Just come back from a lunch out in Bodkins and will never return to eat in the place again. I ordered a tuna salad...... consisted of a plate of lettuce with a small bit of tuna and about 5 olives........and it cost 8.50 euro. I have never had such a terrible and disappointing lunch before. Complete rip off and would not recommended it to anyone.

Great homely hotel with plenty of athsophere. Fiona the manager knows how to look after her guest. Food throughout the day was very good. We were there race week, and everyone got the staff indivadual attention. Bus stop right outside to have you in the city in 10 mins. Good place to stay.

Stayed at the Kingsvalley for a dinner/night out at the Greyhound Track. It cost 11euros each way for a taxi to the track or into town. Room was clean but very small. There was a group of us staying and I saw some of their rooms. Some of the hotel rooms are large and have windows that open to the outside. Other rooms are very small, like the one I was in, where one side of the double bed is against the wall, and the "windows" look into a hallway rather than the outside. The only complaints I had with our room is that we couldn't open any windows and there was no vent/air system to get some air into the room so it was very hot and stale air in the room. Plus, the walls really are very thin, we could hear every conversation being had coming down the hall and even in the neighboring room.

For 70euros you can't have too high of expectations, the room was clean and did the job for the few hours sleep we had there. The next cheapest hotels I could find in Galway were 130 + per night and when you are only there for a couple hours on a night out, the Kingsvalley worked just fine. If there's anyway to reserve one of the nicer big rooms, it would be a lovely place to stay and the breakfast was nice, it was made to order. Plus they have free parking behind the hotel.

Booked into this hotel for a weekend in Galway City. The hotel is very far from Eyre's Square, the main pub area costing us €12-€15 each way. The weather was awful during our stay, heavy rain all weekend so we spent most of our money on taxi's! (4 trips a day starts to add up!) I would not advise using this hotel if you are looking for a boozy weekend in the city.

Had trouble with this hotel before even heading down here, very poor communication between staff and was very poor customer service. Only person trained seems to be Ailis although staff seemed to be short during our stay as she seemed to be helping all over the hotel. She is an good worker that is wasted in a hotel like this.

Very bad layout of a hotel, had trouble getting back in at 1am in the morning, two people with no credit standing at the front door that was locked with a phone number on it, eventually found the side door was open which was very worrying as it lead straight up to our bedrooms, had me concerned about security of the place.

Getting from bar to bedrooms was a nightmare, had two options, one: walk through a very packed room of young people all glamed up at a 21st - and us in our casuals! i think not, or leave out the front door of the bar(as the smoking area gate was locked) and get soaked to the skin running in the rain round to the not very security concious side door!

Bad odour in corriders, stains on carpets....cringe worthy.

Overall a bad experience, while it is cheap its cheap for a reason.