Donard Holidays

The hotel is beautiful. The rooms are disgracefully small. More like a “ShoeBox” considering €350 for a night. No room to move round or put a suitcase. Smallest room I have ever stayed in. Service in the ground floor restaurant was just okay…. Took a good bit of calling to get service and reminders to get what we ordered.

Centrally located, near transportation, and pickups for excursions.

Incomparable city centre location just off Grafton Street, opposite Bruxelles. Have stayed multiple times. Great studio apartments, spacious and really well appointed. Ideal for a weekend stay in the city . Cannot recommend highly enough.

I planned a whole year to come to Dublin, and while doing my research, I came across ‘The Leinster’ on Expedia. I thought this would be an awesome place to spend a week and celebrate my birthday in this area. The staff was nice, and we also had dinner on the rooftop at ‘Jean George’. I don’t know if the menu changes throughout the season, but I had sea bass, and it was amazing. They also celebrated my birthday, which was sweet. The hotel is honestly the best and safest place if you want to travel around Dublin. You can take the Dublin Bus, and most likely you will be there in 15-20 minutes if you want to go shopping in Dames or wherever your heart desires, whether it’s sightseeing or if you are a foodie. Seriously, treat yourself! The only thing I regret is not buying a pair of earrings they had on display.

We were surprised by the check in process. You have to collect your keys quite far from the apartment. So plan for a delay to use transit or a two-way taxi fare. The apartment was dirty. Mould in the closet. The beds were terrible (one like an air mattress & the other was hard as a board). The pillows were so used they were hard packed. The air freshener system is needed because a sewage smell came from one bathroom. The photos used to advertise the unit were not the same as the unit we stayed in. The unit has no views. It was an interior unit that looks only into courtyards. It was dark because it was on the first floor and the perimeter units towered over us. The only sunlight that came in was a reflection off of other apartment windows. The air freshener system malfunctioned & needed repair as it beeped every 10 seconds. The washing machine broke. We tried to spend as little time there as possible. The only thing I can say that is positive is that it’s located on a LUAS line.