Have to say I wouldn't recommend Lara beach either. The hotels may be nice but the area itself isn't somewhere that you would wander around, so you are confined to the hotel. Ok there are shopping malls, but as is usual in Turkey you can't just look around without constantly having to say 'no thank you' to the invitations to shop, so there's no pleasure in that.
From what others have said there are more picturesque areas of Turkey, which if we were to return we would try instead.
Pam