Great hotel, friendly staff, great food and music and very lively....quintessentially Irish!!

stayed there for 1 night june 2011, room needed updating certainly not like the pics on website, other residents had belongings in black bin liners. awoken about 3am by fire alarm. nobody in reception. in bar area next door crowd of peopleunder influenceof alcohol in cig smoke fog, barman said alarm set off by mistake.went back to bed kept awake for rest of night by someone walking up and down corridor jangling keys and banging doors,plus guest in one of the other rooms snoring loudly(paper thin walls. despite 3 e mails and on letter, and phone calls to manager, no response to date or explanation

The reason my friends and I visit Ireland every other month is for the friendly, welcoming culture and the heavy drinking sessions, this is the 1st Dublin hotel that we have found that not only make you feel welcome but also where the staff and locals actively join in with you. This place is without a doubt a little haven where the music, drinking and dancing continue throughout the night, we even didnt go into town one night as we felt we were missing out as here everyone was a friend and fun to be with. At 3am Sean the bar man saved us from starvation be personally making us sandwiches, at lunch time when we surfaced we were met by the friendly receptionist and a warm Irish hug from the bar staff, the chef came out to check our fOod was ok every time and to offer anything else we needed. Without a doubt this place is for fun loving, down to earth sociable people who require a friendly and often drunken atmosphere. Enjoy chaps. From a good old Yorkshire gal x

From our arrival at the Sunnybank 'bar l unge' (missing 'o' on signage!) our stay was eventful. The car park was nowhere near big enough and cars were clearly abandoned causing double parking, and quite a bit of manoeuvring was required to ensure you wouldn’t come back to find your car damaged by someone else’s attempts. If anyone had to leave in an emergency, you couldn’t! We were greeted by a friendly member of staff, who we could just about hear to speak to over the noise of the cleaner who was doing the hovering, and asked to pay upfront. This was ok at the time but the next morning we would have been refusing to pay at all!!! Having arrived back at the hotel after a concert we were greeted by the same member of staff we had met earlier who was now drunk. We were then forced to endure numerous renditions of loud drunken males singing 'who let the dogs out' along with various other chanting and shouting. This continued until 9am in the morning! We then received a knock at our door asking for our car to be moved to let someone else out. At this point we were more than happy to leave, without having had our breakfast (which we had paid for-but did not wish to dine with the male 'choir' who had serenaded us all night long). Unfortunately we couldn’t find a member of staff other than a cleaner to whom we handed our room key and got as far away from the place as possible, sadly without a refund!! The room itself was clean however only one plug socket out of a possible six worked and there was an unusual bathroom setup with the toilet (which had a broken flush) overlooking a floor to ceiling window facing onto the main road with only a net curtain for modesty. There were marks and dents up the walls - possibly from previous guests’ frustration of a sleepless night listening to drunken louts! Do not stay here, and if you do... you've been warned!