Activity Based - Destination Spas

Even the most jaded traveller would have to agree that a stay at this renowned hotel is always a treat. With a magnificent waterside location in the midst of Ireland’s most scenic landscape, it has views over gardens to the ever-changing mount ...
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Formerly the official palace for the Bishops of Down, Hastings Hotels’ flagship property in Holywood is a fine example of 19th-century Scottish Baronial architecture with plasterwork ceilings, stained glass windows and an imposing staircase. It ...
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At the heart of this impressive relatively new hotel there is indeed a castle and, although it does not have views of Lough Eske, the setting should not disappoint as it is surrounded by beautiful woodland and formal gardens. With a history dating bac ...
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Set in impressive gardens and woodland just outside Naas, this hotel is approached along an attractive driveway, with striking entrance and lobby areas, and a fine inner courtyard planted attractively with Virginia creeper. A rather grand staircase le ...
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Although close to the motorway, this mainly modern hotel has a carefully restored mid-18th century house at its heart and something of its country house atmosphere lives on. The original house is only a small part of the hotel, but it is the focal poi ...
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Entering through woodland down a narrow winding driveway with occasional passing places, first-time guests get no hint of what lies ahead and, even on arrival at set-down (and a rather confusing parking arrangement), the hotel presents an inscrutable, ...
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In a lovely area of green and gently rolling hills and river valleys, the immaculate exterior of this modern hotel attached to the Christy O'Connor-designed championship course creates a good impression on arrival, a feeling quickly reinforced by frien ...
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A short drive south of Dublin city, in one of Ireland’s most scenic locations in the beautiful Wicklow Hills, this deluxe hotel set in the 47 acre Powerscourt Estate contributes a wide range of amenities to the area. Reminiscent of a formally ice ...
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Visitors arriving at John O'Connell's contemporary hotel on the edge of Naas are welcomed into a dramatic and very colourful foyer with an atrium - an early indication of points of difference, and the design brief also ensured that no two bedrooms are ...
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Set in twenty acres of parkland and gardens on the Hook Peninsula, just across the estuary from Waterford city, Catherine and Kevin Dundon’s elegant Georgian manor was the ancestral home of the Chichester family and the long tradition of hospital ...
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