The price of the room was more, then I did booking.. The rooms needed of repair...The staff was unfriendly!!!!Never try this hotel !!!!!

On paper this hotel looks pretty good, the location is excellent, the car parking facilities brilliant. We stayed for five nights that included the week-end. First impressions were of a tired establishment that could do with a bit of TLC in certain areas, certainly the restaurant and bar had received it but the hall and stair carpets needed replacing. Alarm bells rang when several of our party had been moved to other B&B's we were assured our room was in the quiet part of the Hotel. Breakfasts were attended to by staff members who were also on reception duty, this occasionally meant a wait or a trip to reception to get service, the food passed the test but sadly we had to request certain basics to be replenished, like cornflakes, marmalade and on the very first morning there was no fresh orange juice. The Hotel has its own adjoining disco, on Friday, Saturday and Sunday the noise from the entertainment and from the people attending is horrendous, This does not start until about 1230am and continues until at least 3am with cars racing around the car park. The noise reverborates throughout the whole Hotel and makes sleep impossible. The food served in the Bar was very good with huge portions and served by accomodating and friendly staff. I believe the Hotel needs to decide whether to look after its guests or keep taking the revenue from its night club and therefore alienate the hotel guests on a week end.

Stayed at Dooleys for one night recently on a dinner b & b all inclusive package that was booked by a third party so dont know about its value for money. The hotel rooms were spotless clean and comfortable. There was a tv in the room but there were only a couple of channels working. The food in the hotel was well presented and tasty and service was very good.A pleasant stay all round.

On a little tour of a number of counties lately I had the pleasure of staying a night in Doolys of Birr. It looks quite massive from the outside but once inside you discover that it is an 18 bedroom hotel, hence quite small but on the night in question it was full of activity with the local dancing school in full session and later dancing for adults. We took a bite to eat in the bar and have to commend both the chef and the bar staff.......the food was yum and the waiter and barmaid were just delightful. Our room was spacious (which cant be said for a lot of rooms these days), very clean and comfortable and testiment to the bar facilities we later tried a number of the local bars but as these didnt quite match up to what we had witnessed earlier in the hotel we retired to the hotel bar......warm and cosy spring to mind! The final gem mention for this hotel was the breakfast before we left....as I had had my fill of 'full Irish' brekkies at this stage I opted for a pair of poached eggs.........well suffice it to say they were the BEST poached eggs that have ever been presented to me making my overnight in Birr a memorable one and very much thanks to Doolys and the only reason it gets 4stars and not 5 is that part of the carpet in the early stages of the stairs were very unclean and just took from the lovely ambiance going round but otherwise well done all round. Did I mention great value?!