Although not actually in the airport complex, this purpose-built 4 star hotel is very close to it, and convenient to the M1 and M50 motorways. Just 200 metres from the entrance to the airport (shuttle to the main door every 10 minutes), it's ideally suited to the business traveller, or for conferences and meetings; 19 conference rooms have all the necessary ancillary technology including wired and wireless broadband, phone and video conferencing, and air conditioning.
This Dublin airport hotels well-appointed bedrooms and suites all have oversized beds and bathrobes, clothes press, complimentary broadband, flat-screen televisions, pay-per-view movies, quality complimentary reading material and good sound-proofing. (You can see the planes take off and land but the sound is very muted.)
Those who need to make an exceptionally early start may miss the full breakfast, but you can arrange the night before for a continental breakfast to be brought to you in the lobby before you catch the complimentary shuttle bus, and staff are invariably cheerful, even in the hours around dawn.
There is secure parking for 250 cars, and a shuttle to the airport door every 10 minutes.
Above-average informal fare is available in Kittyhawks Bistro & Bar, and includes a children's menu.
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Conference/Banquets (500/300); Business centre, secretarial services, laptop-sized safes in bedrooms, free broadband wi/fi. Rooms 100 (1 suite, 6 junior suites, 20 executive, 10 family, 13 ground floor, 7 for disabled); children welcome (under 12s free in parents' room, cots available free of charge); lift; all day room service. Closed 24-26 Dec. Amex, MasterCard, Visa, Laser.
