That was our second stay in Cork City and we were reccomended by our friends to stay at The Ashley Hotel. And we will deifinitely make a return in the future. The staff was very helpful, rooms spacious, bright and clean. They have a fireplace in the bar on the ground floor! Location was excellent and complimentary car park is a huge advantage to compare with the other hotels. The breakfast was very good too-various choice to choose from.

Staying for the weekend at The Ashley Hotel with friends. Car park, centre of Cork City, good coffee, lovely fireplace... We are staying in two nice rooms with spacious bathrooms. In the evening we had drinks while watching rugby on TV. All in all we are having a great weekend and we'd recommend Ashley Hotel to our friends!

Actually very pleasant owner but she knows that she has lots of work to do .two stars and falling right though to the breakfast.I would not stay there until I saw a new sign saying New comfortable beds.i am sure there are better places to stay .go straight past.

My mum booked this one for the first night we arrived in Ireland - she obviously didn't look at the reviews on this hotel because I can assure you she would not have booked it! Having read the reviews on here I can definitely agree with the bad ones and consider that any good reviews on here must be fake! This place was creepily seedy, smelt stale and old ladyish throughout the whole hotel from the second you entered and just made me feel unclean as it felt like a cheap brothel! The bathroom was awful- really old fashioned decor with VERY bad finishing, the (once white) grey looking towels were written on in black marker pen with the hotels name on-yes really, and the bath water was yellow - Irelands water has a slight yellow tint but this was like urine flowing from the tap. Whilst my mum was using the bathroom with the window open (on the first floor I might add) a man wandered casually past clearing the guttering - thankfully she was fully clothed by this point!! The hotel boasts private parking however there is only just space for 3 cars and if the other 2 are parked badly you can't fit yours in as there is a very low wall which prevents you opening your car door and theres no room between you and the other cars to open the passenger door!
The woman on the desk was helpful and friendly enough although I felt she was disengenuous and didn't trust her one bit. The male that made breakfast was freindly and the brekkie was nice enough.
All in all if you want your stay in Ireland to be a nice one, steer well clear of this hotel! I thought this was a taste of things to come so was sooooo relieved to realise the rest of Ireland was not like this at all - please read my reviews for the nice places!!