During the winter of 2011-12, The Europe will close in order to facilitate the second phase of their bedroom refurbishment, which will bring the Golfside rooms up to the standard of the Lakeside rooms. And that, let us assure you, is quite some standard: the luxury levels in the Europe are quite something, and their work over the last few years has brought this mighty hotel into the modern world with a bang. But, as Eamon Barrett has pointed out, such luxury would be empty without the appropriate levels of commitment and service to animate it, and here the Europe comes good: ‘The staff are excellent... and there is a sense that, whatever your request, the Europe will be able to fulfill it’.
We have mentioned before two especially superlative elements of the Europe, the spa and pool, which are all their own work, and the views across the lake from the hotel, which are the work of Mother Nature, at her very best. Get a taste of these, and you’ll fall in love with Killarney.
