Lansdowne Hotel Dublin

Beds were superb and very comfortable - shower was passable as shower door was not secure and water pooled on the bathroom floor. Stair bannister requires fixing on the second floor not securing with tape! Food was edible..... continental breakfast was ok.

Double room was very small but adequate. The next morning, we were disappointed that we were only offered an Irish Breakfast - i.e., sausage, bacon, egg, etc., as a hot choice - even B & B's offer scrambled egg or omelette, as an alternative - surely an hotel could offer the same??? Staff were friendly and courteous.

I was in Dublin on business in January 2008 and had made an online boking for the Landsdowne Hotel. When I arrived I was given a tiny room (6 feet x 9 feet)in the basement of the hotel. The bed was the smallest single bed possible and had a terrible mattress with absolutely no support.There was one sheet covering the mattress and nothing between the duvet cover and me. There was an old 12" TV which did not work properly. The bathroom was tiny - no vanity to put a soap bag on....and the shower had lots of disgusting black mould around the tiles...an old bottle of liquid soap and grotty grey white towels which desperately needed replacing. I could clearly hear the occupant of the room upstairs using the bathroom in full detail - need I say more? It was a horrendous room. To the defence of the staff at the Landsdowne - when I complained the next day I was moved to a larger room which was only marginally better because it had a double bed - everything else was consistent with the first room plus the curtains were hanging off the rail in the new room. The price for the room was Euro $109 a night which I think is daylight robbery for that quality of room, especially as the lovely Bewleys Hotel down the road(where I have aready booked for my trip in January 2009)is the same price for that time of year. By the way I am Irish and know Dublin very well and I have stayed in these kinds of old hotels in Ireland before but this has been a new low. I dread to think what the average American or other non - Irish visitor would think of this place....just terible for tourism and only adds fuel to the image of Ireland as a very expensive place to visit...

The room was quite large, lovely high ceilings. A flat screen TV which looks good but only has the basic Irish channels and even those had a bad reception. The service in the bar at lunchtime was extremely poor a long wait for a drink and they could not provide all food that was clearly on their menu. Having said that, I have been to the hotel on numerous occasions and have never found the service at all bad, however, as this was part of a Christmas party it was a bad time for this kind of bad service. Good points are the location of the hotel and, as mentioned, I believe this was a once off bad experience (I hope anyway!)

We were attending a christmas party on the green. so the location was ideal. I found the room to be extremely small. The paintwork in the room definitely needs redoing. However, the room and bedclothes were clean. I was very impressed with the choice for breakfast the next morning. Overall, a good experience - just get the painter & decorator out!

having stayed in Lansdowne Hotel,it is a hotel living in the 20!s it could do with a good makeover.