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Five Mellow Days in Dublin at the Maldron Cardiff Lane

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Cardiff Lane, Dublin, Ireland
August 24, 2009 at 4:04 PM | by Victor Ozols | 0 Comments

Once again, Jaunted's weekend editor Victor Ozols is back. This time with an in-depth video tour of the Maldron Cardiff Lane Hotel in Dublin. Remember his last killer video from Key West? It's like that but with British robot voices in the elevator and Guinness in the vending machines.

During our recent vacation in Dublin, we stayed in the Maldron Cardiff Lane, a large, seven-story hotel located on the south bank of the River Liffey, near the city center. We stayed there for five nights and came away feeling that we got our money's worth with a hotel that delivered what it promised. It didn't exactly ooze personality, but it gave us what we wanted in terms of location, amenities, and general coolness, and we'd be happy to stay there again.

Also, I didn't seek out this particular hotel. I used Priceline's blind opaque auction site. After a few misfires, I made a successful bid of $170 a night for a four-star hotel in Dublin city center, south of the Liffey. And that's how we ended up at the Maldron.

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Kilronan House Welcomes Guests with Drunk Cards

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 70 Adelaide Rd., Dublin, Ireland
August 14, 2009 at 1:33 PM | by Jennifer Kester | 0 Comments

On a trip to Dublin recently, we decided to be brave and rent a car. We also decided to shack up one night at a B&B. When we arrived at the Kilronan House in Dublin and didn't see the valet—free parking was a selling point—we pulled our rental into the adjacent driveway. A man from the business that owned said adjacent driveway came out and started screaming while we patiently explained our sitch. Then our concierge/valet/white knight Cormac came out, politely smiled at the screaming man while ignoring his nastiness and parked our car. Talk about service with a smile.

We followed Cormac into the white-pillared Georgian-style bed and breakfast, which blends in nicely with the townhouses on the street. At check-in, we got the rundown of the area and some maps. Cormac also handed us "drunk cards," wallet-sized pamphlets of the B&B with its address prominently displayed, because he knows that even when out-of-towners stay at a classy joint like this, they will inevitably get forget-your-name drunk in Temple Bar.

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Dublin's Dylan Hotel: Friendly Staff and a Current Obsession with Shopping

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: Eastmoreland Place, Dublin, Ireland
November 13, 2007 at 9:28 AM | by amandak | 0 Comments

Dublin's new Dylan Hotel is getting huge hype at the moment, and we're curious about why. Recent guests just can't rave enough about it, and one comment seems to sum up everybody else's: "We really couldn't find one negative thing to say".

Many positive comments about this 44-room boutique hotel in the south side of Dublin refer to the friendly and helpful staff. For example, they aren't "over pampering" and they don't "try to be ubercool." One guest said she and her family hugged and kissed all the staff as they left, since they'd been made to feel so welcome there.

It all sounds great, but the Dylan marketing team somehow decided to put together a VIP Shopping Package as a lure for guests. For what it's worth, the package includes a double room and breakfast, two $70 vouchers to spend at department store Brown Thomas, a foot spa for tired feet after a shopping spree and an in-room movie and popcorn to relax at the end of the day.

That package comes for $640 which is decent value, but personally we'd head to Dublin for other reasons than to go shopping. Just staying at the Dylan seems like a good enough reason, in fact.

[Photo: mithu1974]

Related Stories:
· Hotels in Dublin [HotelChatter]
· Dylan Hotel Reviews [TripAdvisor]
· Travel Stories in Ireland [Jaunted]

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Room with an Anti-View: This Week's Good Rate

Go To The Hotel's Web Site Where: 23 Upr. O'Connell St., Dublin, Ireland
March 8, 2007 at 9:35 AM | by juliana | 0 Comments

You know the scene. You open the door to your brand new hotel room, run over to the window, open the blinds and bam, you are hit with the anti-view. Maybe you are looking down a dirty alley, witnessing a drug deal, staring at an air shaft in the face, or seeing a brick wall. Whatever you are viewing it is not extremely pleasurable. Help out your fellow hotel mavens by uploading your anti-views to the HotelChatter/Flickr photo pool, or by sending the photo along to us. Remember to tell us the name of the hotel and the room number with the not-so-easy-on-the-eyes view.

We mentioned the Gresham Hotel earlier this week as a Good Rate during the St. Patrick's Day weekend in Dublin. However, you will need to drink a lot of Guinness to forget this room view out of this room on the hotel's second floor.

As this TripAdvisor reviewer wrote:

The view from the room window--in the back of the hotel--was that of garbage and building debris.

Related Stories:
· Gresham Hotel reviews [TripAdvisor]