Private beach, white sand, snorkelling, kayaking

Reviews of Connemara Sands Beach Hotel & Spa

4 out of 5
Connemara Sands Beach Hotel & Spa
Mannin Bay, Ballyconneely, Galway

Reviews

9.4

Exceptional

Rating 10 - Excellent. 67 out of 92 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 19 out of 92 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 5 out of 92 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 0 out of 92 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 1 out of 92 reviews" "

9.6/10

Cleanliness

9.6/10

Staff & service

9.0/10

Amenities

9.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

9.6/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

10/10 Excellent

Grant

Travelled with partner
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Great place to stay, close to the beach, peaceful and quite
Stayed 2 nights in Mar 2024

10/10 Excellent

Melody

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Stunning location; very helpful and friendly staff; delicious breakfast.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

8/10 Good

Felicity

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Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jamie

Travelled with family
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All the staff and the Owners were extremely supportive, helpful. Great place
Stayed 2 nights in May 2023

10/10 Excellent

catherine

Travelled with partner
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Thoroughly enjoyed staying at Sands, the accomodation / staff and location were excellent. I will definitely be booking a return trip.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Ruth

Travelled with family
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The food was SO good! Our room was bigger than my apartment in NYC with an achingly beautiful view. Everyone was so accommodating and lovely and fun. I hope we get back there soon & in the summer for more ocean activities. Sauna was heavenly.
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Carl

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Excellent
Excellent Great experience and lovely staff. Food incredible
Stayed 1 night in Apr 2023

10/10 Excellent

Diarmuid

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2022

10/10 Excellent

Peter

Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2022

10/10 Excellent

Maryann, Spokane

Travelled with partner
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Wonderful food and service Beautiful location
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2022

10/10 Excellent

Theobald

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Suzanne

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Maebh

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2020

10/10 Excellent

Michael

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Beautiful hotel in an amazingly beautiful setting.
Stayed 1 night in Mar 2020

10/10 Excellent

Robert

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
We had a great family weekend at the hotel with our kids at the end of October mid term break. Lovely beach 5 minutes walk away. Holiday homes were well stocked and had everything that we needed. Great food at the hotel which was an added bonus to our trip. We will definitely return again.
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2019

10/10 Excellent

Cheryl J.

Travelled with family
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Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely hotel
Lovely hotel in a beautiful location. Would definitely recommend.
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
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It was a nice place to relax Dinner was nice. Room was very nice with a beautiful view.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with family
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We loved this place. Watched the sunset from the beach there. The bartender, Paddy, was friendly and funny. This was our favorite stay in Ireland.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

6/10 Okay

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, property conditions & facilities
Room was very nice; bar menu very poor and service average despite it being pretty quiet
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 1 night in Jun 2019

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very quiet location and had great views of the sea.
Stayed 1 night in May 2019

6/10 Okay

Nancy

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Booked this place months ago. Site said they had a self catering family cottage. They didn’t. They called to let us know they didn’t have cottages but apartment type room, a few days after booking. An hour before arriving after a day of travel & site seeing they called to say there were electrical issues and they could put us in a suit with same number of beds but no kitchen. Let us know they had restraunt there. We accepted the different room, but what else can you do on long weekend at 6 pm at night. They would make reservations for us if we wanted. We chose to eat in town we visit in the day as the resultant prices for our family to have breakfast was to be €40 Next morning however I was curious & went back to site to see what room rate difference was. Found site changed to state only rooms , no self catering rooms at all. They also included breakfast in room cost. We called to ask if they would comp our breakfast & were told us as welcome binder stated we could get a discount. A while later they called back & said basic breakfast was free for Easter. So the hotel made up some of the issue with a free breakfast. Still all in all we had to pay for a few more meals out over our long weekend due to not having what we paid for. If we hadn’t gotten such a good deal for our original rate I’d be unhappy with this stay.
Stayed 2 nights in Apr 2019

10/10 Excellent

Jeanie

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Book book book!!! 💕
The place was beautiful, rooms were even nicer than expected, people are so very hospitable and genuinely warm and the food was AMAZING!
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

8/10 Good

Denis

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Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Ed, Seattle

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Great Staff, room, breakfast and all around experience. Highly recommended. Family operated with pride, and it shows. Great value for a 2 bdrm. Suite.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018
Response from Dean on 11 Oct 2018
Hi Ed, So glad you enjoyed your stay with us. Come see us again soon. Kind Regards

10/10 Excellent

Kathleen

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Connemara Sands is truly a gem! I am so happy that we stayed there. We were treated like true guests. The staff were delightful.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018
Response from Dean on 11 Oct 2018
Hi Kathleen, So glad you enjoyed your stay with us. Come see us again soon. Kind Regards

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 2 nights in Aug 2018
Response from Dean on 11 Oct 2018
Thank you for your review. Hopefully you might stay with us again. Kind Regards

10/10 Excellent

Lesley, Cedaredge, Colorado

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
What a great place! Because of airline issues, we came in very late - almost midnight. We called and they were ready for us. They even kept the bar open for us to have a drink and wind down. It was hard to find in the dark, but we stopped in Ballyconeely and got directions. Breakfast is definitely a highlight of the location. The food - breakfast and dinner - was absolutely fantastic! We wish we would have done our entire trip there! The suite was large and very comfortable. The beach access is amazing and really made the trip for us. The Sky road and Kylemoore Abby were highlights of the area.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

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Stayed 3 nights in Aug 2018

10/10 Excellent

Steven

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A respite in our Ireland Adventures
The roads are narrow and have much beauty offer so to park and stay a while is delightful. Our room had a beautiful view and wonderful bath tub next to our king size bed. The whole location seemed brand new. The food was delicious and the staff was very nice, both Paddy's were quite entertaining! The water at the beach was the same clarity of the Caribbean wish we had time to kayak. The rainbow was a sign for us that we had found our pot of gold for future travels.
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2018

10/10 Excellent

Karen

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Outstanding hidden gem
Lovely hotel great views great food great beer hospitality was top notch will definitely be back 👍👍
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018
Response from Dean on 27 Jun 2018
HI Karen, Thank you for staying with us and the kind words. We look forward to greeting you again. Regards, Dean

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Gorgeous hotel in the perfect location
We had a wonderful 2 nights stay in this hotel. Of course the weather was fabulous but our luxury suite with a lovely decking area was the height of comfort. We loved that we could just walk down to the most amazing beach within 2 minutes. The bar was lovely, the food was excellent and the young staff were so friendly and genuine. My daughter's had a ball. We didn't want to leave and we will be back asap.
Stayed 2 nights in Jun 2018
Response from Dean on 20 Jun 2018
Thank you very much for the kind words. I sincerely hope you can revisit again soon.

10/10 Excellent

Michelle

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Awesome
Great location, staff was helpful in trying to book things for our group to do. The staff was helpful and the room was great with chairs to sit outside and enjoy a cocktail.
Stayed 1 night in May 2018
Response from Dean on 20 Jun 2018
Hi Michelle, Thanks for taking the time to write a kind review. Hope to see you again soon!

8/10 Good

Brian

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Nice hotel and great food in a stunning setting.
We really enjoyed our stay in this hotel. The room was very spacious and the Beach was stunning. The Breakfast was excellent and the food from the Restaurant was exceptional.
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2018
Response from Dean on 20 Jun 2018
Hi Brian, Thank you so much for the review. Always our pleasure.

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Stayed 1 night in May 2018
Response from Dean on 20 Jun 2018
Thanks for the kind review!

10/10 Excellent

Alastair

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Stayed 2 nights in May 2018
Response from Dean on 20 Jun 2018
Thank you so much Alastair was a pleasure to host you and hope to see you back soon!

8/10 Good

Sean

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
A lovely stay with great service
Stayed 2 nights in May 2018
Response from Dean on 16 May 2018
Thank you so much for the kind words! Hope to see you again soon. Regards. Dean

10/10 Excellent

Zena

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Fabulous hotel
Everything about this hotel is fab. The spa is amazing and so relaxing. It has its own wonderful beach. Bar has a great vibe, food is delicious and has a great range of all types of beverages. Service all over the hotel is excellent. Breakfast choice is so good and a great start to the day.
Stayed 3 nights in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

Peter, Westford, MA

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Very nice hotel, but a ways from Clifden
The hotel room was more of an apartment and very appreciated as such by the three adults using it. It was a long way from Clifden, and if you expect to go pubbing in town, expect to pay an additional $30 for round trip taxi. Those Connemara roads are dark, tight, and winding!
Stayed 2 nights in Nov 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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A lovely quiet retreat
All staff was extremely friendly & welcoming. The property was a bit out of the way but well worth it for the views & quietness. Clifden is only 15 mins away by car & there you can find restaurants & shops. Breakfast food was delicious. The only complaint really was that we arrived at the end of their season & you could tell that the upkeep wasn't 100% due to seasonal staff. There were a couple of lightbulbs out, spider webs in the lampshade & the carpet could use a good wash but overall, a comfortable & practical apartment for the price.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2017

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2017

8/10 Good

Ann, Roscommon

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Very comfortable
Very good. Got up Graded to suite.Food very good.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Alison

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Lovely stay at the edge of the season
This was a very pleasant stay with very good food and service. We had a family room/suite which had plenty of room. We can particularly recommend the excellent breakfast. Only one caveat - the bath needs time as the water is heated separately!
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2017

10/10 Excellent

Richard

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
ConneMARVELOUS Sands
This area is such a peaceful and beautiful part of Ireland that you will remember any vacation here for a lifetime. The staff worked to get me into a room for a really late booking, and were exceptionally helpful. Dining was on premises with wonderful meals. I stayed in one of the older rooms, BUT featured unforgettable views. I'm currently trying to work out how to get back here for a longer stay!
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2017

8/10 Good

Brian

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10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

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