Dublin Hoteller i Whitehall - Botanic Gardens

Good courtesy bus service from airport, comfortable beds, quiet room despite size of hotel. Bathroom sparcely stocked with toileteries and barely enough towels. Breakfast was disappointing - the cheese in the buffet was gone off, and the choice of breads/pastries was so limited that we just had cereal and juice and ate elsewhere later that morning.

Convenient to airport Being an airport hotel, the poor insulation between rooms, makes it very noisy and uncomfortable during the night with guests coming and going.

My room was above a room where a party was being held and the noise kept us awake. I had to call the manager to get the volume turned down - which he did.

We had stayed at Egans House over the New Year 2009/2010 and found it very comfortable and with excellent facilities. This was the main reason for booking again. However, the facilities are now very poor, with everything that was previously free of charge now being an expensive extra- see below- and we shall not be returning. It's a shame, we liked it very much before. Everything that was previously included in the room price- parking, breakfast, wi-fi and tea and coffee making facilities- is now a chargeable extra. We were aware of most of these at the time of booking, and found we could park in the road next to the hotel for nothing anyway, but were not prepared for the fact that there are now no kettles in the rooms, and that the tea and coffee previously available free of charge in the lounge is now charged at 2 euros for a cardboard cup of hot water from a machine, into which a tea bag or sachet of coffee can be inserted....we did not make use of this, prefering to get hot drinks much cheaper elswhere in Dublin. It was very, very disappointing, and put quite a dampener on our stay.

Location was good. Having PC access was useful. No queues when checking in or out. Shower was a dribble, shampoo was in those awful hard to open plastic sachels, TV was 12" (tiny), room was small and neither modern nor authentic. Breakfast was self serve so quick.

was very quiet and family atmosphere Very difficult to find so far from city center

cheap and cheerful no tea making facilities in room

The staff were excellent. They were polite and extremely helpful. They couldn't do enough to help. Breakfast was good. The heater in the room was broken and had been replaced with an electric heater which wasn't really sufficient. The room was tiny and in the eves of the house, meaning I had to stoop to walk. I didn't complain about these issues so I don't know what they would have done about them.

Close to do the airport and city center. I enjoyed my stay at the Egan House and recommend others to stay there.