Just across the Sarsfield Bridge from the main commercial heart of Limerick, the Limerick Strand Hotel is an impressive modern seven-storey hotel. Accessed from the rear, it has a pleasant, unexpectedly quiet ambience in the spacious ground floor areas and takes full advantage of views from the upper floors with picture windows, balconies and terraces - and glass-fronted lifts (blue-lit at night) allow guests with key cards to enjoy the city sights and the distant views of the Galtee Mountains.
This well-managed Limerick Hotels suites with balconies are especially desirable, but accommodation throughout is pleasant and comfortable, and the smart bathrooms all have bath and shower.
Although equally attractive for leisure breaks, the Limerick Strand Hotel is especially well equipped for business guests - an executive floor has a dedicated lounge, and all rooms have laptop safe, complimentaryhigh-speed Wi-Fi access, plus 40-inch flatscreen TVs and individual air conditioning. There’s a choice of 13 meeting rooms for groups of various sizes, and cutting edge conference technology.
Leisure and off duty business guests will all appreciate the Energize Health Club, which has a 20m pool, plus children’s pool, sauna, steam room and Jacuzzi, also a gym and beauty therapy rooms for both men and women.
Good food is available at either the River Restaurant, or the Terrace Café and Bar, with a large heated terrace.
River Restaurant
Situated at the front of the hotel and overlooking the mighty Shannon, this aptly named restaurant is elegantly appointed and, unusually for a large hotel, it's a pleasant place to explore some of the foods of the region.
Rejoining the hotel, where he had previously worked with the departing Executive Chef Tom Flavin, (who has established his own consultancy business), Paddy Anslow moved from the Harbour Hotel in Galway to lead the kitchen team in 2021. Known, like Tom, for working hard to make food provenance and seasonality a point of difference, his philosophy will affect the guest experience throughout the hotel, and especially in The River Restaurant, which offers a rewarding dining experience, and where a very good breakfast is also served.
The kitchen team engages closely with their carefully selected suppliers at all times, ensuring diners a true taste of Limerick.
