2022 Award Winners BUSINESS HOTEL OF THE YEAR 2022

Nox Hotel, Galway

While other guides are focused solely on the leisure market, we have always taken the needs of business guests into account when making our selections. Business tourism is a developing sector in the Irish tourism industry (see www.meetinireland.com for further information) and we seek out business destinations offering not only outstanding amenities but also high levels of comfort and service - and good food.

Every city needs a go-to hotel that’s equally handy for local meetings and residential business guests, and serves good food – and if there’s a bit of fun to had off duty, so much the better. For Galway, Nox Hotel fits the bill very nicely. With quirkily decorated public areas, this youthful budget hotel is a lively spot and has filled a niche, becoming a popular place for a casual bite to eat or a drink in the stylish open-plan bar, where craft beers and cocktails are the thing. Guest rooms are quieter in tone and spacious (all have king or superking beds) and, while there’s an emphasis on leisure travel, including families at weekends, business travellers will find a good work station with a data port as well as high speed WiFi, flatscreen TV, hairdryers, tea/coffee
facilities, individual thermostat control heating - and free parking. Handily located off Headford Road (Kirwan Roundabout, N6/N84) too, so easy to avoid the main city traffic.