The hotel says it was a 5 min walk from Athlone Castle and the town, it's actually more like 10/12 min walk, more if raining and or windy.
We got what was supposed to be a deluxe room, the double bed was 2 single beds pushed together and they were at different heights. The room was supposed to have a flat screen TV instead it had a tiny little TV in it.
We had breakfast 1 of the mornings in the restaurant, nice and hot and good selection and very tasty. The next morning we decided to get it delivered to our room, delivery to room was almost 15 mins late, again food was nice and hot and tasty.
Had a meal in the restaurant, again great food and good service.
Pub food in the hotel was also great. Decent prices on the beers aswell.
Pub entertainment was rubbish, some guy singing on the Saturday, meant to start at 9:30pm, was setting up from 9:15pm and didn't start playing till 10:30pm, we listened to 5 songs which were very poorly sang and then went back to our room.
We also found 1 of the reception staff to be very rude, elderly lady didn't catch her name. We rang down a few times looking for information on the bar and restaurant and she hung up on us twice and then when she did answer, seemed like she wanted to get off the phone ASAP.
Rest of the staff were very nice and friendly.
Good broadband connection and wifi speeds, good to see. read more