This is not a review of the staff, who were all kind and accommodating.
This is a hotel designed to aggravate and shame your inner gentrifier. Our room had a quite pungent smell of vinegar or something putrid. We let the staff know, they tried their best, but the hotel was full and couldn’t move us. The bathrooms are odd at best and lack a general sense of privacy you expect from a hotel; the sheet situation is bizarre, with two half duvets as opposed to a single sheet and a single cover, and the layout is not inviting at all. It was like it was designed to make you want to do anything besides fall asleep and then leave as soon as possible. The self check in situation immediately puts you off (especially the older folks who clearly struggled), and makes it apparent they want to decrease staff in favor of profit, and the “get a free drink instead of room service” is also off-putting. Oh, and while I’m at it, the amplifier in the room? Instead of putting a mini fridge or an iron? Bonkers.
Everything as it pertains to aesthetic and layout feels cheap, like they took the best parts of a hostel and combined it with the worst parts of a hotel.
It’s a good location, not loud or off the beaten path. Breakfast is fine, staff are great, but now I can understand the Dubliner perspective of anti-gentrification quite clearly. If I could go back, I would stay somewhere else, if only to feel like the people who put this up actually consider hospitality as opposed to making a quick buck.