Bridgestone Guides 2007

The Old Ground Hotel

O’Connell Street, Ennis in Co. Clare

Allen Flynn

Tel: +353 (0) 65-682 8127

Contact: reservations@oldgroundhotel.ie

The jewel in the little four-hotel empire of the Flynn
family – they also have hotels in Kilkenny, Cork and
Dungarvan – the Old Ground has that special hotel feel.

You know that feeling? It’s when a place has a true feeling of hospitality. It’s when design hasn’t won out over comfort. It’s when the staff can recall your name. It’s when you walk in the door, and feel you have been here before, even though you actually haven’t. That is what hotels are meant to feel like, and unfortunately it’s something that so many simply don’t manage to feel like, especially today’s plague of developer-driven, designer-dogma joints But the Old Ground, with its fantastic centre-of-town location, does feel like that; it feels like an hotel, a venerable hotel, and that feeling is ampl -fied by the excellent staff, the welcome and the comfort, and the good cooking in their Townhall Bistro. The Old Ground also manages – somehow – to feel like the right hotel in the right town: it’s a County Clare hotel, with a County Clare welcome, and we all say amen to that.

Open Mid Jan-end Dec

Yes

Smack in the centre of Ennis, on the corner of O’Connell Street and Station Road.

www.flynnhotels.com