Having worked in the hospitality industry for over 20 years, and being a "foodie" I was quite fussy about our wedding venue.
From the moment we walked into the Westwood Hotel we were sold. Every aspect of the weekend was arranged for us, and everything was just perfect. I could fault nothing, rooms, staff, food, helping with other arrangements for the day, all above and beyond my expectations. The canapés on arrival were super, the food and wine at the dinner were fabulous & extremely plentiful. The day after the wedding we had a post wedding party and again the food provided was perfect for the occasion.
We are delighted that we selected The Westwood to hold our wedding reception, and would like to thank Dave, Diane and all the staff for everything they did for us.

this was a great hotel to both stay in and to attend a wedding in . we had my brothers wedding here in september and everything was perfect , nothing was any bother and we had our 3 kids with us and they were as welcome as we were, which sometimes is not the case in hotels . the food all weekend was of a very high standard and the wedding service is brilliant . a gem of a hotel only a few minutes out of the city centre .

In Galway on business at The University so the Westwood was recommended as is the right side of city. Charming rooms nice & tastefully done I got an exec room for less than €80 free wi-fi in the room. I ate in the bar with a client and were impressed try the lamb pie very tasty. casual and nice seemed to have a lot of local people or regular guests everone seemed to know everyone else. I had no breakfast so I can't comment but the hotel really has a nice country charm close to the city with free parking.

The Westwood Hotel is pretty far from the Galway city centre—about 10-15 minutes by cab. There were several parties, weddings and whatnot happening during my stay there, but that may have been just because it was around New Year's. The staff was extremely efficient helpful, and booked tours to Connemara and the Cliffs of Moher with the bus picking us up at the hotel.

It's a wonderful, beautiful hotel—the rooms are amazing, very spacious, with great beds. The shower has a weirdly erratic flow. Breakfast is very good; the hotel restaurant is not particularly mind-blowing, but it's okay.

One drawback: in my room (#120) the wi-fi simply did not work. They said that only part of the hotel had wi-fi coverage, and offered to give me a different room with wi-fi (#129)—but even in this second room my computer and gadgets couldn't get a stable connection. I had to settle for using ethernet (cable). Strangely enough, several ports seemed to be blocked: while some sites were accessible, I couldn't log in to AIM, MSN, gtalk or Battle.net, check my email or download any files. Very irritating!