Marine Hotel

The Marine Hotel is like an old family-run hotel - excellent location, lovely rooms, wonderful views from the 'sea view' rooms, but staff need to communicate with each other more and take ownership of their jobs. Had issues with repeatedly requesting my room to be cleaned and coffee/toiletries to be replenished and door keys not working. One night there was a fire alarm that kept going off because the poor man who was on duty had not left the code to turn off the alarm. He was also the barman the next night and was a smashing lad. Ciara, the Receptionist, was amazing and went out of her way to help with my room choices. Suggestions would be to include conditioner with the toiletries and have housekeeping be more vigilant when looking for rooms that have the 'please clean' sign on the door so customers don't have to keep asking for their room to be cleaned. When I raised a concern about a particular issue, the hotel was exceptionally nice and sent wine and strawberries with an apology which I very much appreciated. I will always stay at the Marine for the location and the views, but would hope staff have a bit more training on customer skills.

This hotel was where we had our wedding reception years ago so we decided to visit again whilst in Dublin. It’s about 30 mins from the City Centre but it backs onto the sea. The lawns at the back go right down to the beach and there’s a little gate to get onto it from the hotel garden. We had a good room and brilliant bathroom with a rain head shower which felt very new. The dinner was good and reasonable too and we overlooked the sea from the restaurant. I slept well and the bed was comfy too. The staff were very helpful at breakfast as we didn’t want a large buffet just tea and toast so they said we cld just pay for a kid’s breakfast instead of €20 for a full Irish breakfast. The only comment of improvement would be to add a shelf or cupboard behind the bathroom door so there wld be somewhere to put a toiletries bag instead of the basin or the toilet cistern.

We had stayed one night and were there with family staff was pleasant, no music or band, had a football match on really loud