Royal Dragon Hotel

Date of Trip - 9th July 2025. To begin, we booked this hotel as it looked very much like Royal Wings Hotel (Lara beach) which we stayed in 6 years ago. We loved the Royal Wings, but this hotel is nowhere near as good. Everyone speaks German. We have come to expect this in Türkiye. However, all entertainment is in German, 80% of the staff cannot speak English, only German. We went with 2 children [7 & 4] and they couldn't do any of the evening entertainment as they couldn't understand it. Further to this, if you have children the entertainment is a no go. It is all on far too late. e.g. 2130hrs for a show was not pheasable so we missed all evening entertainment. The hotel itself. The lobby is beautiful. However, the rest of the hotel is very dated. We did expect this as it is a themed hotel so it may not be to everyone's taste. All in all it was clean where it mattered and the housekeeping ladies were lovely. the spa is a no go. We used the shower there and it was essentially falling apart. The indoor pool was so incredibly cold you couldn't use it and had no lighting so you couldn't actually see. The main pool area was lovely and we really enjoyed this. What ruined the pool experience was (as expected) nowhere near enough sun loungers and these were all taken by 0800hrs every day. Further to this, you have a constant flow of hotel staff trying to sell you tack e.g. personalised t shirts, bingo tickets , massages the list is endless and it ruins your relaxation time by the pool. Food - consistently cold, poor quality ingredients and bland. Absolutely NO FOOD OPTIONS FOR CHILDREN. (unless they like completely plain pasta. How hard is it to put on chicken nuggets etc ? To add to this, the air con in the restaurant is poor, leaks on the table and leaves everyone uncomfortable. The floor in and around the pool is a serious HAZARD. We lost count of how many people fell and seriously hurt themselves. The cleaning staff do try and negate this by mopping but it does almost zero to fix the issue and the material they have paved the floor in is the danger. So many little ones were hurt as well as fully grown adults. KEEP HOLD OF YOUR CHILDS HAND AT ALL TIMES. Cocktails. TERRIBLE. They have a menu but not a single bar staff member knows what they are making and they al taste awful. The ingredients are never what they should be and they essentially end up being alcohol and grenadine 50% of the time. if you have booked already and cant avoid the hotel, go with a pina colada as this seemed to be the only thing they didn't completely butcher. Hotel Occupancy - DO NOT GO IN THE SUMMER HOLIDAYS. we went the week before the summer holidays and the hotel was a nice level of busy. However as we were on our last few days the INFLUX of new guests (who have booked for the summer holiday dates) WAS CRAZY! For example, dinner opens at 1900. the first 3 nights it was us and 5 or 6 other families waiting for the doors to open. on the last few nights there