this. We didn't have the best weather the first few days ,so spent a bit of time in the bar or our room during the day so was looking forward to some entertainment on an evening but sadly, we were very disappointed. Food was hit and miss, but food was always available if not in the restaurant, around the pool bar which was where we ate most days. Rooms were nice and again, always very clean but the beds were hard and quite uncomfortable. We stayed in block 2000 which was ridiculously noisy and the music from next doors hotel goes on until 12, ok if you can go to their entertainment,but you can't so we had to watch the lasers from our balcony also not great if you have young children and they want to sleep. Beach was ok, glittery sand unsure why this is but we were covered in it , the waterpark is amazing we had a great time here, but unless you want to pay for a drink you'll have to go without whilst there as food and drinks are chargeable. Overall we had a nice holiday but will we be rushing back, unfortunately not. Lack of evening entertainment is probably the deal breaker for us as we got quite bored of sitting around with nothing to do after dinner.

This is a lovely little resort and we had a very nice stay. We chose it for the double rooms and the waterpark which worked really well for us. Rooms are nice but bathroom was a bit small and had a bit of a sewage smell. Everything was kept spotlessly clean. I don’t think I’ve seen a hotel with as many people constantly cleaning as I have here. Staff were lovely, helpful and responsive with nothing being too much trouble. They were really happy for us to move rooms, sorted out a mattress topper for the slab like bed and helped us organise a taxi trip to Ephesus (€20 each way with driver coming back to collect us. No carpet factories or dodgy lunches). Pools really were very cold but having read the reviews we brought rash vests which helped take the edge off. Great fun though and so worth it. We enjoyed sitting on our balcony and listening to the entertainment. Wacky fun is not our thing but live music is always treat. Not sure why it has to be so loud though. The building used to shake with it whilst the beach party set list was ruined by the addition of a thumping bass. Only thing we weren’t keen on was the restaurant. Food is fine just a general mass catering buffet. Though very much geared towards the type of person you see sad facing in the Daily Mail because they went abroad and everyone was ‘forrin and they had to live on wrong tasting cornflakes for 2 weeks because it was all exotic stuff like rice with veg in it. Hygiene is also fine (well the restaurant bit. The “clientele” is a whole other issue. I’ve never seen tables left in such a mess or such waste. No wonder there’s cats and flies everywhere). However, I’ve seen school canteens with more charm. Our son is ND and just couldn’t cope with the noise, feral kids running round screaming, queues (so many queues. I swear one night I saw the RVS handing out tea and foil sheets to people waiting for waffles cos heaven forbid why take 1 when you can 12) and iPads blaring (at least use headphones if you can’t be bothered to parent your own kids). It didn’t seem big enough for everyone so it was either get your elbows out, sit outside with the wildlife or come later when the catering team had given up. Speciality restaurants were great and we loved those. We did contemplate paying to eat there every night as the food was better and it was so nice to have proper place settings, fabric napkins, decent wine glasses and no shrieking. The insects were next level. We live in what is essentially a field in the middle of the fens so are used to insect infestations but even our bites had bites and my ankles swelled so badly from them I was struggling to walk. I used to lie awake scratching and fantasising about calamine lotion.

The kids chose it and I’m so glad I left the decision to them. We had so much funand we’ve already made a reservation again for this year. We can’t wait for the vacation to come!”