Budget Hotels & Hostels
Apartments
Guesthouses and B&Bs
The D Hotel
Slick, hip and unexpected, this is Drogheda's top dog when it comes to accommodation. Minimalist rooms are bathed in light and decked out with designer furniture and cool gadgets...
Old Ground Hotel
The lobby at this local institution is always a scene: old friends sprawl on the sofas, deals are cut at the tables and ladies from the neighbouring church's altar society exchange gossip over tea...
Garnish House Guesthouse
Every attention is lavished upon guests at this award-winning B&B. The legendary breakfast menu (30 choices!) includes fresh fish, French toast, omelettes and a whole lot more...
Waterford Castle
Getting away from it all is an understatement at this mid-19th-century turreted castle, which is located on its own 124-hectare island roamed by deer...
Crystal Springs B&B
You can cast a line from the timber deck of this wonderfully relaxing riverside B&B or just laze about on the adjacent lawn...
Kinlay Eyre Square Hostel
Easygoing staff, a full range of facilities and a cream-in-the-doughnut location just off Eyre Sq make this a top choice. Spanning two huge, brightly lit floors, Kinlay House belies the dirty powder-blue exterior...
Butler House
You can't stay in Kilkenny Castle, but this historic mansion is surely the next best thing...
Clare's Rock Hostel
An imposing building of grey exposed stone. It has 30 beds, big spacious rooms and excellent facilities. Guests can hire bikes or cavort with the trolls on the outdoor garden-gnome chessboard.
Kilronan Hostel
You'll see the pistachio-green Kilronan Hostel perched above Tí Joe Mac's pub even before your ferry docks at the pier, a two-minute walk away. Forty beds are spread across spotless four- and six-bed rooms...
Rowan Tree Hostel
This new hostel is beautifully housed in an 18th-century gentleman's club right on the swift-flowing River Fergus. Some of the bright and airy rooms have fab balconies overlooking the water...
The Boutique Hotel
Rotating works of original art by Limerick artist Claire De Lacy, a fish tank in the lobby, a glassed-in breakfast room on the first-floor balcony and red-and-white-striped decor set this groovy little hotel apart from the pack...
West Coast Lodge
Flashpackers will cheer this stylish and downright plush hostel and inn in the heart of Lahinch. Power showers, fine cotton sheets and down duvets are just some of the touches found throughout the seven- to 12-bed dorms and private rooms...
Renvyle House Hotel
This hotel is a luxurious 68-room converted country estate that was once owned by the poet Oliver St John Gogarty (among his better lines: ‘If anyone thinks that I amn’t divine, He gets no free drinks when I’m making the wine’).
Schoolhouse Hotel
A Victorian schoolhouse dating from 1861, this beautiful building has been successfully converted into an exquisite boutique hotel that is (ahem) ahead of its class...
The Morrison, A Double Tree By Hilton Hotel
Muted and minimalist, this ubertrendy hotel has been a favourite of visiting celebs for quite a few years, who seemingly find comfort in the Zen-like furnishings and earth-tone colour palette created by top Irish designer John Rocha...
The West Cork Hotel
This stolid veteran has 30 comfortable and recently redone rooms next to the river and old railway bridge. The bar is a good retreat; rooms at the back have pastoral views.
Glenroyal Hotel & Leisure Club
This modern 113-room hotel is tailored to business travellers and weddings. The design is bog standard but the rooms are spacious and spotless, with high-speed internet, and there are two swimming pools.
The Clarence
If you were hoping to find TV sets cascading from windows, groupie-clad tour buses or any other evidence of the Clarence's rock-star associations, you'll be sorely disappointed, as Bono and Edge's discreet little bolthole is anything but that – alth...
Conrad Dublin
Kudos to the Conrad: Dublin's first truly international business hotel has worked hard to keep up with the ever-growing needs of its primary clientele, folks in suits...
Cabra Castle Hotel
The 19th-century Cabra Castle is now a deluxe hotel decked out in plush period furnishings. The hotel is 3km out of Kingscourt on the Carrickmacross road.
Park House Hotel
Housed in an old farm-feed wholesale warehouse, this hotel offers 84 guest rooms and a sumptuous lobby stuffed with embroidered armchairs...
Clarion Hotel Cork
This glitzy glass-and-steel structure, constructed in 2005, is swank enough to make visiting rock stars swoon, with a health club, a soaring six-storey atrium, sleek retro-futuristic lobby with fuchsia pink modular lounges, a snazzy bar and a very s...