5-Star Hotels in County Kilkenny, Ireland

This is going to be a very mixed review, so I’ll start off with the positive, which is what went right. The staff at Mount Juliet Estate are absolutely wonderful. Everyone was warm and friendly. We had a lovely meal at the Hound, and the singer that was playing at the bar after dinner on Saturday night was really brilliant, and that created a bit of atmosphere and made for a great night. Our room was lovely, and the grounds are beautiful. We also enjoyed breakfast. Now the negative: Upon arriving at the spa we were surprised by the facilities. There were three of us, and one very small changing room, with only one toilet, and one shower. It was quite cramped. We had our treatments, and all three of us discussed afterwards that we weren’t asked what pressure we wanted, and that the pressure was far too light, resulting in disappointing treatments. Of course, the typical irish women that we are, we didn’t complain during the treatment. This is on us - we should have told them that we wanted firmer pressure, but a note to the spa staff, it’s unlikely that ANYONE wants to pay that kind of money for a massage that light. Always ask how the pressure is a few minutes into a treatment. After our treatment we went back to the changing rooms to shower and get ready. Challenging with only one shower, and only one hairdryer…if you could call it that. After testing the hairdryer, which provided nothing but a faint breeze, my mam and sister decided to stick it out with the oils in their hair till we could get access to our rooms, as their hair would take about 5 hours to dry using what was provided. I braved it, drying my hair under the hand dryer. User beware - I lost a good tuft of hair which got ****** into the dryer in the process. I only have myself to blame, but it was a cold day, and I wasn’t going around with wet hair and our room wasn’t going to be ready for hours. So all in all - the spa was an expensive, and poor experience. Not a great start. 140EUR each. We then went for lunch in the old manor. There’s casual dining on the ground floor. This was a huuuuge mistake. My advice to anyone going to mount juliet is to eat in The Hound (which was very nice later that day) or try the Michelen star (can’t rate it as we did not go), but do not eat in the more casual part of the old manor building. We paid something like 25EUR each for a steak sandwich that was completely flavourless, and overcooked. It was really bad. We also got a prawn cocktail (hard to get wrong and it was fine) and mushroom soup (delicious), but the steak sandwiches cost us 50EUR in total, and were terrible. It’s really hard to get a steak sandwich wrong in my opinion, but there you have it. Not great! Then before dinner we went to the 1757 bar, which was beautiful, but surprisingly understaffed, and it took is a half hour to get a drink. There was one person behind the bar, which in a cocktail bar will inevitably lead to a long wait time. So all in all, we got pretty unlucky. If I

We arrived at this hotel very late, and when we entered the room, we were very surprised. We booked a suite, but we didn't expect it to be so good; the room is very large, especially the dining room and living room are very spacious; especially the wine cabinet is made in the form of a piano, which is quite innovative 👏; the bedroom is also very comfortable, there are two bathrooms, very convenient and very clean; I woke up in the morning and found that the hotel is very large and beautiful, and took many photos in the hotel; it's a pity that it rained and I couldn't go to the garden, I could only look at the beautiful garden through the window. The breakfast is also good, a standard English breakfast; it is worth staying for two days to sit around in the hotel and drink English afternoon tea, which will definitely be very enjoyable.

We arrived at this hotel very late, and when we entered the room, we were very surprised. We booked a suite, but we didn't expect it to be so good; the room is very large, especially the dining room and living room are very spacious; especially the wine cabinet is made in the form of a piano, which is quite innovative 👏; the bedroom is also very comfortable, there are two bathrooms, very convenient and very clean; I woke up in the morning and found that the hotel is very large and beautiful, and took many photos in the hotel; it's a pity that it rained and I couldn't go to the garden, I could only look at the beautiful garden through the window. The breakfast is also good, a standard English breakfast; it is worth staying for two days to sit around in the hotel and drink English afternoon tea, which will definitely be very enjoyable.

This is going to be a very mixed review, so I’ll start off with the positive, which is what went right. The staff at Mount Juliet Estate are absolutely wonderful. Everyone was warm and friendly. We had a lovely meal at the Hound, and the singer that was playing at the bar after dinner on Saturday night was really brilliant, and that created a bit of atmosphere and made for a great night. Our room was lovely, and the grounds are beautiful. We also enjoyed breakfast. Now the negative: Upon arriving at the spa we were surprised by the facilities. There were three of us, and one very small changing room, with only one toilet, and one shower. It was quite cramped. We had our treatments, and all three of us discussed afterwards that we weren’t asked what pressure we wanted, and that the pressure was far too light, resulting in disappointing treatments. Of course, the typical irish women that we are, we didn’t complain during the treatment. This is on us - we should have told them that we wanted firmer pressure, but a note to the spa staff, it’s unlikely that ANYONE wants to pay that kind of money for a massage that light. Always ask how the pressure is a few minutes into a treatment. After our treatment we went back to the changing rooms to shower and get ready. Challenging with only one shower, and only one hairdryer…if you could call it that. After testing the hairdryer, which provided nothing but a faint breeze, my mam and sister decided to stick it out with the oils in their hair till we could get access to our rooms, as their hair would take about 5 hours to dry using what was provided. I braved it, drying my hair under the hand dryer. User beware - I lost a good tuft of hair which got ****** into the dryer in the process. I only have myself to blame, but it was a cold day, and I wasn’t going around with wet hair and our room wasn’t going to be ready for hours. So all in all - the spa was an expensive, and poor experience. Not a great start. 140EUR each. We then went for lunch in the old manor. There’s casual dining on the ground floor. This was a huuuuge mistake. My advice to anyone going to mount juliet is to eat in The Hound (which was very nice later that day) or try the Michelen star (can’t rate it as we did not go), but do not eat in the more casual part of the old manor building. We paid something like 25EUR each for a steak sandwich that was completely flavourless, and overcooked. It was really bad. We also got a prawn cocktail (hard to get wrong and it was fine) and mushroom soup (delicious), but the steak sandwiches cost us 50EUR in total, and were terrible. It’s really hard to get a steak sandwich wrong in my opinion, but there you have it. Not great! Then before dinner we went to the 1757 bar, which was beautiful, but surprisingly understaffed, and it took is a half hour to get a drink. There was one person behind the bar, which in a cocktail bar will inevitably lead to a long wait time. So all in all, we got pretty unlucky. If I