can't connect to personal hotspot

• I'm trying to connect a Macbook Pro to an iPhone 6 via personal hotspot.
• I can see the hotspot on my Macbook in the list of WiFis
• when I click on the Wifi from the menu bar, after a while an error message dialog appears saying it can't connect
• I repeat this several times
• both devices have bluetooth enabled
• both devices have the latest software updates
• I'm signed into the same icloud account on both devices
• I tried manually enabling personal hotspot on the iPhone
• only after disabling bluetooth on both devices I can connec

Is anyone else experiencing the same issue? It used to work really great before iOS 11/macOS Sierra