The Old Clare Hotel

The Old Clare hosted our family event on the rooftop, and we couldn’t have asked for a better experience! Grace Carroll, the Events Sales Executive, was a dream to liaise with when organising. The bar staff and manager were professional, efficient, accommodating, and utterly charming; the food was impeccable; and the rooftop space itself was stunning. Huge thanks to the staff for facilitating a wonderful evening!

I enjoyed my stay at The Old Clare. My partner and I were there for four nights and stayed in the Connell Room. The room was nice and spacious, loved the tall ceilings and the bed was probably the most comfortable bed I’ve ever laid on. My only gripe for the room was it did smell a little musty, I attribute this to just the fact that the place is old, but it was very strong when coming back from being out for the day. Additionally I’m not the biggest fan of the toilet door just being glass and not having an actual closed door, it doesn’t really hide or muffle any bathroom sounds. The rooftop bar was fantastic and I really enjoyed the view. The breakfasts were quite good as well.

This hotel has so much potential but unfortunately I don’t think it hits the mark. It’s in a good location with a lot of food options including spice alley practically outside the hotel door. I stayed in the loft room and it was quite nice to have two separate spaces and was quite a bit bigger than some of the other rooms offered. The bathrobes are amazing and probably some of the best I’ve tried in hotels I’ve visited. Unfortunately I think the execution is lacking. The check in was very sterile with the staff member exchanging probably two words across the process, didn’t explain where things were and just pointed to the lifts. The restaurant in the hotel for breakfast is a little lack luster and takes quite some time to receive your meals and even longer for coffee. The rooms also aren’t soundproof so if there’s loud music on the rooftop throughout the day you can hear all of it especially when they start at 7am which isn’t the wake-up call you want. To top it all off the rooftop bar closes at 8pm on a Saturday night with no signage throughout the hotel indicating this so whilst me and other guests were finishing our drinks they turned many people away. To add to this rather than cleaning the bar when the staff told many people it was closed and turned them away both staff sat on their phones waiting for the remaining customers to finish their drinks. This has left a very sour taste so unlikely to stay here again.