Killarney Towers Hotel

This was my favorite hotel to stay at in Ireland! I loved it closeness to everything in town! Just a walk down the street to the nearest pub! The hotel was also top notch!

This hotel is located in the party district. It also has late night entertainment on site. Unfortunately, the walls and windows do nothing to block the sound.
If you want to get to sleep at a reasonable hour, do not book this hotel.
Also, their wifi blocks and restricts access to websites arbitrarily.
All in all, if you are not looking for a spring break atmosphere, find somewhere else to stay.
Had to edit this review at 4 am. Seems there is a cinema at the rear of the hotel where drunken party-​goers gather to wait for bus rides home.
After calling the front desk and the local police, this is to be expected. Actually, the police dispatcher asked me «What do you expect. You’re in a party town and you’re staying downtown» After a couple of requests, the dispatcher agreed to have someone «Go ’round and have a word with them»
So, dear folks, you may wish to avoid Killarney should you want to be able to get more than a few hours sleep.
Lovely.

Hotel is generally fine and clean, rooms are nice, but have to give a lower rating because of their Wifi service.
MAJOR ISSUES with their Wifi.
First. You need to log into their pop up frequently so your device can’t connect on it’s own during the night and backup, VERY bad user experience. Set a password for the wifi or just have it open, don’t use those pointless 3^rd party logins.
Second. They use a VERY overzealous filters. You cannot visit many benign sites or services from the common areas or your room. VPN services are blocked. For example urban dictionary is blocked.
I would not come back to this hotel, nor would I book with any that have similar internet policies.

We stayed here during our tour between Dublin and Bunratty. This place is huge, with a club, bars, a pool, hot tub, steam room, and a huge dining room. The rooms are tiny, but decent. Your keycard not only gives you access to your room, but it also gives you access to he electirict. Upon entering your room, you have to put a key in the slot on the wall in order to turn on the power.
The breakfast and dinner here were amazing. They had everything you could imagine for breakfast. I stuck with the traditional Irish breakfast and ate enough not to need food until dinner, which was equally as lavish with many salads, meats, pastas, veggies, potatoes, and desserts. They even had ice cream included by request.
They also had a gym along with a locker room, steam room, and a whirlpool. Unfortunately we couldn’t use the whirlpool because they had to clean it after someone had an «accident.» Instead, we went into the sauna for a few minutes. Instead of tile, which I am used to, the steam room had leather looking, plastic, individual seats.
Their pub O’Donoghue’s was pretty large live music. The pints were reasonably priced, especially for the convenience of being at the hotel.

This hotel was among the top places we stayed on our tour. It’s a massive hotel where lots of tour groups stay. I think there were eight when we arrived — it was kind of crazy. However, service was wonderful, with nice, helpful people at the reception desk, bar, and restaurant. I had a small squee of excitement upon entering the bathroom — there were washcloths (hard to find at many hotels), a full shower with a shower curtain (yay!), a jacuzzi tub, and AC. The hotel is right in the Killarney city centre, so it’s a few short steps to lots of shopping, pubs, and restaurants. This makes it easy to stagger home from the bar, which is fun! They also had a very small fitness center, which was better than nothing. The thing that set this place apart from the others was the buffet dinner they put on — the variety was much wider than our previous meals on this tour, including a selection of fresh salads, which we haven’t seen a whole lot of. Their curried noodles were fabulous!

Lets start with what it is not. It is not a tower in any way shape or form, but rather a lovely 4 story building with the world’s slowest revolving door. I was thankful that they didn’t interpret «single room» to mean give ‘er a single/​twin bed. They had wash clothes and a jacuzzi bath tub (yeah for the wash clothes!!!). They had blow dryers and a magnifying mirror (so I was able to see how bad my eyebrows were looking after 3 days of not grooming them). I was able to adequately control the room temperature.
They had excellent wi-​fi that is free, but you need to get a user name and password from the front desk which is only good for 3 hours before you need another one. The breakfast was pretty good. They had hard boiled eggs, which was appreciated (as most scrambled eggs contain milk), but they didn’t cool the eggs so I burned my fingers trying to peel the shells. I had dinner there one night with my tour group. It was okay, but I didn’t have dinner the second night I was there. I think generally all of these organized hotel dinners need more vegetables (not vegetarian dishes, but just vegetables).
The only thing I hold back the last star for is the fact that this hotel is in Killarney. I did not like the town of Killarney at all and do not anticipate ever visiting it again. In the Oxford Dictionary there is a picture of the town of Killarney next to the definition of «tourist trap».

Accomodations/​Cost: (4.5) A night here during off-​peak tourist season in the winter months is about 50 euros/​night. For that price, the accommodations are top notch. There is free wi-​fi in the rooms, the impeccable bathrooms have a jacuzzi, they provide you with all toiletries and amenities (including a vanity kit and shower caps), and the lobby and restaurant areas of the hotel are classy and well-​decorated (though it borders somewhat on being to cluttered depending on your décor sensibilities). The sleeping area in the rooms themselves and the closet could be a bit bigger; and the carpet, bed coverings and drapes are a bit outdated, but who really spends all that much time in a room when there’s so much to see and do outside? Though the rooms are clean, the small size and furnishings brought my rating down half a star, despite the low-​ish price. On another note, please try the scrambled eggs here at the breakfast buffet. They are amazing. I’m not sure if they steam it or something but they are melt-​in-​your-​mouth delicious.
Location: (5) Killarney Towers is conveniently situation on one of the main streets of Killarney, College Street, and is hard to miss as you go through the city. It’s a short stroll to restaurants, convenient stores (there’s a Spar right next door), pubs, shopping (an outlet is right down the street), and more.
Service: (5) The staff here were all helpful and friendly. When we asked for a dinner recommendation nearby, the male staff member actually walked with us outside to point out the direction we should go. Even the hostess at breakfasts greeted us with a smile early in the morning.
Overall: (4) The public, common areas here are trendy and pretty. Strangely, I felt like more attention went into the upkeep of the bathrooms than the rooms themselves, but at their reasonable price point, I’m not complaining too much about the rooms.