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While this place is a decent enough hotel, it's by no means a 5 star hotel, 4 at best. Go down the road to Powerscourt and they'll show you what a 5 star hotel is. Came home yesterday after 2 nights there. Room was lovely. Food was fab on our first night in the garden rooms, 2nd night was OK. No flavour whatsoever from the orrichiette pasta, just pure bland. Breakfast on both mornings was just lousy. Food in the hot holds were stone cold. Said it to the manager, but it was still the same the next morning. Opted for the porridge instead, that was basically gruel. There are too many bad reviews on TripAdvisor about the breakfast, that you would think the head chefs would actually do something to correct this issue. Something this hotel is missing, between breakfast and lunch, is a coffee bar. I love a flat white or a cortado. I went looking for a coffee after breakfast had finished but there was nowhere to get one. I had asked the concierge where I could get one and he was willing to and try and get one for me, I told him it was fine because it actually sounded like hard work. That's not on him, he was lovely, I didn't want him to be going out of his way for just a coffee. All that lobby space going to waste, you'd be cleaning up with a coffee bar/menu. I had to go all the way into town just to get a decent cuppa. Booked into the spa, had a lovely guy do my treatments on me, I cannot remember his name but he was just wonderful. An absolute delight and amazing at his work. Pool was fine too, my son had a great time both mornings in it. When we were in the elevator yesterday morning heading for breakfast, it suddenly kept slamming like it was about to go into free fall. It did this 3 times and scared the living daylights out of myself and my son. Went to reception about, they didn't seem too bothered. My son for the rest of the day and since we got home has not stopped talking about how frightened he was in the lift. My son is autistic and this triggered him a great deal. Maybe in future, if something like that happens again, you go out of your way to make sure your guests are actually OK instead of saying "Oh sorry about that". I definitely would not be in a rush back.

Nice hotel with extremely comfortable beds and good pillow selection. Nice coffee machine in the room. The bath is hard enough to get in and out of for your shower but that’s possibly the only negative of the whole experience. The food in the bar was excellent and the service was faultless. We had booked a package with a bottle of bubbles in the room but we never got the bottle. We could have said it at reception and I’m sure it would have been arranged but we only stayed 1 night and decided not to ask for them after dinner. Gym has great equipment and plenty of choice with a nice pool. Lovely walks around the grounds and the lunch at the golf club was basic but fresh and tasty.