Overview

This hotel was a one-night stopover for our first night in Ireland after arriving by ferry on the Holyhead-Dublin route, and we were pleasantly surprised. It's often such a pain to get a family room for the three of us that also has an accessible bathroom for me, and I didn't have to negotiate for extra beds or anything because this well-designed modern hotel offered an accessible family room as one of its standard choices. The room turned out to be really nice, with lots of windows (again not something always on offer in 'afterthought' accessible rooms) and a big accessible bathroom. We didn't get to experience any other rooms at the hotel because of Covid restrictions, but the paper bag breakfasts were fine and were dropped off outside our door as promised. The only drawback of this hotel is that it's on a very busy street with nowhere to stop outside the hotel and unload baggage/wheelchairs, but we found somewhere we could stop not too far away and later took the car to the multi-storey car park that has a deal with the hotel (about five minutes' walk away). Given that I'd chosen this hotel entirely on the merits of its disabled access and for being fairly close to the ferry port, an unexpected bonus was that it was so central in Dublin, and before we moved on to our main destination in the north of the country, we were able to see a few nearby sights in the morning. These included the Ha'penny Bridge (not accessible unfortunately as it has stairs), the historic General Post Office and the Spire monument.

Transport & Parking

See summary above - parking and drop-offs weren't the easiest

Access

Level access is designed into this hotel in a way that you'd hope all modern hotels would be but don't always find. Flat entrance to the building and spacious lifts. In the surrounding streets, things like dropped kerbs and level pedestrianised areas were generally good, if a bit crowded, but some of the crossings were a bit scary, what with the trams and fast drivers - I wasn't always sure if they were going to stop for the lights, and there wasn't loads of time to get across.

Toilets

We had a decent en suite accessible bathroom, and the rails for the loo were fine, but in common with other places we stayed in Ireland, it weirdly didn't have a fold down rail to the left of the shower seat, just the fixed rail on the right.

Staff

Staff were helpful about things like putting medicines in a fridge for me and were generally on the ball.

Anything else you wish to tell us?

At the time we visited Ireland, it had only just opened up to foreign visitors and was generally being much more careful than the UK. People were good about wearing masks almost everywhere we went, and were also observing 'one hotel room at a time' signs for lift use, including in this hotel.

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