Travel in Ireland Guide

In this site, we give you a flexible theme where in you can indulge in different choices. Now we tackle more on what the Luxury living hotels in Ireland can share. Read and view as I give a high 5 for the 5 star Hotels in Ireland.

HAYFIELD MANOR

Just around a mile form Cork City Centre and just 15 minute from Cork International Airport. Hayfield Manor is a family owned and ran business that executes a sense of opulence and grandeur with the exquisite comfort found only in the most modern facilities in a modern establishment.

The guests of the Manor house can expect the place to be really inviting as one would enjoy the amenities of Cork’s first 5 star hotel. There’s serenity, seclusion and privacy in this place in it’s gardens experiencing the exclusive charm of a glamorous Manor House.

There are around 88 guest rooms in the Manor and suites. You can choose from an array of Delux rooms and Superior rooms or if this is still not up to your fabulous taste, then we suggest you try the Master Suite. It is not the same room as other hotels are designed, each room has a unique touch with impeccable taste and style, that contains antique interiors and furnishing and not to mention exquisite fabrics. The following facilities are available.

• Luxurious King-Size beds
• Evening turn down service
• Safe box, ironing board and trouser press
• Telephone
• 42″ TV and DVD player
• Clock Radio
• Luxurious marble bathrooms with deep claw baths some with separate showers
• Elemis Spa bathroom products
• Hairdryer
• Writing desk
• Deep armchairs
• Complimentary High Speed Internet access
• Individually controlled Air conditioning
• Golf Putter to work on your technique

Services & Facilities:

• 24-hour room service
• Free car park
• Valet Parking
• Dry Cleaning / Laundry Service
• 24-Hour Front Desk
• Porter Service (24 hour)
• Currency exchange
• Left Luggage / Storage Facilities
• Post/Parcel Service
• Cots / Cribs
• Baby Sitting services
• Childrens Menus
• Indoor heated swimming pool
• Outdoor jacuzzi
• Steam room
• Fully equipped Gym
• 4 conference rooms with Wireless internet connection
• Treatment rooms
• Hotel Drawing Room & Library

Food in Restaurants

There is a wide choice of dining options in Hayfield Manor. For a fine dining experience, you can choose to go to like Orchids Restaurants with a the contemporary Irish Cuisine. You can also choose Perrotts Gaarden Bistro, with a more casual feel into it that serves International influenced food and Mediterannean food where you can relax in a bit of an informal setting. These restaurants offer the best Champagnes both local and international brands that makes the dining experience in these restaurants exceptional.

Unwind your body and soul in their Spa Facilities

Choose amongst the 9 individually designed spa rooms of Hayfield Manor that offers interiors with chandeliers and stand alone antique furnishings. There are both male and female rooms available with relaxation room, outdoor Jacuzzi, indoor heated swimming pool and a fully equipped gym. Some more value added services include the following.

• Nail salon (OPI Manicure & pedicure)
• Facial Treatments (Aroma Pur, Skin Specific and Anti-Ageing Facials)
• Massage (Deep Tissue and Swedish Body massage)
• Body treatments (Detox Aroma Spa Ocean body wraps, Body Exotics)
• Urban Cleanse for men

Check in hours are at 2:00 p.m. and check out is at 12:00 noon

SHEEN FALLS LODGE

This hotel is a luxurious 5 star hotel located on the shores of a bay called Kenmare Bay and Sheen River. Sheen Falls Lodge is around 2 km from heritage town of Kenmare.

This hotel has a 66 luxurious and spacious guest rooms that all gives an exceptional view of Kenmare Bay or Sheen Waterfalls. The following are the room features:

- 3 telephones including direct dial line
- Personal Safe
- Iron with press and hairdryer
- Same day laundry and dry cleaning service
- Overnight shoe cleaning service
- Turndown service
- 24 hour room service
- Complimentary mineral water
- Fresh fruit bowl
- Most rooms have separate shower stall to the bath
- Plush bathrobes and slippers Bar&Restaurant: La Cascade Restaurant is an elegant, classical dining room recently awarded Three Rosettes from the AA.
The Sun Lounge overlooking the waterfalls is open all day and serves tea/coffee, drinks, light snacks, a lunch menu and the afternoon tea menu.
The Cocktail Bar - Oscar’s Bar&Bistro.
- TV with satellite channels and VCR
- A selection of books placed in the room by our Librarian
- A CD stereo system
- Videos and music CDs available complimentary from our library in Reception
- DVD players in Junior Suites and Suites
- Free Internet Access is available in all rooms

The Wine Cellar. Services and facilites:
- health spa
- library
- billiard room Activities:
- horse riding
- fishing
- clay pigeon shooting
- walking
- gardens
- bicycle tours
- vintage cars trips
- tennis

There is also an art gallery that you can gaze upon during your stay in the hotel. It is called Sheen Falls Lodge that is located on the outskirts of Kenmare town. First take a left after the Kenmare Sound Bridge then you’ll see a signposted.

Check in time is at 3 p.m. and check out is at 12 noon.

MUCKROSS PARK HOTEL

The Muckross Park Hotel is a pleasant hotel that can be found in Killarney National Park. You’ll have fantastic views of the park in Muckross Park Hotel, you can also have Special discounts from time to time. This place has leisure centers and Spa called Cloister Spa. The location of the hotel is situated so ideally that you can take a tour to Kerry and Cork.

Muckross Park Hotel has 69 exquisite guest rooms and suites. All guestrooms are well equipped with the following facilities:

• Personal Safe.
• Working Desk.
• Internet access.
• Daily Newspapers and Mineral water.
• Bathrobes & Slippers.
• Luxurious Cosmetics.
• Luxurious Bathroom.
• Individually controlled Air conditioning.
• Colour TV with Satellite Channels.
• DVD player.
• Hair Dryer.
• Same Day Laundry.
• Hospitality Tray.

Restaurant and Bar

They have a blue pooled restaurant of an award winning GB Shaws. You can have a cocktail in the Monks Bar or a pint of Black Stuff in the bar od Molly Darcy’s.

There are also other activities that merge in this place and that includes visiting places like the Abbey, Muckross House and traditional lakes, shores and farms. Killarney is just 3 km form this place and you can join the famous Ring of Kerry with this activity.

Earliest check in would be 2 p.m. and Latest check out would be at 12 noon.

GLENLO ABBEY HOTEL

Overlooking Lough Corrib, Glenlo Abbey used to be a an ancestral home of Blake and French families, two out of the fourteen tribes that ruled over Galway for centuries long. It is one of the most exclusive hotels in Ireland having inrivaled facilities providing exceptional accommodations, with state of the art meeting and conference rooms, leisure activities such as fishing, shooting and it’s own private golf course.

The hotel has a high standard of privacy to top amongst the hotels in the world with both refinement and luxury. There are 46 guest in Glenlo Abbey Hotel and the emphasis in the rooms are more on the space and comfort it can offer with great views of dramatic landscape of West of Ireland. There’s also a Lower Lough Corrib view of it’s lake, Connermara and on a day you can see Croagh Patrick.

Marbles en-suite bathrooms are what the rooms here in Glenlo Abbey offers, with hair dryer, personal safe, clothes press, cable television and safe direct dial telephone. Guests can have a 24 hour room service, news paper of choice every morning and shoe shine.

Bar and Restaurants

This hotel has an award winning Executive Chef Richard Harte that has recently joined Glenlo Abbey.

The Pullman Restaurant is near and behind the gold course that is overlooking the old Clifden – Galway Railway Lines. The is a historic Pullman train carriage which was used in a movie of an Agatha Christie film Murder on the Orient express that was later on formed into a Restaurant Car presently can accommodate 60 people on the ground of Glenlo Abbey. They have 6 seater enclosed compartments. Every now and then there are themes that glaze the place like, Murder on the Orient Express, Roaring Twenties, and James Bond 007. This Restaurant received an award of Georgina Campell Most Atmospheric Restaurant.

The River Room Restaurant having a great view and classical detailed décor, having tall windows on all of it’s 5 exterior walls, giving out the view of the Lough Corrib wherever the guest may be seated. Breakfast is served here in buffet style, traditional Irish or continental. The River Room had been awarded in 2005 of the RAC Gold Ribbon Award.

The Abbey is a classic that is dated back in 1740 and can booked for large groups that accumulate up to 28 persons.

The Oak Cellar Bar that is located in the cellars the perfect spot for the after and before dinner drinks to a guests content.

Kentfield Cocktail lounge and The Library, Kentfield is a cocktail lounge where you can enjoy or you can choose to sit down and sip coffee or cognac in the library.

The Golf Course is a 138 acre lakeside estate that I is home to challenging double 9-hole Parkland, and with a 12-Bay driving range to practice your swings.