Very clean and friendly hotel. Close to Dublin and Blanchards Town Shopping Centre. Probably a bit too close to the railway line but good accommodation for all that. Friendly bar and good food. Just the place for a short break. Close to railway station and M50. David Friend

on a recent business trip to Dublin my usual hotel was booked up. I found this hotel using directory inquiries and rang. They had 1 room left so I booked it. I had great difficulty finding this hotel as I kept ending up on the motorway and driving for over an hour for what should have been a 5 min journey from blanchrdstown centre. Arrived eventually and were directed to our room downstairs. Noticed the carpet on stairs was torn and very dirty. Our room was a wheelchair accessable room. Don't know how anyone in a wheelchair could move around the room! The first thing I noticed when entering the room was the smell of damp. The curtains were closed and when I looked out all I could see was a brick wall about a foot from the window. When I looked in bathroom there was a wheelchair shower with kind of gate and shower curtain. I have never seen anything so dirty in my life. Mould all over the tiles. We ate upstairs in the restaraunt it was fine.
I was extremely tired as was up from 5am and slept very well. The bed was clean and comfortable. I don't know if I would have slept as well if I had not been exhausted as could hear the trains running.
Breakfast was half irish and can't really fault it.
The location of this hotel is beautiful along the canal and very convenient for m50 and shopping centre.
Unfortunately the cleanliness really lets it down.
Rates are very reasonable.

The good: very close to the Dublin orbital motorway, in a secluded area by a canal. Decent bar and restaurant, which seemed crowded with locals (always a good sign). Pleasant decor and friendly staff. Large, clean, well-appointed rooms, with a spacious bathroom attached.

However: all the rooms are at basement level. My room was far away from the bar, so instead of being kept awake by bar noise, I was kept awake by the extremely loud extractor fans and by the trains rattling past for variety. The view was onto a brick wall alongside the railway track. Oh, and the bathroom door didn't close properly.

If only the hotel could have been picked up and put a little further away from the railway, and if only the extractors could somehow be quietened.... this would be an excellent hotel. Maybe for those who fall asleep easily, it is!

I was really looking forward to staying in this hotel as it really looks nice from a distance and i have heard good reviews about the bar and food, but we were very disappointed. The rooms are all downstairs - and the carpets in the hallways were really filthy and there was a strong smell of bleach on the way in which was very offputting. Our room was very small and very old fashioned. There were adaptor plugs in the sockets and a really old portable tv which showed only rte and tv3. The shower curtain was really filthywith mould as were the tiles in the shower. Very noisy as the bar and reception are overhead and you can hear high heels walking around all night. The only positives i could find were that the bed sheets and towels were very clean.