Newcastle Upper Holidays from £180

Lovely place to stay if you want to be near but not in Dublin, well located for the airport.

The room was great! Fabulous location to walk around. Parking was very convenient. Lots of choices for breakfast. Looking forward to the next visit.,

Aspiring hip little hotel on the north side of the Liffey. Big rooms. Comfy beds. Spacious lobby and hang area for cocktails and meet ups. Sometimes a little too cool for school - check out a guitar and plug it into your own amp! (mmhmm) and "check yourself in" - oh, but here's a fella to check your ID (thus, LONG check in lines) and a lot of folks down for the breakfast which made it a little too chaotic for me. If you forgo the housekeeping, you get two free drink tickets. ;) Careful around the area a bit at night - can get a little dodgy.

We were surprised by the check in process. You have to collect your keys quite far from the apartment. So plan for a delay to use transit or a two-way taxi fare. The apartment was dirty. Mould in the closet. The beds were terrible (one like an air mattress & the other was hard as a board). The pillows were so used they were hard packed. The air freshener system is needed because a sewage smell came from one bathroom. The photos used to advertise the unit were not the same as the unit we stayed in. The unit has no views. It was an interior unit that looks only into courtyards. It was dark because it was on the first floor and the perimeter units towered over us. The only sunlight that came in was a reflection off of other apartment windows. The air freshener system malfunctioned & needed repair as it beeped every 10 seconds. The washing machine broke. We tried to spend as little time there as possible. The only thing I can say that is positive is that it’s located on a LUAS line.