Canal Court Hotel
You can't miss this huge yellow building opposite the bus station...
You can't miss this huge yellow building opposite the bus station...
Established in 1897, the Slieve Donard is a magnificent Victorian red-brick pile overlooking the beach, ...
This hostel is only a few minutes' walk from the bus station, housed in an attractive 19th-century villa...
Recently given a stylish new makeover, Denvir's is an old coaching inn dating back to 1642...
You can't miss the Cuan's green facade, just around the corner from the ferry slip, or the warm welcome from Peter and Caroline, the husband and wife team who run the place.
The comfortable lounge in this lovely Georgian house, complete with coal-fired stove and free Sunday papers, was once the village bank – the manager's office in the corner now houses a little library.
Breakfast around the communal dining table is a highlight at the Hebron, where landlady Ilona gets inventive with organic produce, dishing up oat-crusted potato cakes with your bacon and eggs, or adding Bushmills whiskey and clotted cream to your.
Just west of Lisbane, Anna's is a spacious, ecofriendly country house set in a superb garden with views over a lake from a stunning glass-walled extension.
The Fortwilliam offers B&B in four luxurious rooms stuffed with period furniture – our favourite is the Victorian room, with its rose wallpaper, huge antique mahogany wardrobe and view over the garden.
A peaceful farmhouse B&B with a country setting and views of the Mournes, Briers is just 1.5km northwest of the town centre (signposted off the road between Newcastle and Bryansford).
Set on the northern slopes of the Mournes, 5km west of Bryansford village, Meelmore has hostel accommodation with a cosy lounge and kitchen, a campsite (campervans £15, but no electrical hook-ups) and a good coffee shop.
Looking a little like a modern red-brick church set amid landscaped gardens on the southwest edge of town, the Clandeboye offers informal luxury – big bedrooms, polished granite bathrooms, fluffy bathrobes, Champagne and chocolates – plus a log f.
Just south of Castle Espie on the road to Nendrum, the characterful Old Schoolhouse has seven luxurious, modern rooms, each named for a former US president.
Barholm offers year-round B&B and hostel-style accommodation in a Victorian villa in a superb seafront location opposite the ferry slipway. There's a spacious kitchen, laundry facilities and a big, sunny conservatory that doubles as a tearoom.
The Harbour House is a family-friendly pub and restaurant with four plain but serviceable rooms upstairs that are clean and comfortable. It's next to the old harbour, almost 2km south of the bus station, a perfect base for climbing Slieve Donard.
A dinky little flower-bedecked 18th-century cottage (with a modern upper floor), Margaret’s is squeezed between Aldo’s Restaurant and the ruins of Margaret’s Castle and offers luxurious B&B accommodation, with four cosy rooms and an open fire.
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