Awesome place for a spa day!! My friend booked this place after our Istanbul holiday as a sort of…read moretreat! We drive up two hours from Dublin on a rainy afternoon. Checked in around 2pm, then hit the spa! Our treatments weren't until 5 but we hit up the pool, saunas and other cool amenities. The hotel is super nice, staff is super duper friendly! Our package includes a 30 minute spa treatment plus 3 course dinner for 150 euro, which was pretty good. My scrub/massage was awesome, felt refreshed! Dinner was delicious! Rooms were very nice and the buffet breakfast the next morning was bomb! If you get a chance, take a walk around the grounds. Overall a great little get a way spot to relax and get pampered!

With fantastic midweek offers, it's hard to resist going to Farnham Estate. The hotel is a large…read moremodern building attached to a refurbished old Manor type house. There is lots of land to roam around and explore including a huge golf course. The rooms are spacious and have lovely bathrooms with a shower and a bath. Free wifi in the rooms, a fridge, hairdryer etc and even robes and slippers! There's an indoor and outdoor pool with loungers with comfy pillows if you want to relax by the pool and read a book. There's also steam rooms of various temperatures, foot spas and nice showers. On a quiet day you can really lap up the peace and serenity, drink unlimited amounts of tea, coffee and juices and just relax. I had a Swedish back and shoulder massage from the Beauty Salon. It was amazing! They even have a hair salon! You really don't need to leave the hotel over your stay as there are plenty of options to eat. The Botanic restaurant or the Cellar Bar (or room service) have got plenty of choice on their menus. It all comes from the same kitchen anyway. I was so impressed with the buffet breakfast. So much to choose from! Probably the biggest buffet breakfast I have ever seen in a hotel. Fried, scrambled and boiled eggs to choose from! The staff are very helpful and friendly too. I couldn't have asked for more. I really enjoyed my stays here (3 times in 2 years) I recommend it highly and I know I'll go back again.

This hotel was cute the staff were amazing and accommodating. The elevator or lift as they say did…read morenot work so we had to carry of luggage up several flights of steps. The plumbing in our room was awful we couldn't flush the toilet, the shower was dirty and it filled with water instantly. There was no iron we had to walk to an ironing room to get anything ironed. The hair dryer did not work either. The only nice thing about this plane was the people working here friendliest kindest people.

It's a castle with good food, good beds, and good hotels. If you are traveling Ireland, this is…read moreright in the center, so it is accessible.

This place is absolutely amazing. We stayed here for one night, and came into chocolate and drinks…read moreon the table. We got robes as well. Everything was set up beautifully. The scenery is breathtaking, and if you decide to stay here, take the trails! Absolutely stunning scenery, fresh air, and a good exercise. Staying in the castle was amazing, and so was the food. I was able to mail my postcards here, as well as buy them. The food was good. If you have the time to stay here, or even stop by, they will not disappoint you! It is worth every penny and moment of time!

Absolutely Amazing place. Spent 2 nights here at the end of our Ireland vacations The grounds were…read moregorgeous and the food at the bar was fantastic. You can't get a bad pint of Guinness in Ireland and you can't get a better Chicken Cesar Salad - best one i've ever had. Staff was super friendly and accommodating and the weather was perfect as well. if you get the chance stay here for a night or two on your way to or from Dublin or Belfast. Stunning in every way!

Loved this experience from start to finish. The castle is on beautiful grounds. We were there for…read morea pre wedding high tea. Coming from the USA we were so excited to have this experience! The tea was delicious, so was the coffee, and all the snacks were also fantastic. Staff was super nice and the grounds were so well manicured. Overall a beautiful experience

It was a whistle stop first time visit for one night only and an almost 4 hour drive from near…read moreCarlow to get there. As we turned in off winding roads in the dark we saw lots of Christmas trees and lots of coloured lights. It was impressive alright and I was glad to turn off the car. It's an impressively huge hotel and the reception was beautifully decorated for Christmas. Check-in was a pleasant, quick experience. We got a room upgrade, which delighted us. We were offered someone to take our bags to the room. This was a Black Friday deal that included a 2 course meal. So the room was delightful, two double beds and the usual tea/coffee/hairdryer/iron and a rather small tv on the wall given the size of the room. The room was cosy warm and it was appreciated as it was a cold night outside. I tried out the steam bath and jacuzzi. They were superb but two things annoyed - the changing room was unpleasantly cold coming from the jacuzzi and the shower (and I tried more than one) was unreliable. The shower water flow work hands free, there's nothing to push, so it was a light or similar. It went on and off randomly and despite me waving my hand over the 'light' pushing at it and so on it remained hit and miss with more miss than hit. I was tired and I found this to be irritating. Then to dinner; we were seated quickly in the restaurant. I found the starter I had good, but not great and - at the price - it should have been great. The chilli sauce and the tartare sauce were out of jars. My sea bass main was even more disappointing, again at the price it should have been top notch. It was poorly cooked, poorly seasoned, not as described on the menu (it looked more like trout) with overcooked, to near mush, side vegetables and not great chips either. I was tired too, so I decided to eat up what I could and shut up but I didn't enjoy it. The waiter was not focussed on serving us as he should have been. The price of a glass of wine is the same as a bottle of wine in M&S and the price of one cocktail gets me an M&S Dine in for two with a bottle of wine. Like almost everywhere else they sell those miserably tiny and annoying 200ml bottles of coke and nothing screams rip-off to me as loudly as these do but it's an all to common rip - off now. It was a great nights sleep and the breakfast coffee, fish and croissants were ace. I also rant about the bacon and sausages served up. Like most hotels and this hotel seems no different it's the cheapest sausage and bacon that's served up. Once a hotel is four star or above it really should use its buying power to do better. Sausages with artificial type skins should be banned, these are made of collagen, often derived from cattle skin, cellulose, or plastic. Likewise bacon loaded with phosphates make for an unpleasant eat. So, it's 4 star on balance with the dinner food, under seasoned and unexpectedly poor value for money with haphazard service. We are booked to return in April 2020 for a longer stay and we are looking forward to it, so watch this space.

Absafrikinlootly wonderful place, brilliant staff, sooooo helpful and attentive. Wonderful food,…read moregreat facilities and just highly recommended this place.

I came here for a wedding. Incredibly beautiful grounds. The wedding was fabulous. The…read morebartenders were fantastic. The food and rooms were excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed my stay.

We came here for a wedding and it was incredible. Each room has a unique feel to it and with over…read more100 people at the event it felt very comfortable. We stayed upstairs in room 11 and it was really pleasant. Newly remodeled and clean. Highly recommend checking this place out for an event or just to stay and admire the castle!

When one of my best friends told me he was going to get married in a castle in Ireland, I was…read moreimmediately pumped for the trip. And Bellingham Castle was the chosen venue and boy it exceeded all expectations. I even got to stay here for one night and they had such a pleasant hospitality. We ended up getting the "Kevin" room, which had a balcony view of the garden and patches of greenery that stretched as far as the eye could see. The place was really peaceful and my New York State of mind was completely gone, although temporarily. I really felt like a little kid when I went on to explore the different rooms in the castle. The furnishings and designs are things you would expect to see in films. My favorite rooms were probably the Bottlery (wine room) and The Buttery (the kitchen). Their castle dog, Ri, was super adorable and roamed around as if he owns the place. Some castles can feel intimidating but this place felt very intimate and homey. If only I could live there forever....

The hotel was nice with plenty of space, beautiful grounds and friendly staff. Friends and I got…read morethe feeling that this hotel caters to an older crowd. And events at the hotel can be loud when you're looking for some peace and quiet in Dundalk. Breakfast was included with our room but it wasn't very impressive - some fried eggs gone cold on a buffet, limited healthy choices otherwise. Unfortunately, I had some bad luck when it came to my stay. When my plug adapter went missing, the hotel provided one. However, it didn't work. By the time I figured that out, it was too late at night to roll down to reception for another one so I just made do. A wedding at the event space meant that drunk partygoers were roaming the hotel grounds, singing and yelling, until the wee hours of the morning. Although I had booked a non-smoking room, and although I was thrilled that the window and balcony door could be opened to let in fresh air, my neighbor decided to smoke on his balcony (continuously) until 3 am. In a desperate attempt for sleep, I called the front desk. Once, the call rang without answer. And on the second try, they hung up on me. Great service and help, guys. I probably wouldn't stay here again.

Beautiful property, impeccably clean. Bed and breakfast on a larger scale. Spacious rooms full of…read morenatural light recently redone and quite modern. The bathroom alone is larger than most rooms-particularly my last room in the UK. The gym was decently equipped and there is a wonderful heated indoor pool, with a jacuzzi and sauna. It would be nice if there were access to sound on the TV in the gym. I arrived after 11:00 pm and the front desk was there and ready to check me in. It only took a few minutes. I passed by a very lively bar area that goes until midnight I'm told. About to try the food. Breakfast was buffet style but everything replenished regularly and very fresh and delicious. Freshly fried eggs available how you like them. I have to mention that with all the positives, a couple of caveats. There is a golf course and working farms in the area. I was awakened each morning quite early by noises from surrounding properties. Lastly, I had the Di Not Disturb sign in my door but housekeeping went in anyway. I was told that calls to the room were made, a manager was notified and a supervisor accompanied the cleaning person. I was told this was policy. So, lesson learned. Let the hotel know in advance that you will not want room to be serviced.