Excellent hotel (Academy Hotel Dublin)

Member Name: lee667

Product:	Academy Hotel Dublin
Date:	02/10/08 (20 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Tidy, clean, good room service

Disadvantages: Noise from the bar

Me and my girlfriend deicded to check out Dublin back in June. Having spent a lot of time checking out the best places, but also at a reasonable price, we opted for the Academy Plaza which we picked up on lastminute.com for a cracking price.

When we arrived we were a couple of hours early, and were happy to just have a drink in the bar, however our room was available and they were more than happy for us to check in early.

First impressions of the room were very good. The room was excellent, very tidy and clean, spacious and the tv was a wall mounted LCD - a nice touch! The bathroom was nice and big and again, very tidy and clean.

We stayed there for 3 nights and the towels and soaps etc were changed every day which was nice.

Downstairs there were 2 places to eat and a bar. One was a oriental restaraunt, the other served english food. The prices in the first restaraunt were quite expensive but the second one wasn't too bad.

The only downside were the prices for drinking. We were paying over 10 euro's for 2 pints of lager. If you stuck to Guiness it was just under 10 Euro's, I don't really like paying a fiver for a pint thank you!

Another downside, albeit a minor one, was that our room overlook a bar, and because we were there during Euro 2008 you could hear the football fans. This wasn't a bad thing as we were only in the room to freshen up before going out, but on the other hand, come closing time there would be one hell of a racket with them emptying the bottles which would wake the dead. As it was quite warm we liked to have the window open but we had to keep it shut due to the noise.

Overall the hotel itself was top notch and we would definately stay there again but if we did we'd asked for a room on the other side of the hotel.

Summary: Cracking hotel, just watch out for that bar!