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Andrew
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Great hotel

  • May 24, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by a traveler from Travelocity.com
The staff was very helpful. Our room was beautiful.
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Crowne Plaza Airport

  • November 30, 2005
  • Rated 4 of 5 by Andrew from Toronto, Ontario
Crowne Plaza Airport

As I booked my trip at the last minute, and this was the only hotel available, I wasn't expecting much. But I was pleasantly surprised. First off, they picked me up at the airport and let me check in at 9:00 in the morning, after having been travelling for about 18 hours. I was so relieved at that that I would have forgiven an inadequate room. But the room was great. I wouldn't call it big, but it was certainly big enough for me. Most importantly, it was comfortable.

The hotel appears to be fairly new, and there were either expansions or new hotels going up on either side of it when I was there. Across the street is a park that seemed nice, although I didn’t venture too far into it.

The hotel’s restaurant seemed too pricey for me so I didn't eat there. But it also has a nice bar, which proved valuable my first night there. This was the night the power went out (for the area, I was told, not just the hotel). On emergency power, the lights were dim, but the Guinness taps were unaffected. It took a little longer to get your drink, though, since the bar was pretty busy with hotel patrons locked out of their rooms, and the bartenders had to calculate your bill by hand.

My main concern with this hotel before I arrived had been the location – near the airport, not in the city. I needed to get to the city every day and did not rent a car. This turned out to be a legitimate concern. But the front desk staff provided me with a useful map of Dublin, with instructions on how to get to and from the hotel on the buses. That information proved to be very useful later in the trip (see my Temple Bar entry). The bus stops just down the road from the hotel. It costs €1.50, and takes you to the heart of Dublin in about half an hour. I took a taxi once, which didn’t seem to save much time, and cost about €16. It was actually nice to take the bus's meandering route into town, just to see some residential parts of Dublin that I otherwise would have missed.

All in all, I really liked this place -- it was a great hotel, especially for what I paid for it (as a Travelocity last-minute package). I slept well.

From journal A few days in Dublin

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